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- 35" 5 String Fretted
- Help with body varnish repair please!!!1
- Montana gold spray cans
- Polyurethane Clear Coat Over Nitrocellulose
- Lighten the Fingerboard
- Formula for Fender color.
- silly question about Wenge
- Bass plans
- Build Thread: Walnut 5 neckthru
- Bass Built from Scraps & Recycled Parts
- Why Aluminum necks didn't catch on
- Custon built 6 string bass.
- Drill press as router
- chicken before the egg or... (bass assembly)
- Weird size Mighty Mite Neck?
- Luthiers and fret installation
- getting the funk out on a restoration
- Repairable?
- Wenge/wenge neck vs. Maple/Maple, huge difference?
- Reranch spray can for canadian builder
- Paint spraying options
- Fix my finish?
- Fretless Fret Lines
- Economic Fretless Conversion (sound clips!!)
- Indian or Brazilian Rosewood? (1966 Precision Bass Neck)
- So, do I shave the neck or widen the pocket?
- Best way to flatten out wood?
- Taking clear coat off, also sanding help plz.
- Re-finish Badass bridge???
- Two (small) projects
- filler and sealer or just primer?
- I got this guy,,,,
- Selling some fretboards for your next bass
- First Build. It's Simple, but...
- Your first time (making an instrument)
- Matching paint
- need a pattern for a body
- Well a friend of mine gave me this solid pine table on one condition...
- Progress on my new bass
- what is the distance
- snakeskin/scale finish
- Can you make a 32" scale 4 string bolt on 24 fret neck 4 me?
- First Build: Furniture 5
- Tru Oil fretless fingerboard
- Ebony build: WARNING NSFW! Wood porn inside!
- Aging hardware gone (almost) wrong - Squier CV content.
- Custom Bass build
- Reccomend a builder for a replica Bakersfield sound bass
- Necks too thick.... best way to hack them down?
- OLP Stingray Project.
- Factory Ibanez maple fretboard - what kind of finish is this?
- Neusar bridge?
- Make a Fretless out of a Fretted?
- First Build, Few Questions
- URGENT BUT SIMPLE QUESTION?
- It is Alive!!!
- Newby advice needed
- mini triplets. Hardwood and pine madness
- 120 year old Mahogany - Body or Neck?
- Birch top
- Uber-J with graphite neck
- GAL Convention ??
- Will I lose that much switching from Ash to Alder?
- 1st Build - Power Tool-Free Pine Body
- Spector Fretless conversion
- Advice on body/neck crack
- 4 String Trashcan Bass Build
- 1st bass project build! Pictures!
- What do I need to build a Bass VI from parts ?
- Gibson EB-0 fretboard removal
- Retro italiana scratchplate on VM Squier Jazz
- Would You Build A Neck For Me?
- Prep for nitro over oil stain
- Short Scale Bass Using 6 String Neck
- shielding..
- Headstock break. Is this repairable? PLEASE HELP.
- MODFEST 2011...is this going to turn into an 8 string?
- fretless poly brush on or spray?
- wood bleach on alder
- Fretless mod Questions
- Painting a jazz without stripping paint..
- Spare a small piece of ovangkol?
- Interview with Carl Thompson
- Challenge: Luthiers Melting Pot Build! This Time I'm Serious!
- made a new ding in my first refinish attempt, please help
- Just another "what kind of wood" thread...
- What kind of wood is this?
- Some Finishing Questions
- Looong scale bass
- Fender P refinish
- Relicing plastic parts
- Steinberger bass XL-2. Back of the neck scratched. How to restore ?
- Bolt on body?
- Bass Destruction, Then Restoration Project.
- First build - zebrano, ash, maple and wenge...and a question
- Virtuoso Cleaner & Polish - Some Questions
- Discoloration from years of sweat,,need help..
- Removing 80s Japanese poly finish
- 5 string Singlecut build
- Help with a finish repair- PLEASE!!!
- Chicago Luthiers.
- body size and it's influence on the "behavior" of a bass
- Roll Call - the "I've built a bass from rough lumber" club
- Remove my frets?
- Scarf joint question
- Refinish project - "Bullitt" style
- Scale length question
- first bang
- Any metal workers? I need Advice.
- Good candidate for stripping the finish?
- The WestRay: my new mutt.
- CNC madness
- Wood stabilizer question
- Bridge placement?
- Ideas required on a Minimalist build?
- Burl Darkening
- Custom Paint Shop...
- Squire Tele Bass - Deluxe/Custom modification
- Is sanding sealer necessary?
- Bass Tremolo in Ibanez sr305m ?
- Acoustic Guitar modding?
- Clear over enamel?
- Bridge finish question
- The ultimate "Garage Band" amp!
- Westone Genesis Refinish
- Replacement Fretless P neck questions.
- Making a 5 from 4 (jazz bass)
- First Build - The Dukester
- dark star and pickguard string clearance
- P-Bass Project, First Timer
- ThunderBird Reverse/Non Reverse RNR Build
- Purified Shellac
- Short Scale Bass Help
- Help with Jazz bass body configuration please?
- My Next Mash-Up: The Steinray
- Stain removal
- Introducing the Tele-phone Bass
- Recognize this wood type ???
- Bass finishing adventure
- New P-bass/Musicman build
- Neck flatness before attaching a fretboard?
- Stuck between two necks. First build!
- Mahagony Market Gonna Suck
- How to refinish a worn maple fingerboard?
- First complete parts build!
- Digging a Rut in my Bass
- Scale Issues
- How much sanding sealer should I remove?
- I finished another guitar, Gibson SG style
- Wadda ya think?
- New neck approach - initial results...
- poly finish damage - leave it alone (or fix with superglue)?
- Pedulla Rapture Refinish
- THINNING a NECK
- My First Build
- Does any type of epoxy work as a grain filler?
- Questions about battery boxes
- Mulitilaminate bass project
- 3 bolt neck on a 4 bolt body?
- First refinish:Squier basswood oil finish. [better pics now]
- Here's something you don't see everyday: WARNING! Wood Porn Content! NSFW
- CA glue under polyester finish?
- Would a bass made of rock sound good?
- Finish on a neck, needed or unneeded?
- clear coat issues
- How do you make a great bass guitar ?
- Question about Brazilian Cherry
- How should I go about fixing this?
- CALL FOR HELP: Downsized or "dinky" J dimensions
- Semi transparent stain
- How to make an Unlined fretless?
- Luthier school/college?
- first real neck-through build; unlined fretless pine/padauk jazz.
- Body Template?
- Headless bass hardware source
- Does White Spirit damage paint?
- My First Build and I need help!
- Claro Walnut necks
- First bass refinish
- which glue - titebond 1 or 2?
- Tuxedo Bass #3 Coming Up
- Busted truss rod - what to do?
- HD Maple
- Custom neck builds
- Looking for a builder that would be up for the challenge...
- Blending new satin finish in with old
- 1st Bass Build - Solid Zebrawood Jazz 24 Style
- Help please
- Double stick tape
- My 1st build
- How do you put a full face top on a single cut neck thu design?
- Bass dilemma
- what woods should I use for a fretless?
- Converting a 5-string bass from Low-B to High-C
- Bound Headstock?
- Wood weight, body size and sustain
- Vancouver BC luthiers
- convert fretted bas to fretted/less bass?
- Pleasant Surprise? Stripping a Dean Guitar...I think???
- Semi-hollow Starfire style 4 string bass build
- old custom squier/custom with new nut???
- Hey lumber ID experts any guesses....?
- What product to fill small crack?
- 70's Maya bass w/ busted neck - worth the buy?
- Big bass for big music: 10 strings multiscale
- Will this work?
- New Build.....
- Restoration of finish
- Quick question to those who radius fingerboards with routers
- Seriously cool "old school" building....
- Time between color and clear?
- Concave Scraper for neck shaping?
- Decal Question
- LMI plate joining jig?
- Crazy headless experiments from down under...
- neck thru look on a bolt kit?
- Polyurethane finish .. tone killer ?
- New bass build
- 24 frets Neck????
- what's the best material for a nut
- WBS Guitar/Bass Neck Joint System
- Best finish for a fretless bass?
- 3rd Build, 34" scale 5 string fretless
- Fretboard refiinish after defretting
- Fender P-Bass acquisition/repair job
- Bass Modification.
- Aguilar Onboard Preamp for Fender American Vintage '75 Jazz Bass
- Where to buy wood in bay area?
- A Piece of Advice that's Stuck with you?
- 100 year old Pine P bass build
- Best donor bass for a Ric conversion
- Bridge Maxed Out
- '54 style P bass project - tips?
- Individual string bridge
- will a new neck improve my tone?
- p
- Stickers on wood
- "Thinning" a Warmoth 5 string neck
- Find a body in NYC
- advice for cuttting lexan?
- Went Lumber hunting this morning...
- Toss or fix? - CB uke soundboard
- Sanding the gloss off a finished neck?
- Depth of Chambering?
- Defret: Neck bows up - sand away?
- Tru-Oil question
- Warmoth truss rod
- Finish Question
- Luthier video
- What makes a fast neck???
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