Bassbucket

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Talked to Penta (inventor of teh beast^Wbassbucket) and he totally fixed me up with the concept.
Check it out here:
http://bucketbass.com/

Deep'n'cheap as fsck. Needs:

• Bass string (LONG, fat, arco(bow)-compatible!)

• A few meters two-by-four

• 1m-something of better quailty wood (Palisander, Ebenholz, Ahornholz, Birnbaum, Buchenholz, Wenge) as fingerboard

• Screw thread to adjust fingerboard

• nut (sattel) material to guide/hover the string

• round wooden peg as tuning peg

• hose clamp to adjust peg or something similar

• bucket string attachment plate

• We have a preliminary bucket. It is yellow, square and probably has its very own distinguished sound.

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Another design variant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL5FGr-xcxA

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A quick release skewer might help as a simple solution to adjust the string tension

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Penta bought a cement bucket, rope-"strings" and a few other tidbits and got a hardwood fretboard built