First a little background. After busting my butt to learn to play the upright well, I made most of my money for years playing electric, and a little piano. My bass is a decent hybrid, thought to be of Eastern European origin, and had sat in the case for years. When I decided to start playing it again it of course needed some work. I had a new bridge put on it, sound post, some fingerboard dressing done. Was O.K., playable, but after a year or so I decided another set of eyes and ears might be in order. I took it last year to Michael Hartery at Boston Bass Works. He tweaked the bridge and sound post a little and sent me home pretty happy, but he also pointed out that my neck was beginning to warp a little. After much delay I took it back to him last week for that work. I have to say the result was nothing short of amazing!! He put a carbon fiber rod in the neck to straighten it. The bass plays, feels and sounds SO much better. It's very even up and down the fingerboard, responds much better than before, and the sustain I'm getting now is wonderful, especially in the lower registers. My rosewood fingerboard shattered when he took it off so he put on an ebony fingerboard that he had there, no cost to me. He of course fixed the bridge to match the new board, planed the board, added a new nut etc. I simply can't say enough. Michael treated my bass like it was his own, he did it at what I thought was a very reasonable price, and it was done when he said it would be done. If you're anywhere in the New England area and you need anything done to your bass Michael is the man to take it too. He's doing things the right way, and as someone who's been around a while now I really appreciate that.
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