Bass Neck Pickup
I was thinking to use heavy-duty plywood to make a solid-body bass. Is this a crap idea?
I mean just for the body, and add a bolt-on neck, pickups and a bridge. i could sand it and shape it how I want, but what are the tonal properties of, say, hardwood ply? I would build up layers to get the thickness of the body I need.
Cheap guitars and basses are made of plywood. It's heavy and doesn't resonate well, but it's cheap. If you want to build a cheap bass that sounds crappy, then use plywood. Go do some research on guitars and basses and just see what types of woods the better quality (aka more expensive) ones are made of. Alder and mahogany are good tone woods (alder would be lighter) at a reasonable price. It really sounds like you might want to do a bit more research before you spend a lot of money trying to build a bass guitar though. If you don't know what you're doing you'll end up with an expensive project that you can't even play. You might want to think about buying a good quality bass in need of some repair and TLC and start with that before you try building one from scratch.
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