I have an update nothing to do with the new guitars but this is stuff on my first guitar and a vintage guitar that has been in the family for a while.
First up is my first bass/instrument that I built. It is called the bingabass. It has a bubinga body with a Koa/maple/koa/maple/koa neck thru body with a ebony f-board. It has all black Hip Shot hard ware and EMG P/J pup set up with volume, volume, tone passive electronics. The pickups are the only thing active. This being my first bass I went all out and I still do not know how I pulled it off this good. I made the body like a Thumb bass with a concaved body and slanted tunners. I will never make another one of these but it sounds amazing. Word to the wise never use koa in a 24 fret bass neck, it is way to unstable and requires to many adjustments and fret buzz from the wood shifting so much but again the sound is amazing. The serial # is 000.
Next up is a 1963 to 64 Teisco guitar that my Dad has had for 30+ years. I was at my Dad's the other week when I was painting the koa top bass and took it home. I have cleaned it up some, I do not want to make it look new but just get rid of the dust. It does need some work but will play if you hold your tung just right. The ground wire has broke and one of the tone knobs needs to be re-wired and I need to make a real bridge insert and get rid of the popcycle stick I have in it now. I will replace it with a bone acoustic bridge blank. The crazy thing is this guitar plays so great and the tones it makes are amazing and even after all these years sitting in a closet not in a case with NO Truss Rod the neck it perfect! I did some research and they put just a steel rod in the necks and the year after this one had an adjustible trus rod. The Gold Foil pick-ups are so cool and I wish pick-up makers would start making these again. The Bridge pup has a killer country twa
ng tone and the neck WOW it nails that smooth Jazz tone that I love. The sound this guitar make acoustically is amazing for a solid body guitar. It just explodes with sound!
ng tone and the neck WOW it nails that smooth Jazz tone that I love. The sound this guitar make acoustically is amazing for a solid body guitar. It just explodes with sound! 
Anyway until next time, which I hope will be updates of the TBM Koa top bass and the other basses and the guitar I am building. See you then and enjoy the pictures.
Play On!
The Bass Builder
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