As a mom who stepped on lego's for too many years and I bought my son his 1st bass when he was 12, this thing is kick ass! I am beyond impressed, thank you I truly have a huge smile on my face right now!
I agree. There are tons of people who build guitars, but watching this channel is always very enjoyable and inspiring. He works in a planned and meticulous manner. It is also very enjoyable to listen to the melodies of the guitars he has built.
I've played bass for years and just recently got into Lego as an adult. THIS is AMAZING. I was wondering why you didn't fill the edge, makes perfect sense.
I admire you for routing that stuff. Non solid materials are a pain to route usually, so I can only imagine how Lego bricks would feel...... Awesome idea and concept! :)
One of the coolest looking basses I've seen on youtube. Piezo "compromises some tone" is an understatement, though. Great project that emphasizes style over sound.
I love how he just goes right out and says, “well you know, my bass playing isn’t all that great” and to still give his audience a demonstration he uses another guitar to demonstrate the way you would actually hear a bass, behind something else 🤣
I don't think it compromised the tone at all... It has some good bass and mid tones, with crispy treble. It's like a jazz bass with some personality of its own. I liked it!
I really like how you are always experimenting. You are always pushing the edge and trying new materials. Nice work. I personally would have liked to see you seal the body sides with some type of binding material to make the edges smooth.
i think it looks and sounds awesome. i love the body and headstock shape. the white epoxy fret board resembles pearl inlay. im not a fan of the open Legos around the edges but this is pretty amazing. great job.
Nothing wrong with your bass technique. There’s a whole historical approach to bass as a true descendant of guitar, and those people often use flamenco-style picking. Anthony Jackson, I think, plays with that style in a truly virtuosic fashion. Love your work, man. Thanks for sharing.
Every time I see you start a crazy build I say no way..apparenrtly you say. There is a way. And then at the end. It all works makes sense and. Finally. You really can play your creation... You played. And it sounded incredible ...sounds great to my ears. The fact you play these at the end of your video shows...it works is real deal.
Just recently built my own Explorer style guitar. Came out a lot better than I'd thought it would. Guess you could say your videos were sort of an inspiration.
That thing sounds super resonant, I bet all that extra air within those layers of Legos is what gives it such an interesting tone. I would love to have one of these.
This is so cool! The tone sounds fine to me (I play bass and I'm a mix engineer), so you're good! Been following you from pretty much the beginning, can't believe how these videos just keep getting better. Rock on!
Looks great and sounds great! Love your decision to put the pickup under the bridge - I’ve never heard of that! - and preserve the centerpiece And an epoxy fretboard?! Wow! Just wow! Excellent work, I’m addicted to these videos
Let's just give this man an applause. Made everything from ground up, body , neck. Fredboard with truss rod. As for the fret board, Bendon small has a white flying V with a phenalic fret board. This Bass looks amazing and clean. No pickup in from makes Bass look even cooler. Great job.
This is so sik!! That neck is beautiful!! The piezo was a cool idea to keep the Lego design maybe add a Lego thumb rest since there’s no pickup to put your thumb on, I do understand it’s just for art love to see more bass builds
I love what you do with these unique builds! I find myself wanting to see what you could do with "traditional" materials (ash, mahogany, Maple, etc...)
@@gzo313 I see what you're saying, but I believe Burl's creativity and imagination can still do something unique with "regular" woods. Even if he sticks to these types of unconventional builds, though, I'm still watching all the videos he posts lol
I love how you answered every single question I had before I had it lol. My first though was why did you choose to not fill the edges with epoxy. Second was what where is the pickup and third was after you said what pickup you were using I thought, I wonder how it sounds. Great job man!
That’s really cool man! I also built a bass guitar out of Lego too. It is like 1/2 scale so it’s not really playable. I built it completely out of Lego,(the body,the neck,frets,the headstock and tuning pegs). Just wanted to share that because legos are very cool as a guitar and extremely unique. Great job! 👍
I really like the self critique at the end each time, as an artist it’s really interesting to me to see what the creator thought of the project and what the vision was vs the outcome
This is one of the greatest ideas for a Bass, in my opinion it combines one of the greatest toys and instrument together and the best part is you can make the body anyway you want :D 10/10
It was pretty hard to watch you play it, but I was expecting that and glad you didn't try to hide your the inexperience with a bass. Which is appreciated to see as a viewer of your builds. 👌🏼
You can build guitars out of tree branches, pine cones, bamboo stems, reclaimed wood pieces or recyclable materials (ice cream sticks, plastic bottles, etc...). They would be absolutely beautiful to watch.
That looks super sweet! The only thing I would've changed, which also is great solution for not wanting to add a lot of extra weight, is pressing and bending superthin (white) wood panels against the sides and sand it so it becomes smooth and rounded. It would also hide the wood inside, around the neck part. Then it would be def perfect!
*_Burl:_* * Plays the _Seinfeld_ theme music like no one's business * *_Also Burl:_* "I don't know how to play bass, it's a completely foreign concept to me."
Recommendation: Incorporate the lego studs into the design. For example, you could use a 4x4 round lego brick on top of a 6x6 round lego plate for the volume knob, and use a lego brick for thumb rest. Traditional pickups, set into a lego brick where the magentic poles are in the studs would also really tie into the lego theme.
The piezo pickup has a great sound and I am now sort of interested in buying a bass that has one in it. I would love to see someone make a bass neck without a truss rod, but like made out of something harder than a truss rod where you could adjust it slightly, just to make sure that the strings wouldn't be buzzing from it being too curved.
I've seen the super glue technique used to mend bricks together but i heard that acetone does it better, because it effectively welds the pieces together by melting them.
Hey, a tip for the headstock, widen it out. you want to try and get the strings as straight as possible to the tuners. Otherwise the windings on the strings like to catch while tuning.