Yeah harder to get the neck right, too.
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yeah I love it ! it’s called “Race Green” and it’s not common at all.
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Mine is some kind of green as well but it’s has gotten more blue tint. It’s a E series 85-87ish. Squier Mij.
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But … everything that you are doing sounds very exciting and great fun! And you can’t put any money to the fun you have when modding…
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this is not my first modding rodeo 
This is in fact the third guitar I have bought, modded, and will likely sell 
Bass I have only modded one, but that was just giving a Fender a real pickup.
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It’s only carpentry. I mean how hard can it be right 
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Hah yeah 100%. I was surprised how easy the first part of this kind of thing is and how good the results of dowelling turn out though
And also how resistant Maple can be to reaming. Got some serious heating of the reamer bit getting the tuner holes reamed out to 1cm. I think I bought the wrong reamer bit - pretty sure it’s a metal lathe reamer - as it looks pretty different from my hand reamer (which had no problem with the Maple.)
It’s just the pesky last 10% details around, you know, making everything look good.
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This thread has been quiet for a while, so…
a well known internet musical retailer sent me the wrong strings, but after correcting their mistake, they didn’t want the mini-bass strings back. I there fore had no option but to raid my offcuts and rejects wood box and make a bass with 23" scale length. Here is my almost finished Jonelectro Long-ish horn; single humbucker with series/parallel/split wiring; guitar tuners and ukulele bridge.
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That’s pretty awesome @jonathanhaynes43 ! Love the backstory
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Jonelectro! Nice! I like it.
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This is what I’d name my bass line
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@howard @terb Thanks for mentioning your kits! I built a few guitar stomp boxes from kits back in the day and I’m interested in getting into building something for Bass. I don’t have the hardware for surface mount stuff but from what I’ve seen if you have an iron with hot air you can stencil up the paste and it’s not too bad.
I was just looking at the kits on https://www.musikding.de/ but if you have any good sites let me know. I think I want to build a compressor, delay, looper or chorus for bass. Mostly because I want to build something again
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that’s where I buy my kits very serious guys, no problem at all with them !
My favorite guitar overdrive. Sounds killer in front of my '81 Marshall JCM800 
(obviously mine is a clone too, not a real Klon)
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Honestly their kit prices are great. I was Thinking about trying my hand with a straight through hole board and some plans back in the day but then I got out of it. I think I still have a distortion pedal languishing in breadboard purgatory in a drawer somewhere.
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MusikDing is super friendly, great selection, and really next level customer service IMO. I really like them. I’m not in Europe either and it was no problem working with them.
I ended up cancelling my order but when I get a kit it will be from them. Probably the Growling Krizzly.
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Starting a project with this Ibanez Gio that I never play.
Going to go for a homemade fretless conversion and paint or stain the body.
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Yay! I looking forward to many pictures and do’s and don’t - so I don’t need to repeat your mistakes
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I like the CA glue fingerboard option. My first conversion was on a broken Ukulele and it was pretty good.
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