{"id":9576,"date":"2016-08-23T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2016-08-23T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:16:20","slug":"how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a continuation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/uncategorized\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-1.html\">of part 1<\/a>. The remainder of the body is being cut out.<\/p>\n<p>Below: Continuing to cut around the lower horn.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3640\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3640.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Beginning to cut the neck area. The cut distance from the pencil line has been purposely increased from a 1\/16&#8243; distance to 1\/8&#8243;; this keeps the standing rib from breaking too easily.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3706\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3706.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Finishing the neck area cut, treble side.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3739\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3739.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Beginning cut on the bass side.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3747\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3747.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Cutting around the upper horn.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3806\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3806.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: The body has been flipped for the reason the design of the heel is on the back and it needs to be seen to make the proper cut.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3844\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3844.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Continuing to cut around the heel area.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3880\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3880.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\n<p>Below: Rough cut finished.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"IMG_3895\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_3895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3895-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><\/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>This is a continuation of part 1. The remainder of the body is being cut out. Below: Continuing to cut around the lower horn. Below: Beginning to cut the neck area. The cut distance from the pencil line has been purposely increased from a 1\/16&#8243; distance to 1\/8&#8243;; this keeps the standing rib from breaking &#8230; <a title=\"How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/how-to-build-a-bass-guitar-cutting-out-the-body-part-2.html\" aria-label=\"More on How to build a bass guitar &#8211; Cutting out the body part 2\">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\/9576"}],"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=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/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=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}