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Rear Route... Nice - look forward to your build thread.

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Here ya go Post a pic of the body, better still start a thread in the build diaries

Nice Post... I likes an oil finnish. Satisfying to apply without that spray faff There is a most splendid post on the very same by our @Andyjr1515 I'll do a search and link it. First couple i did was Screw Fix Danish Oil. Can stay quite tacky for a while, so slow progress. Tru-Oil is much easier to apply, less mess, and gives a much better feel especially with a bit of beeswax and a buff after. This body mod 'n Tru-oil on this SR300 thanks to @Andyjr1515 And an SR500 i sanded down, till i got fed up with sanding... then applied a few coats of Tru-Oil with one of those green scourers, then some wax Oh, and a Harley Benton... And a T-Bird Oiled wood finish, Passive, Rear Route... You get the idea...

I'd like a Harley Benton HB50... https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_hb_50_vintage_orange.htm with Flats... https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_hqs_bass_45_100_flatwound.htm £225...

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Welcome, and lots of love for Harley Benton on here - wise choice new, wiser choice used!

BTB may of had a mid life crisis-revamp? Same as the SR range. Earlier being more slab bodied, more like the current Gio GSR. Latter have the super comfy worn pebble body. Check the Ibby Wiki, 'prolly a certain year of change over. https://ibanez.fandom.com/wiki/Portal:BTB_series The digging in edge is there on most more slab bodies, but some of these look to have more of a ridge...

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Ibanez not on your look at list?...

Some blah blah under tech talk... https://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/other-bass/model-one

Had to google, but Vol, Tone and Mudbucker? Are you thinking of some sort of Single/Series/Parallel switching of the coils - 4 wires? Switch could replace the Tone control - or Push Push Tone Pot for Series/Parallel I Mudbuckered my T-Bird wired A500k Vol to Pure Tone Jack Socket Any coil switching would end up on Std Parallel, and wasn't reckoning on there being much treble needing rolling off from the mudbucker.

Waste-Gate w**kers...

How about finishing the thread of with a pic?

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Matchsticks and PVA... Cocktail sticks are very hard and mire likely to cause a drill bit to snap or move if you catch the edge. As you gave mentioned, the thread bush attaches the machine head to the headstock, the 2 screws stop it from rotating.

It's all about the Phisio... tin of beens at arms length, drawing small circles etc... I got one of these (Gyro Power Ball) after a Scooter Crash and dislocated my shoulder (the wrong way) and breaking my wrist https://ebay.us/m/LftLSw ... and no Sniggering at the back...

The High Mass doesn't go as low as the BBOT... a thin shim in the neck pocket might get the bridge saddles back in to the adjustment range.

Looks fine where it is...

Cheap, Light-ish 6 String... How about an SR306?

?.. Round Core benefit from being bent before cutting, to stop the core unwinding. Perhaps this is what is meant? Although i do it with all strings, why wouldn't you.

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Just swap the saddles - but make sure they are the correct thread - Fender USA likely Imperial, others Metric. I swapped out the Chrome for Brass on my HB50 Modder.