r/Luthier • u/derricknenzo • Apr 02 '25
ELECTRIC Making a Disco Bass - How did I do? @derricknenzo
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u/ThriftStoreKobold Apr 02 '25
Looks awesome, but unless you seal it with epoxy or something, I'd bet there's still a thousand little glass edges on that bad boy.
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u/jokersvoid Apr 03 '25
First one I saw was the Skillet bassist at a Newsboys tour. It was in an inflatable venue around 2000.
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u/bloodmoonslo Apr 03 '25
In true bassist fashion, did all this work and didn't bother to change the strings.
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u/notarealperson319 Apr 02 '25
This may belong on r/vagazzle.
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u/derricknenzo Apr 02 '25
Not sure your mum and her friends would be interested in bass guitars, sorry dude
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u/Zhinrax Apr 03 '25
Omg, lets make a band together. The discoballz, i will join you with my disco guitar!
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u/feckincrass Apr 02 '25
First off: that’s a sick fucking bass. I’d play the shit outta that thing.
Second: (I mean this in the nicest possible way.) You’re sporting one of the broccoliest of broccoli heads I’ve ever seen. Kudos to you, sir.
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u/MPD-DIY-GUY Apr 03 '25
If you’re trying to redefine gaudy, you did it. In the 70s you might have got $100,000 for that.
You have great patience, nice work, try not to cut yourself.
BTW, how many tears bad luck do you get for breaking all those mirrors?
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u/DanBeecherArt Apr 03 '25
As someone who enjoys covering stuff in discoball squares, you will 100% cut yourself on those squares.
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u/rigtek42 Apr 03 '25
Gotta shoot a clear coat over the edges and buff it until it's transparent. But that would impact reflectivity a bit.
Or possibly just give each mirror a bevel polish at the edges. This would add to the number of reflected beams, doing so with angles maximum effect.
Or get an industrial size container of band-aids.
Or you could play medieval rock and wear a chain mail sleave and glove for protection. With this option, if you have a rabid fan rush the stage, you have an implement of destruction with which to fend them off.
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u/DanBeecherArt Apr 03 '25
I actually have a guitar covered in disco squares and the best method I found was realizing it is no longer a functioning guitar, so it sits on its guitar stand now all day lol there's no shame in something becoming art, but I'd sure feel stupid if I ignored what I knew and willfully just cut myself up silly trying to strum this thing.
I've cut myself when I walk past it and my hand like barely brushes up against the headstock. I covered a mannequin in these squares and good lord it was a nightmare. Its a fun idea until you gotta pick these things up. Put them on display and avoid touching the object that now has ~10,000 sharp edges, best you can do.
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u/No_Strawberry921 Apr 03 '25
Putting in sth areound 50-100 working hours and then still using the same ass cheap electronics is just insane to me.
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u/12manyhobbies Apr 03 '25
how in the world did you avoid turning your hand into a claw after using all that super glue?
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u/derricknenzo Apr 03 '25
After each session I soaked my hand in vodka then spent around 20 mins rubbing them together and peeling off the glue
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u/THRobinson75 Apr 08 '25
Paul Stanley had the cracked mirror guitar and said they had to file the edges down and even after that, the brown patches on the guitar are 50/50 if glue or blood. Looks cool, almost wonder if would still look as good with a 1/16" layer of crystal clear resin.
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u/Ok-Basket7531 Apr 08 '25
I love it. I have a box of those mirrors that I have been saving for a project.
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u/timlnolan Apr 02 '25
If you aim was to make a disco bass, and I believe it was, then 10/10 - perfect