Recent content by Woolfey

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    Double Bass Strings for an ALCOA Aluminum

    I run La Bella Supernils on mine... I have had a couple folks suggest Pirastro Obligato's But My budget won't allow that just now... If I was sure I'd go for it but they are twice the money... Maybe with a regular gig...
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    Double Bass Aluminum Bass

    I have Supernils on mine and I use a pair of AT 2021's ... One at the fingerboard and one at the bottom of the treble F hole... I mount them with the "H" clamp set up you can get from Bob Gollihur... I gig mine as often as I can... I have more trouble with Feedback with my Dobro Resophonic...
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    Double Bass All Metal DB?

    Will That bass is beautiful!!!! What kind is it??? Love the sound holes... And the extra bumps at the lower bout juncture... And the cutaway... Wow...
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    Double Bass All Metal DB?

    I have an Alcoa aluminum bass,,, I bought the Wittner composite tailpiece and the Carbon Fiber end pin from Bob Gollihur. I would also advise buying the Witnner gut as well . All the steel cable ,Kevlar rope and other experiments sounded pretty bad... I put a piece of leather where the gut...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    It's a Rigel iirc... From Vermont...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    My Dobro ABG has (I believe) T-I Jazz flats on it and I love them...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    Oh man .... I see a sudden attack of GAS coming on...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    So I'm sitting around NOT making a new nut for my aluminum upright when I decided to look for more info on Resonator basses and What do I come across but this.. http://michaelmesser.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=notecannons&action=display&thread=2756 then of course this...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    Hey Jan.. I saw the notice when this post first came on.. But I spaced.. Glad I didn't space when I found YOUR bass for sale.. Still lovin it.. :bassist: Did find recently some even more demented stuff though...
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    Double Bass Aluminum Upright Basses

    When I first got mine I had a Daughter just older than yours appears.. She has a 7 year old now and I'm just getting round to putting the old Refined Bauxite gal back together.. Your neck has the same primer stuff mine had in it.. Nice score!!!! My end-pin is a one piece unit similar to the...
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    Double Bass Aluminum Upright Basses

    Nicked My left index finger on my table saw blade... Project will be on the back burner once again.. :bawl:
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    Double Bass Aluminum Upright Basses

    I was originally going to use this table someone gave me from a really lightweight universal (Pivoting table) type Horizontal miller, But the key slots were to shallow for standard hold downs.. and the Bridgeport won't fall over.. It's a wee bit crowded down there.. I am amazed at how hard a...
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    Double Bass Aluminum Upright Basses

    I finally got to gluing the neck insert back into my Alcoa bass.. It originally was just bolted in But it had been severely stressed at one point and two of the posts that the screws thread into had pulled out of the neck shell... This has been a project that has been going on forever and I...
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    Acoustic bass fetish club

    :bassist: My Dobro Bass came to me with T-I Jazz flats on it.. It had just been setup and the fellow I'd bought it from had them put on.. (They have red silk windings on both ends..) He wasn't thrilled with them and at first my Dobro was only a little louder than My Gold Tone.. Which had been...
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    Double Bass Aluminum Upright Basses

    When I was researching my 1941 Kay O Model bass I came across Roger Stowers site Invalid Link Removed and got to talk to him on the phone.. When I mentioned that I also had an aluminum one he asked me to take all the dimensions as he was researching Kay's involvement with Aluminum basses.. I...