Recent content by Mike Gilge

An update to this....I dropped the bass off at Custom Strings in Spokane Valley today.... The luthier there seems very knowledgable. He is going to remove the top to fix this, and estimates that by itself to be around 400 (to fix the damage in the picture). I am also having him do some bridge...

Looks like ill be able to take it to one of the shops that was recommended on Friday. Im sure I will have more questions for y'all after that.

And because after all, this is the internet and people can say anything.... I will at least try and provide proof to that previous statement!

So somewhat inebriated at this point....and going to finally admit this... I went to high school in Midland Michigan.... yep you guys have never heard of it probably. But it has to be one of the smallest towns in America with the orchestral venues it gets! I literally not only saw Edgar Meyer...

Yeah I have Thursday through Monday off. If I don't get a call back from Nick by then, I will take it by Custom Strings in the valley and let you guys know what they have to say (one of two shops that the EWU bass instructor recommended to me today)

Also, this might not show in the pics....the back is actually detached from the side for a fairly large area as well.

I will definitely let you folks know how this turns out. At this point I really want to just fix it to the point it doesn't have a hole, as noted its in an area you really can't see, additionally I always play with a belt guard that covers it anyways, it just doesn't SOUND right to me since...

Cool! Thanks guys! When you get old enough that you can't remember things anymore.....

It may come to that, but I would at least like to know what it going to take to fix it. To make a long backstory short, I first had a school Kay, that being a second grader, I took very bad care of, literally knocked chunks out of the edges on the bottom. When my instructor helped me get that...

Anyone familiar with someone named Nick Schilling in the CDA area? Nick has actually been put forth over Spokane Violin Works in terms of this particular instrument by some local artists I met on Saturday.

Hey folks, just trying to get back into bass playing after a long break. I currently have this pickup on my bass (pic attached). I would have bought this around 99 when I was doing G&S pit orchestra. Looks most like a realist to me, but I honestly do not remember, and there is no obvious...

I guess I should have stated....I know the instrument is still usable as is, but I really want to get this fixed as it just brings back way to much bad juju whenever I see it!

I am currently located in the Spokane WA area.

I should probably also add this.... I also have this as a bow....and there is a long story to the mismatch of what im about to post vs the bass in the previous picture. Lets just say I was supposed to have gotten a new instrument and it just never happened...... At this point.....there is no...

Hi guys, ive been off an on the site over the years, but have never posted. I have owned this since the third grade (im 34 And in around 2002 the first round of college resulted in this..... And as a result I literally have not played since then.... I really would like to get back into...