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Hi everyone, I'm finally nearing the end of my build and I had one final question about making the nut and final setup. I've cut the TUSQ nut to width, and marked out the radius/height of the frets on it with a flattened pencil, and made a second identical line 1/16" above it. What order...

Hi everyone, The time for me to finish my build is coming shortly, and I had a few more simple questions that I would be very grateful to have answered. My plan is to fill the grain/seal using platina dewaxed shellac and pumice, then use Tru-Oil to build the final finish. I was wondering: is...

Hi everyone, While carving away my belly and arm cutaways, I noticed that in both areas there is a seam of pesky glue that is visually unpleasant. I glued my original blank up by placing two sets of pau ferro and maple together, gluing them both in a vacuum bag, and then attaching them to a...

Hi everyone, In about a month or so, my current bass build will be ready for finishing, and I was thinking of doing the entire thing with Tru-Oil, roughly following this video: . I have a five piece body and neck as seen below, with the neck being maple-mahogany-walnut-mahogany-maple and the...

Hi everyone, My build is getting close to the point where I'm ready to rout the neck pocket, and I just wanted to double check that I have the notion of how to calculate it all figured out. I'm using a Gotoh standard bass bridge and pre-radiused fretboard from Stewmac, as well as some of...

Hi everyone, For my current bass build, I've made a body blank that consists of pau ferro (twice bookmatched, 1/8" thick) - maple (once bookmatched, 1/4") - mahogany (7/8") - maple - pau ferro (repeating same bookmatching and thickness as before). I first vacuum clamp the two sets of maple/pau...

Hi everyone, I've got a myriad of questions for building my neck, so this may end up being quite a long post. I'll list the questions with numbers, so feel free to answer some or all of them at your leisure, so here we go... 1. I've got a neck blank glued up that measures 1" x 2-7/8" by 40". I...

I recently bought a 4mm allen double action trussrod, and mistook the 24" that the trussrod actually is for 22". When the allen nut is flush with the heel of the neck, the opposite end block hangs out about a 1/2" over the nut position: Here it is with the fretboard positioned over it. I plan...

Hi everyone, I'm building a bass, and have been using a couple of ways to figure out a rough angle to set my bolt on neck at. I come up numbers between 0.3-0.4 degrees, and was wondering if this sounds like a reasonable starting point. One reason I'm doing a bolt on is so that if it turns out...

Hi everyone, I'm building my own bass and have decided to go with a set of active P/J pickups (still a toss up between EMG and Seymour Duncan). I was just wondering a few things: Should I be using 25k or 100k pots? Does my jack need to be mono or stereo? Finally, Are there any thoughts on doing...

Hi everyone, First time on the forums, and I'm looking to buy P/J pickups for my bass build. I play mostly for fun on the side, as I like building quite a bit, but I'm looking for a set that sounds on the side of bands such as Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, and Tool to name a few. So far...