Fiberglass doublebasses?

[pathdoc2]

I found this cool fiberglass upright on Dallas Craigslist.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/sdf/msg/1577750392.html

At only $450 I'm tempted to try it.

Any idea of what it's worth?

[guroove]

Fiberglass is great if you need a bass that you can stand on, or to flip over your head while you play. The sound is on par with a cheap plywood bass. I'm not sure who you take it to if it breaks though.

[pathdoc2]

Just called, already sold.

[guroove]

Bummer. I'm trying to score a black one with flames and a pogostick for an end pin.

[LouisF]

FYI

The cf basses have come a long way since then -

http://www.cosi-lagarde.com/

http://www.luisandclark.com/shop/bass/

Louis

[drurb]

Originally Posted by pathdoc2

cool fiberglass upright

An oxymoron to me.

[LouisF]

I'm just passing on the info -- I doubt if I'd pay $12K for one - which is what the L&C bass costs - there's a Youtube video of Larry Wolfe from the Boston Symphony playing one.
LF

[Andrew McGregor]

I didn't like the L&C bass I tried. There's a big echo hiding inside it. But I don't think that proves carbon is a bad idea... just that way of using it doesn't work. The Cosi basses seem to be better regarded.

Fiberglass has too much damping to be a good bass material; it's dead as a doornail, whereas carbon tends to ring like a nice tonewood.

[Square Bear]

does carbon fiber and fiberglass mean the same thing? i've seen the L&C basses, but never heard them referred to as fiberglass. 12K is way too steep IMO when you can get a folding travel bass for much less that probably sounds better anyways. guroove is right though, if you absolutely have to have the pogostick feature, CF is the only way to go.

[jtlownds]

[quote=Square Bear;8643462]does carbon fiber and fiberglass mean the same thing? quote]

Nope, they are 2 different things. The OP posted about a fibreglass bass, and, as usual, it went off track to talk about carbon fibre. I have played a couple of fibre glass basses, and I don't have anything positive to say about them.

[forester]

have a couple fiberglass in the rental fleet...thin and not that indestructable...they play, but sound more like rubbermaid when pushed.

[fdeck]

The fiberglass bass at my middle school spent a summer in a room that must have gotten pretty hot. In the fall, the belly had warped just below the neck, and the neck had leaned forward by an inch or so. End of bass.

[james condino]

There used to be a short video of a fellow riding a Roth fiberglass bass in the surf posted on youtube a few years ago.

j.

[LouisF]

Yes - as the party guilty of taking the fiberglass thread off-track to the carbon fiber track - to the best of my knowledge (and I may be wrong) I don't think there's been a fiberglass bass made in 20 or 30 years at least (I played one of those Roth fiberglass wonders in high school, too and that was 40++ years ago).

My point was that, what -- for want of a better word -- "synthetic" (can we all agree on that for the moment) bass had come a long way (including price) from the $400 fiberglass basses.

Louis

[crockpot2001]

Originally Posted by LouisF

FYI

The cf basses have come a long way since then -

http://www.cosi-lagarde.com/

http://www.luisandclark.com/shop/bass/

Louis

I got distracted by the Luisandclark video of the viola matic demo lady drinking beer the viola had uncapped. Something sort of naughty about it.