Recent content by Linus

Great!! Thanks!! If I can find the edit button I’ll take out the what’s it worth comment. I just wanted to show it off. I’m not selling it.

Imagine the spandex that has caressed this beauty. You can practically smell the hairspray through your screen. It’s a Dean Mach 5 bass with factory Kahler trem. You won’t find one of these every day. Thank God. But seriously, are these collectible? Desirable? Or just an odd duck...

Hi; Could anyone pass along e-mail or phone contact information for Sterling Ball to me? I have an old Earthwood acoustic bass and I need to ask him some questions about it. Much appreciated if you can point me in the right direction. Thanks Linus

So it is in at the shop getting repaired. It was all good news once they looked around inside. Basicly lots of braces had come loose but everything is there, intact, and it's just a matter of gluing braces back into place. Nothing was warped, cracked, or damaged. And best of all, nobody...

Mine has the original case in rough shape (delaminating) and the case will require repair as well. Sorry I can't help you with that.

Hurray! That's the sort of information I was looking for. You are right, my bass is 8" deep. The bass will be made right and right away too. The shop I take my gear to is highly regarded and does fantastic work on historic instruments. Getting clamps long enough to be able to clamp the...

I'm fearful of having the bridge rip off but I couldn't help myself when I was checking it out in the shop where I bought it and on the owners encouragement I tuned one string up to pitch and played the one string and it sounded great! Deep! Big! Full sound! Good thing I have long arms...

It seems to be made of walnut. More figured than mahogony but lighter in color than rosewood. It almost looks like Koa.

Here are a few pictures of my Earthwood. I can't play it yet as the corners of the bridge were lifting off when I bought it so it's off to the shop for a bridge reset... One picture is of the front and the other is the bass sitting next to a dreadnought Gibson J45 just to give you a sense of...

Thanks for the tip. I'll try there. So far noone here has any info to help me date it yet. Really just curious. It's in transit right now and I'm impatient. The repair shop I use will get a kick out of this one...

My first post here. Hoping I can find out some info on the Earthwood acoustic bass I just got. From the little bit I could find on the net it seems to be an early one. It has brown wood pickguard on BOTH sides of the sound hole. The bridge is the straight through type. It does not...