My first-ever electric guitar

It's fretless bass because I didn't know how to determine fret positions. The neck is v-e-e-ry thick without a trussrod. The strings are clamped at the headside because I didn't know that there are special headless strings with two ballends available. The tuner unit is made of brass with 6 millimeters-diameter bolts. It works, but today I would use 3 millimeters bolts as their finer thread allows finer tuning. The bass has a through-the-body neck.

Scale length:34"
Neck: maple with mahogany strips
Fretboard: stained maple
Body: maple
Hardware: selfmade

One lesson I learned from this project was that you have to consider the fretboard height on a neck-through bass (I explain that in my book). The action turned out way too high so I had to lower the bridge and to put the tuning unit deeper into the body. As you can see I routed freehand. The bridge is a block of brass and bolted on from the back.

The strings are bend around a thread and clamped down with a selfmade nut.