Love playing my DB

[nicechuckh]

As I said elsewhere in this site, I'm pre and post employed right now, so I wound up getting all I could afford, a Cecilio CDB-100. After putting on a new bridge (I'm not good at cutting down bridges lol) putting on new strings, etc, I just love playing it. Is it perfect? No, the E string tuner is a bit harder to turn than it should be, the black dye on the rosewood fingerboard had some splothes on it, but now it plays very well and looks great. Not quite as loud as it could be but it has K&K pickup now. Also, instead of putting it in the stand one time, I leaned it against the wall while I went to use the bathroom and it fell over right on it's side. Damage? only took the finish off of and roughly sanded about 3 inches on the front edge at the top curve on the right side. The inside has no splothes of glue etc, so especially considering the price, I'm very pleased. Was challenging and enjoyable to do the work on it myself too. The internet can be a wonderful thing. Still not glad it fell over, but at least it shows that it is built better than it could have been. Before long I'll probably put a tailpeice wire on it instead of the stock one, but not in a big hurry right now to have to re-set the soundpost lol. I did look at alot of other brands in the price range, but again, thanks to the internet, glad this is the one i got. Anyway, now and then there's a good story involving a CCB.

[nicechuckh]

The last pic shows damage where it fell on it's side

[nicechuckh]

You can see the damage on the other side pic that happened when it fell over lol

[tomshepp]

Congrats on your new bass. When leaving your bass, lean it into a corner resting on its shoulders so it can't fall. Repairs are expensive, so try to avoid that type of accident.
best.

[nicechuckh]

You're so right Tom lol. I usually put it in the stand but was gonna use the restroom and play some more, so silly me just leaned it in the corner and obviously at a bad angle lol.

[Jack Clark]

Congrats on what looks like a nice bass! Hope you enjoy it every time you pick it up.

Since I don't play a DB myself but am only a fan, I'm just asking out of curiosity: I've heard other DBists say that the safest way to leave a bass is on the floor, on it's side, with the bridge facing the wall. The theory is that it can't really fall from there, just tip over. And gig watchers are less likely to try to grab it and play on it during breaks if it's on the floor. Any body with any experience regarding that?

[TroyK]

I generally feel like it's safest laying on its side, but it kind of depends on where it is. In a corner with upper bouts each contacting a wall and the bridge facing the corner, like it was chewing gum in class is pretty stable and I sometimes feel like it's safer from foot traffic there. If I'm in a really small room with drunks or clumsy bandmates, I sometimes make that choice and may even take my break in a chair right in front of it.

Because we have earthquakes here and restaurant walls can shake from things happening on the other side of them, laying down is my preference if I have the space.

[Rebop]

Originally Posted by Jack Clark

And gig watchers are less likely to try to grab it and play on it during breaks if it's on the floor. Any body with any experience regarding that?

I left my bass on stage, C-bout resting on my speaker cabinet, which is the safest way to leave it while taking up the least amount of room. Some drunk guy got up on stage, put on the novelty Elvis Presley sunglasses that I wear for one song and started to "play" my bass (more like air guitar but with my bass in his hands).
It didn't end pretty. I started berating him and assaulting him with very large words after he denied doing it (I was staring at you, man). The dude actually pulled his shirt off and started coming after me. His friends were holding him back as he was lunging for me while my girlfriend was threatening to get her piece out of the car to help "settle" things; and a lot of screaming and yelling between my fans and his 5 or 6 friends that were there. After the police showed up and I told them the whole story and about the drunkard playing my vintage and possibly valuable instrument, they asked me why I didn't kick his butt. It was a bad scene and the bartender still blames me for starting a "brawl" that night. But the bass is fine.

[Jack Clark]

Rebop, next time don't wait until the end to tell us what happened to the bass. I was envisioning the worst! (Like the drunk hit your girlfriend with it, or something.)

[iiipopes]

Hey nicechuckh -- I'm with you, rather underemployed for the time being. So even though I have some very fine musical instruments and equipment otherwise garnered through the years, (Rickenbacker 4002 & custom-made fanned fret slabs, Miraphone 186, Gibson J-45, etc.) when the time came all I could get was a CCB that seemed to at least be glued together straight and go to work on it myself. Hang in there and enjoy. One of these days we'll both get better jobs and be able to get better basses. But then again, if it stays stable after all I've done to it, (and I will probably never play in an orchestra as I'm left handed, so arco is extra tough for me, although pizz is just fine and was not that much of an adaptation to upright technique as opposed to being "on the slab" for 35 years) it might just gig with me into the forseeable future without worrying about anything else: stable CCB, good set of used Spiro Weichs that should last a decade or more, decent peizo, good amp; a lot of music to be made.

Hey Rebop - great story. Mine is the opposite: there is a thread about my custom P-style fanned fret slab over on the EB side. When a drunk sees it, instead of wanting to pick it up to play it, he thinks he's had wayyyyy too much already and quietly leaves.

[nicechuckh]

I have alot of other instruments also, several 5 string basses, 4 string fretless, Palatino eub, strat, tele, etc etc. Really do love this CCB tho. Never played in bars so no worries with drunks lol have had kids in Church play my guitars n basses tho lol. I had a Ric 4001 fretless years ago that was stolen from the Church I was goin to at the time along with a 63 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp and a great ash body strat copy with maple neck that I loved. They never found them but the Church bought new stuff.

[nicechuckh]

Found what will keep me from playin my upright. A kidney stone. See, my CCB isn't fallin apart, I am lol

[nicechuckh]

The more I play this bass the more I love it, it has that growl, plays well, stays in tune, looks great, now if I could only play like Ron Carter, Ray Brown, or Niels Henning Orsted Pederson lol

[nicechuckh]

01 - Track 1.mp3

A very short clip of me playing my $500 Cecilo bass. Recorded with no effects and with not the best musician (me) lol

[TroyK]

Sounds good to me. Play, man, play!

[nicechuckh]

Thank you Troy. Was sheepish about putting that on lol I play electric bass well as well as guitar, pedal steel, etc, and workin on DB every day but haven't had it long. I think it sounds pretty nice for the price. Hey that rhymes, a new song to write lol