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Alright so, I got a bunch of free pine from work and I have access to some Formica and WilsonArt laminate sheets through work as well. I have always wanted to do a build using a formica top just because of the options for patterns and no need to top finish. Anyways I want some input from the...

Hello Im an 18 yrs old student. I always wanted to become a luthier, a bass guitar luthier. And I've been wondering where i can learn how to build electric bass. Seems most "guitar" luthiers take semina or couses. But "bass" luthiers those who only make bass guitars, i wonder where they learn...

For the past few days I've been trying to get a full and proper setup on my Fender J, so far I've been following the ultimate setup guide often recommend on TB as well as referring to Fender's setup measurement recommendations. I'm using my Stewmac string radius guides and I cannot for the life...

Hello friends- I just purchased a bow stamped DE MARCHI. I’m trying to find out some more about the bow, and only see a Willian De Marchi as a potential bowmaker but the stamp on his current bows includes his first name. It also looks like he’s mostly violin/cello bow oriented. Was wondering if...

New to the forum and hope to soak up some wisdom. Building a bass for my brother in law. Starting with a P bass style body (slightly smaller w/bigger offset shape). String through body holes and P bass style pickup holes already routed. Looking for best place to order a good maple left...

Looking at a franken-bronco build and researching dimensions. Ive seen threads put the neck heel width at 2.289 in, and i just wanted to confirm that number with other builders.

Hello y'all! First post on TalkBass. I've started a Rickenbacker style kit guitar from amazon to experiment with, but I've run into a problem. The neck joint is intended to be a glue-in job; the neck joint snapped in on me while stringing it up for the first time. I went ahead and drilled some...

Hi first post so if I mess anything up please do forgive me. My dad has a modified Hayakawa Eagle Bass (neck through body) from the 1980s and I think maybe in 2019 the fretboard started lifting (tropical weather so it's terrible for instruments) and we didn't know where to take it so we just...

I recently had an acquaintance of mine use his thickness planer to plane some walnut I will be using as a top wood for my bass. Once he finished he noticed there was a slight bow in one of the pieces, and advised me to soak it in water and then either clamping it or placing something heavy on it...

I am thinking of a hollow body fretless 33" scale build. I am wondering if i only put a top on (i have an 8mm thick piece of zebrano, though will prob be 6mm by the time rough bandsaw marks are removed) and make the body from mahogany (at least what is often sold as mahogany, maybe Khaya?, i...

Hi bass people! Let me give you some insight. I already own a couple of P basses but Im building a 3rd one out of parts. Just ordered a "raw" P bass body and neck and I'm planning to do pretty much everything else on my own without a lot of pro tools (no pun intended). I bought some nitro cans...

I'm making some good headway on my first bass, but I'm now contemplating a change from a set neck to a neck through construction. This idea of mine comes from the idea that centering the pickups and bridge would be easier because I'm not quite comfortable with a router just yet. The plan would...

To any luthiers or people who are smarter than I am, I’m getting a 1961 EB0 but I’m Going to put a bridge pickup in it with all the controls of the EB3, will I still be able to have the original wiring of the EB0 by just adding the wiring for the controls that are not on it? Or will it all have...

Hi all, Should I be worried about this? It doesn’t look like a crack through to the wood, and I’m hoping it’s just the lacquer which has a crack along it. I’ve seen about people wicking superglue into the crack, so I will do that, but I wanted to first get people’s opinions. It was an...

First post, yay! Anyways, after a long break I am finally getting back to working on the prototype of my first bass. Last time I worked on it I ran into a bit of a snag with figuring out how to make the pickup cavities. In my research, I cannot seem to find how the depth is determined, as well...

I am looking to modify one of my basses, but I don’t have enough skill or time. The main difficulty will be a new fretboard and some cut and paste work. I was wondering if anyone knows of someone In the GTA?

Anyone what kind of pencil the guy is using at the beginning of the video to mark the top?

Hello low-end lovers, So I recently decided that I would love to design and build my very first bass. I have already started gathering the required tools for the job. I was wondering if anyone had bass body and headstock templates in printable format? E.g. in a PDF. Both 4 and 5 string...

Hello, I was treating my fretboard with F One oil and while it was drying on the fretboard, I decided to clean the body with Dunlap guitar polish. I think I accidentally used the same side of the cloth that I cleaned the fretboard with. Now there is a waxy almost oxidized film on my bass...

Looking for a luthier to set up an NS Design CRT EUB. I am familiar with a couple of the accoustic DB luthiers in town but wonder if anyone knows someone who does a lot of work with EUB's. Thanks for any and all assistance! Rief

Hello All, So I have been working with a local luthier in South NJ for about a year to build a custom-designed V bass. After having communication issues with this person they have abruptly decided that they likely will not be able to follow through on the agreement. The CAD design for the CNC...

Hello guys im going to build a Gibson Rd bass and i was with the trouble of the neck if its with the technique of "set neck" and the pick ups are? Thanks !

So I'm currently selling a beautiful old hand-carved bass that has fallen into disrepair (in Classifieds), but in all the time I have owned it, I could never find out any of the history behind it. So I'm turning to you, luthiers! You can see from the pictures it has been through a lot including...