Short Scale Bass Guitar

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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.

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Bass Guitar Build Pt7

The neck’s done, so in this video the body shaping is completed and a few other bits sorted out!

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Bass Guitar Build Pt 6

With the fretboard/frets completed, the next stage is to shape the neck.

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Bass Guitar Build Pt 5

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!

Vintage Kay Inspired Short Scale Bass

This is the first in a new series of “Bass Build” videos that I’m making. I’ve been wanting to build myself a solid body, short-scale bass guitar for a while and now’s the time! If you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you would have noticed a few bass side-projects in amongst all the mandolins. In that case, you’ll remember that I restored a vintage Kay bass about a year ago and that’s been the inspiration for this one’s design. In this video I look at designing the bass and solve the problem of a getting a bridge with a narrow (17mm) string spacing.