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 Just a few photos for you................

And here we have it; the completed bass!

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

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

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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!

With the first stages of work completed on the body and neck, they can be joined together and fretboard fitted

 I'm now on to the neck!

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With the majority of the bass guitar’s design work resolved, it’s time to start work on its body. I’m using an unusual combination of Tasmanian blackwood and Spanish cedar. Let me show you………………..

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.

Standard XX is now complete and is now available for sale via my website. One of the key features of this lovely instrument is that it has been made without the use of any tropical/rainforest hardwoods or animal derived products.

Here’s the video and some photos for you.

Thanks for looking.

Cheers Gary