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Hello dear bassists, from several comments on the forum i've learned that gut strings are generally viewed as more abrasive to fingerboards than steel strings. Does anybody have first hand experience, whether this applies to both wound and plain gut strings? Which of the two is more abrasive...

Hello Dear Bassists, I recently finished my first bow. I wanted to know whether i could do without tropical wood on my bow as well as on my bass. The stick is cherry, screw and frog hornbeam. Aiming for a similar flexibility/bending resistance as my lower middle-class pernambuco bow, the stick...

Hello dear bassists, First of all: English is not my natural language. Please excuse peculiarities in my writing. This is the second double bass i built. The first has some „flaws“. Mostly inherent to the design rather than due to poor execution, i believe. It doesn’t carry well played arco...

Hello dear bassists, i found an interesting source on gut strings: https://www.hkb-interpretation.ch/publikationen/saitenherstellung-in-markneukirchen-und-im-vogtland I think the work is invaluable, it comes at the eleventh hour. The old, handed down way of making gut strings is about to...

Hello dear bassists, i am looking for advice on wound strings (especially E & A) that require little bow pressure. I play a 110 cm scale Bass with plain gut A/D/G and Corelli 370M E-String. 370 Series (tungsten wound) is marketed as "requiring less bow pressure than traditional steel strings"...