A nice follow-up from Slapping a bass in the jungle, kid’s TV show style, National Geographic very recently released How Bass Guitars Are Made from their MAKING STUFF video series.
Yes, this video is for kids, but it’s very cool that National Geographic did this. It’s also very cool how they presented the information in this video. You get to see a builder, cutting the body shape, routing the control areas, performing drilling and a whole bunch of other genuinely GOOD information on how the electric bass guitar is constructed.
The video even makes a point to show that yes, building a bass does require by-hand work and that it cannot be built all by machine.
For the eagle-eyed, yes, these are F Bass guitars that are being built, and we’re almost 100% sure the shop being shown is in fact the F Bass shop.
