Designing, Cutting, & Shaping the Body & Headstock Ep1 | Making a Custom Bass Guitar from Scratch
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 Published On Jul 9, 2022

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Welcome to Crimson Guitars https://www.youtube.com/user/CrimsonC... and Ben's home workshop. In this video series, Ben is building a custom single cut Bass Guitar from scratch and it was filmed in front of a Livestream audience on the Crimson Guitars EXTRAS Channel.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction & What will Ben be building today?
0:49 A rundown of the parts and materials
1:50 Customising the neck/headstock shape
2:53 Routing the Truss rod channel
5:43 This episode has been sponsored by Skillshare
7:13 Redesigning a derivative headstock shape
9:25 Cutting out the neck on the bandsaw
10:52 Finessing the shape on the router table
14:06 Gluing on the fretboard
16:28 Designing the custom body shape
21:39 To the bandsaw - cutting out the body
22:45 Refining the curves on the spindle & belt Sander
23:47 Drilling & Routing the pickup and neck cavities
26:29 Back to the neck, cleaning up the edges & hand planeing the radius
29:35 Marking & Cutting the fret slots
32:14 Customising the Truss Rod Access Hole
34:35 Inserting the side dots & Making them Glow-in-the-Dark
38:41 Conclusion & what's happening next time

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Ben's livestream camera setup includes: the Blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro, Prime Cameras (Front facing and over bench) Canon EOS 250D, suspended from the ceiling (bench side) Canon EOS 90D, and on the movable tripod a Canon M6 Mark II
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Music used in this video from Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra...
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Thank you again for all your support, we really, really appreciate it! – Ben
Stay tuned and stay awesome!
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