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Layers of fiberglass or carbon fiber built it as thick as you like

Carved from china plywood, gilded in brown paper bags and poly,

My Rat Bass

Buy a new body and neck, upgrade all the hardware and electronics, paint it. Only you can see the image in your mind.

Why Does It Hurt When I Pee

I use a small 18 watt studio tube amp at 5 watts and just run it through a bass cab.

I have and use utensils that were made from curly maple that my uncle made from leftover scraps of Long Rifle stocks some 30 years ago.

Thanks a bunch, I will do that.

I've got this old 04 Affinity Jazz, bone stock electronics. I looked under the pick guard, and its basic cheap, though with large Pots. It plays and sounds just fine through my other amps. When I pair it with the 20 year old Hog 30 it hums like crazy, it can be mitigated about 60% by flipping...

I have refinished many vintage axes, a grinding wheels has always been a big no-no for a tempered edge, unless you have a lot of experience using one. For doing axes I have always used a good file for reprofiling the grind.

I concur with your assessment that a belt grinder is a better tool for metal working. I differ only in getting something bigger than a 1x30. I make knives as a hobby and find the 2x42 to be a good compromise between the little 1x30s and the very expensive 2x72 grinders. Variable speed is a huge...

Get out of the city and go to a small country pub, Grab a meal and a pint.

Yup, Leo did not make basses for collectors, he made tools for working musicians. It was not until Fender opened up the custom shop and started making limited runs of contrived collectables specifically for collectors with more money than sense.

Hot glue should work, though I have never used it on anything that I wanted to glue permanently, it peels away from smooth surfaces very easily.

Looks like it was originally glued with a few dabs of something like a caulk. Contact cement or rubber cement would likely eat big cavities into the Styrofoam form. I would use construction adhesive "Liquid Nails" or similar without the volatile compounds that can melt the foam.