Bass Guitar Build Pt8
In this video, the penultimate in the series, the bass gets
the Karate Kid treatment and its various components re-fitted, ready for its
final testing.
Cheers Gary
Labels: Handmade bass guitar, luthier bass, Short Scale Bass
I’M GARY NAVA, A PROFESSIONAL LUTHIER MAKING MANDOLINS AND GUITARS BY HAND, TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS, IN MY ANALOGUE WORKSHOP. HERE ARE VARIOUS TALES FROM MY WORK BENCH.
In this video, the penultimate in the series, the bass gets
the Karate Kid treatment and its various components re-fitted, ready for its
final testing.
Cheers Gary
Labels: Handmade bass guitar, luthier bass, Short Scale Bass
The neck’s done, so in this video the body shaping is completed and a few other bits sorted out!
Cheers Gary
Labels: Handmade bass guitar, Short Scale Bass
With the fretboard/frets completed, the next stage is to shape the neck.
Cheers Gary
Labels: luthier made bass guitar, Short Scale Bass
Now is the time to prepare the fretboard (compound radius etc.), install the frets and dress them. This isn’t the most exciting stage of the build but of course frets are pretty essential to any fretted instrument!
Labels: Short Scale Bass, vintage style bass guitar. luthier bass
With the first stages of work completed on the body and neck, they can be joined together and fretboard fitted
Labels: Nava Bass Guitar Handmade bass