Washtub Bass

Dick's new toy.

He found this at a local music store that was moving. The owner's husband made this a few years ago, but it had been a display lately. He paid $30. We crammed it into his Spectra5, the washtub bass was almost to big!It's huge! Dick is 5'11 and the washtub bass is taller than him.

We picked up some more weed wacker wire for the second string. He made a spacer on the bottle tail-piece to keep the strings from vibrating. The placing of the tuners made the second string to rub on the other tuner. He is using my banjo capo to keep that separated. He mentioned painting it later. Mmmm I think that is going to look awesome. He's been playing it all day. I think he missed playing upright, but jeeze those cost a lot of money. This is going to be interesting.