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This instructable was made to convert an acoustic Guitar to Acoustic Bass. You may be asking yourself why anybody would ever want to turn an acoustic...
This is a fairly simple conversion and you do not need many tools. What you will need however is: Grinder or dremal Drill Screwdriver Welder These too...
You will now need to take your guitar apart. First, take the strings off. Then you will have to take the tuners off. Then the guitar strap holder .Dep...
The string spacing on a guitar and bass are completely different. You can buy a new nut if you want but all i did was file a new slot for the two midd...
The hardest part of this build is definitely the tailpeice. I recommend that you start with a template. I used a piece of construction paper to sketc...
The tailpeice I made is of 2 pieces of eighth inch stainless steel and a steel hinge. I used a grinder to cut the shapes out for these, you could also...
Now that you have made all of the pieces it is time to put it all together. First,put the tailpeice on. I recommend that you place a piece of cloth or...
Now simple put the strings on. It's pretty straight forward. The strings need to be tightened up all at the same time to keep the tail piece from pull...
I had to do a lot of adjusting to make this bass work well enough to be called a bass. The first thing i had to do was raise the bridge up about an ei...
Future Improvements Make the tailpeice go closer to the saddle Put nylon string on Pull the frets close up the two empty hole on t...
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