This is a used acoustic-electric bass guitar which I built for myself about a decade ago. I had built two giant unwieldy acoustic basses before this one and I’ve yet to play one made by me or anyone else that can really cut it on its own. So I opted instead to make a comfortable small bodied acoustic bass and outfit it with an under-saddle pick-up and hope that it would sound somewhat acoustic, which it does. It doesn’t sound like an electric bass but it doesn’t sound like an upright either. It’s right in the middle while being comfortable and easy to play.
          The small body is maple with a spruce top. The lower bout is only 13 ½” wide and the body is about 18” long. The soundboard and back are both ‘X’ braced. The soundboard is still flat after all this time and the back is rounded like my ukuleles are.
           The neck is carved out of maple in a ‘Jazz Bass’ style and it boasts a full 34” scale length. The ebony fingerboard holds 19 frets and the neck’s truss rod is accessed through the sound hole. The neck is well made out of hard quartersawn maple and is straight like a neck should be.
          I used a timberline piezo undersadle pickup and active preamp. The 9 volt battery is located in the side of the instrument in a nifty little inset hinged battery box. The tail strap button is the ¼” plug in.
          The tuning machines are Grover’s and it is currently strung with flatwound strings. The finish is a green tinted lacquer and the pickguard is a soft white translucent plexiglass. It is ten years old and the finish does have a spot or two where it’s scratched and it has some light crazing but you’ve gotta look carefully for it.

$650