omg lmaooooooo niiiiiice

Thanks! He appears in future parts of the video series, too. Dropping knowledge:)

Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3!

thanks man, that is my goal. to push "trash" to the limits. What I do is not practical or cost-effective, etc., but I hope to inspire others to see the potential in their own waste, y'know?

@@timsway - I don't know that I'd necessarily say it *isn't* cost effective. After all, how much would really high quality plywood and hardwood cost for a project like this? I mean you already saved money simply because the raw material (hollow core doors, and pallet wood), were free, scavenged materials. There is WAY too much waste in our society. As a remodeling contractor I see an incredible amount of waste every day. Luckily, the guy I work with has a mission to try to re-use materials where we can, and/or salvage fixtures and such without everything going to a dumpster. It's still a losing battle, but every bit of material diverted from the waste stream is better for the planet as a whole. Also, I think we need to work to instill in other people the value of recycling materials both from a standpoint of ethics and sustainability. There's nothing in that video that you did that couldn't be done (albeit in more tedious fashion), with simpler tools. Someone could do this entire build with a circular saw, jig saw, and sander. Heck, if you were a REAL glutton for punishment, I think it could be done entirely with handsaws and coping saws and the like! Practical? Cost-effective? I think it's all a matter of having the right perspective. Maybe a *new* perspective?! (Ha! See what I did there?!)

Either him or Xavier Foley.😁

Davie is gonna be pissed when he sees what I am building. The world's LARGEST bass. muahahahahaaa. Should have a vid posted soon. Maybe by next week.

hehehe, yeah

Punny

Awesome! They are on their way to the printer's next week!

cheers! I ain't gonna lie, it wasn't easy, but It is possible!

I love the whole reclaimed wood thing but depending on what you want for your instrument , you could look at flooring stores. the tile, carpet and pad places. they have these thin sheets they use to refloor over old glue before they retile. Beautiful wood grain and I think it was about 3 dollars a sheet , would be a nice face and back piece . they are roughly 1/8" thick . just a thought.

@@kaptainkmann7808 I'll take a look next time I go to a big box hardware store. I live in a sort of rural area so it's easier for me to get reclaimed stuff than it is new stuff ironically. My local Blue and Orange hardware stores don't carry anything except pine and treated pine.

My first double bass was an electric upright on a drum stand (I show a pic of with me playing it 20 years ago in Part 3). This is a super easy way to get started making double basses. Watch this for inspiration: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eal3iburqd6tm6M.html

also google "Bogdon Box Bass"

Part 2 next Sunday!

guitar making is a gateway drug :)

Glad to help. Go take a nap. Tell them Tim said you can.

next Sunday!

I needed to wrap it up before I made the videos so I could explain the story better . Part 2 next week!

next weekend!

cheers. more are coming!

He's the star of a lot of my vids. I wholeheartedly believe in the einstein quote (paraphrased) "you don't really understand it unless you can explain it to a 6 year old." Talking it out with a kid really helps.

thanks!

cheers, amigo!

thanks. this is an older video. the other parts and a 6 month recap are all up.

@@timsway i pulled it up again today to show my girlfriend, and i'm GOING to buy a MakerMade CNC. i've been looking all over the internet at CNC machines, and none of the sights even came close to mentioning this. does your code still work with the site?

@@rusiancoco I believe so. They have a newer version now with a better Z axis. It costs more but is 100% worth it.

@@rusiancoco kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZujpa2Btc7NqIk.html

Of course I'm nostalgic for my kids when they were younger, like all parents, but I'm not one of those "they grow up too fast" type of dads. I LOVE watching them grow and develop and can't wait to see what he's like tomorrow. That is much more interesting than reliving yesterday.

thanks! I think the next one would keep the f hole arrows but a little skinnier. I like the headstock a lot :)

awesme. cheers!

awesome. thanks man!

Tim. That should say Cajon. I was having trouble with my iPad yesterday as were some others. Anyway, I’ve corrected myself now. Thanks for the thumbs up. KZfaq can really unite people who are thinking in similar ways.

@@NOTAFULLUN I figured out what you meant :)

thank you so much!

at it's core, sanding is transferring shapes. so whatever shape you want your project to be, if the sandpaper block is that shape, you can transfer it.

cheers. Part 2 is next weekend!

@@timsway looking forward to it !

yes! we made him ourselves!

so should I

I had to look up the Wombles. Now I wish I didn't :)

Good to know!

I have done a little steam bending in a diy manner and just bought a steamer for an upcoming project. stay tuned!

cheers. so I've been told, but it's about using his kits and I only use reclaimed and locally sourced materials. it's kind of important to me :)

I did not know them little details... Oh well, stay awesome my dude.

yes. Cool for the future, but annoying when you're trying to get them to do something and their arguments against it are well reasoned and plausible.

I LOVE the aluminum bass. My ultimate goal is to redesign and remake that bass, but better. I have a lot more learning to do first.

It doesn't bow well. Not designed right on the sides. They'd hate it. Lol

Gotcha! I'm a jazz bassist and my girlfriend's a classical bassist so I just love watching her cringe whenever she tries to play my bass.

Finally, someone who listens! :)

I did some tests on my table saw with a sled, but the kerfing was too wide and sloppy. Maybe with a specialty blade in there, or by hand wth some sort of really sharp marking knife and a jig. It would probably be easier to steam bend real wood (which I will be doing soon :)

@@timsway yes the thin kerf seems to be the key and the laser the right tool for that. Very cool idea anyway. Maybe I'll dig in that direction when I'll have some waste of time to optimize ;-)

cheers. most of the time I approach making like a sculptor, not a woodworker. I'm trying to teach Vance to be both :)

@@timsway It never hurts to have more than one method to approach building or repairing something.

The bases I examined didn't have that and you'll see on part 3 what I did that was the other reason I didn't want to.

I based the bracing and kerfing (or lack thereof) on traditional bass building techniques and the inner workings of instruments I've seen, worked on and in my collection.

@@timsway Got it! So I guess that the back of the bass is not radiused? What about the front? Just curious......... :)

@@sapelesteve the front is arched. The back is arched on some, but this one is a "flatback" design

I have made several semi hollows (even one with an F hole, here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esePg5yfrs-9gqs.html ) and I do have future archtop plans.

Thnx! Great stuff really like youre ides. Havet a lot of those kind of Doors in my appartment complex (storage) in the attic. people throw a lot of old 50-70s furniture around here .. Well brilliant idea and recycling of old stuff! 👌

lol. Technically I should have called it a "drop" as in it was leftover from a paid job. I've gotten "drops" of specialty sheet goods (colored acrylic, etc) from other businesses as big as 2 ft wide x 8 ft long!

It looks to be a japanese style block plane.

I can do better than a name! Here's a link (my buddy Phil Pinsky sells them) www.ironandsole.com/products/japanese-wood-block-plane-kanna-42mm-hand-plane

My understanding is it's the length of them that adds to allowing sound to escape and the shape derives from keeping it stronger that a larger hole (like I made, that is a similar length). And the circles at the end need to be there to get the soundpost in and out. So the shape isn't as important sonically, more out of practicality. I think ideally for sound, the slit would run the length of the instrument, but the instrument would fail if that much wood was separated. One thing my arrows are missing that F holes have is a place to mark the location of the bridge, which I'm still not 100% certain I have right on this. More importantly, however, is my side indentations aren't designed right and this bass is difficult to bow (I honestly wasn't thinking about the bow as I never use it). But the way I see it, it works and it's made of crap, so I'm happy as hell. Next one will be better :)

I wish I could afford to just give them away, my friend

yes!

Yes. Good idea!

ha! I will and do - and I'm the one that taught him that! He problem is it doesn't matter how many times you measure if the number in your head is just wrong :)

@@timsway very true

they may get cut up for other uses. you don't want these. the shape is a little off.