Making a Summer Night Bass - Full Build

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Making a 2000 Year old bog oak and white ash bass guitar. Throughout the video, You can hear music samples played on this very instrument. For the last day of summer of 2020, a final guitar build from the four seasons series. We chose white moon and a star contrasting the dark honey comb body reminding us of clear starry summer nights . We started a couple of months ago by prepping the bone which we used as inlays for the star on the fret board and as a bone nut. After cooking, bone is cut into small blocks and submerged in gasoline cleaner fluid over the period of three weeks. After all the grease left the bone, inlays are cnc cut into star shape and then glued using superglue into slots on the fret board. Fret board is cut from a bog oak board which was drying for a couple of years. The body and the neck is made from dry white ash board which we first cut into pieces and left to dry and stabilize over 3 weeks. After gluing, the block is again left to settle for a couple of weeks to fervent future warping. Front of guitar also made from bog oak. Pieces are drying in the workshop for more than 3 years now and came perfect for this purpose. Each piece was cnc milled into hexagon shape and then cut into 16mm thick hexagons. Hexagons are glued together using epoxy mixed with graphite powder so all the cracks are filled black. Reason we used epoxy is because it doesn't cause warping as much as ordinary vinyl acetate glue does, especially when making thin end grain boards like this one. After setting, the block is cnc planed, milled into desired shape and glued again using epoxy resin to the main guitar block. Final shape of the bass guitar is milled using various flat end and ball end milling bits. Truss rod is made from 4mm cold rolled steel rods welded together using nuts as shown in the video. Truss rod is inserted into milled truss rod groove and covered with silicone to prevent rattling noises. Fret board is glued on to the neck, Head is sanded down to 14 mm thickness and the whole thing is prepped for coating. For this build, we used 5 coats of polyurethane pore filler followed by 4 coats of deBeer 8-114 polyurethane lacquer. Between each coat, the whole guitar is sanded and then left to rest for two weeks after the final coat. After two weeks, guitar is polished with progressively finer polishing pastes and assembled. We used Schaller bridge, machine heads and S-locks, EMG PJX pickups with electronics, jumbo frets and D'Addario strings. I really hope you enjoyed these guitar builds as much as I have. I hope there will be more in the future! :D Thank you for watching and don't forget to like and subscribe! :D Music: Four short samples from garage rehearsal from New Standard Jazz Trio, artists: Leandro Havlicek on keyboard, Domagoj Ivankovic on bass, Antun Profeta on drums Podcast where I talk a bit about guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XatDDaWxcwM My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lignum_channel/?hl=en My facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lignumchannel/ Website: https://www.lignum-art.com/ Intro music: Danse Macabre - No Violin by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://freepd.com/Classical/Danse%20Macabre%20-%20No%20Violin Artist: http://incompetech.com/