NBD: Palatino!!!

[Bijoux]

http://youtu.be/3LxG86Y4CHE

This is my new bass!
I've been playing upright for over 20 years and I never thought I would go EUB.
But I think this one has future. Mostly for those real loud gigs when people ask me to play upright, or double.

Anyway, I can't seem to find a sweet spot for the bridge. an little movement changes the sound dramatically.

It has a thrus-rod..??? does that thing really works as it does on an electric bass guitar? ... if so I wish to get the neck a little more straight. it has a lot of camber right now.

is there another type of tailpiece that can be used for this model.

also my end pin thing is broken, where can i buy replacement parts?

thank you.

and BTW, I just started reading the Megathreads, but the first part has about 51 pages!!! so it' gonna be a while before i am educated about EUB's. Thank you.

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

Congratulations, and welcome to the family! I play most of my gigs these days on one of Bill Merchant's Vertical Bass electric uprights. There's a lot of peace of mind to be had playing a bass that's basically a fence post with strings on it that won't crack, or break easily if you slide your car in the snow on your way to the gig, or...

Talk to a luthier about the excessive camber. I'd be surprised if the truss rod will have much effect on the neck. Whom did you buy it from? I'd talk to them about a replacement endpin.

[Bijoux]

Has anybody tried not using a tailpiece and somehow attaching the strings to maybe just the tailpiece wire as in some acoustic upright basses?

[DoubleMIDI]

The Clevinger EUB and the Stagg EUB have no tailpiece. To avoid unpleasant resonances I damp the underlengths with some rubber foam or a sponge. You can put that under your tailpiece if you want. (If it is a fixed block of wood with some holes in it, like on the Stagg, I won't call that a tailpiece.)

I don't understand why you would like to get rid of the tailpiece.
The bassists I know only use the wire tailpiece if they have problems with any tailpiece they tried until then (as a last resort).

[eub_player]

Some thought food and more:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f101/d...-thread-303366
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f101/p...part-ii-543099

[Bijoux]

great! thank you!