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    Build questions

    Still thinking of wood to get to make a bass. My thought for a bass currently is: Bubinga fretboard, Shedua body, and Wenge neck, Jazz pickups, 5 string, bassline pickups, aguilar electronics, and don't know about the rest. Based on the information what would i sound like?
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    Rhythm Guitarists

    I like what they do and i guess it sounds decent but I think they kind of take anyway part of my presence and role in the band. does anyone else think this?
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    my heavy gauge question

    Okay so I'm thinking of using some pretty thick strings on my old bass (so I'll still play it, opposed to my main bass, mainly using it for beating dropped 8 string guitars out of my frequency) and I'm thinking of using 165-145-125-105-85, which I would want setup either C#F#BEA or BEADG. My...
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    Shedua?

    Well I wanna make a bass out of shedua or ovangkol as they call it at places like Warwick, but I would like to make it neck through but i have no idea where get a piece big enough to be a neck and body, but i have found one big enough for a bolt on neck for about 10 dollars. Anyways does anyone...
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    Drefretting a bass

    Okay so I went to a Sam Ash near by and was searching for a new bass, I played a fretless for the first time and really enjoyed it. But I thought instead of buying the fretless, why not fret my old 5 string and get a new fretted 5 string instead. What are the sound differnces between a real...
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    customizing my bass

    So i was thinking of buying a Epiphone Thunderbird, then customizing it. I'm talking about pretty much completely rebuilding it. New pickups, maybe converting it to a 5 string, repainting it white, new machine heads, power coating the tips of the machine heads green (just the part that you turn...