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11-18-2007, 10:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | | Bad scrolls
I am starting a new thread on "poorly carved scrolls"
Does anyone have any entries?
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11-18-2007, 10:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | | here is another.
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11-19-2007, 03:19 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | I think the first one is "OK" ...in a sort of modernist vibe - but the second one is just plain ugly! 
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11-19-2007, 04:44 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | Funny, I have the opposite reaction!
I didn't go much for the scroll on that cornerless bass video, sort of reminded me of a wayward cleavage at oscar night ... |
11-19-2007, 06:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ireland | | | The second one looks like a gamba or a cello though, since it has pegs instead of tuners. |
11-19-2007, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Nashville | | Look how deep the strings are into the nut on the first one! 
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11-21-2007, 03:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | | Here are two more scrolls that seem to be a bit off....
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11-21-2007, 03:57 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Do you work in the crap-DB graveyard!?? 
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11-21-2007, 04:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ctregan  Here are two more scrolls that seem to be a bit off.... | Where did you find the pic of the first one from this post? Just curious, I have a Kay that is painted gold just like that. |
11-21-2007, 04:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Syracuse N.Y. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ArenW Where did you find the pic of the first one from this post? Just curious, I have a Kay that is painted gold just like that. | It is from an Englehart bass. The scroll ends are not real wood, they are composite pasties. |
11-21-2007, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Rockledge, FL | | | Yeah, and they are known to fall off easily as well. |
11-21-2007, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Rockledge, FL | | | Here is a real looker. |
11-27-2007, 12:39 PM
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11-27-2007, 12:52 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | |  Butchered but not dead...
A famous Philly Repairman cut this original 3-string Scroll about 30-40 years ago to fit a mechanical extension. The Scroll will get fully restored when the Bass goes into restoration.  
A beautiful original Scroll turned ugly to be made beautiful again one day. |
11-27-2007, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: cherry hill nj | | | well about kens, If that was your bass(whenever it was new), wouldnt you customize it to make it the way you want it? knowing your views on basses you probably wouldnt, do you still have the c extension? id be interested |
11-27-2007, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by bassist14 | Oh, thanks! Now, I'm sick.  |
11-27-2007, 02:04 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | |  whenever it was new?
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Originally Posted by jimmyduded well about kens, If that was your bass(whenever it was new), wouldnt you customize it to make it the way you want it? knowing your views on basses you probably wouldnt, do you still have the c extension? id be interested | When it was new? It was new about 200 years ago give or take.. Customize it? You should not cut a Scroll to put an extension on. It was a fairly common practice years ago but it defaces the Bass. Fitting the Extension is more work granted but it should be done the way that it preserves the Bass most.
No, I don't have the Extension. It didn't work that well to begin with. I took it off and made the new Nut the same day I got the Bass. A former student or Riccardi (former owner) has the Extension. I prefer the Chromatic/fingered Ebony extensions so either way, that Extension was coming off. Even Riccardi was disturbed when his repairman cut the Scroll to install the extension from what I have heard. |
11-28-2007, 03:18 AM
| | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | The differing perspectives of 15 and 50 year olds!
I admire your restraint Ken!
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11-28-2007, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield
I admire your restraint Ken! | haha +1 |
11-28-2007, 11:11 AM
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