Very Nice! Good luthier skills. I was worried when I saw the stain going on. But relieved that you topped it off with oil rather than tons of high gloss lacquer. Cheers and Well Done!
really awesome...I wonder why you set the neck with slightly negative neck angle and then routed the top flat and then sunk the bridge into the top slightly...seems like if you had set the neck flat you could have just mounted the bridge right on the top. Most basses get assembled with a slight neck angle (ideally)
Hi! Well, actually there’s no angle on the neck. It may look like it but there’s none. I sunk the bridge slightly because during shaping the arm rest on the body I accidentally also curved the surface where the bridge would eventually be. So by sinking it I had a flat surface to mount it on.
thanks! Yeah, I understand. This design though, with the kind of reversed strat shape, was more or less my bass players idea, whom I built this bass for.
Very nice workmanship. The registration pins for the fretboard were a very clever idea. Kinda killed me when you stained it all green though. To each hos own, I guess.
I'd love to do my own build, however the amount of technique and general know how, mistakes to avoid, critical areas and a list of other things makes me hesitant trying to build my own.
I'm still gathering a few necessary tools in my Wood Shop. I have an idea to build a ported body out of Waterfall Bubinga with a Maple and Purple Heat neck with a Ebony fretboard. I might even try some inlay work on the fretboard. For now it's a future project that's going to require some thought and more research and nice sharp tools.😉
I'm fairly new to luthier work (a few months experience). How much experience would you say a project like this requires? With careful planning and sufficient materials/tools + some assistance, would this be realistic for an inexperienced guitar maker?
street N' Dirt fighters Hey, well there a quite a few different tools that I used. You‘ll need all the basic hand tools such as a hammer, rasp, file and so on. There are of course more specific luthiery tools as well like a fretting file etc. You‘ll need power tools as well, the most important being a router. In this build the bandsaw and thicknesser planer were probably the only power tools that I didn’t own. I built up my tool stock over the past 10 years and probably spend around 2000$.
@@ArkesGuitars Ah, cool. Very nice build, btw. I am in the middle of my neck thru bass build and I have a neck blank and 2 wings. I think I want to cut the truss rod slot right now since everything on the neck is still square and stiff against bending. I noticed you did your slot after rough cutting the neck blank. No wrong way to build a bass I suppose, but just curious why you chose to do the truss rod slot after rough cutting the neck blank. Thx!
Hi, sorry. I have no blue print That's the convenient thing about neck through constructions. It's pretty straight forward. You basically measure everything on the wood itself as you go along.
You can order a fret scale template from Stewart McDonald that will have all the positions for your frets without having to measure and mark each fret. It’s so much easier.
beautiful. sure would like to hear it.
I wanted to see the finished back! 😢
You are an inspiration to build your own bass guitar. Thanks to you I will try to build my first bass guitar.
Very Nice! Good luthier skills. I was worried when I saw the stain going on. But relieved that you topped it off with oil rather than tons of high gloss lacquer.
Cheers and Well Done!
I think the most amazing thing is how strong wood glue is!
Yeah, very strong!
What?? No playing it? C'mon man! I want to hear that Hulk bass ^_^
nice build, been building already some bolt on basses and now starting my first neck thru. thanks for sharing this!
Very nice work 👌🏿👍👍👍
Thank you!
Subscribe done 👍
pure art
Greetings from Ph. 🇵🇭! Nice creation good sir. Hoping that guitar to go international and someday i could afford to buy one.
Damm that's from scratch. Awesome
really awesome...I wonder why you set the neck with slightly negative neck angle and then routed the top flat and then sunk the bridge into the top slightly...seems like if you had set the neck flat you could have just mounted the bridge right on the top. Most basses get assembled with a slight neck angle (ideally)
Hi! Well, actually there’s no angle on the neck. It may look like it but there’s none. I sunk the bridge slightly because during shaping the arm rest on the body I accidentally also curved the surface where the bridge would eventually be. So by sinking it I had a flat surface to mount it on.
Great Skills here young man. Note: I could do with a shorter horn in the higher register area for a better reach though.
thanks! Yeah, I understand. This design though, with the kind of reversed strat shape, was more or less my bass players idea, whom I built this bass for.
Успехов в работе 😉👍
Very good-looking bass. But, how does it sound like?
It’s in a mix, but check this out ua-cam.com/video/z98c6Vtu3A0/v-deo.html
Very interesting and some solid skills on show. What was the stain you used? It looks great.
Very nice workmanship. The registration pins for the fretboard were a very clever idea. Kinda killed me when you stained it all green though. To each hos own, I guess.
thanks man. honestly, I wasn't fond of the whole green thing either, but that's what my band's bass player wanted, so there was nothing I could do ;)
Excellent!! Great job, congrats!
Very nice.
Great job! What's composite you use for filling logo on the head?
Great job.
I'd love to do my own build, however the amount of technique and general know how, mistakes to avoid, critical areas and a list of other things makes me hesitant trying to build my own.
Just go for it. You will do mistakes and you’ll also correct them. You’re only shaping wood 😉.
I'm still gathering a few necessary tools in my Wood Shop. I have an idea to build a ported body out of Waterfall Bubinga with a Maple and Purple Heat neck with a Ebony fretboard. I might even try some inlay work on the fretboard. For now it's a future project that's going to require some thought and more research and nice sharp tools.😉
I love your finish. Which staining? Topcoat?
I'm fairly new to luthier work (a few months experience). How much experience would you say a project like this requires? With careful planning and sufficient materials/tools + some assistance, would this be realistic for an inexperienced guitar maker?
hello there what tools did you use for the build and what was the cost of them? (rough estimation)
street N' Dirt fighters Hey, well there a quite a few different tools that I used. You‘ll need all the basic hand tools such as a hammer, rasp, file and so on. There are of course more specific luthiery tools as well like a fretting file etc. You‘ll need power tools as well, the most important being a router. In this build the bandsaw and thicknesser planer were probably the only power tools that I didn’t own. I built up my tool stock over the past 10 years and probably spend around 2000$.
Just curious...if you have already bound the fretboard, how do you make the fret slots deeper after radiusing the fretboard?
@@MixingGBP I cut the slots deep enough, so that the frets still fit after radiusing. Gaps will be filled with glue while fretting.
@@ArkesGuitars Ah, cool. Very nice build, btw. I am in the middle of my neck thru bass build and I have a neck blank and 2 wings. I think I want to cut the truss rod slot right now since everything on the neck is still square and stiff against bending. I noticed you did your slot after rough cutting the neck blank. No wrong way to build a bass I suppose, but just curious why you chose to do the truss rod slot after rough cutting the neck blank. Thx!
Sir you have a blueprint of this sir because I build my own bass guitar sir thanks
Hi, sorry. I have no blue print That's the convenient thing about neck through constructions. It's pretty straight forward. You basically measure everything on the wood itself as you go along.
Hi sir , sir please can you tell me what are the measurements of frets in alembic epic bass guitar
You can order a fret scale template from Stewart McDonald that will have all the positions for your frets without having to measure and mark each fret. It’s so much easier.
Looks like a Keith Merrow Schecter guitar.
Sound ?
I don´t like the fact that is a neck-through and you can´t see it because the body is painted. I would like better to see the purple wood in the body.
What the fuck does it sound like?????