Ep 1 - Shaping the Body - How to Build a P-style Bass Guitar

You've asked and Ben has delivered. Welcome to Crimson Guitars and welcome to Ben's workshop where he is finally building a P-style Bass Guitar. This will be a straightforward Bass guitar build, but let's see how Ben puts his spin on things... This is video 1 of 5 and here Ben is choosing his materials, shaping, contouring and routing the Bass body.

Chapters -
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Design and materials
2:07 Bandsaw the body shape
3:05 Masking tape and Super glue trick
3:27 Template and Routing table to refine the body shape
5:13 Routing the cavities with Triton
7:03 Checking centre line - Very important
7:25 Preparing to rout the neck pocket
7:58 Ben's favourite Triton tool - the router
10:30 Round-overs made easy with Triton
12:34 Quite possibly the scariest holes you'll ever drill...
13:28 ISOtunes in, PPE donned and the sanding begins
15:28 Triton hand held belt sander to contour the body
17:57 Conclusion
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Thank you again for all your support, we really, really appreciate it! – Ben
Stay tuned and stay awesome!

[natsterjam]

YES, YES and YESSS!
My 3 favourite things:
1. It's a bass.
2. It's a P bass.
3. It has some amazing woods.
Please for the love of god don't hide those amazing woods when finishing this bass!
Thank you Ben so much for this build!
I can't wait to see the finished instrument.
Edit:
How about a nice dark wood for the knob plate?
How about pearl fretboard inlays but different planets?

[MrFuzzwuzzle]

“I’m going to build a very standard bass”

Episode 35, fitting the led touch screen

[craigsummerville]

Ben: “This will be a very simple and straightforward P-bass.”
Me: “Bwahahahaha! No, it won’t! It’s Ben, he won’t be able to restrain himself!”

[yetanotherbassdude]

"Bass players are getting very vocal about me building a bass"
You know you're in trouble if you've made the bass players start talking!

[hannahpumpkins]

OMG, finally - FINALLY - a bass! It's about time!

[SidViscious]

I started fixing wreckage off of Goodwill. I am just starting to scratch build. This makes where I am real to me. Thank You for this.

[Robil]

I love seen how happy you make yourself - makes me happy too.

[amydpnw]

MORE BASSES!! Also, don’t hide that gorgeous wood!! Would like to see more carving tho.

[marcospereira]

More bass Ben please.
I am a bassplayer from Uruguay.
I started watching your chanel since you did the relic on a PRS guitar

[kevinandreoli]

Really enjoying this style of video. Enough info in the text. People can always watch the earlier full tutorials.

[albertoplasencia]

BEAUTIFUL mister Crimson... I did my own job and brewed my own piece in order to have some spalted wood. (horseshit, beer, wild leafs from trees and 6 months of curing)... I have to admit that I love your videos, as a noobie luthier, I just love the way you work... regards!!

[scottreeves]

A bass build is welcome! As for special things: chrome on a Cadillac. If it doesn't improve tone, comfort, and playability I don't care about it. That said, that spalted ash is a treat!

[dso]

I quite enjoyed this editing style and didn't feel like I missed any important information thanks to the short explanations texts added, it also helps that it's a simple build and you used common tools. I'm really enjoying this so far! That's some pretty wood too, can't wait to see the neck!

[roberthurless]

I am very glad to see that you use proper eye and ear protection. And that you keep a clean shop.

[chaffinpoole]

As a bass player who just started building instruments, this is an amazing guide to watch

[funkyfender]

Very straight, very standard P Bass .... oh no you won’t! Ben! It’ll be ‘spaltingly’ bonkers, because it you building it... loving the fun...!

[BritProgJazz]

Yay!!! My 12yr old daughter has been waiting forever for you to build a bass! Keep up the fantastic work, and stay safe and well!!!

[Hateweek]

This video has become my go to....for my fathers Jazz bass build....just waiting on my router bits...

[joshuasenic]

YES! Finally! I knew you had it in you Ben. :) Awesome spalted body.

[Robil]

For me, as soon as you rounded the edges I was like wow, that's a guitar