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  1. New Project
  2. Can Somebody Help?
  3. warmoth parts
  4. Question about salvaging hardwoods
  5. Painted Fretboard????
  6. Ding Repair?
  7. Do you know where can I get buckeye burl?
  8. going from stain finish to painted poly?
  9. Back From The Back Burner Build
  10. When you look at the trees, do you see basses?
  11. Painting on the body (ala Hendrix's Flying V)
  12. Ash as a neck wood?
  13. Binding a neck
  14. How to dull that shine?
  15. Question about bloodwood (nothing about tone).
  16. RIM Custom Jazz 5 for Rob
  17. Do I need to seal pau ferro fingerboard for fretted bass?
  18. want to add a J pup or humbucker to my P bass....
  19. Bookmatching Tops
  20. Compiling information on Paints/Finishes for a guide
  21. Tools for fefinish.
  22. Shaving wood from a bass body to make it lighter
  23. pickup routing...hole for leads
  24. Old Fender Jazz Bass head stock stickers
  25. Proline Flush Mount outputt Jack
  26. First refin Project
  27. removing fretboards
  28. Fender necks, Squier body.
  29. Complete Noob Needs Direction
  30. My attempt to convert a gloss neck to a satin neck on my '78 Jazz
  31. Home-fix for deep-ish scratches?? can anyone recommend me?
  32. Earthing.. whats the deal
  33. alembic spoiler fretboard marker issue.
  34. Wanna see my crotch?
  35. headless bass bridge?
  36. Fender Jag
  37. First Re-finishing job.. finished
  38. Looking for a luthier near Richmond, VA
  39. Help to find a book
  40. HELP!!!...truss rod nut for '91 MIA Fender Jazz
  41. Finish Suggestions Please!
  42. First Build Completed... FINALLY!
  43. Jaguar Bass Body Specs.
  44. My first scarf joint neck..???
  45. TS 75 EQ Plunge Cut Circular Saw, anyone?
  46. Festool TS 75 EQ Plunge Cut Circular Saw, anyone?
  47. My first project!
  48. Buzz: To be or not to be
  49. density and dentability
  50. In the preparation stage
  51. Congratulation to Brian Barrett and LowEnd Basses
  52. Bridge Adjustment - Why?
  53. Poor Routing - Fix Help?
  54. fretless replacement neck for P/J bass
  55. Adding a second soundboard
  56. Scarf joint jig
  57. making a cavity cover
  58. Neck carving: Essential rasps/files
  59. Multimeter Purchase
  60. Fretboard Question
  61. luthiering as a MAIN carrer?
  62. I must vent: The "straight-pull" headstock myth
  63. Need Help - strap button hole.
  64. never done it
  65. Removing decals
  66. Plastic nuts/saddles
  67. what type of glue?
  68. Two new builds finished...
  69. Can you paint with enamel?
  70. Is this MIJ neck good for a Warmoth build?
  71. Maple vs. Rosewood
  72. odd glue/clamp situation...opinions?
  73. My first refinish project. Squier Precision.
  74. piezo bridge mystery
  75. 1st Build - Aluminum neck fretless guitar
  76. pics request
  77. faster action on bass
  78. neck, or fb? qs quilted cherry
  79. Possible to buy pearl OVAL inlays?
  80. Curved heel needs to be squared
  81. Where can I get a bass painted in NW area?
  82. Where you get metal parts finished?
  83. Nut Files - Where to buy/Which to get?
  84. Fretboard came up..???
  85. cutting the neck out of an NT, route for bolt on
  86. oh nuts.......a cracked nut...
  87. Ibanez atk pickguard/bridge
  88. Jaco Tribute Bass Build
  89. body
  90. Looking for New Neck build in California
  91. Threaded insert question
  92. Building a nut, have a few questions
  93. Eliminating the pickguard/cc cover
  94. I made an acoustic bass guitar!
  95. glueing bowed wood
  96. The Ressonant Frequency
  97. Australian Painter Needed. Brisbane
  98. soap bar / mm pick up mix
  99. truss access at body end of single-cuts?
  100. Im gonna make a clear bass guitar
  101. I need a competant builder to make me a finger ramp!!
  102. Need advice on what to do.
  103. Is this top Ash or Spalted Maple?
  104. New tool time..... 14" bandsaw
  105. Fender Precision Bridge height issue
  106. Rickenbacker Refinish
  107. Jarrah Custom P/ J Bass
  108. Looking for ideas - 1/2" mahogany blank
  109. Cleaning an inlaid ebony board?
  110. wood
  111. My first, oh no
  112. Epoxy Style Fingerboard Tutorial, Sort Of
  113. Filling voids in Maple Burl?
  114. Planning 1st Build - Mahogany prep question
  115. Anyone in Central IL that can help me?
  116. neck shrink - frets, ouch!
  117. correct position for strap button
  118. how do you remove acrylic paint from a guitar?
  119. Converting 5 to 8
  120. So I Made a Ramp Today...
  121. Fixing up a Fingerboard (with pics)
  122. Fender Jazz mods (Active MIM 4 string)
  123. Purpleheart color change..
  124. Best Shielding material
  125. Moding my old Ibanez.
  126. Filling in large block inlays
  127. keep new basses new???
  128. Finish Removal
  129. Which hipshot ultralite?
  130. So, I removed my fretboard ...
  131. Multiscale Chambered 8-string Hybrid Singlecut
  132. Quick Refinishing Question
  133. Six string fretless bass... multiscale.
  134. Air chambers. Which one?
  135. How I converted a belt sander to an edge sander
  136. Decals / Painting Vs. Inlays: Structure
  137. Tuner broken?
  138. Sustain Block
  139. Neck Plate?
  140. pickup locations
  141. flattening pickguard
  142. Strings at tuners...
  143. High school (first) jazz build
  144. 5 string, 35" scale, semi-hollow build thread thing
  145. Fret Saw..
  146. First build
  147. Need J-Bass ashtray mounting advice/help.
  148. piccolo
  149. Opinions on this color scheme.
  150. 60s Fender Jazz?
  151. Fingerboard Radius
  152. Metal Nut Materials
  153. active pickup problem
  154. Steel Bridges?
  155. prefab switch plate?
  156. Best Material for Filling Holes?
  157. Homemade Rickenbacker Fireglo finish?
  158. common accent line materials
  159. Refinishing an Oil-Rubbed Bass???
  160. fretboard???
  161. Request: Jazz outline
  162. creating a satin, from a gloss finish..
  163. Help! 78 jazz bass-intermittent volume drop
  164. nomenclature: it's a bark inCLUsion not a bark inCURsion
  165. 5 String neck dimensions please
  166. new build day!
  167. Body repair
  168. 5 string multi-scale build
  169. Stripping a poly finish... want some advice on what poly finish to strip!
  170. I need help: EMG PJX set.
  171. Warwick Pickup Switch Broke Off
  172. Tele '51 P bass body options
  173. First complete build, a 4-string with personality
  174. Carvin truss rod repair.
  175. Making a Pickup Ring
  176. truss rod
  177. How To / Show Of Refinishing and Defretting a Bass For an Extremely Low Budget
  178. Fallen tone knob
  179. Planning for a future custom bass
  180. How do you guys get 90 Degree routes?
  181. Amber finish over mahogany?
  182. Adding a laminate top?
  183. Preserve neck while working on body
  184. Im having low output on my top string..please help!
  185. beulahbass in the making
  186. Neck refurbish
  187. Precision Revamp.. to what extent
  188. Scale length question:
  189. Shielding question for a ******
  190. EUB New Build
  191. Where to start.......
  192. Squire P Bass gets a new lease on life
  193. P Bass I built for a customer
  194. Anyone use Gold Evo Fretwire?
  195. RIP David Minnieweather
  196. Durability danish oil finish
  197. To Build or to buy...
  198. Clearcoat or not
  199. How do you make your templets?
  200. HIGHSCHOOL WOODSHOP BUILD #3, Senior year.
  201. side dot measurements
  202. 20 vs 24 fret on an electric bass guitar
  203. Nordstrand MM Pickups - close to the originals?
  204. Recommend a NYC luthier to defret my bass Please?
  205. anyone ever use corian?
  206. This may be a stretch for this forum...but tell me about your portable toolbox.
  207. Finally starting my first build thread
  208. Input jack repair...
  209. Noisy/inconsistent tone pot
  210. Coating on mid-90's fretless Carvin
  211. Glueing Cocobolo
  212. I'm interested in becoming a luthier and have just started my second build.
  213. Couple of staining questions
  214. Heavy heavy modding V.S. selling?
  215. So There's this Luthier in town...
  216. to assemble or not to assemble that is the question!
  217. Solid vs laminate?
  218. J-Bass Build #005
  219. Any tips on painting a body?
  220. Epoxy vs. Polyurethane vs. Mylar for coating a fretless board
  221. Tip Please..
  222. My body and neck
  223. accurate digital scale?
  224. Plunge router with built in light?
  225. Making pickup rings - what material?
  226. My first Bass Build... Please Comment
  227. Acoustic Sound Board
  228. Filling in unneeded pickup cavity routs with wood
  229. Gluing a sound board or figured top
  230. Electric hand Planer
  231. Logo
  232. ZEBRANO FINISH
  233. Band Saw or Scroll Saw
  234. ACHIEVING A SUNBURST FINISH - is this method OK??
  235. how do I fix grounding troubles?
  236. Warped Warwick neck
  237. Finishing Bloodwood for a ramp
  238. Teak/Hickory Fretboard?
  239. Jazz Bass Deluxe 5-string Replacement necks?
  240. Where can I get a body painted
  241. Defretting project done
  242. My 1st Templates..!!
  243. Top Nut spacings for 8 string (Ee Aa Dd Gg)
  244. REMOVING OLD FINISHES
  245. Removing resin coating from a 70s bass
  246. My ramp idea
  247. Zero fret?
  248. A tale of two Rosewoods - Brazilian & Indian
  249. acoustic conversion
  250. 1976 Jazz Fingerboard Crack