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Thanks! I just finished carving an ebony nut, put it on and played all weekend. I did a few things wrong so I am going to start again and these pictures help!

I just bought a cheap(stagg) EUB for $200. It is currently without a nut (otherwise perfect). I wondering how you go about measuring the distance between the strings to properly cut the nut. Someone I know through work said they have some tools in autocad that will do this for me. But if I was...

Thanks, I will look at a German bow then. Oh and the cello bow is for playing a saw not a cello.

I don't have a teacher, and I don't play with anyone else who plays with a bow. I am going to do use this for backing up guitar/piano on recordings, and learning(!). The only experience I have is playing a modded electric bass with a violin bow. That was quite a disaster. It took a lot of...

Thanks! I bought a hardwood nut, but I wanted to see what an original looked like before I started hacking away.

What would you recommend as a good beginner bow? French or German?

I have seen the bamboo bicycle frames. 50-70 lbs, is a lot of pressure. Thanks for the info.

That makes sense. Thanks again for the advice.

I just bought a Stagg with a missing nut. Can any owners of the Stagg EUB take a close up picture of the nut for me? I am going to attempt to do this repair myself and could use some good close up pictures to compare with. Also, is the nut plastic, metal or wood?

I am just trying to understand why. As I stated earlier I do not understand much about bows and basses and am just trying to understand them. I do thank everyone for their input.

Ok, and what is the main difference between the two? Its my understanding that its bigger (in length and width). Does it make a difference that I will be playing an Electric Upright?

I know nothing about bows. I have a cello bow (I use it to play the saw), and I was wondering if I could use it to play upright bass? What sort of limitations or issues will I run into?

I have been thinking about building an easy and inexpensive EUB. I hope some builders can share their thoughts about a Bass made of Bamboo. I was thinking something in the fashion of the Ergo EUB, or this "tube bass" Link Removed I saw on the Namm oddities site. I was thinking bamboo due to its...