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03-18-2010, 07:35 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | Which one of you makes bass string bracelets?
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03-18-2010, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | I'm prolly not the one you're looking for, but I've made them. Easy stuff. 3-4 strings braided. Want one?
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03-18-2010, 07:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | Not sure how I want it done. Someone (maybe you) had pics up of some they had made. What is possible/practical to make? |
03-18-2010, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | see, thing is, you have to use the thinner strings, or they are terribly stiff. Especially if braided. I have done them where it's one string braided over itself, and ones using multiple strings, which are usually made a bit too oversize, like a bangle, and I band the ends so they don't come apart.
I have no pictures, as I have no bracelets right now. Usually, it takes a few hours to get it "just so".
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03-18-2010, 07:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | I think I might try it myself. I saw some made that were braided strings that were swaged (sp?) Heck, I can do that! |
03-18-2010, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southeast Missouri | | | There was a guy in the classifieds selling some bracelets etc that his wife/gf was making. Can't find the thread though, I think that it was around V-day. |
03-18-2010, 10:01 AM
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03-18-2010, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by jfenderp  There was a guy in the classifieds selling some bracelets etc that his wife/gf was making. Can't find the thread though, I think that it was around V-day. | Common accessory store bracelet... $20
Bass string bracelets... $30
Selling your bracelets your wife lovingly made for you and that too on V-Day...
priceless
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03-19-2010, 02:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Long Island, NY | | i made one years ago. i was probably in 9th grade. since then small pieces have broken off and i've had to put electrical tape over the end to keep it from poking me, and now the electrical tape is the colors of a rastafarian flag, it adds character.
it's on my left wrist as i type this.
i've considered retiring it and making a new one, but i suppose ill do that when this one is past-repairable.
i dont remember what the metal piece was that i used to fasten them all together. it was a small metal tube that i bent with a vice grip and pliers over and over again untill it wasent moving anywhere. i used a low B and E strings from an old pack of S.I.T. stainless steels. the big strings make it more obvious that these arent guitar strings.
my advice; make your own. it'll add some centimental value. and be to your exact specs 
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03-19-2010, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania One word of caution: if you have hairy arms, bass-string bracelets = YEEOUCH! | Use flatwounds.
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03-19-2010, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by groooooove
it'll add some centimental value.
| so, it will be worth a lot of money in 100 years? 
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11-08-2011, 06:51 PM
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Use flatwounds.
| Exactly what I'm doing when I get home!
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11-08-2011, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by bongomania One word of caution: if you have hairy arms, bass-string bracelets = YEEOUCH! | +1. I believe it was a bass player in a jam on valentines day that made one of these bracelets for his chick and in the process accidentally discovered the technology behind the epilady. True story. I read it on Wikipedia. |
11-08-2011, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by sloasdaylight Use flatwounds. | How's that going to help?
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11-08-2011, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar +1. I believe it was a bass player in a jam on valentines day that made one of these bracelets for his chick and in the process accidentally discovered the technology behind the epilady. True story. I read it on Wikipedia. | I admit it... I LOLed.
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11-27-2011, 09:34 PM
| | | | Flats pinch arm hair way worse than rounds. I found this out because I seem to have lost the first one I made and a flatwound was the first string I found. Just thought I would mention that for those of you wanting to make bass string bracelets.
Oh and to hold the ends together, I used electrical tape for lack of a better system.
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