Bad hair?

[DrDelicious]

Hey everyone,

I had my bow re-haired a few days ago and finally started to mess around with it this afternoon. The strange thing is, the hair seems more reluctant than usual to absorb rosin. Basically, I won't take on any. I've never faced this issue before. I used my normal re-hair guy in Chicago, black hair, and Kolstein all-weather rosin that was still good before the re-hair, so I wasn't thinking that was the issue...

Is there such a thing as just bad hair?

Any insight would be appreciated.

-Mike

[anonymous12251111]

What kind of hair is this? Black, White, S/P? If no rosin is going on it then take it back and have him look at it. Yes, there is such a thing as bad hair. I've had horrible hair put on my bow before, but if you know this guy and he's reputable this could be just a fluke.

[toman]

New hair takes a while to get, well, normalized. Play it every day for a week or two and see what happens; you'll probably need to apply rosin more often than usual and hear more skweeks and skwauks than usual. I know luthiers will put some funky (powdered?) rosin on there after a rehair; I'm not sure what it does, but it seems to not jive with the normal process. I just let it settle in like a new set of strings.

[DrDelicious]

Thank you both.

It's all black hair and so far it won't even take enough rosin to make a sound on the instrument. I'm used to having to break in new hair, but this seems much much worse than normal.

Is it possible that there's something coating the hairs that is preventing the rosin from taking to it? Oil maybe?

Oh well, I'll give it another shot after work.

Thanks!

-Mike