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  1. Air chambers. Which one?
  2. How I converted a belt sander to an edge sander
  3. Decals / Painting Vs. Inlays: Structure
  4. Tuner broken?
  5. Sustain Block
  6. Neck Plate?
  7. pickup locations
  8. flattening pickguard
  9. Strings at tuners...
  10. High school (first) jazz build
  11. 5 string, 35" scale, semi-hollow build thread thing
  12. Fret Saw..
  13. First build
  14. Need J-Bass ashtray mounting advice/help.
  15. piccolo
  16. Opinions on this color scheme.
  17. 60s Fender Jazz?
  18. Fingerboard Radius
  19. Metal Nut Materials
  20. active pickup problem
  21. Steel Bridges?
  22. prefab switch plate?
  23. Best Material for Filling Holes?
  24. Homemade Rickenbacker Fireglo finish?
  25. common accent line materials
  26. Refinishing an Oil-Rubbed Bass???
  27. fretboard???
  28. Request: Jazz outline
  29. creating a satin, from a gloss finish..
  30. Help! 78 jazz bass-intermittent volume drop
  31. nomenclature: it's a bark inCLUsion not a bark inCURsion
  32. 5 String neck dimensions please
  33. new build day!
  34. Body repair
  35. 5 string multi-scale build
  36. Stripping a poly finish... want some advice on what poly finish to strip!
  37. I need help: EMG PJX set.
  38. Warwick Pickup Switch Broke Off
  39. Tele '51 P bass body options
  40. First complete build, a 4-string with personality
  41. Carvin truss rod repair.
  42. Making a Pickup Ring
  43. truss rod
  44. How To / Show Of Refinishing and Defretting a Bass For an Extremely Low Budget
  45. Fallen tone knob
  46. Planning for a future custom bass
  47. How do you guys get 90 Degree routes?
  48. Amber finish over mahogany?
  49. Adding a laminate top?
  50. Preserve neck while working on body
  51. Im having low output on my top string..please help!
  52. beulahbass in the making
  53. Neck refurbish
  54. Precision Revamp.. to what extent
  55. Scale length question:
  56. Shielding question for a ******
  57. EUB New Build
  58. Where to start.......
  59. Squire P Bass gets a new lease on life
  60. P Bass I built for a customer
  61. Anyone use Gold Evo Fretwire?
  62. RIP David Minnieweather
  63. Durability danish oil finish
  64. To Build or to buy...
  65. Clearcoat or not
  66. How do you make your templets?
  67. HIGHSCHOOL WOODSHOP BUILD #3, Senior year.
  68. side dot measurements
  69. 20 vs 24 fret on an electric bass guitar
  70. Nordstrand MM Pickups - close to the originals?
  71. Recommend a NYC luthier to defret my bass Please?
  72. anyone ever use corian?
  73. This may be a stretch for this forum...but tell me about your portable toolbox.
  74. Finally starting my first build thread
  75. Input jack repair...
  76. Noisy/inconsistent tone pot
  77. Coating on mid-90's fretless Carvin
  78. Glueing Cocobolo
  79. I'm interested in becoming a luthier and have just started my second build.
  80. Couple of staining questions
  81. Heavy heavy modding V.S. selling?
  82. So There's this Luthier in town...
  83. to assemble or not to assemble that is the question!
  84. Solid vs laminate?
  85. J-Bass Build #005
  86. Any tips on painting a body?
  87. Epoxy vs. Polyurethane vs. Mylar for coating a fretless board
  88. Tip Please..
  89. My body and neck
  90. accurate digital scale?
  91. Plunge router with built in light?
  92. Making pickup rings - what material?
  93. My first Bass Build... Please Comment
  94. Acoustic Sound Board
  95. Filling in unneeded pickup cavity routs with wood
  96. Gluing a sound board or figured top
  97. Electric hand Planer
  98. Logo
  99. ZEBRANO FINISH
  100. Band Saw or Scroll Saw
  101. ACHIEVING A SUNBURST FINISH - is this method OK??
  102. how do I fix grounding troubles?
  103. Warped Warwick neck
  104. Finishing Bloodwood for a ramp
  105. Teak/Hickory Fretboard?
  106. Jazz Bass Deluxe 5-string Replacement necks?
  107. Where can I get a body painted
  108. Defretting project done
  109. My 1st Templates..!!
  110. Top Nut spacings for 8 string (Ee Aa Dd Gg)
  111. REMOVING OLD FINISHES
  112. Removing resin coating from a 70s bass
  113. My ramp idea
  114. Zero fret?
  115. A tale of two Rosewoods - Brazilian & Indian
  116. acoustic conversion
  117. 1976 Jazz Fingerboard Crack
  118. Relicing/Aging plastic parts
  119. Help with my stingray - horn repair
  120. Headstock
  121. 7 String Bass woods?
  122. Good luthiers in Hamilton, Ontario
  123. are there any...
  124. Need feedback wood choice.. First bass build
  125. How expensive is it to convert a fretless to fretted?
  126. Seattle Luthier
  127. Looking for feed-back on some design ideas
  128. New Build
  129. Probably a stupid question...getting a natural finished bass ready to paint?
  130. Gibson Grabber Bass Neck
  131. Thank You Talkbass
  132. Small shop set up.
  133. Paint
  134. TB Refinishers?
  135. Help the wood working noob! (With the broken brain)
  136. Applying epoxy to a fretboard
  137. tight or floppy B-string
  138. The correct way to reinstall neck bolts
  139. Free build?
  140. Buckeye Redeemer Single cut for Mike P
  141. My First Bass Build
  142. What's the difference?
  143. Jackson Bass Neck
  144. why yellow maple?
  145. New Member Bass Build
  146. uneven output; a perplexing situation!
  147. Good Place To Shop?
  148. ? refarding selling price for a bass
  149. Great Repair Guy in Maryland
  150. Is there a way to mount a pickguard with no Screws?
  151. a second opinion would be appreciated
  152. wenge neck
  153. need new neck for 08 jazz
  154. singlecut - shorter truss rods?
  155. MM Stingray pickup routing template
  156. Houston luthiers
  157. Mahogany Neck and Body
  158. I got an Idea
  159. More strings bigger body?
  160. Insulation sheilding paint?
  161. Pickups
  162. EB vs. SG shape?
  163. Replacing or upgrading speakers in a factory cab- Plz Help
  164. EMG in an Ibanez
  165. Refinishing my SX (essex)
  166. Where to mount switches on a Jazz
  167. Alternative tuning on bass
  168. preamp question
  169. Is it possible to extend a cutaway on an already built neck-through bass?
  170. Part of this 16th Century Oak Beam As a Neck?
  171. Easy fanned frets slots signing on a huge fingerboard (by hand)?
  172. bass body: afzelia vs. padouk
  173. converting an acoustic six-string to an acoustic bass
  174. Cherry neck
  175. Can Ebanol be repaired?
  176. Neck trough jazzbass
  177. Have I ruined my body?
  178. Slotted heads... mechanics and machines...
  179. Marblewood fingerboard
  180. Old junk into something new
  181. Yew wood as a body or neck material?
  182. Where can I get a Precision Decal?
  183. Spalted maple finish question
  184. Best quality Forstner bits?
  185. New 'Repair' Tech (L.A./Orange Co. area) -craigslist notice
  186. Best way to apply nitro finish (not spraying!)
  187. How accurate my plan should be?
  188. Hipshot UL tuners: problems with depth of headstock?
  189. Radiused Body
  190. Adding blocks and binding to a finished neck?
  191. How do you drill a hole between the P/U cavity and the pot/preamp cavity?
  192. What does Warwick treat the back of their necks with?
  193. nitrocellulose paint ... how many coats ??
  194. A Luthier's opinion on my Warrior
  195. Wet Sanding questions
  196. White blonde type finish
  197. Tung Oil on Nitro lacquer
  198. Shop Visit @ Spain
  199. Guitar Finishing
  200. Does anybody repair / replace pickup covers?
  201. Black limba body with maple neck?
  202. High School Bass Build
  203. Finished my first build...
  204. My first bass project
  205. Stingray BFR Refinishing near D.C.? HELP
  206. Swamp ash moisture content
  207. how many clear coats?
  208. Better B-string on a 34"
  209. Lonnybass Builds - Myrtle Twins
  210. Liquid Finish Experiment
  211. Lee Sklar P's
  212. how's the truss rod work?
  213. Fretted Maple boards
  214. making a trem system
  215. yet another microtonal project - bending special fretwire
  216. I'm looking for someone for set-up in Northern Mi.
  217. Rarely used instrument woods
  218. Anyone know someone good in NYC to set up basses?
  219. `51'!
  220. Hipshot Ultra lites on Squiers
  221. ? about abalone
  222. Sanding back a pore-filling coat of shellac
  223. seeking advice on nut height
  224. Bass Kit..
  225. Wood Suppliers
  226. neutrik jack side installation
  227. clear finish that can be used in high humidity?
  228. Setting intonation
  229. New LonnyBass in the works: Short Scale Edition
  230. got WOOD ?
  231. Where can I buy a 2+2 neck.
  232. Truss Rod install??
  233. custom bass idea
  234. summer bass build
  235. Flight case build
  236. Purple Heart sound
  237. Drilling for New tuning machines
  238. Spector Rebop refinish advice
  239. How big does the drill have to be?
  240. First bass build :Set neck 5
  241. Installing a NUT
  242. Spraying Lacquer/humidity questions
  243. Broken Neck Repair
  244. Defretted
  245. Looking for your old bass parts!
  246. how to replace fretboard
  247. new project wood selection
  248. Black Leather Dye then Tung Oil...
  249. Building a six string.
  250. masking tape on newish paint?