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  1. I have an old beater P-Bass body that I am modifying. I was wondering if anyone had ever taken a previously solid-body bass (or guitar), routed cavites out from the back, made a recess around the edge (like for the rear control cavity cover) and inlaid a thin piece of wood over the hole, thus making a semihollow body. I would cut f-holes on the front of the instrument, and use wood putty and grainfiller on the back to make the inlaid pieces flush. I have planned the recesses and the f-holes and they won't interfere with the pickup cavities or the bridge. Has anyone else done that? Does anyone have any advice or stories? Thanks. -colin
  2. sorry about that, man. My computer kept saying that it couldn't post. So I just kept trying. Sorry. -colin
  3. Ok, here's my idea, and I'd just like to hear what others think before I screw up some beautiful wood. I am building a 4-string fretless electric bass as a neck-through semi hollow body. The neck through will be a laminate or rock maple and walnut with an ebody fingerboard. There will be two body wings made of 1.5" thick pieces of mahogany, which will be routed out save for 1/4" at the back. Pretty standard thus far, right? I want to use a tune-o-matic bridge (I found one online), which means that the neck must angle back from the body at about 3.5degrees, right? My plan was to make the neck laminate slightly thicker than the body wings, so that after I glued the body wings on I would be left extra wood sticking up in the middle (it would be higher on the top at the tail, and higher at the body/neck joint on the back. I would then plane down the body block part of the neck laminate so that it would be flush with the body wings. Then I'd glue a top of birds-eye maple on the guitar, and carve out the very bottom of the neck-through for the bridge tailpiece (think Rick 300 series). I'd slap a set of Dark Stars on there, and I think I'd have a pretty bitchin' bass. Do my ideas seem solid, or am I in for a world of pain? Mostly, its having the neck through not set parallel to the body wings and having to get rid of the excess that bothers me. Any ideas? thanks, -colin
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