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10-23-2002, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Double sided tape?
Where can I get some double sided tape of the caliber that Bob Gollihur supplies with his K&K pickup elements (the four that go on the bridge)? I need to get some locally, as I will get my bass back from the luthier and need to play a gig pronto. I expect they'd have something at a hardware store?
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10-23-2002, 04:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: New Joisey Shore | | | I've never seen the stuff anywhere, which is why I got extra from K&K. It is very thin, not really a tape-- the transfer paper just leaves a layer of adhesive with no carrier.
All you have to do is email me and I'll put a strip in an envelope to you, no charge. |
10-23-2002, 04:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Bob, I emailed you - thanks very much! As we all know, you rock.
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10-23-2002, 09:12 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | Quote: Originally posted by LEMONJELLO
Bob, I emailed you - thanks very much! As we all know, you rock. |
You forgot to say, "All Hail".
Back when I was actually using the bridge elements of a K&K BMP, I ran out of tape pretty quickly and while waiting for some extra to arrive from (All Hail) Bob, I tried using some regular two-sided carpet tape. While it was way thicker and nowhere near as invisible, I couldn't tell any difference in sound. FWIW, I also discovered that I got a better tone by sticking the elements lower down on the bridge, away from the strings - this got rid of much of the "Fishmanlike" quality of the pickups. |
10-24-2002, 09:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Morganton, NC | | | When I was using a Fishman, I used double-sided 3M tape that I picked up from Lowe's Hardware, the thin kind you are looking for. I'm not sure how it compares to the tape that K&K supplies, bit I had no problems with it. The Fishman, on the other hand... |
10-24-2002, 12:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles | | | When I had the K&K, I used regular
double sided scotch tape from the
drug store. It was easily as thin as
what the maker supplied. It actually
looked like it was the same. The tape
comes on a dispenser just like normal
scotch tape. |
10-24-2002, 09:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: New Joisey Shore | | | The K&K stuff is not a tape; there is no tape left on the bridge when it is applied. The brown wax paper allows you to deposit adhesive only on the bridge- there is no plastic or any other kind of tape left, only the adhesive, which allows for the tightest fit to the bridge, with as little insulating material as possible. |
10-29-2002, 03:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Tape came yesterday. ALL HAIL bob gollihur and the usps.
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10-29-2002, 03:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | correction...as bob says, it aint tape.
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