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Thanks for the advice! I’ll post pictures in a few days when I get finished.

Well I had to remove the neck because I glued to early and no good angle for the neck and bridge adjustments. What should I do for neck shims? How high do I need to shim? Do I shim level or do I need...

Build is done except for setup! There are some flaws that I will remember on my next build.

I took your advice to practice. Only I wet-sanded all the way to 1500 grit. Smoooooooth as a baby’s butt.

Unfortunately I used wipe-on. It lifted the pigment enough to screw it up enough to take a new color change. The pecan I used is gloss poly, so much easier!

Well, after all that work the stain didn’t hold up to gloss poly soooo.…I resanded the whole bass down to the filler again. Huge job, but will be worth the trouble. Doing a pecan gloss. Looks pretty...

Sounds like a great tip! Will do that.

Set the neck today. Next is sealing the finish. Think I will go ahead and do gloss, hopeful it will turn out as nice as the furniture I did.

Looking good so far

Finally have some pictures up

Very productive few days. Have begun staining. 40767407674076840769

Two coats today and I’ll do 2 more tomorrow. After that I’ll decide if it’ dark enough.

Ok, I have finally got going on my build. Been spending a few hours a day mainly sanding wood filler. Seems to have filled everything well. Soon as I figure out how I’ll post pictures.

Thanks! I guess I will glue it later as my room is not quite what I would like. Thanks for your help!

Should I set the neck before finishing? What glue is best for glueing the neck?

Change of color choice. I am gonna go with a red mahogany stain. Had a little here and tried it on a piece of scrap and like the finished color. I’ll decide on gloss, satin or flat. When I get done...

Because of incredibly lousy planning by yours truely I haven’t made any progress yet. I am waiting on a couple things I ordered to use in my build. Will post any progress when I get started again....

Got grain filler from Amazon. Gork’s goodfilla in mahogony tint. Seems like it will be easy to work and sand. Anyone have any experience with this filler?

Have a question on the neck. Should I sand it like the body? Seems awful smooth now. I know it needs some sanding in order for the stain to take right. But I’m thinking just a scuff would do with...

I am going with Cherry stain and a gloss finish. I’ve worked gloss finish on a few pieces of furniture so I think I can handle it on a bass.

I appreciate your support. Furniture w/ strings isn’t what I thought of but I will now!
Thanks for the welcome!

This will be my first attempt at building a bass. March 12th just started sanding today. I’m impressed with how good the surface was before I started. I’m building what is supposed to be a Gibson SG...