tops

I recently decided to build my first bass body and found a body blank to use. It is 3 pieces: swamp ash, black limba, swamp ash. I like the look of the black limba and want to leave that as a visible center block. But I also want to a darker top, like walnut or wenge, on the ash wings. How...

So I have no clue where to put this, if its in the wrong forum, mods, please feel free to move it. Anyway! I recently saw a picture of a bass with a finger ramp covering the entirety of the pickups. It was about a 1/4 of an inch thick, this got me thinking, could you feasibly hide the pickups...