Rasmus Tychsen
This is an instructional video of how I built the bottle bass guitar. Please upload videos of the results if any of you youtubers think of building one yourselves. Could me fun for me and other builders to see. :) Have fun!
updated 14 years ago
It is a two-string fretless one made out of a water cooler bottle and a piece of wooden board. The mechanics are from an Ibanez electric guitar. The strings are regular E and A bass guitar strings.
Me and a couple of friends made this bass guitar while drunk and bored. It is now about 5 years old and has survived several festivals and bonfire nights of jamming.
One can also hit people with it without breaking it. :)
I plan on making it into a four string soon. I also have thought about putting frets on it, but I havn't yet found out how to do that and what to make the frets from.
Please bare with me if I made some mistakes while playing. It isn't the easiest thing to play on. But feel free to comment.
For building instructions, see this video that I made: http://youtu.be/bzGJQliNIbo
And I'm Danish.
Cheers :)