Thanks for the help everyone
Here is the long version of what I was planning on doing..
The bass is somewhat inspeired by the C.Thompson "Rainbow bass" and the "$10 million bass", with elements froma couple of others..
Bass-ically , the top is a five piece top blk walnut, cocobolo strip (3/4"),blk walnut center (where sing EMG pu/ will go), cocobolo strip (3/4"), blk walnut bottom..
what I had planned on doing was making the walnut center piece ultra thin and then planing the neck down if need be to fit it up underneath the center piece.
The back will look the same except that there will be 3 pieces, blk walnut, cocobolo strip (to hid backside of neck), then blk walnut bottom.. now the front and backsides are sandwhiched to a red oak core which is the full body (minus where the neck goes)...
so here is the order in which it would be assembled:
1) red oak "wings" glued to neck, cure 48 hours or so..
2) plane neck down to be even with the "wings"
3) glue back pieces on cure 48 hours or so
4) glue front pieces on, cure again
5) rout out electronics cavity, etc
6) drill six holes for string to go through end (doing the obligitory CT styled bridge like in the picture below)
and the rest is history... this is going to take a reallllllly long time, but I will start posting pictures as soon as I get my laptop up and running again (unfortunately, I only have my computer at work right now)
Thanks again for all the help and advice.. you guys rock!
BTW... nobody ever said anything about my comments on "Gorilla Glue"... I have worked with wood epoxies and stuff in the past and I hate it.. I really have had a lot of good luck with this stuff.. it's all in prepping the wood.. you have to rough it up pretty good.. I usually draw a hacksaw blade across the wood and make a "cross hatch" pattern on both sides to be mounted.. then you wet down the wood with a very wet spong until that first little layer of wood is thouroughly wet..glue it and clamp the hell out of it..
The only bit of drawback is that the Gorrilla Glue tends to foam out the ends being boding, but it planes off rather nicely and leaves a reallllllllly tough bond..