How to Build Your Own Bass

How to Build Your Own Bass How to Build Your Own Bass You love playing the bass guitar and now you are ready to build your own. Well before you begin purchasing the wood and other articles it is better to first buy a kit of a do it yourself bass guitar and understand the dynamics of building a bass guitar. Once you know how to do it you can do everything yourself right from scratch.

Select a bass guitar kit from a musical instrument supplier or buy it online.

Start with the neck of the guitar and tape it on the fretboard on the front with a masking tape. Apply some wood lacquer wood finish to the head piece of the neck. Let ir dry and repeat the same on the other side. This will give the neck of the bass a nice deep brown hue.

Now use a sand paper to smoothen the body of the bass guitar. Do it on both sides and wipe off the dust to get a smooth surface.
Now paint a coat of primer on both sides of the guitar and let it dry for a few days. If there are any rough spots or drip marks, sand it, making it smooth for painting.

Paint both the sides evenly. Let it dry for a day or two. Now give it a second coat of paint. How to Build Your Own Bass2 How to Build Your Own Bass

Now get the cutaway section of the guitar and attach the neck of the guitar. With a screwdriver fix the fix screws on all four sides. Now place the tuners at the top of the neck of the bass. Fix them with screws you will find in your bass kit

Get a soldering iron and fix the control plate of your bass guitar. Take a center contact wire and solder it to the volume pot on the control plate. Next solder the another wire connected to the volume pot that you have to solder to the input jack piece.

Now place the pickguard on the body of your guitar. Use screws to to attach it to the body of the bass.

Now put the brass pick ups in the right slots. Now fix wires at the bottom of the body where the control plate will be fixed.

Now take the other wires from the bass pickups and solder them to the volume pot on the control plate. Now fix the control plate. Use a screwdriver to fasten it well. Now fix the tone control knobs on the control plate.

At the very bottom of the guitar fasten the bridge of the bass. String up your guitar, tune it and test if all wires are fixed right.

Add some decorations if you want by adding stickers or just a typographical alphabet or write your name on your bass guitar.