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  1. using a CNC to slot and strange fretting
  2. Modify 30th Anniversary Stingray
  3. Black Korina
  4. 5 String Bass Progress
  5. To pinstripe... or not to pinstripe.....
  6. 51 style P-body weight question.
  7. Piece of rosewood?
  8. A fan six string and two sister four strings.
  9. How much to "cap" a bass?
  10. Need advice on flat black paint
  11. Filling and finishing ash
  12. Rolled Edges - Fretless
  13. Undoing Lamintates
  14. Bartolini Waranty
  15. Glue Vera Wood?
  16. your work/finish times
  17. Any tricks for triple lockdown bridges?
  18. Allparts JazzBass preamp 6410-010
  19. How do you cut F holes ?
  20. How would you add a bridge humbucker to a P bass?
  21. Adding side markers to my fretless
  22. What do you guys and girls think?
  23. Instruction for first-time bass builder
  24. I have some buzzy frets
  25. Bass bridge and pickups choice for the old wood
  26. ACG Recurve single cut 9 string
  27. Custom control plate! Thanks J.D.B.!
  28. Advice on straightening the neck
  29. slab vintage style bass id help
  30. glue problem
  31. Fixing the burn victim
  32. Builder to re fret my 6 string ibanez?
  33. From paper to CAD - I have no clue... - help?
  34. Tongue
  35. My Precision Build
  36. Tung oil + wipe on poly
  37. Adding a Jazz pickup to an ATK
  38. I made myself a body for that fretless Westone neck I have
  39. vid test
  40. Almost a steal, then shut down....
  41. Thoughts on the reason to participate here
  42. My bass
  43. Lefty build?
  44. how/why did you get into luthiering?
  45. maple finger board protection?
  46. polyester source needed
  47. Conversion: 4 string to fretless via neck replacement
  48. What wood type is this ?
  49. Round vs square carbon fiber rods
  50. making a 5 string bridge cover
  51. offering building advice when you personally have none?
  52. (Knobs): I need a supplier who has silver foil (disc) inserts?
  53. Hole in Jazz Bass?
  54. ACG Recurve single cut fretless 6
  55. Carbon Fiber neck making?
  56. North Carolina lumber stores reviewed
  57. Prefered neck/body connection
  58. Defretting: Epoxy or Polyurethane?
  59. Need some help with adding a BadAss Bridge
  60. How should I wire my new OBP-3?
  61. Using Grinders for Shaping
  62. Drill Press upgrade
  63. mandolin frets
  64. where can i buy a bridge like this?
  65. Control Cavity HELP
  66. fretoard slotting sleds
  67. Truss-rod Help
  68. Nut Removal
  69. 2nd build pics.
  70. How do I ground a Kahler bridge ?
  71. Warwick NT Thumb Truss rod
  72. Determining bass wood quality (or, is modding an el cheapo worth it)
  73. Wax after Watco Oil or not?
  74. a few wood questions
  75. Fretting on video
  76. 3 piece vs. 5 pice necks
  77. advice needed for filing down 3rd & 4th fret
  78. Decent Luthier in Washington DC area
  79. MM 4-string pickup routing templates seen on the Bay
  80. Pickup placement for fretless ???
  81. warmoth explorer body
  82. Jazz Bass Controls Question
  83. AutoCad
  84. How to: Forearm Contour on my 51 RI...
  85. Bass Staining?
  86. Replacement preamp for graphtech piezos
  87. Model VD5 for Lester
  88. Resaw Blades AKA oh no not again.
  89. New Model HDC ...opinions please.
  90. Grounding with a active/passive
  91. ATTN: Anyone Who Has Defretted a Bass
  92. suggestions?
  93. Assembling a vintage P - worth it?
  94. Preamp Dementia
  95. what wood inlay?
  96. Angled headstock
  97. I sanded through the clear, help!
  98. No sound from Jazz Bass
  99. Electronics Upgrade - OLP Tony Levin Singature
  100. Shimming an odd-shaped neck pocket.
  101. Identifying wood.....
  102. smoothest tung oil
  103. NEWBIE BUILDER!!! four string bolt-on
  104. 4 to 8 string conversion?
  105. Anyone convert guitar to bass or vice versa?
  106. Make Fodera Yin Yang
  107. 1980's Active electronics problems: Yamaha BB1200s
  108. E-tailer for Bass hardware and such?
  109. wow thats alot of wood!!
  110. Custom decals please...
  111. Phenolic bridge saddles & 51' P-Pickguard: Laquered or not?
  112. Electric upright neck reinforcement
  113. Truss rod question
  114. help routering
  115. mm pickup positioning
  116. Modifying a Basses String Spacing
  117. 1st Build - The JagBass
  118. Steps for a Natural Matte finish
  119. Alternative to clear pickguard
  120. Help on cleaning an oil finish
  121. What do you all do about cases for your customs
  122. I can now call myself "mid-humpyŽ"
  123. pickup screw holes template
  124. Help Refinishing a Starfire
  125. am i making a bad choice?
  126. Z-Bass Build has Begun!
  127. A little help from the masters
  128. What sould the size of the strings be if i was biulding a 15 string bass?
  129. Planning a Gecko 6
  130. Headless and Whammy
  131. help, convert a natural ash body to sunburst
  132. Wood Combination....
  133. Rosewood fretboard buffing?
  134. Auriou Rasp-makers to Re-open in France
  135. Vintage-style open tuners with thinner shaft?
  136. Laminate question?
  137. Dull Wooly Thump
  138. single string bridge question
  139. Can anyone build me lightweight basses
  140. building your own pickups
  141. Question on pickup input
  142. "Claro" walnut?
  143. custom expectations
  144. Hipshot 3 string retainer on 4 string jazzbass neck ??
  145. Recurve 5 fretless for Tino
  146. Recurve 5 (L/H) for Paul
  147. Recurve 4 for Dave
  148. restoration work (missing headstock, can't find the trussrod)
  149. Problem with my Warwick
  150. luther in nj
  151. The Fenderbird begins....
  152. I'm putting a warmoth together
  153. MIM Body - what upgraded neck can I use?
  154. False Beating?
  155. Harlot for Peter
  156. Does anyone make Long Stem push / pull 250K linear pots?
  157. marking out frets
  158. have you ever...
  159. where do you place your pickups?
  160. I goofed up!
  161. Acacia Bass..
  162. looking for a 6 string acoustic
  163. Best way to find a local Luthier?
  164. Early Birthday gift
  165. Ground loop hum coming out of bass intermittently....HELP PLEASE!
  166. Q about pickup placement and "technique sensitivity"
  167. Help ID/Appraise (Warmoth/Valley Arts)
  168. preamp question
  169. Warmoth Neck or licensed replacement fender neck
  170. Buitar?
  171. Pickup Winding on video: stacked humbuckers
  172. Signature Preservation
  173. Looking for J Pickup coveres with rounded corners...
  174. rerout a bass pickup config?
  175. Changing a 4 string...
  176. I need need help!!!!!!
  177. CRAP!!! only 10 dayz to finish it. HELP
  178. Redeemer DC-5 Bolt On!
  179. Like a warm fire place and a cup of cocoa on a cold winters eve..
  180. Anyone Know any luthiers in the Los Angeles Area?
  181. Summit school of Lutherie
  182. Critique My Body Shapes
  183. What happened when the jig failed...
  184. PU Position Jig
  185. Converting a fretless to a fretted
  186. Router template
  187. Cut The Nut?
  188. Parts Build numero uno
  189. Cracked the fretboard
  190. New to me, Sponge Sanders
  191. Wood Suppliers
  192. Body Half and Wing Glue-up Helpful Hint
  193. Why bookmatch?
  194. Defretting question and neck finishing question
  195. Neck lams visible at headstock?
  196. finish for maple bass neck
  197. widening a neck pocket
  198. Fixing a demagnetized pickup.
  199. Bandsawing and gluing up a body on video
  200. replacing a fingerboard an alternate way
  201. bridge: iron or alluminium?
  202. String Angle (Not the break angle)
  203. Please, a definite answer to number of parts in a bass body
  204. KTS titanium saddles and bridge base
  205. Another one down, 2 more started!
  206. Finishing Maple.. PLEASE HELP
  207. Drill Press
  208. Enter the Dragon Bass
  209. Evil laminate top
  210. Looking for a really wild Walnut top
  211. ACG Recurve single cut 9 string for Mark.
  212. Cutting Order
  213. Bartolini or Sadowsky Jazz Bass pups
  214. Who should i call for a ramp?
  215. I know nothing about...
  216. Removing Layer of Paint From P-Bass
  217. Disturbing noise at 12th fret on E string
  218. Who Makes 5 String Pickup Dust Covers?
  219. Newbie question
  220. Pickup Cover Pictorial (not mine...)
  221. replacing fingerboard dots with Clay dots?
  222. Tung/Alkyd mix with brown pigment
  223. Body design feedback
  224. Building an EUB - what tuning machines?
  225. Program for drafting basses
  226. A small, cute fretless for myself
  227. Maple vs. Ebony
  228. My 5-string Cocobolo bass project
  229. First Build-Headless Fretless
  230. Changing parts
  231. Luthier in Nashville TN area?
  232. threaded inserts and neck shim Q's
  233. G1's 3rd Build
  234. Adding second pickup. How hard?
  235. Where to get a Vintage P-Bass neck?
  236. Case for really big bass?
  237. New 10 String ERB In The Works
  238. Twisted neck, composite headless
  239. Fretless to fretted
  240. Writers block
  241. Router vs. Rotary tool
  242. What do you think...
  243. Tuner parts source
  244. Cardboard upright
  245. pickup positioning and the right pickups?
  246. Putting a radius on a 5-string fingerboard
  247. I need someone to build me a bass...
  248. Quick question...
  249. Fabric Finish
  250. Using the shop made thickness sander, on video!