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  1. Found a wood shop
  2. How do you line up a bridge?
  3. Birch OK for a neck?
  4. can i put lacquer coat on top of..
  5. Constructing a neck
  6. Fret saw purchasing
  7. Body Core Wood
  8. Squier gone fretless anyone?
  9. Hipshot ultralite tuner-bushings installation question
  10. Drop Top How To
  11. wood for fingerboard
  12. Blend Pot Wiring
  13. Help me understand how wood affects tone..
  14. neckthru angle
  15. New stuff
  16. Neck through, Bolt on? For strong lows and mids
  17. Whamola Schematics
  18. AHHHH Cheap Screws SUCK!
  19. truss rod placement question...
  20. speaking of fretted to fretless conversion
  21. Headstock veneer
  22. My Home Deepo bass
  23. Reminder to use proper tools
  24. Converting a bass with a set neck to a bass with a bolt-on neck pocket
  25. A note on the FAQ thread
  26. Finally some pics of my first bass!
  27. Fingerboard wood dilemma
  28. custom pickguards
  29. Starting to take shape
  30. Is This Possible?
  31. Pinstripe accent material
  32. Continuous wood backplate
  33. Finishing Questions
  34. router questions
  35. Woods for my bass
  36. Rear strap button position
  37. Building first bass, need some help
  38. Short Scale Six String Pics on Basses Forum
  39. joining wood with no jointer
  40. New Hardware, which one?
  41. Looking for luthier in Dallas to do setup, install pickups, bridge and preamp
  42. What can i use instead of bartolini MK1 pickups?
  43. Aussie Tonewoods
  44. how much will it cost?
  45. bare wood
  46. Paint Job a la Hendrix?
  47. Maple neck reoiling?
  48. Picture measurement
  49. exotic uprights
  50. Domestic wood bass, am I crazy?
  51. Please help me.
  52. Building your own tuning machines?
  53. Rosewood vs. Pau Ferro
  54. What might be wrong?
  55. bass building project
  56. looking for some wood
  57. electric double bass
  58. a little CT ditty...
  59. anyone ever install a hipshot bass trem?
  60. Refinish
  61. Custom Top
  62. DIY Pickguard
  63. Sound went in the tank on fav. bass
  64. Tung Oil body, color over, or refin?
  65. Headstock Inlay?
  66. Ibanez Electronics
  67. Finishing a Fretless Fingerboard like a Pedulla
  68. New paint job and pick guard.
  69. Twisted Neck?
  70. HELP!!! resin + glass fiber?????
  71. 65 P-bass, refin or not?
  72. Non-neckdivey but original shape?
  73. Will My Bass End Up Looking Like George Porter Jrs.
  74. criticism please?
  75. The difference between quilt and photo quilt?
  76. Bois de Rose
  77. Physically Shaping?
  78. Question about lacquer
  79. The NEW Goodman GB-4
  80. What do you think of an RFP?
  81. Where can I send my Bass Body to get it Refinished?
  82. Questions: Satine(Bloodwood) or Purpleheart Fretboard on Maple Neck
  83. anuone familiar w/ this neck?.......
  84. anuone familiar w/ this neck?.......
  85. Crazy grooves in 12th fret
  86. DIY Drum sander
  87. Painting pickguards?
  88. BARTOLINI question
  89. couple of quick questions
  90. String mutes... any bright ideas?
  91. control cavity
  92. rare earth magnets for cavity control covers
  93. Would this be too heavy?
  94. Joiner Serenade #001
  95. Homemade Bending Iron??
  96. 6 string headless multi-scale build
  97. So I finished my Alder body in Bees Wax...
  98. StewMac finishing/painting products?
  99. 3 novice P Bass finishing questions
  100. Epoxy question
  101. HEY!!! Give me links to your TB thread with pics of your process
  102. My Frettless Conklin
  103. Different truss rod question
  104. Need help quickly
  105. Reshaping a neck
  106. snakewood as a fingerboard....
  107. FAQs for all: New builders READ THIS!!!
  108. Custom Pickguards
  109. Steinberger-signed Steinberger
  110. Truss Rodd in Single Cut
  111. Installing LEDs into the neck
  112. First Bass Woods
  113. Orange Glo
  114. Valenti Standard Style 5 String Jazz #020 (in production)
  115. Possible to add graphite rods to neck
  116. Making Necks?
  117. Wood pickup covers?
  118. Grounding issue with piezo saddles
  119. Carving Burls?
  120. Making a bass
  121. Building A Better Hipshot Xtender?
  122. Scarfing a lam neck....
  123. Advice on laminate wood repair please
  124. Putting the call out for links to Tutorials and How-to's
  125. Cream pickup covers
  126. Inlaid Ammonite Fossil.
  127. Project OLP / GREEN MEANIE!
  128. Move Strap buttons to improve body angle?
  129. deciding on top-wood...
  130. Nut Replacement
  131. Graffiti Finish
  132. Refinish my olp stingray translucent green
  133. Hipshot Type B bridge mounting dimensions
  134. 5 string j-bass neck
  135. Warwick Surface Finisher Wax alternatives ?? Any ??
  136. glueing in a truss rod.....
  137. Water Transfer
  138. First Fretted to Fretless Conversion!
  139. zebrawood question
  140. A project bass
  141. Working with Avonite?
  142. Has anybody made a birdseye pickgard?
  143. Duh moment.
  144. Warmoth Necks = Increased Brightness?
  145. Axe bass
  146. I need to get wood.
  147. Wood pickups
  148. My latest; shortscale Jaguar in progress
  149. Wood thicknesses with ash body and maple burl top?
  150. Need a 5 string set of 36" scale strings
  151. looking for luthier in northern virginia area
  152. Bass Body Templates
  153. Dumb Questions about intonation and bridges
  154. first DIY bass project?
  155. JPG to DXF
  156. front inlay question... HELP
  157. 3D Bass Designs - More fun with Mental Ray
  158. Drawing Plans
  159. Tell me about Watco Danish oil
  160. any advice on working with Burl woods?
  161. Wood types with Piezo
  162. Second project
  163. Getting a sticky for FAQ's
  164. Hipshot update
  165. EB scrolled head?
  166. Tools and General Material!
  167. System 3 epoxy response to my email. Use Varnish?
  168. matt finish
  169. installing 2 way truss rod: is there a wrong way?
  170. routing and filling
  171. Met a cool NZ luthier today!
  172. drop tops
  173. Fairlane Bridge, Hambone?
  174. The new bass in progress
  175. What 6 string bridges will do 20mm string to string spacing?
  176. Design is finished....opinions.
  177. ANOTHER HOW'S THIS LOOK THREAD
  178. How on earth...
  179. What toolsdo you use when doing carving like a Scroll headstock?
  180. Piezo-only wiring
  181. I need opinons on my first custom...
  182. "bodyless" bass
  183. Woods...and more
  184. Aluminium nut?
  185. Customizing my own preamp. I want to go in deep...
  186. Headstock Signature help, please.
  187. New 6 under way
  188. Scalloping frets, any advice?
  189. diving in head first, A single cut for my first full build
  190. Shaping a neck
  191. Any place out there to get an extra long 36" scale slotted fingerboard?
  192. opinions on ash....
  193. ashtray confusion
  194. Wood choices for a short scale?
  195. how to finish this bass?
  196. Refinishing a bass
  197. looking to do a les claypool type 6 string
  198. Fretless fingerboard.....
  199. bass number 3
  200. beginner books
  201. A tool after my own heart
  202. Can Any TB Luthiers Help Me?
  203. any thoughts on bandsaw replacement blade
  204. Tonewood descriptions
  205. Veneer Wood & Glue Question
  206. Fender Musicmaster Project question
  207. could anyone on here put a set of block inlays on my jazz neck for me?
  208. help me epoxy my fretless
  209. Favorite woods for bodys....
  210. q regarding reversed fender headstock
  211. Piezo bridge questions
  212. Another New Bass Design...
  213. My first frankenbass project, with progress updates
  214. I´m Starting my First bass Project
  215. Hambone #0003 Redux
  216. help making a bass
  217. lookig for a bridge and Pup cover
  218. Parts and Materials?
  219. Can't find the bridge that I need!
  220. New Build in Progress - First Neck
  221. A couple finishing Q's
  222. TB Luthiers' web pages?
  223. Copyright and rights
  224. changing a fretted to a fretless
  225. what kind of fret design is this called?
  226. New Goodman Body Design (NC-5)
  227. A friend needs help
  228. New Territory
  229. Nut size
  230. question about luthiering
  231. Working on my first fretted neck and havea few questions
  232. My Bass Design
  233. Building for less sustain?
  234. Need a bridge
  235. 1st Bass Design - needs criticism
  236. Paint removal question
  237. musicman problems!!!!
  238. Ovankal
  239. Red Oak Finishing Problems
  240. what scale
  241. Adding MOP Block Inlays to Fretted Rosewood Fingerboard
  242. In the middle of CA proj...
  243. Polyurethane as fretless fingerboard finish?
  244. Finishes to Keep Maple Light
  245. short scale/regular size basses
  246. Luthier Courses
  247. Book on wood finishing at LMII: anyone glanced through this one?
  248. Thuya Burl and Dye
  249. Ceramic bars underneath pups
  250. new design