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Permalink Reply by Where's Uranus? on December 31, 2014 at 10:30am

30" from nut to bridge (saddles), or 15" from either to the twelfth fret.

That bass in your link has a 34" scale.

I have a fretcalc program somewhere that prints out the lengths if you like, and theres probably one at stewmac.com, or most violin basses (beatles basses) or Gibson SG style basses are 30" if you need a hardcopy.

Permalink Reply by john mackay on December 31, 2014 at 11:43pm

thanks just found the scale in my music factory book but that is scaled at 31" but it'll do.

according to the book its for a 3/4 bass.john

Permalink Reply by JL on January 13, 2015 at 12:49am

fret	distance to 'bridge'
0	30.00
1	28.32
2	26.73
3	25.23
4	23.81
5	22.47
6	21.21
7	20.02
8	18.90
9	17.84
10	16.84
11	15.89
12	15.00
13	14.16
14	13.36
15	12.61
16	11.91
17	11.24
18	10.61
19	10.01
20	9.45
21	8.92
22	8.42
23	7.95
24	7.50
25	7.08
26	6.68
27	6.31
28	5.95
29	5.62

Permalink Reply by john mackay on February 4, 2015 at 9:00am

now that the frets are done.

not sure what ti use for the tail piece.

I've made a s/steel out of .8mm thick plate curved to give it strength.its for a 2 stringed bass.

just want to get ideas before I stick this only to find some one has come up with a better idea.

so the question is what do you guys use? any pictures. rgds john