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  1. Between final sanding and oiling?
  2. RIM Custom Bolt-on Designs
  3. Angle of bridge: why?
  4. resizing images to plans
  5. Steel banjo/mando fretwire
  6. Neck-thru question
  7. jazz neck on stingray body - will it work?
  8. First Project PREVIEW
  9. remembering the turkey bass
  10. How to recover a squashed neck
  11. Abalone inlay on oil finished headstock
  12. Inlays
  13. Double-octave Precision Idea
  14. capicitors
  15. Tru-oil question
  16. Your thoughts?
  17. Fret Orientation - or Which way do they go?
  18. copying body shapes
  19. help a miserable estate agent!
  20. 1-Piece Neck Wood Ideas
  21. Redwood...
  22. neck-through VS bolt on
  23. 7 string multi-scale
  24. Compatible wood types?
  25. anyone know acoustic guitar makers?
  26. In Appreciation of Brazilian Rosewood
  27. Tools with more than one use
  28. What about this for a headless setup?
  29. maple sapwood properties?
  30. Bass Tech in San Diego
  31. Hipshot Rickenbacker Bridge
  32. help modding a musicmaster
  33. Queensland Maple for neck?
  34. Current Project: Headless 4
  35. I have to decide between Aguilar OBP3 or Sadowsky preamps ...
  36. Who to Choose for Ground-Up Custom?
  37. How long do you allow a customer to take to make the final payment?
  38. I wanna build a 12 string bass!
  39. length of truss rod for 30" scale
  40. Apprenticeship
  41. For all you wood experts
  42. Lap Steel Bass prototype
  43. Frankenbass redux (or "my first build!") *update: assembled!*
  44. should I invest in a belt sander?
  45. Shaving a neck down
  46. Imbuya fretboard?
  47. Teej's Travel Bass
  48. First Build - 5 String, Neck Thru, Fanned Fret
  49. Making a Compound Radius Freboard
  50. Angled neck pocket?
  51. Making a fretbender
  52. Ebonal fretboard?
  53. Obtaining CHEAP Headless Tuners
  54. Which Fingerboard?
  55. Routing.
  56. Neck plate pad
  57. First mockup for 2nd build
  58. Fretless fingerboard radius
  59. Rickenbacker 4003 - Through the body stringing
  60. new 5 in progress
  61. Building a bass from parts - customizing a pre-finished body/neck
  62. Frets - hammer or press?
  63. Semi-lined fretless
  64. Fretless nut Q
  65. Pickguard Play By Play?
  66. How hard can it really be?
  67. Building New Jazz Bass need advice
  68. Looking for luthier recommendations
  69. How to stabilize buckeye burl?
  70. A few questions for those of you with big shops
  71. Phil's latest 5 string
  72. Thickness of Back Panel on Hollow Body..?
  73. Ashbory bass build
  74. Similar look to maple but not as bright
  75. Hagstrom shape tuner buttons ?
  76. 4 way rotary
  77. thanks wilser for the scarf tutorial
  78. Trouble with adjusting neck....
  79. My first custom slowly taking shape!
  80. input jack for Fender Jazz Plus
  81. Looking for inexpensive wide 5 bridges
  82. Is 4 lbs and 12 ounces too light?
  83. Info on tuners
  84. buffing out nitro finish..
  85. Why aluminum bridges?
  86. hello, any ideas
  87. Where to place a hollow body sound post
  88. "Ignis" 6 str fretless singlecut
  89. nickel or chrome screws?
  90. ETS hardware
  91. Ideas for using my snakewood?
  92. How would you finish this body!
  93. will this crazy finishing idea work?
  94. OLP Custom Mods
  95. painting headstock of Mighty Mite neck
  96. Does Wenge shrink???
  97. Planning a bass based on the desired sound
  98. Cocobolo toxic?
  99. Afromosia?
  100. Headless singlecut 6 string (bolt-on) in progress
  101. The latest Singlecut in process
  102. Very Short 26" Scale Bass
  103. how do you make a custom Fender-like decal?
  104. Staining a fretboard - frets and dots a hindrance?
  105. bridge intonation angle
  106. What Kind of Glue is good for a Neck Thru
  107. planning of my first bass
  108. emg and staining questions
  109. How is the quality on WD Music bodies?
  110. How to apply polyurethane?
  111. Removing body wood and the effect on tone
  112. Fretboard radius
  113. Shouldn't the bridge be parallel to the nut?
  114. Untidy routing?
  115. Epoxy Alternatives for fretless boards?
  116. New Hack 8 string bass in progress
  117. how do semi-acoustic/semi-hollow basses work?
  118. "F-Bass" Look-a-like Neck Refinish
  119. Gluing on a top?
  120. Is There A Way To Put A Radiused Cover Over My Pickups?
  121. Plan for a new Bass
  122. Making an angled neck
  123. Gluing a mahogany crack
  124. Strange Fret Buzz
  125. Tuning machine placement question.
  126. EADG to BEAD
  127. Custom fretless pics
  128. anyone had experience with dr.parts necks
  129. Confused about what finish to use
  130. cad inlay conversion help available
  131. 4-string accoustic bridge - resource?
  132. dovetail joint to increase resonance in body?
  133. Neck shaping question.....
  134. How many basses do you build???
  135. Simo's 6 String, In Progress
  136. Semi-acoustic short-scaler finished
  137. Rickenbacker 4005 Copy
  138. Pot Question............
  139. Actual leaf as headstock badge?
  140. What's your roundover size?
  141. Spud's easy to follow piezo installations thread
  142. Where to find black screws for Rickenbacker 4004?
  143. Building a body blank from scratch
  144. Body Blank Building - Anyone Interested?
  145. Blue Morpho like a "prototipe model"
  146. custom decals
  147. fiberglassing a fb
  148. Spud's easy to follow nut replacement thread
  149. CHEAP AND EASY TO MAKE PLANER
  150. How do YOU remove lacquer from frets?
  151. 6 string single cut...to be started soon
  152. The Red Violin - Human Blood Used In Finish?
  153. Thoughts on my custom bass?
  154. Similiar to ovangkol?
  155. Cheap Neck
  156. Sympathetic Vibration
  157. removing old paints & finishes
  158. Routing Truss Channel Tomorow
  159. Selling Basses
  160. Ready to start modeling...
  161. Colortone vs KTM9 ?
  162. Sperzel tuners
  163. Revamping a trainwreck
  164. Again with the mutiscale thing
  165. Drawing software recommendation
  166. Bridge dimensions for Hipshot A series 5
  167. It's official
  168. lite-weight Fender Roscoe Beck 5'r
  169. Jazz Bass design
  170. Carbon Fiber Distribution
  171. '74 Jazz pickup question
  172. Boiled Wood
  173. I warped my top..
  174. Mr. Nordstrand
  175. Elm as tonewood?
  176. bubinga fingerboard
  177. Tools needed for making a neck
  178. Any of you used the Warmoth neck blanks?
  179. NAMM basses
  180. Round Lam Fingerboard Removal? Truss Rod Issues.
  181. How much will it sound close to the real Rickenbacker?
  182. bridge, fingerboard and nut all in 1 piece?
  183. Design for 1st Build
  184. Tru Oil vs Watco
  185. Make a Neck
  186. A trussrodless vision ( and question )
  187. My latest....almost ready for the world!
  188. threaded inserts for bridge attachment
  189. update on headless, chambered 32"
  190. Source for wide radius blocks
  191. New build idea
  192. Polycarbonate Auto Clearcoat on a fretboard
  193. problem with output sound
  194. Building my first bass. Anything wrong with the design.
  195. bridge too big
  196. Cost of making a bass?
  197. Adding a floating thumb support.
  198. Now, what am I going to do with this??!!
  199. re-vamping my old fender...
  200. nitro on polyester .
  201. Short headstocks!
  202. tell me what you think
  203. Mini toggle = pup selection?
  204. 5 Most Necessary powertools for building a bass?
  205. Removing metal shavings from pickups
  206. Sticky Finish
  207. Tell me about working with zebrawood.
  208. I need a drill press!
  209. Need some help: Drawing to Scale.
  210. some truss rod help
  211. Fretless fingerboard woods.
  212. Oil Mixing question
  213. Through Body Bridge?!?!
  214. finishing questions
  215. Advice for staining a fretless rosewood board black?
  216. for those of you who aspire to build
  217. Slotting saddles!
  218. Luthier instruction in Chicagoland
  219. getting jiggy with it ...
  220. P-Bass part Deux
  221. Nitro tint
  222. Fret slots deep enough?
  223. Wood questions
  224. Tung oil to Poly?
  225. first build is about to begin!
  226. Second Draft of Bass Body - Please Comment
  227. those of you that have made Black limba necks...
  228. Bloodwood v. Pink Ivory FB
  229. Home Veneer Job Pics
  230. set neck
  231. Oak?
  232. Broken scarf joint.
  233. Some Wreck models in progress
  234. Idea for newbie project - what do you think?
  235. Black fret wire - is there such a thing?
  236. about thickness..
  237. where to get foam for pickups
  238. Basswood (Tilia americana) aka Linden references
  239. repairing and restoring
  240. Potential Wood Problem, Help Please
  241. Well, that was a soul crushing repair
  242. Below 15mm spacing=what mono-bridges?
  243. Frustrated by my Dead E String / neck
  244. Ampeg BB4 (Baby Bass)
  245. New bass ?'s
  246. WezV's bolt-on singlecut 4-string
  247. Looking for a custom neck
  248. Australian StewMac Equivalent?
  249. Veneer
  250. Hand tools only bass?