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12-11-2012, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Ottawa | | | Naughty top
Or should I say knotty top. I don't know enough about DB's to know whether this is an issue or not but I was getting acquainted with a hybrid - a christopher - and notices 2 blemishes that turned to be knotty imperfections about the size of a silver dollar (or loonie eh). Not knots per say but maybe the starting root of a branch. Is this familiar/normal/expected in a carved top?
Sorry I have no pictures.
It's a beautiful instrument and sounds great to these obviously untrained ears.
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12-11-2012, 05:25 PM
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Heya!
Liked I mentioned in a private PM, I saw that bass as well and tried it.
So you liked it eh? Good. It is gorgeous looking. I found the sound not as robust as I had hoped but it felt good.
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12-11-2012, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sudbury,ON/Ottawa, ON Canada | | | as long as it's structurally sound I wouldn't worry. A lot old basses, especially really old basses (18th ce and backwards) have flaws in the top wood because that was the wood that they could get that was the appropriate size.
I can't find a picture online, but I have a picture from the Strad of an Amati Brothers violoncello that's got a giant knot in the upper left hand bout.
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12-11-2012, 05:56 PM
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12-11-2012, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Ottawa | | | Eer - are you an Ottawa guy as well? Seems like there's a bunch of us on TB.
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12-11-2012, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by lorianb  Eer - are you an Ottawa guy as well? Seems like there's a bunch of us on TB. | I am indeed. just finishing up my final semester at uOttawa, working on applying for masters degrees. |
12-11-2012, 08:24 PM
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Inventor/designer/maker: The Bass Matt | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Connecticut | | This 30 year old Italian Bass on Ken Smith's site proudly shows Knots in the Slab Cut Italian Pine top:  |
12-11-2012, 08:54 PM
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12-11-2012, 09:22 PM
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12-11-2012, 09:35 PM
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12-12-2012, 01:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | The Guarneri del Gesu in the collection of the Minnesota orchestra has a slab cut top with a couple knotty spots. And it's up there among the most valuable instruments in the world. Sounds pretty decent too...  |
12-12-2012, 04:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: western MA | | | Maybe knotty pine is the new preferred tone wood?
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12-12-2012, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Violen I have always lusted after that bass. | +1 to that. |
12-12-2012, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Mine as well, and I love it
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12-12-2012, 12:01 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Conklin Guitars (Basses) | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kansas City Metro Area | | | Jason, can we get a full view of your bass? I want to covet it too.
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12-14-2012, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: West Chester, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Hosking This 30 year old Italian Bass on Ken Smith's site proudly shows Knots in the Slab Cut Italian Pine top: | That bass sounds wonderful too. I just heard it a week ago and Ken is a very good player, so that may have had something to do with it too.
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12-14-2012, 03:05 PM
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