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Build a one-string electric bass guitar

MAKE and Kipkay brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make Magazine celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.

In this video tutorial episode of Weekend Projects with Kipkay, you'll learn how to build a one-string electric bass guitar. Make a unique one-string, electric or bass guitar out of PVC and wood.

Check out the original article, Strung Out, in Make, Volume 9.

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serpentegena 2 weeks ago

Wow, I've never browsed Make Magazine but I am strongly dissuaded to ever buy it at this point.
Is this "project" meant to hit the trash can as soon as it's finished? What is the purpose of trying to make a musical instrument out of PVC pipe? Or is this part of the "Music for plumbers" series? This is odious. You're supposed to encourage a "do-it-yourself" attitude, not a "half-assed" attitude. You're not even trying. Really? A piece of wood for the "body"? What, is that the deluxe version? Why not PVC there, too? Who gives a damn about resonance and density and rebound? Nevermind centuries of luthier tradition, we can now make a musical instrument in a weekend!! Yay. Stop playing with Dremels, Dad, and go take your kids to the park or otherwise try to enrich the lives of your family. Because musicians are fine without you. At least I was fine before this ridiculous, ignorant, build project for lazy idiots came along. Now I'm insulted. Why don't you change the title from the Google-friendly "build a one-string bass" to "repurposing construction site leftovers for fun"? This is hands down, the most useless, worthless and pointless creation I have ever laid eyes on, serving no other purpose than to take perfectly good raw materials and reduce them to complete garbage.

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