DIY Bass Build - How I Built a Custom Jazz Bass at Home

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I am by no means a professional at building instruments but I hope you enjoy following along on my DIY journey! This was my second time building a bass from "scratch," the first being my sky blue 5-string P Bass. Please feel free to ask any questions! I will answer to the best of my ability or even send you to another video that covers it better.

Some specs of the bass:

Wood - Alder
Neck - Squier Vintage Modified '70s Jazz Bass
Pickups - Fender Original Jazz Bass Pickups
Wiring Harness - ObsidianWire
Bridge - Wilkinson 4 string Vintage Style
Strings - D'Addario EXL220

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*Each song on this channel is tabbed completely to my interpretation and played to the best of my ability. Have an edit suggestion? Leave it in the comments!

[eliakuiper]

What a tremendous amount of effort. The tools at your disposal seem endless. A great result and a terrific, informative video.

[bapt_andthebasses]

Good job. I'm currently not equipped nor able to make a body, and even less a neck, which I think is the hardest part to manufacture. A small subjective comment: I would have kept the Squier logo. Putting Fender logos on Squier necks is a no go.

[Jordaninspace]

Really awesome job! Looks and sounds great. Funny timing, I JUST tried building a jazz bass(ish) from scratch too. Yours looks a million times better than mine lol. I kinda got to a point where I just wanted the dang thing to be done so I didn't care if it was perfect, so having gone through the process massive respect for the time and effort gone into this

[morenoteslesstalk]

This calls for admiration. Top-tier dedication. Nice vid! I built a precision bass a few years ago, but it didn't age too well over time. Still, I featured it in a recent video with a tube head, and the Danish Peerless Alnico speaker really made it shine despite the wear. Now I'm thinking about building a jazz bass to see if I can improve on my last project.

[gavinyeomans]

it's such an incredible skill that you can take these raw materials and create a beautiful instrument out of them that sounds amazing too! great work, thanks for sharing the whole process with us

[renejrhodes]

Can't stop addicted to the shinding!

[cannonpearson]

I thought I was trippin when I was hearing the Pink Floyd in the back ground. Great tast my friend. (This build is really fantastic)

[skalewilly]

Fantastic!!! What a great job in this bass, congrats!!!!

[adamdavenport]

my expertise is building home stereo amplifiers and pre amplifiers tubes really make a difference in the way the stereo system sounds

[iamgribs]

Sounds great. If only I had a garage of my own.

[DanielSilverman]

Sick video Jotham! Never knew you had a channel! You’ve earned a new subscriber! It sounds and looks very good! No idea what any of the bass lines were though😂

[adele_m]

this is just a miracle! Incredible tool).

[AllAboutBasses]

Turned out pretty awesome in my opinion. I'm trying a few DYI bass kits myself. Subscribed :)

[jeromecollin]

Wooow that's a beautiful bass! I would've messed it up at so many steps haha! First bass line is dark necessities but the others I don't know.

[joannamilligan]

Really impressive Jotham. I truly 'get' how important it is to have your instrument be a comfortable fit next to your body. I've tried Telecasters and could never tolerate the constant bruising and 'jabbiness'-(that's proper English, by the way) to my rib strictly a Strat girl! The guys in the band never seemed to understand. It's cool that you get it! Keep doing what your doing.It's all great.

[HypnoticHorizons]

THANK YOU, nobody shows how to route the control cavities and how to route the wires thank you so much

[DanGentry]

Nice work! I'm in the middle of my first bass build now.

[echoes]

Bass looks great! well done (and am sure I heard a bit of Pink Floyd Animals in the background ~8min 15 mark)

[idonaor]

This is amazing! Can you tell me what is this little Delta bandsaw you used for the template? What's the model? And wasn't it strong enough to cut the body itself?

[c]

bro thats was awesome, do u have the template?