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03-22-2011, 03:35 AM
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OK everyone, please let me know where to look for parts. ie... Tuners etc..., and Tonewoods, I have a few, but I figure the folks here have a bigger data base.
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03-23-2011, 07:36 PM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | Join the club, I've been researching tonewood suppliers for months. It requires networking and lots of phone calls. I still haven't found a back that doesn't fetch a ridiculous price. Most tonewoods are harvested for guitar bodies these days so finding quarter-sawn billets big enough for a bass is a real challenge.. |
03-23-2011, 08:13 PM
| | | | Thanks for the reply Cody, thought everyone had went home for the year. lol
Yes everything is made for Guitars Mandolins, or Fiddles and I guess no one wants to give up their source. Well if i find something I'll let you know.
Are you looking for something particular?
Let me know.
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03-23-2011, 08:24 PM
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Luthier, Dallas Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | Truth is lately my priorities have shifted. With a newborn in the house, my shop is ridiculously behind as it is. Throw in some growing pains of our business, my bass build takes a very distant back burner.. Good luck in your search! |
03-23-2011, 08:30 PM
| | | | Well congrats on the new born, mine are all grown up and flew the coop, but I remember putting a few things on that back burner. Blessed are the children though, enjoy
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03-24-2011, 06:16 AM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | I have never bought from Alaska but if you're tempted, stay away from "Alaska Tonewoods" - lots of horror stories from luthiers about this supplier :-(
On the other hand, "Alaska Specialty Woods" is a different enterprise altogether and is run by a fellow called Brent Cole. My guitar luthier mates swear by him, he knows how to cut and prepare tonewood, big thumbs up! I notice there's a double bass spruce sets on his main website page.
remember you still have to dry the wood for a while before using it.
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03-24-2011, 07:38 AM
| | | | Thanks Matthew, I understand, not buying directly from Alaska just been reading up on woods and tonal properties.
Thanks and I;ll check out the source listed.
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03-24-2011, 08:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Forest Grove, OR | | I got my last two sets from Tepper Tonewoods in Shady Cove, OR. Daryl Molnar (sp?) got his first set from the same source. But I am pretty sure that wiped out the supply. Unless he has made more bass sets since then, that was all he had, in terms of maple. He still had a fair supply of spruce.
International violin Co. says they have bass sets...you might give them a call.
I just had several bass-sets (maple) cut for me, but they are absolutely soaking-wet green, and would not be any good for you at the moment. Besides, I went with slab-cut, just because I could, and you evidently wanted quartersawn. (The only reason I didn't make them one-piece backs is because the guy's saw only could handle 24" wide.  )
Good luck on it.
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03-24-2011, 08:30 AM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | 'Got my back set from John Tepper also- great fellow who does cut and stock double bass sets when he can get them. The day I bought this one, he had 12 (!!!!!!) sets just like this, all cut from the same round!
Contact Bruce Harvey at Orcas Island Tonewoods- he is one of the nicest guys in the business. If he does not have what you are after, he'll find another broker that has it.
j. 
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03-24-2011, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by james condino  'Got my back set from John Tepper also- great fellow who does cut and stock double bass sets when he can get them. The day I bought this one, he had 12 (!!!!!!) sets just like this, all cut from the same round!
Contact Bruce Harvey at Orcas Island Tonewoods- he is one of the nicest guys in the business. If he does not have what you are after, he'll find another broker that has it.
j. | Thanks James for your post, I like that you have a different design, thinking outside the box
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03-24-2011, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Forest Grove, OR | | | Ah, James! When I selected my two sets he only had five left--but I am delighted to know that I have two sets from the same tree that made your lovely bass a possibility. |
03-26-2011, 09:01 AM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | Chet:
I was wondering that myself, if we got into the same batch! I'll have it out your way in a few months for the Guild of American Luthier's nerdfest in July.
John is a very nice fellow and his woods are incredible. Much of what he does is supplying Paul Reed Smith and a few other large scale custom shops.
j.
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