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06-30-2004, 06:19 AM
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Hi guys, I um, I have to ask if anyone who goes through lots of strings could send me those brass things on the end of the strings, I would be most thankful.
I am collecting them and I rarely change my strings! I know this is weird, but then again, I am a bass player!!! 
I will pay for shipping too.
PM me please.
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06-30-2004, 06:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: roseability | | this should be in the strings forum!!!! 
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06-30-2004, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Gia this should be in the strings forum!!!! |
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06-30-2004, 09:35 PM
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06-30-2004, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga They're called "balls." | or barrels, depending.
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07-01-2004, 12:39 AM
|  | Mayday! Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Jackson, MS | | | What are you making a necklace or something? |
07-01-2004, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada | | yeah, a bracelet and necklace, but I want to make it a double loop.
I am also toying with the idea to have a bass clef made from silver to hang from the necklace!
I will post this message in the strings section too - thanks for the hints  |
07-01-2004, 10:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | this reminds me of the story that was just in the news.... some guy spent the last thirty years collecting pennies. he's up to one million pennies. it started as a bet with his brother. except his brother doesn't remember making the bet, and won't pay up. on top of that, the guy can't get a bank to take his change.... so he's stuck with four tons of pennies in his garage.
i don't know why this reminds me of that.... or why i bothered posting this. probably due to lack of coffee. |
07-01-2004, 11:29 AM
| | Mayday! Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Jackson, MS | | The bank won't take them if he rolls them up?
He could go to one of those Coinstar machines. |
07-01-2004, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by abark000 The bank won't take them if he rolls them up?
He could go to one of those Coinstar machines. | they charge thirty percent. nobody wants $10,000 in pennies. NOBODY. |
07-01-2004, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 3 crotch grabs they charge thirty percent. nobody wants $10,000 in pennies. NOBODY. | They charge 7% I believe. I would exchange 1,000,000 pennies to the bank for that guy if I got 7% and expecially 30% of the cost ($3,000! Thats a Nordstrand in my language ). |
07-01-2004, 09:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: lost in bat country | | | A bank would accept them...if he did it in certain amounts, over time. Just a thought.
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07-01-2004, 09:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Im makin a bracelet of em...slowly. Im not asking other people for em, and ive been changing my strings less often now, so its a slow process, but im not in a rush. |
07-02-2004, 06:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada | | Hey figjam, I change my strings every 2 years or more as I hate the new string sound on my Jazz, so at that rate, I will not have enough even after I die! However, that was my original intention - I thought it would be a matter of pride if they were from my own bass, but I am past that now  |
07-02-2004, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by spliffnriff Hey figjam, I change my strings every 2 years or more as I hate the new string sound on my Jazz, so at that rate, I will not have enough even after I die! However, that was my original intention - I thought it would be a matter of pride if they were from my own bass, but I am past that now |
Simple solution, buy more basses. 7 & 8 strings will work better.
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07-02-2004, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by By-Tor Simple solution, buy more basses. 7 & 8 strings will work better. | Better solution: buy more headless basses. They have twice the balls than other basses.
Why don't you contact a string manufacturer and have them sell you a bag? |
07-02-2004, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Better solution: buy more headless basses. They have twice the balls than other basses.
Why don't you contact a string manufacturer and have them sell you a bag? | Yea i went through one set on my Hohner before *sniff* i sold it. So theres 8. I have like only 20 so far or so. |
07-02-2004, 10:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Calgary, AB | | | While I was on tour last year I changed strings every 2 shows. By the end of the tour I'd gone through about 40 sets. I still have all of the balls but I'm planning on giving them to my brother who wants to do something similar to your idea. Just get a string endorsement. Everybody and their dog has a string endorsement. |
07-02-2004, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by quallabone . Everybody and their dog has a string endorsement. |
I don't. Or my dog. 
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07-02-2004, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Freaky Fender I don't. Or my dog. | Please pass my sympathies along to your dog. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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