I can't imagine how stressful is the first tune up when you don't know if everything will collapse wasting days of work and potentially taking a piece in the face.

You inspired me to rebuild a "trashed" bass my now passed grandma gave me. Plays great and now my favorite bass I have. Thanks for these videos. I plan to build a bass from scratch as soon I can get all the parts I need.

So this is how I'll interact with my son if I ever have one, nice

I love where you explain the tension produced by the strings across the bridge. I now understand the forces you’re dealing with.

that's just way too cool, especially the headstock

"Julie, Tim's made a double bass!" "Don't you get any ideas we've got nowhere to keep it with all your homemade guitars, violins, cigar box guitars and ukuleles!!"

So cool to see all the magic and hard work going into this. There's so many materials all around us if we pay attention.

Definitely my favorite of your builds. Keep pushing your boundaries, you're only getting more and more gooderer at this. 🤘

This is my new favorite video on your channel. So much passion, so much skill. Doing the things you love pays off!

It's so cool to see everything come together

I never thought building it myself might be the way to get an upright base. Another project on the long list if things to do...

Nice job! The only thing I did not like is the cracked seam on the top, where the glued boards meet each other... It's a aesthetic thing, but other than that, it's a great work (litterally! lol!)

Such a good build! Congrats Tim! This channel deserves 100 times the amount of subscribers!

Gollihur Music is amazing. That's where I get my Psychoslap strings 🤘🏼

Very cool project! I love how you made the details really unique

You make this world a better place. Thereby, your sponsors do as well. Congratulations Tim.

Thanks Tim, this is just what I need to see. I'm inspired to build a mountain dulcimer bass (fretted). Will be referring to this throughout.

I really like the finish you used, it's simple and understated but it really brought out the grain nicely! Awesome build Tim, you always put out a nice finished product :)

Nice build! I love the Pfretzchner in the background as well.

What a beautiful looking and sounding bass it turned out to be! Your videos are an inspiration and this series made my mind on buying a old plywood bass from my fathers friend and gonna try to restore it. Keep up the good work Tim!

What a beautiful creation. So satisfying to watch. A work of art and no less.

Gollihur.... Yep, they're awesome! I'm just a nobody from Vt, now living and working in Thailand, but i consulted Gollihur's when i needed a decent bridge pickup for an electric upright that wz made in China.... These guys hooked me up with a K&K, which turned out to work great (especially as th pre-existing PU wz a slap-together piezo_type that, really, had no output to it). Glad u r featuring Gollihur's, and I'm enjoying ur vid also, of course....

That is so cool!! I might have to give this a try one of these days

Nice job man that turned out awesome. I build stringed instruments too so I get a kick out of seeing other builder's artwork come to life. You built a beauty sir.

Insanely awesome build, mate. 👍🏽 Looks and sounds amazing. 🤘🏽😎🤘🏽 Good to see the cogs ticking over in Vance's head.

Sir, I am beyond impressed! Nicely done. I'd love to hear this bass with a proper tube preamp and a nice ribbon microphone. I suspect I'd be further blown away. Thanks for this.

It's been a blast seeing this one come together. It sounds great to my ears, and if nothing else is a great proof of concept. If this first one was just practice, I can't wait to see the next one. Thanks for sharing!

Tim, just wanted to say I love your channel, the things you build, and how you go about it. Keep doing what you're doing and I will keep watching. Thanks the hours of enjoyment.

Thanks, that was awesome. Will make my own guitar at some point and your videos are great learning and entertainment.

Awesome vids and talk through, your enthusiasm for this project is really great, keep up the good work!!

Well done Tim, inspiring

Thanks for part three Tim nice looking upright bass checked out the other channel shootout and garage hangs well clean number three of the four you shootout .

Awesome work Tim! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Wow Tim, that is a super Awesome build and great video series. Thanks for sharing.

Bravo on including your young protegé in your efforts!

That boy is sharp...

Awesome build Tim! That turned out great & also plays well. Having made giutars, including an Acoustic, and a few bases myslef, I can appreciate how much time & effort you put into the creation of this base. Nice work my friend. And that gollihur website is really great!

The headstock design is great man.

Sweet! Its sounds great! Cheers!

Nice man, you are an inspiration. Go on!! Pretoria, South Africa.

Good job, looks great, sounds great 👍

That looks and sounds great!!!!

This series was such a ride!

Tim your a trip and I dig your stuff!!

The holes in the tailpiece need to be arrows too! Apart from that, awesome build, can't wait for my sqwayre to arrive!

This man has balls of steel! Great work duder!

Last spring I purchased an NS NXTa double from Gollihur. They were amazing. Answered every question I had, and I'm sure some of the questions were pretty dumb, but they were happy to answer. My next from them will be a bow.

Nice upright build dude. Ive also been working on some bass projects.first expirement i tried putting 3/4 scale upright labella strings on a 34 inch scale jazz bass trying to create hybrid pickup system and snapped all 4 including spares without breaking the jazz bass. i was thinking hard about building a 60 inch scale electric octobass with a subwoofer that can go down below 16hz with 3 of the longest scale piano strings ever made. I don't even have enough space or budget to build it though lol 😄.

Tim & Famila's secret weapon to build musical instruments ?: Passion! Note: Tim and Family ... you are true human idols ... because you show it with talent ... work ... and an excellent final product!

Simply beautiful ☺️👍🏼!

Love your work man, I dabble in recycling too guitars, bbqs, fire pits my sons mini bike blah blah blah. Keep em coming

Awesome series! Kudos for going beyond the recycling cynics and going for it! As a non-musical hobbyist who uses as much recycled materials as possible, I appreciate your passion, skill and determination to see materials for their intrinsic qualities rather than in their context of past use. Keep up the fab work!

Hands on for your son! He gets it! Well done sir, your son and the bass!

Oh no, I'm becoming a bass nerd. Thought it interesting when you put the sound post in the top expanded a little. Watched this video 4 times. I bought a book on how to build a double bass. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video is worth a thousand pictures. Thanks Tim

Beautiful bass! I love watching instruments being built. It sounds professionally made, but I can’t play it. I need a smaller version of this bass if I want to play it.

Hey Tim very cool build! I build cbg’s and I always have a eye out for the unusual parts and pieces to add to the guitar. On the wall behind you I see the skull and crossbones and think it would be a cool bridge on your upright! Love your vision !!! Keep up the killer creations and inspirations !!!

This chanel is gold

Thanks for sharing your project, I might actually get an arbor teck power carver for carving maple backboard. It sounds great 👍.

Wow youre a True builder of double bass i love your videos

Stradivarius would be proud! Great stuff, you are a legend Tim. Thanks for the videos. Cheers, David

The Doors instruments done, now is the time for wooden Jim Morrison ;)

@tim sway you should make the rest of the bluegrass instruments (banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin and some times dulcimer)

Hey Tim, I love your KZfaq channel. I’m a bass player and wood worker too. I want to be just like you when I grow up! Thanks, Gil

14:06 A most satisfying moment. Made me go "Huuh" a short intake of air

Отличный контрабас получился=)

I believe that the soundpost does more than just prevent the top from caving in. Along with the bass bar it contributes to the tone of the instrument. It would sound pretty bad without it.

Do it again!

Now I've got to find out more about Cumaru and where I can find some (preferably reclaimed) here in Melbourne Australia, as it makes a nice fingerboard. Awesome bass by the way...... very inspiring!

*very impressive*

Woooooh!

Wow, setting the sound post looks stressful. Hooray for ice picks!

This has been great to watch! Where do you sell your stuff?

Lemur music is a pretty good resource for bass players too :)

@1:17 Father and son moment... i wish my dad was just like you..

so cool

Totally freaking awesome 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏

What a great project! But if you don't mind my saying, the bolts going through the neck heel maks me a little nervous. I once owned a Dutch made guitar from the early 60s that had a bolt in the same place and it was a problem. Tuning and cracking.

Oh, I'm also a big fan of Golihur, those guys are pretty amazing.

think you couldve done a bit better on the bolts holding the neck in the pocket , like using alen bolts and sunk them flush intoo the heel

That’s fantastic! So cool that it worked and sounds pretty dang good! I found Gollihur a long time ago when I had an upright and wanted an adjustable bridge. One of them just posted on talkbass.com about his fretless Precision that he call his “Approximate Bass.” 😄

I have been following your work for a long time. You have great and simple ideas, Tim...Do you have customers for those instruments of yours? Here, this double bass has a solid sound...

I,m from Thailand. I like every video of you.

Gollihur is awesome!

"If you _think_ about it for a while... maybe you can," - my wife, with all kinds of sarcastic inflections. Say Tim, from where did you acquire your mad woodworking skills? They are esp impressive when using the hand tools. A woman's house of whose I went to cut down about 20 old raised panel doors after wall to wall carpet was installed, remarked when I was about 1/2 way through Oh I see you've must've woken with sawdust in your bed before Now I don't know if she was hittin' on me, but you know... she was right. It was right around then I saw a piece (which made me think of that) in an early Fine Woodworking Magazine, Ed Pouleaux Makes Makes Windsor Chairs Without Electricity - some octogenarian Mainer living in the woods cutting shaping scraping and finishing everything by hand, and one thing he said about hand tools which stuck in my head for 30 years was this: They don't cut your fingers off, make you deaf, or fill the air and your lungs with dust covering your clothes and everything else So for Ed it was shavings and chips in his next morning cuffs. Some shit, eh? Needless to say regarding you, this one here is "a great piece of Make"

Tim, could you please, please play a little bit of the Pink Panther Intro on This Bass.

Would it be possible to put the pole in before the lid?

Wow You're The Best!

Will the bridge support push out the back? Also, what about a semi hollow up right bass. A post down the back and bottom front to support the body.

exelente

Thanks Tim. I think I heard in one of your videos that the neck is angled at 7 degrees. I'm hoping to build a classical set-up so I can bow. Would a classical set up be the same angle?

Would You please make a six String Violin or Viola da gamba?

Jesus the video started buffering at 0:35 and i most died

This vary dense .......... wood ya ....dam it I dropped it!! To funny man keep up the great work I'm a huge fan.

Congrats on finishing the first of many to come. : ) Lovely bass. Sounds great too. What happened to that brush? 7:27. : ) Mahalo for sharing!

Sweet build! I have played drums/guitar for over 20 years, and I want to take the plunge and play doublte bass, rockabilly music... should I take the plunge? I am in my 50's....

Oh that dovetail joint will be that double bass's Achilles heel

Thanks Tim. How thick is the fingerboard before it is shaped and glued on? 3/4 on an inch?

I like luminum one so I can play metal.

hi tim, love your work. up in MA, building stuff in spare time. any way to carve the radius on a neck without a CNC? working on that college budget :)

Hi, Tim How are you? I am building an electric cello, and I want to use magnetic pickups, I don't find much information on that kind of thing for cello anywhere. I was curious to know more about the pickups of your other basses (aluminum and the Kay one, I guess) They seem magnetic but I can't tell just by looking at it. Any Tips?