Hi there. You went to it very naive, means you did start to work on it, without a lot of knowledge. That is no major fault, but it could end up in a desaster. Never the less, you got to your goal and that is, what counts. Many ways lead to Rome, is a saying. Next time, if you mount a neck, do not fill the holes with wood-filler. Instead drill four wider holes into the neck-plate holes of the screws and fill them with hardwood dowels. Means using hardwood dowels and wood glue into the holes. Not too much and don`t drill the holes to short. Leave a little room under the dowels, so the glue can press upwards. Besides, if you make the dowels a little shorter, you would not have to remove the dowles overstand. Afterwards, use a sharp chissel and flaten the surface, removing the glue. Use the flat side to even the dowels/glue, like you would use a flat file on a flat surface. Don`t sand the neck-plate instead. That will be tricky, if you are not experienced in sanding a surface flat. It could unlevel the plate, means it would be uneven sitting on the surface of the neck pocket. The wood chissel would have been the better solution to lift the frets up, as well. An old chissel for instance, where you would not damage the sharp edge. Another layer of paint and an inbetween sanding would have made the surface of the body look better. Important is though, the saddle on a fretless Bass. If a neck is fretted, the level of the Saddle-Grooves are higher, compared to a fretless Saddle. Filing grooves is also a tricky thing. Once you filed too low, you cannot fix it anymore. Maybe Superglue would help, but I am not a fan of that and refiling the grooves. Than, get a new one instead, pre-grooved. Soldering is not tricky, once you learned how to do it. Practise it and you get to your goal eventually. Someone who is experienced in it, could help you out. Anyhow, you are on a good way to become better. We all started somewhere and only practise and repeating it, will get you to the fine line. Keep going and don`t be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes will let you learn to do it better. If it takes 10, or 100 tries is not relevant. Once you understood, what went wrong, you get better. Keep the groove young man. Greetings from Northeren Germany 🙂
@@bomamo9620 Thank you so much for the advice! In the future, I will definitely keep these things in mind! In hindsight, I definitely wish I had used dowels in the neck and had a way to have the saddles sit lower. It still plays quite good and I’m happy to have learned from this experience.
So dope! I've also built two of my own guitars and its such a journey
Well done
nice
Can we see more builds? , longer demos would be nice as well , subscribed!
@@xionanims3117 Thank you so much! I’ll definitely try to do that next time! Maybe I’ll record a demo for this bass as a separate video
Hi there. You went to it very naive, means you did start to work on it, without a lot of knowledge. That is no major fault, but it could end up in a desaster. Never the less, you got to your goal and that is, what counts. Many ways lead to Rome, is a saying. Next time, if you mount a neck, do not fill the holes with wood-filler. Instead drill four wider holes into the neck-plate holes of the screws and fill them with hardwood dowels. Means using hardwood dowels and wood glue into the holes. Not too much and don`t drill the holes to short. Leave a little room under the dowels, so the glue can press upwards. Besides, if you make the dowels a little shorter, you would not have to remove the dowles overstand. Afterwards, use a sharp chissel and flaten the surface, removing the glue. Use the flat side to even the dowels/glue, like you would use a flat file on a flat surface. Don`t sand the neck-plate instead. That will be tricky, if you are not experienced in sanding a surface flat. It could unlevel the plate, means it would be uneven sitting on the surface of the neck pocket. The wood chissel would have been the better solution to lift the frets up, as well. An old chissel for instance, where you would not damage the sharp edge. Another layer of paint and an inbetween sanding would have made the surface of the body look better. Important is though, the saddle on a fretless Bass. If a neck is fretted, the level of the Saddle-Grooves are higher, compared to a fretless Saddle. Filing grooves is also a tricky thing. Once you filed too low, you cannot fix it anymore. Maybe Superglue would help, but I am not a fan of that and refiling the grooves. Than, get a new one instead, pre-grooved. Soldering is not tricky, once you learned how to do it. Practise it and you get to your goal eventually. Someone who is experienced in it, could help you out. Anyhow, you are on a good way to become better. We all started somewhere and only practise and repeating it, will get you to the fine line. Keep going and don`t be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes will let you learn to do it better. If it takes 10, or 100 tries is not relevant. Once you understood, what went wrong, you get better. Keep the groove young man. Greetings from Northeren Germany 🙂
@@bomamo9620 Thank you so much for the advice! In the future, I will definitely keep these things in mind! In hindsight, I definitely wish I had used dowels in the neck and had a way to have the saddles sit lower. It still plays quite good and I’m happy to have learned from this experience.