| Spruce back???
Has anybody seen or played ( or perhaps made) a double bass with both a carved spruce top and a carved spruce back? I've seen and played a number of very well made guitars that use this tyoe of idea and they all had very interesting voices and tonal responses. Usually the top and backs were braced differently to avoid, for a lack of a better term, overlapping frequencies and responses. Working over at Dream Guitars, I get to play a lot of Kasha and Richard Schneider influenced instruments on a regular basis ( including Richards own and a number of his former student's). I've also been to a few of his workshops when he was alive, but I've never seen anyone so bold as to apply it to a double bass. I've got a matched set of two seasoned tops sitting next to my workbench today that had me thinking hard about it.....its a big gamble.... one of them could just wind up as wall art after if the results were less than desired and I remove it and put a traditional back on...still....I was thinking about the idea of a traditionally braced top combined with a thicker x-braced back... (as if a traditional bass isn't fragile enough)
j.
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