Wash-tub base

[kevin nee]

Looking for plans for a WASH-TUB BASE.
Thanks in advance, Kevin

[Mike Langford]

Hey Kevin,

Google or Bing.... Wash-Tub BASS Plans

[george wilson]

You need a wash tub and a broom handle and a thick string. Tie the string to one end of the broom handle this will be the top end of the handle. Punch a hole through the center of the wash tub. Knot the other end of the string through the hole. Rest the bottom end of the broom handle near the edge of the overturned wash tub. Hold the tub down with your foot next to where you rest the broom handle on the tub's edge. Make different notes by pulling back on the broom handle to tighten or loosen the string. There,you have the plans.

[Shawn Clark]

Check out the tub-o-tone http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/tubotonia/TOTMain.html
I've been gigging with one for 10 years. Big Fun!

Good Luck
Shawn

[Fitzhugh Freeman]

I just finished making a cable-tub bass for a friend. I was amazed at how good it sounded (for what it was, but also in general). Only two strings, more and the top will buckle, but it is so much more rigid than I expected. Rocking it around by the neck varied the pitch no more than my fender jazz.

I had to rush it off to my friend and forgot to take photos, but functionally it looks much like the types I copied from:
http://rockmumbles.wordpress.com/kaufman-bros-upright-washtub-bass/

I also built the other two types that guy made and the cable tub is by far the best sounding, most fun to play, and not too hard. I had fun making it as nice as possible and then sticking it on a big galvanized tub.
PM me if you want details. The tubotonia page is probably the best source of info on the range of types.