Thread: Building a Les Paul Bass

You need a book called "build your own electric guitar", by Melvin Hiscock.

I believe i just answered all of your questions?

search for "first build" posts on any of the guitar forums and theres heaps -
google is your friend

research & read the standard books- get tools - buy wood - build

go to www.stewmac.com - they have videos, books and free info
mimf forum is a good resource also tdpri and project guitar -

guitar build is just like a bass build with less strings and a long neck

I've also found Martin Koch's book to be priceless

I've also found Martin Koch's book to be priceless

I found it to be about 10mins of downloading. www.filetube.com

Huzzah!!

Whereabouts are you located.

I presume this is for a major project at school?
If so, good luck, I just finished (read: Survived) a similar thing...
And I have plans/specs for a bass similar to the Les Paul bass, only, designed to a customers (not really a customer.... he ran away >.>) specs.

as people have said, read up. id suggest buying the books, as its more convinient to read, and take down to the workshop and on the train and such. their a good bit of information.

Originally Posted by rick_

I've also found Martin Koch's book to be priceless

I have this book as well, and agree, it has a lot of useful information. I particularly like that he provides a lot of conversions for metric and imperial throught the book. Too many books focus on imperial. Fair enough traditionally imperial measurements where used, but considering the precission that is necessary in building a guitar (particularly the neck), I can't understand why you wouldn't convert to metric.



You can find his book at www.buildyourguitar.com - it's not expensive considering the knowledge. It's available as a download, which you can print necessary pages to take to the shed as needed. I printed the whole thing off at work when the boss was out for the arvo

Another book I have is "Mr. Ibanez" Jim Donahue's book, which probably isn't quite as good as Martin Koch's book, but does look at guitar building from a lot more angles.

Originally Posted by tim290280

I found it to be about 10mins of downloading. www.filetube.com

Nice work Tim, a link to 'Adult Listings'...

I would like to think that more people here would rather support someone like Martin Koch and actually purchase his book and encourage him and others like him to continue providing us with excellent resourses.

Originally Posted by Hammered

Nice work Tim, a link to 'Adult Listings'...

I would like to think that more people here would rather support someone like Martin Koch and actually purchase his book and encourage him and others like him to continue providing us with excellent resourses.

Sorry, but it shouldn't have been adult listings, should have a been a "download resource".

I don't disagree with supporting and purchasing books, especially Koch's book. I like to think of it like a library book. You download it and have a read, then you go and buy it when you need to refer to it for actual reading. Like a library book you only have so long that an e-book has usefulness before you need a permanent hard copy.

So don't mistake the intentions of my post. This way you can read it then buy it.

I've got the brice AL bass from rondo.com. It's left hand and 30" scale. If there is anything I can do, like tracing the outline or whatever let me know.

email is best.