Bass wore a hole in my suit coat

[Dave Speranza]

I put on my suit coat yesterday and found a hole worn in it. I thought it was so strange but then as I was playing I realized that the hole was at the spot where the bass hits my body.

Has this happened to anyone else? What can I do? Bass bib?

[Freddels]

Originally Posted by Dave Speranza

What can I do?

Get a new suit.

[winston]

Play naked...

Gee, it must take a lot of gigs to wear through a piece of fabric. I wore a tux for maybe 70 gigs this last year, with no signs of fabric erosion/abrasion.

[MichaelVee]

Let's turn this into a generic bass vs. clothing thread.. A while back, I ruined a couple of shirts and a couple of ties (!) playing my old Peavey Foundation S that had rough edges on the slots of the phillips head neck screws. (They got that way from swapping the fretted/fretless necks too often.) The slots got filed down soon after.

[steve66]

Originally Posted by Freddels

Get a new suit.

+1

[Ed Fuqua]

First thing, you want to make sure you ALWAYS push your jacket back behind your hip so that your belt is where the bout hits you. But the thing to remember is that what causes the wear and tear is FRICTION, so be aware of where the bass is resting when you move around. You might also want to work on physical approach a little bit, I don't lean on my bass too much these days. That helps.

Originally Posted by FREDDELS KRUGER

Get a new suit.

Don't you know that old adage, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you're rid of him for the whole weekend."?

[Freddels]

Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua

First thing, you want to make sure you ALWAYS push your jacket back behind your hip so that your belt is where the bout hits you. But the thing to remember is that what causes the wear and tear is FRICTION, so be aware of where the bass is resting when you move around. You might also want to work on physical approach a little bit, I don't lean on my bass too much these days. That helps.

Don't you know that old adage, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you're rid of him for the whole weekend."?

I don't think this guy wants to learn to sew.

Next thing someone will be asking what to do about a hole in the back of their bass where their belt buckle rubs.