I've dabbled with luthiery a few times since 2013 (Indeed I got the bug when I began the Guitar Diaries, stuck out in India, bored and watching Youtube). To date, the only viable instrument I made was this 95%-of-the-way-there Jazz Bass copy, hardware donated from the Peavey Milestone III mentioned earlier. Blueprints are easily available online, and I built beginning probably at the end of 2013, finally being finished in May 2015.
I'm actually quite proud of this instrument. I made a bit of a mess of the nut so that's never been quite right, but it's quite playable, sounds decent and made it onto the EP I recorded in the 2020 lockdown. Since getting my Gretsch 5440 bass, the Jazz has been up in the loft and I doubt very much it will be used again. However, I often threaten to make more guitars and one project I'd like to do is to have another go at this and do it better.
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