Post 20: How about a Single String Stainless Steel Stick Bass(Model #SSSSSB!)

As always looking to use stuff I already had on hand and going for utter simplicity and minimalist design I modified the original design and ended up with something finished and functional before I even had time to post about the process. 

        Detail of the tuner, made of a 1" thick circular piece of solid brass (leftover from outfitting my bobber years ago) that slides over the stainless steel tubing, a stainless steel flange normally used to install a coat hanging rod, a brass disk, and a 1/4-20 x 3" screw with a knurled brass  knob:

    Detail of the brass bridge (a section of a nonfunctioning brass punch) and its support/spacer(a stainless steel gear out of a gearbox):

    The plain black soap bar pickup is attached the long way with the two stainless steel adjusting screws it came with through the tubing. An extra nut raises the side closest to the bridge so it is in line with the string. The angle plug at the end of a black coiled electric guitar cable is simply fitted tight in a 1/4" hole(establishing the ground), and the red wire of the pickup is soldered to the end of the plug. Could not be simpler:

      The ball end of the string is threaded through the end of a copper plug that has been hammered into a cup, comes out through a hole in the stainless steel tube, and goes over a brass nut shaped like a lopsided ring:

      A wooden fingerboard was carved out of cedar, grooved to fit over the tube, and stained black to look like ebony(see image 1).  I may replace it with the real thing.

      A stainless steel lever with a black ball knob (out of an old tile cutter) is used for the pin, and slides in a series of metal tubes forced into the end of the stainless steel main tube.