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I own six Hofner basses and have performed neck resets on two of them. I thought about painting the binding to match the fretboard but I thought that would look pretty cheesy. since the bottom neck is about 3/8" away from the body and the neck pocket is even further away from the fret board there would be no issue at all. I'll take images for you when I remove the binding so you can have a better understanding

It's a beauty but $5k is a bit steep.... but it is pristine

Been at the Boeing plants in St. Louis and just finished up at the Boeing plant in St Charleston SC. heading home in about an hour.

I don't think you have an understanding of how the neck, fretboard and neck joint interface with each other on a Hofner bass.

An update on on the neck binding. I have decided to remove the neck binding, trim the frets and sand the neck flush to the fret board. At that point I may need to do a little back filling at the fret ends but that's a quick and easy cosmetic fix. This would be a quicker fix rather than adding rosewood binding.

Funny you bring this up but I went through a month stretch where I I wore a wrist brace on my right hand for a month and had to stop playing bass for about two weeks. I explained to the doctor I had started playing bass left handed back in April and had been practicing 2 hours a day at least. Basically he prescribed a brace and a weeks worth of physical therapy and now I'm fine. Turned out it was a hypertension of the tendon.

I have found the hand woven straps with no leather backing are by far the most comfortable straps .... but they run between $80-$100

Actually I have sprayed nitro in 60-80 degrees F but I make sure the RH humidity is below 45% .

I have a black Gibson Les Paul Custom Lite stuffed in one of my closets I haven't played in 10 years.... but from what I can remember it was a great player and comfortable ....

That sure is an odd blemish. I would try some medium or fine rubbing compound and see if the blemish is at the surface of the clear. Nitrocellulose is easy to deal with.

I'm hoping that it does, but am please I was able to get this much coverage with the butterscotch

Ya i was worried about the nitro not adhering but it attached well.

I laid four coats of the butterscotch to get some coverage on the patch and the dark brown on the cutouts and the top so that the red would would pop. So far I'm presently surprised how well it covered the patch. Gonna let dry for about a week then a couple more coats of butterscotch on the cutaways then I'll address the back... then it's the whole thing with a couple of coats of vintage amber..... then I'll do the sunburst effect.

Man I should had posted something, because it was the fan that stopped working. I'm gonna get it from the garbage area and buy a new fan and use it in our bedroom, as we have sinus issues.

So I purchased the one below with extra filters and another bottle of Bacteriostatic Treatment stuff. Thank god it's going to rain for the next few days. A good investment for those that don't keep their guitars in cases. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087KN4D8S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What's interesting with all the things we currently do to planet, human life expectancy is longer than any other time humans have been walking the earth. For example if you go back 4000-5000 years humans average life span was 30-40 years, and I'm sure there were very few man made toxins spit into the atmosphere. I know we all want to complain about everything, but we all buy / use products that have harmful chemicals, eat foods we know aren't healthy for us and we still manage to live for 70 years on the average. So there's going to be a trade off for a life of comfort that contributes to a longer life span. Ya train accidents are unfortunate and it's even more unfortunate people are affected by these types of accidents. Let's hope it all gets cleaned up.

So I am just about ready to spray the nitro sanding sealer and will probably go with 6 coats. Just a few small details to go over. And final sanding. I had to go in a different direction regarding the nut. As I was shaping / leveling the bottom part of the nut, the NuGlu backing soda concoction I made is a bit crumbly so I filed it off and added epoxy to the area of the bass where the nut sits to give the nut a little more height so when it comes time to cut the grooves it will be ready to go. I also plugged the jack hole and drilled another. One other thing I noticed about Paul's bass is the the 21st fret doesn't have a fret marker, so I ordered some rosewood fret markers to eliminate it, and I also noticed from the 15th fret and down the fret marker dots are bigger so I ordered 8 mm acrylic fret markers. I still need to trim down the the stencils a little but I have plenty of time for that.

To me solid body electrics always sound like crap to me acoustically.

Here is the Gibson classical I fixed; You can see a few small witness lines and a little color mismatch in some area on the lower corner where the plate was. Overall for my first time doing this it came out pretty good. Did it hide everything? No.... But I didn't expect it to. The only area I wished had came out better is when I sprayed the clear I covered too large of the area, as you can see it's darker than the rest of the top

Another update in the works is the nut. After removing the nut and positioning it to be for a lefty, the nut was cut in a way where there was a slope so the low E and A slots are slightly below the zero fret. I have the nut in a little jig to add additional height to the nut by using Nuglu and baking soda then I'll sand and reshape. Then I can re-groove the nut slots so that the groove is angled downward towards the tuners.

I didn't want to add to the size of the cavity on the bass guitar, the two screw holes I can hide by making them to look like grain spots, plus most of that will be masked by the the semi transparent lacquer. I don't expect to completely hide the witness lines but they will be hidden enough to where I will be happy. I have done this kind of repair on a Gibson classical guitar that had a hole cut out for a volume plate and the results (to the untrained eye) were almost invisible.

So I was able to cut out a piece of wood and run the wood grain in the same direction of the grain on the bass body. Then I dampened the wood with warm water and shaped the wood to match the top curvature. I left the patch edges slightly above the body surface so that when I add the QuikWood Putty Stick to the gaps, I will then sand the patch to blend with the top so that I can eliminate the witness lines as much as possible when I paint the bass. I purchased a combination of butterscotch blonde - Semi-Transparent nitro lacquer and then feather it towards the middle of the guitar with the vintage amber transparent lacquer. Then I'll do the body edges with the black and cherry lacquers.

No offense taken, but anything I do unless it's an emergency fix isn't a hack job.... I try to make sure the finish result is above par.

I'm also finishing up a les paul project for my wifes sons birthday that's coming up. I purchased a 2nd Gibson body with a big knot on the cap.... Drilled all the holes and cavities myself without a template and carved a neck pocket for an off brand explorer neck,,,, Did a root beer burst .... It looks pretty good... All that's left is a setup. So its half Gibson and half something else... lol I did the colors with water base shoe dye.

I've been told.. lol But the amount of money I have saved doing mods and repairs myself doesn't seem so crazy.... Though I did think spraying nitro in a garage could be a bit over board but after buying all the PPE and two portable paint booths (big and small), I don't feel so overboard.