Over my summer break 2022, I decided to give it a try to build a legitimate instrument from scratch.  ::I recently updated all of the hardware:: on my electric bass, so I've got hardware from that.  I got a slab of Walnut as a score from a table sale.  I got some maple from Rockler.

I used a lot of resources and spent a lot of time on youtube watching tutorials.  Here are a couple of places I kept returning to:

Crimson Guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12Vs3p7bt4

Guns and Guitars: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnfXz2OeVJHYyebACjj4ZGA

I adapted the plans found here: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/building-a-short-scale-p-bass.1487102/

Northeast Seattle Tool Library: https://neseattletoollibrary.org/