{"id":9549,"date":"2016-08-17T11:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:16:58","slug":"how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this build step, the band saw is put to use to cut more wood excess away from the body to get it closer to its finalized shape.<\/p>\n<p>Below: Showing the body before cutting starts. The larger wood excess has been cut away previously, and in this step we&#8217;re slimming it down even further. No belly cut nor forearm cut is present just yet as that will be done later on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3121\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3121.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Starting the cutting at the upper horn.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3253\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3253.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting the middle top of the body.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3322\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3322.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting the beginning of the lower bout.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3353\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3353.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting around the lower bout.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3404\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3404.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting behind the bridge area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3436\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3436.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting around the control area (treble side of lower bout).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3514\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3514.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting the waist treble side area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3564\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3564.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting around the tip of the lower horn.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3590\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3590.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>The next build step will show the completion of cutting out the body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; text-align: right\">Where are the rest of the build steps?<br \/>You can view them all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this build step, the band saw is put to use to cut more wood excess away from the body to get it closer to its finalized shape. Below: Showing the body before cutting starts. The larger wood excess has been cut away previously, and in this step we&#8217;re slimming it down even further. No &#8230; <a title=\"How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 1\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-1.html\" aria-label=\"More on How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 1\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9539,"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\/9549"}],"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=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}