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08-28-2008, 03:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chipping Norton, Oxon, England | | | My German Blonde
Can anyone out there shed some light on my bass? It's blond, laminated and I'm told it's German circa 1960. It has no label but the givaway is the neck which is very thin and triangular in section. I use it for outdoors and riverboat gigs; it has quite a nice sound.
Any further info would be very much appreciated.
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08-28-2008, 04:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: South Eastern Wisconsin | | | Pics?
-Benny
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08-28-2008, 07:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chipping Norton, Oxon, England | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Saetia  Pics?
-Benny | Ah, Benny. I knew someone would ask for pics. Trouble is I still haven't mastered the art of reducing my pics to the size acceptable for Talkbass. I had hoped that the neck description might nail it. |
08-28-2008, 09:18 AM
|  | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | If you want to send them to my email address I'll put them up for you. |
08-28-2008, 08:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: South Eastern Wisconsin | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Davis Ah, Benny. I knew someone would ask for pics. Trouble is I still haven't mastered the art of reducing my pics to the size acceptable for Talkbass. I had hoped that the neck description might nail it. | Well what you can do in most any photo viewing program is scale down the size, you can take 10 meg pics and scale them down to 600x800 resolution.
Or like Jake mentioned you can just e-mail one of us and we'll gladly scale down and post them.
Also, if you have a myspace account, if you upload them there, they automatically get scaled down.. then just right click, copy the destination url and past it into the image code here.
-Benny
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08-28-2008, 09:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | Sounds more like a Kay than anything German. |
08-29-2008, 02:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chipping Norton, Oxon, England | | | Thanks Jake
I'll send them to you if that's OK. Many thanks. |
08-29-2008, 10:14 AM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | No problem Roger.  |
08-29-2008, 10:15 AM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | And... |
08-29-2008, 10:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: South Eastern Wisconsin | | | I've no clue, I never had a clue, but I'm glad that I got to see. I love DB's and have been wanting one for quite awhile. I played one for a bit in highschool and have always wanted to persue it further.
It's pretty
-Benny
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08-29-2008, 10:21 AM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | That looks like a nice student grade bass Roger. She's in great shape for her age too!  |
08-29-2008, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chipping Norton, Oxon, England | | | Thanks Jake for handling the pics. I presume that it's your Witch Doctor appelation that enables you to do that. I was very interested in your PM comments that tuning the after length to two octaves and a fourth would improve the sound. You also make that comment on your website I see. Is this generally known to luthiers?
Good to have friends in Talkbass.
Last edited by Roger Davis : 08-29-2008 at 10:39 AM.
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08-29-2008, 11:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | It kind of looks like an old German ply my teacher was selling a few years back. His had no name/brand attached at all, but it was a pretty sturdy and nice sounding instrument. Back in the 90s he got I think $1600 for it.
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