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11-16-2008, 08:23 PM
| | | | NEED HELP ASAP (NECK DAMAGE)
hello, i've just damaged the neck on my engelhardt es9. the glue was not strong enough and the neck joint has come loose. THe neck is still connected to the body, however it is lifting from the joint. There is still tension on the strings, should I remove the tension from the strings until i can get it repaired or what should I do????
any help is greatly appreciated. I have read the data base but did not see anything about the string tension on the neck of the bass.
thank you
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11-16-2008, 08:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Western Canada | | | Yes, you should loosen the strings. |
11-16-2008, 08:34 PM
| | | | is this going to further damage the neck and/or possibly dislodge the soundpost? |
11-16-2008, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Western Canada | | | You don't want the joint to fail any further. The sound post may fall, or not. Post a picture if you can. I'm no expert myself, but if indeed the joint is coming apart you need a pro to fix it, and at that point resetting the post is a simple task.
Sorry about your bass. |
11-16-2008, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User
Bass Maker/Repairs | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Sycamore, Illinois | | | neck
Loosen the strings until they're sloppy.
Some of the Englehardts have poorly fitting neck joints.
You need to get it to a bass luthier.
You don't say where you live. That would help us to help you.
Last edited by Martin Sheridan : 11-16-2008 at 10:12 PM.
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11-17-2008, 09:42 AM
| | | | I live in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. I am probably going to contact the person I bought it from first and then take it up to long and mcquades for them to work on it if i cannot got anything else done. |
11-17-2008, 11:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Baltimore | | | The person who fixes it will re-fit the sound post anyway. Loosen the strings, take it to a shop. |
11-17-2008, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Western Canada | | | L&M will send your bass out to a violin shop to be "repaired".
You should look around for bass luthiers in your area and take it there yourself. |
11-17-2008, 01:56 PM
|  | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nagrom  L&M will send your bass out to a violin shop to be "repaired". | Not in the Lower Mainland in BC - most repairs come to me at the Terminal Avenue store. Some of them subsequently come home with me.....  |
11-17-2008, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Western Canada | | | No offense, Jake. I like my local L&M, but I've also seen first hand the result one of their subbed-out repairs. Suffice to say, they sent it to the wrong shop. I assume Niagra Falls would also be luthier-less. |
11-17-2008, 05:00 PM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | No offense taken Nag, just clarifying the situation from where I sit.
There was a thread not too long ago where there were suggestions for luthiers in the London area, or something like, and there was some consensus on who to take your DB to.....
Try a Search maybe |
11-18-2008, 10:25 PM
| | | | there is a repair guy at the L&M where i live who has all the right equipment to do full repairs on uprights. |
11-19-2008, 01:33 AM
| | 'Woodworker - Witch Doctor - Luthier'
Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | And where might that be? |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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