You know you're addicted to building basses when...

[reverendrally]

Complete this phrase.

You know you're addicted to building basses when...

Here's my go.

...you finish one and your wife says, "can you have a rest for a while now" and you're thinking, 'but I just got started'.

[ctmullins]

...you have four going at once, while the shutters are falling off the house...

[MPU]

.. you once again say that THIS is the bass that has all what I've always wanted.

[ronaldpdbrandt]

You have a closet light that hasn't worked for six months because you spent every weekend working on your builds.

[Smilodon]

... when you check your bank account and think "Uh-oh!".

[chuck norriss]

You finish a project & get rid of it to justify starting a new one.

Or

you have all of the parts enough for two projects yet still comb the internet for parts.

[HaMMerHeD]

Originally Posted by ronaldpdbrandt

You have a closet light that hasn't worked for six months because you spent every weekend working on your builds.

Heh, I really need to get that pantry bulb replaced.

[ibateur]

Originally Posted by ctmullins

...you have four going at once, while the shutters are falling off the house...

Shutters falling off your house show up mysteriously on your basses

[Splods]

When you go to the wood store and ask for 'the usual'.

Or, when you get really excited by wood grain.

[Konquest]

You look at the door panels on your medicine cabinet and imagine them as a bookmatched top (true story)...

[MPU]

...you are on a skiing holiday and when you wake up your first thoughts are "How do I rout that curved back to my next last bass I'm making". True story from 15 minutes ago

[FatherG]

When your wife knows that the one you are working on is not the last one, in spite of what you said after that last one...

BTW: I just finished this one today. All the parts and the neck are off an Ibanez. The body is a solid slab of walnut given to me by a local farmer - he cut it down about 15 years ago.

Just so you know, I consider myself a decent woodworker and an aspiring, beginner guitar builder.

[Musiclogic]

...when you turn it into a business and find yourself needing to hire a helper because it has become more than a hobby.....LMAO

[FunkyMan]

...when your girlfriend says: "No s3x until you finish your unnecessary 3rd bass"

[ctmullins]

Originally Posted by FunkyMan

...when your girlfriend says: "No s3x until you finish your unnecessary 3rd bass"

LOL! You have to choose between "3rd bass" and "third base"!

[Ol'Bass'ead]

When you get a job at a hardwoods store just to be near the wood that you want to turn into basses-but the pay is so low, you cant afford it even at your discount....

[Smilodon]

... when you look at cargo cases and pallets at work trying to find a piece suitable for a body.

[Beauchene Implements]

...when your co-workers stop inviting you to lunch because all you talk about is amazing pieces of walnut/maple/mahogany you found, or the awesomeness of the new brand or router bits you switched to, or how they changed the bottle shape of your favorite epoxy and it sucks now.

[Beej]

...when your wife finds the custom oak table you promised still in rough lumber form under the workbench and suddenly gets wise that those 11 basses that you're "just borrowing from Steve" might be connected to all those nights in the shop...

[jet_king]

Originally Posted by Beej

...when your wife finds the custom oak table you promised still in rough lumber form under the workbench and suddenly gets wise that those 11 basses that you're "just borrowing from Steve" might be connected to all those nights in the shop...

this...this is golden