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02-09-2010, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belgium | | | see through
The glue between the backside of my bass (flatback) and the side came loose at one side in the most narrow part of the bass. There's a tiny opening now (you can see the light coming through). I monitored humidity very carefully at home, but I played in a show last weekend and I guess it happened there...
Should I be alarmed + is it still ok to transport the bass?
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02-09-2010, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark | | | Open seams (as opposed to cracks) are not too big a deal normally. Some live months to years with it. It's not necessary humidity/aridity that causes it, sometimes it just happens. Take the bass to a luthier when you have time. Or, better yet: You should acquire the necessary knowledge to repair it yourself (hide glue, clamps, etc). Saves time and money.
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02-09-2010, 02:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | thats no surprise in a winter like this.
my bass had it too last week
+1 to what mr. sidecar wrote Quote:
Originally Posted by PsychoScout 
Should I be alarmed
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Originally Posted by PsychoScout is it still ok to transport the bass? | yes
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02-09-2010, 03:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cross Junction, VA | | | You can make some good cheap clamps with some threaded rod, large dowel, and the leather from some old boots.
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02-13-2010, 12:05 AM
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02-13-2010, 01:03 AM
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02-13-2010, 06:44 AM
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02-13-2010, 08:22 AM
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You broke the groove!!! Too many words, Caps and wrong Emoticon.
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02-13-2010, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton You broke the groove!!! Too many words, Caps and wrong Emoticon.
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02-20-2010, 09:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Belgium | | | and she opened up again.... bummer |
02-20-2010, 09:24 AM
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02-20-2010, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by PsychoScout and she opened up again.... bummer | .......the little tramp.  |
02-20-2010, 07:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: new england | | | are you getting buzzes or rattles as a result of the open seam? if not you may want to just leave it till spring. i've got a seam coming open but it's not causing problems yet. |
02-20-2010, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Square Bear are you getting buzzes or rattles as a result of the open seam? if not you may want to just leave it till spring. i've got a seam coming open but it's not causing problems yet. | I only get some resonance (buzz) when I play the A on the G string... so it's not too bad |
02-21-2010, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: new england | | | well that would irritate me. mine buzzes on the g# harmonic on the e string sometimes (only when it gets really dry), but i can live with that. who fixed it? you may want to just take it back to them. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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