Very nice! Thank you... The little things like, don't put too much pressure on the knife, is very helpful... Very educational! It gave me inspiration to start a project i've wanted to do for years... Keep it up!
I thank you for your detailed build notes. I am planning on most of my instruments being acoustic but I am already seeing your lesions as being very helpful in getting to my goals I am planning on designing and building things like a contrabass cigar box guitar, bowed lyre/jouhikko and a sub contrabass hurdy-gurdy/apprehension engine
You can get a .5 mm blade for a coping saw to do the fret cuts. All you gotta do is keep your finger on the top smooth side of the blade while youre sawing and when it is flush with the board you are good.
Indeed, if you watch the rest of the series that exact saw blade makes an appearance. I prefer to cut the slots first with a razor saw to make the final slots easier to cut more precisely, very much like drilling a pilot hole first. Thanks.
See I think the music adds to the video, and i love the 80s infomercial vibe it gives. I was gonna ask if you do your own music for shits and giggles :D I did that on some of my videos, was quite fun but ultimately too time consuming for lazy bones like me
Nice work. Why didn't you use a single piece of wood for the neck? And isn't the truss rod supposed to be fit on the backside of the neck, rather than under the fretboard?
I resawed the wood so I could get the grain orientation right, it makes for a nice stable neck. One piece necks can be just as stable but you have to use a piece with the grain oriented properly. Mounting the truss rod under the fingerboard is industry standard for every manufacturer except Fender and their clones, and even then they don't do it 100% of the time. It's actually a lot more work to install the truss rod like that, then install the walnut stripe, and both of the fenders I've owned had the walnut come loose over time, so just nope. I don't like it. Thanks.
Hello, I want to make an electric double bass. Is there any material available on the internet for me to know the measurements? Olá, eu quero fazer um contrabaixo elétrico. Tem algum material disponível na internet para eu saber as medidas?
Thanks for making a video on this, there’s way to few bass builds on UA-cam! I like the music, the guy complaining about lack of ducking/EQ must have left spotify on in the background or something.
glad to see the video that you uploaded, can you help me ... to give me the layout / distance between fred per fred and the distance between the other parts, it is my hope to get your attention ,, thanks.
Hi, I use an app on my phone to do the calculations for me, but here is a website that goes into a lot of detail about how to do it manually, I hope this helps you. Cheers. www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/tips/fretdist.htm
Don’t put a fucking tape between the fingerboard and the neck, that drives me crazy! Bad joint. Just peel it off before clamping, the glue won’t get into the trussrod slot.
At least you're talking to us now, but music is still distracting and annoying. Especially since there's no EQ hole so the mid range of the music often renders some of your voice unintelligable. But you're getting better. But it still feels like a 1980's era corporate infomercial for the wonders of the new shopping mall opening up in your town with crappy music going up and down in volume between your talking (I should know, I produced, directed and edited many of them back in the day.) Try keeping the volume of music throughput at the level you fade it to when you talk, just so it's not so overwhelming annoying. It takes away so much from an otherwise interesting video. It's not "cute" at all, just dated. This explains the principle of cutting an EQ hole in the music track so the voice frequencies are not lost. He I think is using premier, but the explanation is good regardless of the software. This is something that plagues SO MANY youtubers who insist on using music with narration, not making room for the midrange frequencies the voice by reducing the same ones in the music track. Basically on an analog board back in the day we simply lowered the mid range know on the audio channel where the narration was. ua-cam.com/video/N_bAzj7zdDk/v-deo.html
Lou Lamana shows how you can do a really nice DIY video for fellow builders without needing the distracting bells and whistles like music. Obviously you don't need to do on camera, but you also don't need to fill every moment with music either. Music in DIY videos is like when we all first got powerpoint and everyone needed to use every transition and stupid sound effects between them, because it was "cute." Now 99% of powerpoints use neither transitions other than maybe a fade (but mostly cuts) and NEVER use sound effects like breaking glass anymore, people realized it was annoying and took away from the content being presented. We don't need to be entertained, we want to be informed. ua-cam.com/video/uf4kBpWQg6g/v-deo.html&feature=share
Mate, I make my own music and I like it. If you don't then you don't have to watch. Either way you should stop complaining about it and find something productive to do.
You make it look easy. I’m building a P bass right now, so this is very helpful. Will be watching closely. Thank you.
Very nice! Thank you... The little things like, don't put too much pressure on the knife, is very helpful... Very educational! It gave me inspiration to start a project i've wanted to do for years... Keep it up!
I thank you for your detailed build notes. I am planning on most of my instruments being acoustic but I am already seeing your lesions as being very helpful in getting to my goals
I am planning on designing and building things like a contrabass cigar box guitar, bowed lyre/jouhikko and a sub contrabass hurdy-gurdy/apprehension engine
you can make a safety guard from wood. Lasts years and you can customize the shape
You can get a .5 mm blade for a coping saw to do the fret cuts. All you gotta do is keep your finger on the top smooth side of the blade while youre sawing and when it is flush with the board you are good.
Indeed, if you watch the rest of the series that exact saw blade makes an appearance. I prefer to cut the slots first with a razor saw to make the final slots easier to cut more precisely, very much like drilling a pilot hole first. Thanks.
See I think the music adds to the video, and i love the 80s infomercial vibe it gives.
I was gonna ask if you do your own music for shits and giggles :D
I did that on some of my videos, was quite fun but ultimately too time consuming for lazy bones like me
Thank you, yes it's all my own work, for better or for worse. We can be thankful that I'm self aware enough to not attempt any singing😂😂
@@fanbladeinstruments - Mate, I love that you use REAL music instead of the garbage you find on (typically) sports videos. More power to you!!
Nice work. Why didn't you use a single piece of wood for the neck? And isn't the truss rod supposed to be fit on the backside of the neck, rather than under the fretboard?
I resawed the wood so I could get the grain orientation right, it makes for a nice stable neck. One piece necks can be just as stable but you have to use a piece with the grain oriented properly.
Mounting the truss rod under the fingerboard is industry standard for every manufacturer except Fender and their clones, and even then they don't do it 100% of the time. It's actually a lot more work to install the truss rod like that, then install the walnut stripe, and both of the fenders I've owned had the walnut come loose over time, so just nope. I don't like it. Thanks.
@@fanbladeinstruments I didn't know that truss rod placement thing was only for Fenders, thanks for the info.
Hello, I want to make an electric double bass. Is there any material available on the internet for me to know the measurements?
Olá, eu quero fazer um contrabaixo elétrico. Tem algum material disponível na internet para eu saber as medidas?
You can actually pin literally the scarf joint, using screws on the edges, since you will cut those out when making the headstock shape
Thanks for making a video on this, there’s way to few bass builds on UA-cam! I like the music, the guy complaining about lack of ducking/EQ must have left spotify on in the background or something.
Tip: Put glue on both surfaces to minimise any slight risk of an air bubble
arifreeman Also, putting glue on both surfaces the glue will much easier soak into the wood and make a stronger bond
glad to see the video that you uploaded, can you help me ... to give me the layout / distance between fred per fred and the distance between the other parts, it is my hope to get your attention ,, thanks.
Hi, I use an app on my phone to do the calculations for me, but here is a website that goes into a lot of detail about how to do it manually, I hope this helps you. Cheers. www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/tips/fretdist.htm
Great informative video what country are you in ?
I'm all the way down here in New Zealand, new videos coming soon, thanks for watching😁
@@fanbladeinstruments I thought so when I seen the wax remover and the mention of Bunnings and you sound like a Kiwi..so am I in north island
At least install a riving knife, there is a good chance of timber binding when sawing those lengths.. great video! Thanks
I did one better and bought a real table saw. Much nicer, safer, faster, better. Thanks.
Have seen elsewhere that a few grains of salt in the glue joint will help an angled glue joint stop sliding out of place.
Don’t put a fucking tape between the fingerboard and the neck, that drives me crazy! Bad joint. Just peel it off before clamping, the glue won’t get into the trussrod slot.
At least you're talking to us now, but music is still distracting and annoying. Especially since there's no EQ hole so the mid range of the music often renders some of your voice unintelligable. But you're getting better. But it still feels like a 1980's era corporate infomercial for the wonders of the new shopping mall opening up in your town with crappy music going up and down in volume between your talking (I should know, I produced, directed and edited many of them back in the day.)
Try keeping the volume of music throughput at the level you fade it to when you talk, just so it's not so overwhelming annoying. It takes away so much from an otherwise interesting video. It's not "cute" at all, just dated.
This explains the principle of cutting an EQ hole in the music track so the voice frequencies are not lost. He I think is using premier, but the explanation is good regardless of the software. This is something that plagues SO MANY youtubers who insist on using music with narration, not making room for the midrange frequencies the voice by reducing the same ones in the music track. Basically on an analog board back in the day we simply lowered the mid range know on the audio channel where the narration was.
ua-cam.com/video/N_bAzj7zdDk/v-deo.html
Lou Lamana shows how you can do a really nice DIY video for fellow builders without needing the distracting bells and whistles like music. Obviously you don't need to do on camera, but you also don't need to fill every moment with music either. Music in DIY videos is like when we all first got powerpoint and everyone needed to use every transition and stupid sound effects between them, because it was "cute." Now 99% of powerpoints use neither transitions other than maybe a fade (but mostly cuts) and NEVER use sound effects like breaking glass anymore, people realized it was annoying and took away from the content being presented. We don't need to be entertained, we want to be informed.
ua-cam.com/video/uf4kBpWQg6g/v-deo.html&feature=share
Mate, I make my own music and I like it. If you don't then you don't have to watch. Either way you should stop complaining about it and find something productive to do.
Disagree. I can understand him, and also he makes all his own music.