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11-03-2006, 11:46 AM
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I had to change my strings the other day and thought that I would make something out of the old ones since they were pretty much dead. Here's what I came up with.   |
11-03-2006, 11:55 AM
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11-03-2006, 12:30 PM
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11-03-2006, 02:26 PM
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11-03-2006, 05:04 PM
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11-03-2006, 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mike phillips no strings on the bass, how tacky. | If I had had a high E string from a guitar, I would have done that, but I didn't |
11-04-2006, 05:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: under a palm tree sippin pepsi | | | i like it. you did a great job on the bass outline.
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11-04-2006, 05:58 AM
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11-05-2006, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ontario Canada | | | thats a pretty sweet idea,
but what did you use to make the strings keep the form of the bass body?
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11-05-2006, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by leftyforlife thats a pretty sweet idea,
but what did you use to make the strings keep the form of the bass body? | Nothing. I just bent them with pliers. |
11-06-2006, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | ^Huh? I can't imagine that working. I really want to try doing something like this now, but how do the bass strings hold the shape like that?
When I take strings off my bass, they're all floppy and loose, there's no way I could just bend them into the right shape and they'd stay like that.
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11-06-2006, 02:14 PM
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11-06-2006, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | that is really cool
Mikey Fingers: they seem floppy and loose, but try bending one at a 90 degree angle, it will stay like thAT
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11-06-2006, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by T Man I had to change my strings the other day and thought that I would make something out of the old ones since they were pretty much dead. Here's what I came up with. |
Thats really good, thanks for sharing.
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11-06-2006, 03:00 PM
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11-06-2006, 04:48 PM
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My mom gave me a cross she found at a yardsale made of guitar strings, no pics, I lost it, but it was cool because it was very knotted.
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11-07-2006, 10:54 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | | I was going to do a big "welded string art "someday, but for now I am still collecting old strings.
I have a basket with at least 100 or more but I wanted to do this robot/human head and I'll need more than that! |
06-06-2007, 11:52 PM
| | | Update: I made an amp for my bass guy out of some DR black beauty strings (which I didn't like, BTW). It's not as nice because there was no way I could make a perfect cube from one continuous string without using some hot glue to add some sections. Now all I have to do is run a little cable from the guy to the amp and figure out how to get him to stand up. 
You can really see the detail of the glued spots in this picture, but it's really not that bad. |
06-07-2007, 12:43 AM
| | | I actually just got the idea to have him sit on the amp. Having him stand up would have been a big problem because he was so floppy.
I just used some more wire to tie him to the amp and used a piece of a black string as the cable.  |
06-07-2007, 01:57 AM
| | **antisepticised** | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: la la land | | | even more cool!
you could make money out of that.
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