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    if anyone knows thtanks!
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    Everytime i have worked with flame maple i usally do it natural with laquer. I am doing a project now that will be red flame maple,,,,,,,,,, any tips ?????
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    I am building an Sg and i dont really wanna hand carve the chamfer around the body egde. If you built one how did you do it? there are no router bits made this shallow i can find. thanks
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    I have always built my own necks then routed the body in accordance to that neck. I am building a guitar for a family member and i used a stew mac neck pocket template ( thinking if neck ever needed replaced iit would be a standard size) and then I grabbed a fender neck ,from afriend to build a template from for the neck. i put the neck in the pocket and to my suprise there is a lot of wiggle room for lacquer paint etc. so i now i need to build a new neck tempate to fit the pocket. any ideas? i figure di could make my new neck wider a bit and rerout the pocket. I also figured i could fill teh pocket in a bit and rerout .
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    I have built a neck in the past mainly i just build bodys and buy a neck. i usually trim the fretboard with a jigsaw and trim it with a router pattern bit to final size. anybody have any better ideas?
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    i need a bass that i can bang around while gigging that i can put stickers be rough with etc. i am in a 80's rock band. i was thinking of using a mahogany core for the neck pocket and bridge p/u's etc and 13 ply birch plywood for the wings. my tone is always warm and rumbly and the mahognay will do that. i know the wings should offer no resonance. i am thinking of this because i need a later in the night worry free beater bass. i just hate using good wood finishing it and planning on doing this to it. thats why i wonder about the plywood wings. i have been building bodys etc for a long while soi understand the plywood is wrong but i know its used in cheap guitars but i just wonder if the core is mahogany on my idea so i wonder if it will work for bass. i know guitar no way it just wouldnt have any high tone. anyway any thoughts here.
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    ok so i am rephrasing an earlier asked question. my bass body fell and after examining it it was cracked on the nd and edge . what has anyone ever done to repair a similar problem. the cracks were only 1.5 " long, not deep enought to pry apart and put glue in. i drilled holes on the ends of the cracks to stop the cracks from widening and i glued in dowels. what has anyone else done?????
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    i am refinishing a bass . long story but it now has 2 cracks torward the end on the underside. mainly about 1.5 inches long at most .one goes around the end on the side. they dont seem deep enough to pry open clamp and glue. so what i did was drilled holes on the ends of the cracks on the body. then glued in dowels. it seems to me thi swill stop the cracks from spreading further. the body is a two piece so both cracks are on one side. i also did what i could with putting some epoxy in the cracks, anyway thats what i did to repair it. what do you guys think???
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    nitro is cool but i just dont want something that is made to age like nitro is as it seems. i just want something durable. theres no big rush its just i wanna paint it walk away a good month and let it dry and know its gonna dry.
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    i need to paint a bass body i built. i am a working player and this is workhorse. i mainly just need a durable fast drying paint. thi sis gonna be a punk type stickered bass so perfection isnt a must. i dont have spray equip. the basses i build are usually figured wood so i never paint. but thi stime i need a paint job from a rattle can.
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    i need a good spray lacquer that dries fast and hardens good. in black color. i have used duplicolor acrylic lacquer it stays fumey for way too long. i have used duplicolor enamel and it stayed fumey for a year. i need something durable and fast .
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    i used BIN shellac primer over sand an seal according to REranch directionl. then acrylic lacquer. after several coats it seems chippy fragile. should i restrip or fix chippy areas and use krylon lacquer over it if the krylon isnt too hot. i used acrylic becaus eit wa flat balck like i wanted. i knwo the krylon is harder than heck. will it be ok or will it still chip becasue the BIN lets it chip too teh wood.
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    i had to sand a n area down on a guitar i was painting. its on the side and its about 2 inches long maybe 3 . i gues i will just keep hitting it with spray again till its full then wet sand it down then spray again. and maybe even use some auto primer filler. i know it wont be perfect will this work?
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    sorry to be redundent, my post topic origionally wasnt correct. i have made an sg body. its exactly same thickness lower mahognay and to flame maple. i did the build this way because i was planning on beveling all way around the top so it would have a nice maple edge . will this look good?
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    i put a super thick flame maple top on a mahogany body. so looking at the side of the body now the mahognay botton half and maple top are the same thickness. i figure since its an sg i was planning on the bevel edge softening the transition. what if i do a bevel all the way around teh top?
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    i have a flame maple top on mahognay the maple is a very thick top. i need to darken the edges so the area were the maple and mahognay meet is hidden. i am guessing since i am doing a trans cherry top on cherry back i should be able to do a slightly darker cherry on the edges . anyone ever done this?
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    things are going to be fine with the neck pocket. if you look at the warmoth site there LPS bolt on body ha sthe same look as my neck pocket. thanks for all the help.
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    i am , or was building a sg bolt on neck style guitar mahoganon body topped with flame maple. anyway i wont gointo the details but what i have ended up with is a neck pocket that dosent have enough side material. pretty much only 1 inch of wood from pocket end torward front of pocket on both sides then its open..i thought of moving the neck back much as i can till i would bump into the pickup ring. that would give me another 1/4 inch or so. will this be enough side material once its bolted down to be solid and sound? never had a goof up this big. i was trying to make the body neck area as slim as possible so it looks like an sg set neck. i have also thiught of doing a PRS style set neck i figure that smy only option left.
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    i bought some black acrylic duplicolor lacquer. its all i could find in lacquer by duplicolor. any way since its cool out how can i get it to dry thorough. i hav erigge dup a large box with the body in it and warm air blowing in it outside the house. lat time i used duplicolor it took liek a year to not stink fumes etc. that wasnt lacquer will this dry better and not smell.
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    reason i ask is i have designe da headstock of my own. i usually buid basses but i am makinga guitar for a relative. i like the slender PRS headstock mine is in the same neighborhood. i just want to make sure that i keep the headstock not too small so it is not odd looking or too compact to be easy to use. thanks
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    how long is prs style headstock, center end to end
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    yes, my main question about this is for one with a bolt on the neck rests 1/8th above the body and the fretboard is another 1/4". but on neck thru its lower and you have to lower the bridge area by angling the neck section a bit so the action will be right. well i just figure why not build it to the same specs as a bolt on so there is no need for the angle.
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    if the center of the body and the end of the neck are the same heighth according to the book i have and basses i have seen the neck has to be angled down for the proper string heigth etc. but what if the center of the body is taken down in heigth so the bridge rests lower than the neck end . can the neck be straight and not anlged down and things will work right?
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    if i build my body neck portion and i build the bass so after i glue the wings on the sides the fretboard does not rest on the body but is 1/8 inch above the body like on abolt on will i have to angle the neck then like most neck thru are.
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    anybody know the width of the raised center section on a thunderbird bass? thanks
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