Mike, those are great re-imaginings of bass ukes. Really stylish and fun. Your designs work and pull together as a whole. Great eye-candy. Love the names for them. Do you consider the ergonomics of playing them as you design and modify? Just curious.
Thanks very much. Ergonomics is a good question, first they have to be between 21 and 24" scale. Next, it can't be too heavy because I have nerve damage all around my neck and shoulders from radiation treatments for cancer many years ago. Also, the body can't be too big, I made the mistake of modifying an Ibanez miKro 28.6" scale bass with a 24" Rondo Hadean neck, but the body was just too big, very uncomfortable for me. I'm rectifying that with a conversion of an Ibanez miKro 22.6" scale junior guitar, using parts from the miKro bass (in the photo below, the first one is the 28/24" Ibanez, then the junior guitar, then my mockup of the conversion to bass). The neck is going back to the Rondo being made into the yellow jazz
I also made the mistake of believing a Chinese vendor who said he could have a 22" scale Rickenbacker 325 replica made into a bass, but all they did was cut down the neck of their guitar, it's too heavy and big for me. It cost only $275, but not to go to waste, I'm giving it one of the members of my uke group, she just started learning bass on a temporarily borrowed one, this should make her happy since she can't afford to buy her own.
The yellow jazz is the first one that I sanded down to make space for my arm as I play. I found that design to be very comfortable on the ones that came that way.
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly West near the Beverly Center
9 tenor cutaway ukes, 5 acoustic bass ukes, 11 solid body bass ukes, 9 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 34)
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