Description
This guitar kit has everything you need for building your own custom SR style Electric Bass Guitar. You will need only some basic tools and finishing supplies. All challenging wood cutting, drilling and shaping is already done professionally, as well as fret leveling and dressing. A detailed manual is included with step by step instructions.
Recommended tools: Solo Bass Assembly Kit – Bolt-on
Kit includes:
- Ash body with Rosewood fingerboard
- Bushings for tuners
- Tuning Machines (5 pcs, mounting screws included)
- Strings
- Strap Buttons
- Back Cavity Cover
- Neck Pickup (mounting screws and springs included)
- Bridge Pickup (mounting screws and springs included)
- Bridge
- Neck Plate
- Truss Rod Cover
- Full size potentiometers (2 Volume pots, 2 Tone pots with knobs)
- Output Jack (1 hex nut included)
- Wires, including ground wire
- Cord
- Hex wrench for truss-rod adjustment
- Allen key for saddle adjustment
- All mounting screws are included
IMPORTANT (in addition to our standard return policy): due to their nature kits can be returned only in virtually untouched condition and in original package.
Robin –
I built the SRBK-15 5 string bass for my son who is a fantastic bass player. It turned out great and the intonation and action are perfect! It plays wonderfully. It is a great bass kit at a very reasonable price!
michel denis (verified owner) –
Cool! très facile a assembler, les pièces ( pick-up hardware knobs)…de bonne qualité pour le prix.
et vous permet de teindre ou peindre a votre gout.
instruction et qualité du bois très bonne.
A1. merci.
brian hunt (verified owner) –
so far so good still working on it, the sealer sanded off ok, the tuner hole for the g string was off towards the center other than that it’s coming out really nice, be thumping in no time. I will be trying the quilted PRS style kit next. thank you.
D Becker (verified owner) –
For the most part, a good kit. The neck and body were shaped and routed well, the wood was good, and all the parts were there and of reasonable quality.
I had to sand flat the area where the bridge sits, otherwise the curve of the body would keep it from attaching securely. It ended up securely mounted but sloped back slightly, so moving a saddle back requires raising it as well to keep the action correct.
I also had to carve a flat rim around the holes for the pots near the outer edge, again because of the curve of the body (the nuts wouldn’t fit flat to the body otherwise).
I used Ernie Ball regulars (45-130) instead of the included strings, and found that I had to enlarge the hole on the bridge for the 5th string and widen the nut slots to fit them.
The frets also needed levelling, and the action at the nut was *way* too high, but after dealing with those issues the neck is great.
Although there were a few things to fix, it was all manageable and it turned out great at the end. It was much better than the last kit I built (which was purchased elsewhere).
texsoft (verified owner) –
This is better than I ever expected for a DIY bass. The neck is so true and well set up it made my Epiphone jealous. Sanding is in progress on the body and is slow going…non-a/c workshop. I am going with a hand rubbed gloss finish without staining. I like the natural wood look. The only issue I have with any of this is one thing… the plug mount. The hole once drilled to size from the outside should have had a reverse spot-face on the inside to level out the hole. This would give the attaching washer and nut more of a flat surface for tightening. All in all, the bass is coming along quite well… (pictures at 11)
tim.fugate (verified owner) –
Not bad but not good. My kit had a lot of issues, the neck pocket was very loose, the pickup cavities had too large of a radius so the pickups just didn’t really fit in the holes, and the fretboard was made from two pieces but the tiny little bit they used for the second piece wasn’t glued very well so the seam is separating. The bridge screws are also too long. They bottom out in the pilot hole before the bridge is anywhere near secure.
The kit in general has some inherent problems as well. The electronics cover should have a recess so it can sit flush with the surface of the body but it doesn’t have that so you have to tighten it and force it around the curve of the guitar. The jack has a nice counter bore on the outside but inside the electronics bay, you have to tighten the nut on a pretty extreme curve so it’ll never tighten well.
Overall, I don’t hate it. I can overcome a lot of these shortcomings with some elbow grease, but this certainly isn’t a kit where all you’ve got to do is prep it, paint it, and put it together.
texsoft (verified owner) –
Finished…this one was fun. I am making an addition to my original post on: August 29, 2022. I finished assembling the bass once all of the small issues were settled like the pickup springs are useless. I opted for Fender pickup foam normally used under jazz bass pickups…worked perfect. I copper taped the control cavity and cover. It took me a while to figure out my neck adjustments but I got it. With some D’Addario NYXL strings and a Fender Rumble 100…”It ain’t bad”. Thanks guys!!