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  1. Shedua?
  2. 1970s MIJ Lawsuit Restoration Profect
  3. I'm thinking about starting my own bass/guitar modding business - your thoughts?
  4. Can a p bass headstock be trimmed down to a tele headstock
  5. Position Markers (Side of Fretboard)
  6. How to properly build a neck.
  7. Build planning: Some questions
  8. Quick Question about CF's Rods
  9. Supplier for EMG pot knobs?
  10. How much should I expect to pay for a paint job?
  11. Need new finish
  12. Easy question
  13. Does anyone have P, J, or MM drawings (dxf or dwg)?
  14. Fretless Maple Fingerboard Refinish Help
  15. Guitart
  16. Free Spalted Hackberry near Austin/San Antonio
  17. need feedback on this idea.
  18. repairing a... "smashed" bass body?
  19. Blotchy Alder Stain
  20. looking for a luthier in So Cal
  21. Neck Trouble
  22. First build! Give a kid some advice here!
  23. Twisted neck headless finished
  24. Musicmaster Bass Restoration
  25. wondering about tensions
  26. Changing fingerboard/neck taper???
  27. Lancelot blade safety reminder
  28. 1/8" shaft pots?
  29. New build - "bdE Bass #1"
  30. Need a local (DC, MD, VA) luthier for an EXTREME makeover
  31. my fretless bass pickup positions?
  32. Defretting, filling question.
  33. botched nitrocellulose finish on body, neck--how to proceed?
  34. Converting a 5 string into a 6 string...
  35. Finishing wood with spray lacquer?
  36. Bass Top repair
  37. Carbon strip and truss rod placement questions
  38. Easiest gloss finish for wood knobs?
  39. I want to "flip" the body on a jazz bass
  40. Adjusting scale to make semi-piccilo bass?
  41. How to handle slightly warped fingerboard blank
  42. Will be looking for a older-style PJ body...
  43. Shotgun Wedding Precision / Stingray
  44. Where to get quality tortoise shell blanks?
  45. First build poasibility need advice.
  46. African Mahogany
  47. 5 string for todays minimalist
  48. Tung-oil
  49. Short scale truss rods?
  50. No Excuses Build
  51. Need to finish stripping a G&L Legacy.. Heat or chemical?
  52. Would this be worth it??
  53. Water Based Lacquer
  54. asym.....
  55. How To Get Shell Pink?
  56. Deep stain a maple veneer, possible?
  57. PICS: Refinishing a MM SUB neck
  58. Epoxy coated rosewood/ebony plainboard
  59. Modifying the body of an existing bass.
  60. Zippo fluid to clean poly satin finished maple fretboard?
  61. Dual action truss rod physics questions ???
  62. My First Build: B301 Tribute Bass
  63. Pro advise for my first build
  64. Full Scale templates
  65. re-stain and nitro touch-up
  66. elm guitar?
  67. Indian Rosewood as a top wood
  68. Looking for native wood suggestions/advice
  69. What's your experience with onboard tuners?
  70. Working With Dealers
  71. Paint questions from a beginner.
  72. What woods are safe to make cutting boards out of?
  73. Bloodwood Fingerboard Finish
  74. Coming out of retirement, need some advice on parts (identify/recommend)
  75. Headstock refinish...help!
  76. Warwick Finish
  77. REDNECK BASS BUILD: 2 STRING CIGAR BOX BASS
  78. Local woodworker`s guild - excited !
  79. Which builders here should I talk to about a baritone guitar?
  80. Painting my J bass
  81. building a '59 p bass clone.......
  82. Keeping the string tension up on short scale basses?
  83. HotWire Double Bass Sound?
  84. Double the Beardley, double the fun!!
  85. Please suggest a Maple/Rosewood replacement neck for MTD Z bass
  86. A slightly different Jazz Bass build
  87. help! warwick 6 string in crisis
  88. I am about to commit Kubicki Sacriledge..
  89. A question for full time builders....
  90. i'm fixing a hole...............
  91. anyone willing to defret my neck for me
  92. 15" planers
  93. 5 string cort curbow gonna be a 4 string stunt bass slap machine
  94. Fretboard wood
  95. How can I change the thickness of the neck?
  96. Tuner Hole Size- Vintage 2 step or 11/16
  97. Best way to remove paint
  98. omg - a "wood ID" thread from pj?!
  99. First build; 6-stringer fretless single cut
  100. refretting a fretless with Ebonol fretboard
  101. What's the better wood for the price?
  102. GFS Bass necks
  103. building a bass, comment and critique
  104. MM Classic Upgrade
  105. .....In the valley of decision
  106. Hollow body for bass VI neck
  107. My Fret Slotting System
  108. First refin - opinions ?
  109. De-fret half the frets?
  110. tru-oil over poly finish for an aged look?
  111. *** Is it a glued neck, a neckthru or...
  112. Help idenify rosewood species.
  113. modding my precision bass... thoughts?
  114. Baritone guitar truss rod length?
  115. I think I'm allergic to sawdust...
  116. Make your own guitar
  117. Starting an 8 string.
  118. shielding paint and finish
  119. Zoov 4 and 5 String Builds
  120. Looking for body wings?
  121. Re-routing for new pickups
  122. Neck Opinion
  123. Status S2 Build
  124. Padauk vs Bloodwood
  125. 9 string guitar neck
  126. my first bass build
  127. Coloring Epoxy?
  128. Help!
  129. Slight bow in neck blank, still useable?
  130. Recommended Finishes for Koa/Maple
  131. Gonna try to build a bass from cratch! Need help with many things!
  132. I may have goofed up, neck pocket question
  133. First build
  134. SOLDING THE NEW WIRE TO THE PUCIKUPS THEMSELVES
  135. My First EUB project
  136. helping finding like for making homemeade pickups
  137. Need help with Truss rod replacement
  138. what is a good alternative to waxing or potting pickups
  139. Is this ash or alder?
  140. Jazz Neck and Tele Neck Socket
  141. Ash/Maple Six String
  142. "the Kewel" plywood trial - second build
  143. Paint Removal Question
  144. Help finding a nut for a Cort P-Bass
  145. 2 string short scale for a little guy?
  146. Fender Jazz and Squier Jazz neck compatibility.
  147. Daddy/Daughter bass paintjob
  148. Finger board height
  149. Luthiery as a carrer.
  150. Neck replacement - fit question
  151. Walnut necks
  152. Set Neck indications?
  153. Darkening Pao Ferro and Sapeli
  154. Old redwood patio furniture into bass body?
  155. Fining a neck to replace a neck on a Ibanez Gio
  156. A new Drake 4 string bass
  157. Dyed, natural feeling alder...good idea?
  158. Lagan Lutherie School
  159. Picking up where my friends left off
  160. Basswood build
  161. Removing poly finish
  162. What to do with fresh cut timber.
  163. What to do with fresh cut wood.
  164. Repairing runs in the finish?
  165. What happened: A Call for Questions
  166. fretless FB radius
  167. ANYTHING is salvageable... trashed to restored
  168. fret markers or dot placement
  169. Need a supplier for Boire rosewood.
  170. Pulling off a Fender Custom Shop Replica
  171. Fretless finish.
  172. scale question
  173. Question about wood types & age
  174. First build - need your thoughts
  175. Spray Gun Recommendations.
  176. Bosch vs. Dewalt Router
  177. Tips..Please..
  178. First build has begun!!!!
  179. New build, single cut fretless
  180. MM/Fender headstock thickness
  181. These bits for making wood knobs
  182. Creating a custom bass using existing neck, pickups and hardware
  183. Finishing a hand made fretless neck
  184. Making a bass out of cardboard?
  185. "Fretboard Overhang" and String Spacing at the Nut
  186. ThunderBird Non Reverse 4 and 5 builds
  187. need help building Rickenbacker 4003 model bass guitar
  188. A New Build
  189. Thunderbird bass tips
  190. Will this work? Re-finishing a jazz
  191. "the EMBEE" plywood trial - first build
  192. NY Times Editorial
  193. Cutting a big bevel?
  194. Calculating string spacing over pickups?
  195. Solid purpleheart...crazy?
  196. converting a 5 string J bass to a 5 string P/J bass
  197. Bass building help
  198. CAR Refinishing questions
  199. First real build
  200. Did I pick the wrong woods?
  201. New Build: King V
  202. Should I soup up my Bass, or just buy a new one?
  203. First NOTO Bass thread
  204. Eden neck purchase/advise needed
  205. A (sort of) buzzard: first bass build
  206. Cleaning up the body of a 1970 P bass
  207. Building new bass for Private Ryan
  208. Ibanez neck?
  209. 5 String Ibanez BTB575FM convert to 6-strings?
  210. What finish is this???
  211. Old defretted bass..
  212. Painy shops in NY?
  213. BestBassGear Truss Rod: Anybody use them?
  214. Getting a fretless Jazz made for me
  215. How I build a bass body - then and now
  216. Spraying systems what are you using and why
  217. Anyone use conversion bushings?
  218. Refinish or buy another?
  219. Satin Nitrocellulose Lacquer?
  220. Any one familiar with this TR?
  221. Hey! Whatever happened to that "Redeemer" guy?
  222. Fender neck on Dame bass, advice?
  223. LedBelli BASS Fretless 6 String - IzaDora #014
  224. Step 1 functional bass
  225. Beardley Bass #4
  226. Self designed OB preamps
  227. New Build 52 Tele inspired
  228. First build... Maybe
  229. Ibanez Axstar restoration
  230. RIM Custom Swallowtail Marseer 6 Fretless for Mike
  231. Has anyone made a Torzal tist-like neck?
  232. I'm back! Hyder Guitars USA
  233. Pu positions?
  234. stiffening agent...
  235. Question about a Cigar Box Build
  236. Veneer laminates
  237. Bolt-on to Set Neck?
  238. Inlays inspiration
  239. First build, hollow-body?
  240. The one that was special, the one where you were truly inspired.
  241. .....This is how I do..............
  242. New bass build Aus
  243. NEW 6 string PRAT Bass for JARED LEES
  244. Quilted Maple as a Fingerboard
  245. Refinishing my money pit jazz bass
  246. A question about leveling lumber
  247. beginning luthier looking for work/apprenticeship in southern california
  248. Slimming down a G&L L2000 Tribute neck?
  249. G*****r help needed: Epiphone SG Melodymaker kit
  250. Pull out truss instead of removing FB?