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Mold and template fabrication are given noteworthy coverage, as well as procedures for finishing in shellac, french polishing and spray lacquer. In this, my first instructable, i will attempt to chronicle the construction of a simple lap steel guitar. Bass guitar, musical instruments strings general, books. If you watch the youtube videos of steve dickie building a guitar, you will see this method of building. This thing is a marriage of a used, commercially made, bolton, electric bass guitar neck.
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