{"id":10441,"date":"2017-01-23T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:54:50","slug":"how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-finish-sanding-the-neck-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-finish-sanding-the-neck-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"How to build a bass guitar – Finish sanding the neck part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this build step, we begin finish sanding the neck.<\/p>\n

Below: Two Super Jet brand glues (medium\/red and thin\/blue), furniture powder (used as a filler material, rosewood dust could have also been used), 150-grit adhesive-backed sandpaper, a hard block and the neck itself.<\/p>\n

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Below: A view of the visible gaps beneath the frets.<\/p>\n

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Below: Furniture powder being carefully applied with screwdriver.<\/p>\n

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Below: Applying a very small amount thin grade Jet glue to bond the powder. Note: The thin grade glue has high capillary (as in water-like) consistency to it, hence the reason a very small amount is used. Overuse would have caused it to run through the board out to the other side.<\/p>\n

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Below: The view after one drop of thin glue was placed in the appropriate area.<\/p>\n

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Below: Each area that needed filling and gluing is attended to.<\/p>\n

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Below: Three closer views of filled gaps.<\/p>\n

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Below: Hard block being used with 150-grit sandpaper adhered to it, leveling off the dried glue and also doing finish sanding for a uniform smooth surface.<\/p>\n

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Below: The completed sanding. Note: The neck wood at this point is still unfinished and rough, so the sandpaper was used to clear off the extra dust.<\/p>\n

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Where are the rest of the build steps?
You can view them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this build step, we begin finish sanding the neck. Below: Two Super Jet brand glues (medium\/red and thin\/blue), furniture powder (used as a filler material, rosewood dust could have also been used), 150-grit adhesive-backed sandpaper, a hard block and the neck itself. Below: A view of the visible gaps beneath the frets. Below: Furniture … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}