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09-25-2008, 09:29 AM
| | inarticulate bassist | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: lakeland, florida | | | Related Solanos side-by-side
We're fortunate enough to have two of the Solano Klotzes in Lakeland, Florida and they met for the first time this week. 
Zach Rogers is on the left with the fiver (the younger of the two) and that's me on the right with the slab-top four. Thanks to a certain principal bassist in the area, Solanos are popping up all over Central Florida. Lakeland has three that I know of with a fourth on in the works.
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09-25-2008, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Busetto City.....
Nice Matt!
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09-25-2008, 10:58 AM
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09-25-2008, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New Albany, MS | | | Hmm, tempting to bring mine with me on my next Florida trip (in Miami pretty often on business). I'll stop on the way and we can have the Trio Busetto!!
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09-25-2008, 07:24 PM
|  | Journeyman Clam Artist Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, baby | | Is that a toothbrush quiver on the four? 
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09-25-2008, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Yummy. And yummy. |
09-25-2008, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida | | Matching shirts too...
Nice basses. 
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09-26-2008, 01:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | | Nice. I like the look of the slab cut top. I'm curious; is it just the photo or why are the insides of the backs so dark in contrast to the braces? I'm assuming the backs are maple... just ignore me if they're some darker wood.
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09-26-2008, 01:44 AM
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09-26-2008, 05:53 AM
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09-26-2008, 08:42 AM
| | inarticulate bassist | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: lakeland, florida | | Thanks all for the kinds words! I'm not sure if Zach is a member here, so I'll pass them along to him as well. Quote:
Originally Posted by Damon Rondeau  Is that a toothbrush quiver on the four? | The neat thing about that quiver is that a local leathersmith custom made that for me based on a holster that our own Lynn Seaton got me using. The holster I bought had been oiled on the inside (for quick drawing, I'd assume) and ruined the my hair, so I had one made with a larger opening and no interior oil.  Quote:
Originally Posted by toman Nice. I like the look of the slab cut top. I'm curious; is it just the photo or why are the insides of the backs so dark in contrast to the braces? I'm assuming the backs are maple... just ignore me if they're some darker wood. | Well, we'll ignore you then, since they're walnut 
I've posted a little more about the basses here. |
09-26-2008, 09:38 AM
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Lando Music (Germany) | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Frankfurt am Main/Germany | | | Do they have X-bracings on the backs? |
09-26-2008, 09:42 AM
| | inarticulate bassist | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: lakeland, florida | | | Mine does; it has an X with two horizontals (across the middle of the upper and lower bouts). |
09-26-2008, 09:44 AM
| | inarticulate bassist | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: lakeland, florida | | Here's a partial picture of the brace.  |
09-26-2008, 02:38 PM
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Lando Music (Germany) | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Frankfurt am Main/Germany | | Quote:
Originally Posted by .matthew e wengerd. Here's a partial picture of the brace. | Oh, thanks for taking off the top to answer my question. I wouldn't have dared to ask you for this … |
09-27-2008, 08:42 AM
| | | | has anyone compared Solano-Klotz basses made with different woods ?
I believe he makes ribs and backs of maple, walnut and willow. |
09-27-2008, 09:04 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by .matthew e wengerd. Here's a partial picture of the brace. | Now, that looks familiar! Isn't that the bass I saw being repaired at Upton's shop? I wrote a note in it on the inside of the top. You have to use a mirror to read it.
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09-27-2008, 12:11 PM
| | inarticulate bassist | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: lakeland, florida | | | Yep, Drurb - That's it. I've been looking for your mark since I got it back :-) |
09-27-2008, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: the end of the section | | Walnut, of course. That was, uh, a test. 
Any other photos of that back/brace setup? I'm kinda curious how it looks when it comes down to the second cross bar. Are all the pieces of bracing bonded together into basically one unit? I assume they are...
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09-27-2008, 01:25 PM
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