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Build Your Own 5-String Electric Bass in JBH5 Style!
The Rocktile Electric Bass Kit JBH5-Style is a "Do-it-yourself" DIY electric bass kit including electronics and components that lets you assemble and customize your own 5-string bass.
This premium bass kit combines classic JBH5-style shaping with thoughtful design and versatile pickup configuration. The lightweight Paulownia body provides resonant depth and a comfortable overall weight, while the bolt-on maple neck and rosewood fingerboard with 22 frets ensure comfortable playing and precise intonation across the entire neck. Multiple creative finishing options give you a wide range of looks and sounds.
High-Quality Wood Construction
The unfinished Paulownia body delivers a warm, balanced resonance that complements the kit concept. The bolt-on maple neck and rosewood fingerboard with 22 frets and classic block inlays provide confident control over your instrument and a solid base for your creative work on the bass.
Versatile Electronics
The bass is fitted with a single single-coil and a humbucker pickup, giving you a broad tonal palette and dynamic sound — from crisp funk lines to fat, punchy riffs. All necessary electronic components and hardware parts are included, so after assembly you can immediately dive into your bass project.
Creative DIY Project
All wooden parts are pre-routed and unfinished, giving you maximum creative freedom to personalize your bass. This DIY project is ideal for bass enthusiasts, beginners and hobbyists alike — whether for practice, stage or studio use.
Start your bass project now and build your own signature 5-string electric bass!
Video Documentation Assembly Guide
In a 3-part documentary, "Bastel Bautz" shows you the assembly of the Rocktile electric bass kit in JBH5 style.
Features
- \"Do-it-yourself\" Electric Bass Kit
- JBH5-Style
- Body: Paulownia
- Neck: Bolt-on Maple
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Pickups: 1x Single-Coil, 1x Humbucker
- 22 Frets
- Block Inlays
- Chrome Open-Back Tuners
- Finish: Natural
- Weight: 4.1 kg
- Includes all necessary parts
- Some basic DIY skills required
Scope of delivery
- 1 x Rocktile JBH5-Style Electric Bass Kit
- 1 x Assembly Instructions
- 1 x Instrument Cable
Suitable accessories (Not included in the delivery.)
Specification
- Product number 00047088
- Colour Natural
- Fretboard Rosewood
- Finish Untreated
- Neck Maple
- Electronics Passive
- Number of strings 5
- Body Paulownia
- Pickups S-H
- Scale Long Scale 34 Zoll
- Handedness Right-handed
- Gigbag / Case included No
- Fretless No
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The first kit was also a 5-string and I now play it on stage.
The second kit was supposed to be a custom model with maximum modification. I realized that I needed the 5th string. That's why I ordered the third kit.
I think the fit and accessories are good. The strings supplied are disappointing, but the bass sounds much better with a good set of strings.
The body could also be made of nicer wood. A transparent finish would show unsightly spots in the wood. However, this is no longer noticeable with a lacquer finish.
Once the surfaces are nicely finished, the rest is actually child's play. Assemble, align, adjust, tune and start playing.
Bass #1 convinces with enormous fret purity and, after readjusting the neck, string action, ... very nice to play. I'm really looking forward to the next model :-)
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The body had small frayed holes in the fornier in some places. We had to repair these with special wax. But the beautiful grain of the wood is really nice, especially after waxing:
The cables of the potentiometers were soldered together incorrectly, which we had to separate again completely and soldered together according to our own plan.
Otherwise, all parts were included; except for a not at all pre-drilled hole, all holes were exactly pre-drilled.
I am very happy with the result, without "professional" help it is just not so good realizable in the first attempt, in my opinion.
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Has a layer of marbled burl(I think), about 1mm, veneered on the front. You need to sand and water a couple of times to get the grain off the wood before painting. With such nice grains I chose a stain to not cover them, then clear varnish to make it shiny.
As far as I'm concerned the pickups and electronics are its weak point, the neck is nice and smooth and the tuners hold tuning well. If you know how to assemble it and how to do the setup (you may need to change the angle of the neck with respect to the body for a correct action) it's a great bass, for what it costs it's absolutely worth it...
Questions about product
Question by Jiménez Mohedano on 01.09.2018
Hi, could you give me measurements of the string spacing and the pickup holes? Thanks
Answer by Musikhaus Kirstein:
This is a kit that has to be assembled first, he can adjust the height of the rope himself. But if he thinks the scale is 34 inches or 86.36 cm.
Financing
ConsorsFinanz Finanzierung
- 6 to 72 months term
- 0% financing for 12,49 € per month
- More information on financing
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