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The Steps



1. We started to plan the making of the bass by getting information off the Internet on the making of a guitar. Then we began to pick out wood and get estimates on the prices of different woods and sizes.

2. We got the wood which was a 1"x 8"x 5' piece of #1 pine, this cost around $15.00. We then got an old bass for parts and began to take it apart and collect the parts that we would need (we used these parts cause they were too hard to make and/or too expensive to buy).

3. We cut the wood 1" x 5" x 15" & 1" x 2" x 15" measurements so that we could overlap the joins to make a big piece of wood that we could cut out the body of the bass. This process took two days.

4. We cut out the wood into the shape that we wanted, using a scroll saw (you may cut the bass in any shape that you desire). We sanded of the flat surfaces and sides. We then rounded of the edges to make it look nice.

5. We chiseled out the spot to place the neck. We chiseled it down to the join which was around 3/4" deep. Next we chiseled the spot for the pickups. We then chiseled out a spot on the back for the volume/tone controls and the jack. Around the sides of the chiseled spot on the back we chiseled a little to make the plexy glass guard flush with the surface. After all of this we sanded the chiseled spots.

6. We then drilled holes to run the wiring from the volume/tone control to the pickups and we also drilled a hole to run the ground out under the bridge.

7. We put on two coats of mahogany stain. First we sanded with 280 grit before we did the stain. To apply the stain we used a sponge.

8. We then coated it with fifteen coats of varathane which took us four days. This process took several days.

9. We ran the wiring through. We had to place the volume/tone knobs and the jack in the holes. We then properly connected the wiring to the pickups. We also had to connect the jack because it had been disconnected.

10. We placed the neck in the spot that had been chiseled out. We put four screws through the back to hold the neck in place.

11. We placed the bridge on with four screws. The bridge must be properly put on so that the strings go straight with the neck.

12. We cut a piece for the back out of plexy glass. We screwed on the plexy glass on the back.

13. We cut out a Pickguard out of pickguard material that we had to buy that cost us about $20.00. We cut the pickguard into a our disired shape(this don't matter as long as it fits). This took us a while because u have to cut out the exact right shape for the pickups/neck.

14. Finally we screwed on the pickguard.