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  1. Guild Starfire restoration
  2. How do I become one of you?
  3. Another first time build
  4. truss rod damage
  5. First Build
  6. Anybody priced shop lights lately?
  7. :help:
  8. Safe polish for a vintage Fender bass????
  9. Body wood
  10. Take your pic
  11. Made myself a metal bass
  12. Grizzly router bits?
  13. Your thoughts please...
  14. who's producing your decals?
  15. help on string fretless five string
  16. Please Help!! Building My Own Thunderbird Pickups
  17. Band saws and resawing
  18. And so the madness begins
  19. Bobe's 9 String Fretless
  20. need inspiration for a new 5 string bass
  21. Yet another custom bass idea!
  22. Trees
  23. I GOT IT!!!!
  24. One-piece Ebony neck?
  25. De-Lining a fretless-board?
  26. A Nasty Buzzing
  27. Quick Question concerning CA glue.
  28. Jazz Bass Body Dimensions
  29. Natural oil Spector re-oil ?
  30. Splices and Neck Laminates
  31. d'you ever work with Spalted Maple?
  32. Headstock design
  33. Converting to Piccolo
  34. Is This Neck Idea Practical?
  35. Side dots.
  36. EXXXXXXXXXTREME Maple
  37. Fretless maple?
  38. I may be cutting down the cherry tree in front of my house soon
  39. Curly Spalted Rock Maple
  40. Body wood needed, any offers?
  41. Adding to prerouted pickup cavities
  42. Recommend parts for Frankenbass
  43. crack...
  44. Want to polish a factory satin finish to gloss- sand and buff or just buff?
  45. Fixing a chip in the finish
  46. Binding?
  47. 8-string
  48. Ash vs Alder
  49. Lots of rattle in my MIM Fender J.
  50. Progress - TW Basses (yes! pics!)
  51. Moses Single Cut 5 Neck Thru|Lumber?
  52. What top should I put on my jazz?
  53. Shop fox downdraft table
  54. do i need to crown and file my frets?
  55. pick-up and pre-amp help/info. please!
  56. Are Active Pups & Active Preamps Compatible?
  57. top wood? bottom wood? why?
  58. polyester on fretboard?
  59. Indonesian Custom guitar & bass
  60. cant get my 2 ash body to get together even
  61. My first hollowbody (semi?) guitar...
  62. Starting my second.
  63. Board Feet
  64. Proper technique for spokeshaves and rasps?
  65. About to build...
  66. common misconceptions about finishes
  67. Suggestions for First Build
  68. my 2nd build put together !
  69. Can we clearcoat over an oil finish?
  70. Measuring Fretboard Radius.
  71. I have an idea, let's discuss (a wiki for builders)
  72. Wishbass finishes
  73. visiting Charlotte, NC soon - hardwood supply stores?
  74. Where can I get...
  75. So what's your Oil finish mix?
  76. Router, table - free to luthier noob in Seattle area
  77. Looking For Lined Ebony Fretless Fingerboard
  78. Anyone use persimmon?
  79. My 2nd Bass for 2007.
  80. mesquite fretboard ??
  81. wanting a new bass.
  82. How I build Wood P/U Covers - Pictorial
  83. making my fretless slappable
  84. Tell me how are your building plans\steps
  85. All of us wannabe Luthiers
  86. A message from Melvyn Hiscock
  87. I want to become a pro luthier.
  88. Wooden pickup cover tutorial (and plans for plastic cast covers)
  89. How can i get that kind of look out of Alder?
  90. Fretboard Radius
  91. String Mutes
  92. Electronics tutorial?
  93. fretted to fretless price query
  94. Something for Nothing...
  95. Acoutic properties of Katalox as a fingerboard wood?
  96. If u live in Mexico City read this
  97. Maple fretless?
  98. Question about routing
  99. how do you think? ash neck
  100. 6-string fretless single-cut
  101. Sx neck job
  102. Nitro VS Waterborne acrylic VS Waterborne poly?
  103. Source: 7/16" Round-over router bit?
  104. How can I fix this high action?
  105. how would you finish an alder body?
  106. plans for 2x10 or 2x12 cab
  107. Applying Polyurethane...
  108. HELP!!!!! Spray Paint
  109. Truss Rod ain't workin... what the hell?
  110. to emulate a bass..
  111. Sanding help please!!!
  112. Multi piece and one piece neck and graphite opinions
  113. For those in need of tutorials/pictorials
  114. Ebony + cold = Hhhhhmmmm. Fix?
  115. Easy side dot ideas?
  116. pale moon 6 update...finally
  117. Just Doesnt Work
  118. Stupid nut question....really!
  119. First Time Paint Job
  120. A question about steaming wood and re-gluing it
  121. Request: "How to" for bolt-on singlecuts.
  122. For those in need of tutorials/pictorials
  123. Minor repairs to my bass?
  124. some noob questions
  125. My favorite tool of all. Anyone else use these?
  126. Here's a terrible idea: Speed-building!
  127. What was I thinking.
  128. How hard is buckeye burl to work with?
  129. headstock thickness of real 60s Fender pbass or jbass
  130. Easy Painting/Spray Addon
  131. Thinner bodies
  132. How to make an asymmetrical neck from a symmetrical one?
  133. My STUPID paint job
  134. Remove/replace headstock logo
  135. Fender Finish
  136. 6 String Fretless has begun!
  137. Ashbody Fretless?
  138. Fretless to a Fretted? (Jazz Bass)
  139. Opinions on body wood
  140. Will I get in trouble for...
  141. New "How to" section
  142. extended range pickup
  143. Refinishing my rockbass
  144. Fretless Four Zebrano
  145. Reshaping a headstock to help with neck dive?
  146. how does a dye or stain ash body looks?
  147. wiring
  148. European tonewood shops?
  149. Raising the action?
  150. vancouver luthiers, bass tech guys
  151. painting with a brush
  152. Oil Finish Repair
  153. Cutting Tru-oil question?
  154. 5 string Stingray replacement neck?
  155. Buying some nut files....
  156. Singlecut Fretless Four String
  157. mustang bass
  158. which wood should i use?
  159. 5 string finally done!
  160. Jatoba and Merbau woods...
  161. Hmm.. pickup selector from either bridge, or both?
  162. Building a SC with a warmoth/carvin bolt on neck possible?
  163. Bass Design - Opinions?
  164. First sunburst...
  165. Brand New Fender Jazz 75' RI - Big chunk of wood missing under bridge!!!
  166. is this worth it?
  167. Brass vs. aluminum
  168. Dealing with humidity, and other questions.
  169. One piece bass
  170. How long does it take you to build a Bass?
  171. Gluing neck laminations
  172. FOR THE GUY WHO WAS BUILDING A MUSTANG BASS
  173. Acoustic bass questions
  174. putting together a bass...
  175. It's 9:27pm and I'm still at work. Why?
  176. A "why" about bolt on neck joints....
  177. Bloodwood?
  178. What determines the accoustical depth of a solid bass
  179. Stain Finish on Swamp Ash
  180. Jaguar neck & MIM Jazz body???
  181. Finally! Some recognition for our trade!
  182. Grounding the Bridge
  183. Can body thickness be 1.5"
  184. Little parts sure add up fast!
  185. need some feedback on body styles
  186. How many of you doubted yourself initially, and almost didn't start making basses?
  187. Non-invasive way of attaching Straploks that works needed
  188. How to multi scale/ multi octave?
  189. I Want To Assemble These Parts...How Much Will It Cost Me/
  190. Vermillion same as Padauk??
  191. Please help me building a fretless bass
  192. Headstock decals? How?
  193. Which Wood is it?
  194. Download the relic tutorial I did now in PDF
  195. Help needed from somebody that knows the Fishman piezo systems
  196. Really BAD bass build?
  197. Routing out the body vs. Rough cutting/Shaping
  198. Tonal qualities of a teak neck?
  199. Some hollowbody repair advise please?
  200. What should be use for fret slotting?
  201. Need info on truss rods???
  202. Watco Danish Oil on swamp ash problem
  203. yet another one started...
  204. Can;t order from ReRanch??? Help!!!!
  205. Knobs and PU covers
  206. Drilling clean holes? counter-sinking too?
  207. two preamps in one bass....
  208. How did you get your start?
  209. Replacing P-Bass Pickups
  210. what is red oil?
  211. How much would it warm it up?
  212. Storing snakewood
  213. My first amatuer build.
  214. Eden Body and Neck Parts
  215. Truss Rod question... don't wanna put it upside down.
  216. Mineral streaks in maple neck?
  217. The key to 34" scale with strong B?
  218. How to glue the headstock veneer
  219. Product recommendations wanted
  220. Anybody interested in doing a Variax bass "transplant" for me?
  221. Twisted neck - repairable?
  222. NAMM basses (a couple months late)
  223. coloured stains+dark wood?
  224. zero fret
  225. Refinishing a neck
  226. can anyone help or should i trash it
  227. Heat straightening a neck?
  228. Show me your personal crafted basses
  229. my first bass # 1
  230. To build a Stand worthy of my new LeCompte
  231. Epoxy related question
  232. Assembling My Own Bass? I Need Help!!
  233. repairable? or time to replace
  234. Recommendations on this neck?
  235. Pickup making
  236. Tell me if i'm wrong about tonewood?
  237. fretted build vs fretless build
  238. Becoming a Luthier ?
  239. Figured tops???
  240. Stacked pot's vs. Individual pot's (pro's & con's)???
  241. will semi hollow p bass have neck dive.
  242. 54 p bass + tele controls
  243. my shop pics ..
  244. An all wenge bass?
  245. Help with my Warwick Thumb!!!
  246. RIM Custom 5&6 string review from bassworld forum (UK)
  247. Peavey Millenium body + Fender Jazz neck???
  248. Reshaping a neck?
  249. Matching paint and luster
  250. Hipshot A bridges