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How to build a bass guitar – Finalizing the body shape / Rough Sanding part 4

This is a continuation from part 3.

Below: The body is clamped to table to show current state of the build before work continues.

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Below: View of the upper horn. A flat spot still exists on the side that needs to be taken care of and blended into the curve.

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Below: The rasp file is used to blend the flat area and round it off.

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Below: The flat spot is now blended into the curve.

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Below: A view of the butt end of the body that needs rounding over.

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Below: The edge has been rounded over (using the same file as seen above).

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Below: The body is switched to a new position so we can get to the other areas that need rounding off.

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Below: Here we see a flat spot on the inside of the upper cutaway that needed to be rounded.

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Below: The flat spot has been taken care of and is now blended.

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Below: A view of lower horn. Flatness can be seen and needs rounding off.

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Below: The rounding is completed on the lower horn.

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Below: A view of the treble side lower bout. There is a flat area seen and it needs to be rounded off.

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Below: Filing has been completed once again using a rasp.

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Below: Butt of the guitar (treble side), and another flat area is here that needs to be rounded.

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Below: Progress of rounding the butt. (Insert dumb joke here about big round butts.)

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Below: The body has been flipped, still looking at the butt end, and there is a pronounced edge that still needs rounding.

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Below: Same area, now rounded off.

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Where are the rest of the build steps?
You can view them all here.

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