Hand carving a Bass body & neck with Angle Grinder Ep 2 | Making a Custom Bass Guitar from Scratch
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 Published On Jul 14, 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 & recap
1:07 The plan for today
1:53 Finessing the custom Truss Rod Access
3:57 Making the fretless fret slots (?) Glow-in-the-dark
8:29 Back to the body - next pickup cavity
10:44 Contours, comfort carves & Cavities
16:36 Making a custom backplate when your piece is too small
18:11 Letting rip with an Angle Grinder!
23:40 Carving the neck with an Angle Grinder!
29:10 How to use facets to carve a neck
33:30 Back to the body and extra long drill bits
35:31 Conclusion

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Ben's livestream camera set up 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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