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Welp, it's not like you're not busy Bruce! More power to ya! If it ever happens, PM me.

Maybe another dusty box will surface with some bridge covers? :cool:

Lurking. Lots of basses. Not enough gigs.

This thread always has a lot of happy anticipation bubbling up and folks who appreciate super cool basses! Congratulations to any and all who are looking at an imminent NBD! I drop by every once in a while to ask Bruce if he has any bridge covers built up. Bruce? Do you have any bridge covers...

Thanks Bruce. You do amazingly beautiful work as it is. I'll PM later after school so you have my eddress again for if/when you get some covers plated up. It'll be worth the wait! Peter Brooks

Ahoy Bruce. AUB #371 caretaker here. Just checking on availability of pickup covers and mini thumbscrews. I ask every few years and I hope that's seldom enough to forgive the hijacking of TB threads! Cheers!

Like our friend Bruce, AUB-1 #371 has come off the operating table smelling like a rose! The mystery PUP is re-wired and in GWO, I replaced all the sweat rusted or stripped pickguard screws and put on the new LaBella DTFs that Jason sent from Fret Nation. Set the bridge as Bruce suggests - at...

@Bruce Johnson: Yep, I was afraid that the string tension of a set of guts on the Ampeg would be too loose. I had a set on my Upton hybrid string bass with wound E and A strings. I liked them, but they needed sanding and oiling and I got tired of the maintainence. I was shooting for a more...

@bluesblaster: Hiya neighbor! The White Sidewalls and the Rockin' Hollywoods along with the Fabulous Jaguars were hard working TC bands. They played more in town gigs. My band was the Fantastic Convertibles which seeded from the '80s punk band, The Nitro Brothers. I joined the 'Verts in '86 and...

Hello Bruce! I messaged you at your website and thought I'd try here too. AUB-1 #371 is needing a fresh string set. I really think she needs a bridge cover too. I'm feeling like I want to get the bass back to a more stock playing condition. For many years I used the bass with inexpensive...

My current employer, Sherwin Linton knew Marshall - knew Johnny very well too having met him in 1957 and worked with him live and on John's TV show many times. I go up to Sherwin's place to practice and there's a pair of Cash's boots in the corner that John gave Sherwin on stage at the SD state...

Hey, anyone have any settings for the internal pots in the pre-amp that they love and can share for this unit? Also, how is the battery life for those of you using it? I know a lot depends on the bass, strings, set up and touch, but I be 'jes looking for some cool tweaks. :hiding: I seem to...

...is the way to go. Dampits are OK for travel and bowls of water or other stop gap measures, but a humidifier is the only way to actually force humidity into the air. Other methods rely on evaporation... I bought a Holmes "Bionare" humidifier for around $70.00 in 2007 when my Upton Hybrid was...

My Upton Deluxe Hybrid 2007 Opus 113 has had no major issues. I live in the Twin Cities Minneapolis/St. Paul, and I play in many venues both inside and out in most seasons. I have a very small, less than half an inch of top that seems to be coming away from a side near the bottom corner adjacent...

Now, can I interest you in a nice Chihuahua? Bueno Fortune Señor!

"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing." ~John Cage

I did much the same "legwork" the OP is talking about. I looked at new Christophers, Shens, and Englehardts. Saw an Eastman and A Snow. Tried all kinds of used basses and tried other guys basses whenever there was a chance. The Twin Cities is not the best area to find lots of places to try...

Chris' advice to take Hdiddy's advice, "Hdiddy's advice was excellent: try before you buy," Is good advice. ;) But if you can't try every bass, think about what your comfort zone is for buying a bass sight un-seen. Many of us have done it with great success. I would only recommend that scenario...

Are those Eurosonics on there? Were they your choice or is that what the bass shipped with? Have fun spanking that plank...;)

rusag2, do you know - does Thompson make their own? I know Upton does. Upton offers tons of information on how and where they make their basses and exactly what they are made of. Much of that information is now formatted in you tube videos. They even tell you where they get their green...

Touch has a lot to do with it. I think one thing that happens is that on an electric with shorter string length you are plucking much nearer the bridge. This gives you a harder tone. I guess if you sat on a stool you could plant your forearm on your thigh and pluck near the bridge on your URB -...

Sometimes I think I didn't pay enough for my bass... But I ain't complaining! Molly? +1! I always like what Toad says and Sam Sherry too.

Eric tells us that many of the hybrids are made with more than two pieces book matched, but does that mean that none of them are 2-piece? If my hybrid 2007 opus 113 is more than two pieces I sure can't tell... Is the center seam usually cleated - or just the wing seams? I have never popped a...

"Possibly the longest four paragraph post in TBDB history that I don't understand. My bad. (maybe)." Ouch. (maybe). I was just trying to toss out some discussion of this particular type of bass for the OP to chew on. Basically, telling him what I know about these basses based on my...

I played a Bluegrass festival a couple of weekends ago. A small one, with only three bands on the bill but with really experienced sound techs who hear a lot of basses in a summer. One of the bands bassists played an Eminence and the other an old Kay with guts. Both basses were set with PUPs and...

My old/spare instrument is a Scherl and Roth. I bought mine back in the mid 80s for $500.00 with a stand and a gig bag. It was a spare at that time for my main ply bass but it saw front line service too after I let the ply bass go. Mine was stock when I found it and the the color of the...

Check out timelesstimber.com (and others) These folks are pulling virgin old growth timber off the bottom of Lake Superior using SCUBA divers. This wood was logged over 100 years ago and is incredibly figured because it grew slowly in competition with the millions of acres of other trees...

They work well but the peel and eat adhesive they come with is not very aggressive as the OP found out. Replace it with banner tape. Any graphics shop that sells large vinyl banners, trade show displays and "window shade" retractable banners will likely give you a foot or so of it. It also helps...

"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!" Miguel de Cervantes A question like the OP's can get you thinking about life... Doesn't it sometimes it seem like people are the only animals that don't know that life is for enjoying? Play...

In '87 I walked into "Benedict Music" on 36th and Lyndale in Minneapolis. The late Roger Benedict had a 1/2 size Kay that had been painted salmon pink and had the name "Elmo" painted in script lettering on the upper right front of the top table. I was playing full time in a 50s and rockabilly...

2007 Opus 113, an early USA made hybrid. It's opened up immensely. All that brand new brittle quality is gone and it's just warm all day long. The Spirocores have come into their own. I have not had to do thing one with it. Oh, a little sanding of the neck where the fingerboard shrank...

Thanks for the link. It brought back that indescribable feeling of being at the center of civilization that one experiences when one is in the city. Home in small-town Minnetonka is a great place to be but I can't wait to go back to the city...

Does Arnold, (NS) offer a similar trade in/up program like Gary, (Upton) does?

Sounds like you got a good deal. But could you get it again and again...? U.S. SVT CL(s) seems to be commanding a better price than 8Franklin, just about everywhere I look. I only say this cuz I have a '92 in excellent shape, new tubes/no nicks that I'm thinking of burning for an EA Micro...

Good points all. Whenever a young player comes to me for advice I always tell them first, I'm not a teacher. Second I tell them to find a teacher. And third, I try to explain that idea of how we learn. Some visualize. Some hear well, and some do best by having their hands placed where they need...

Nice bass Paul! That varnish is just lovely. The warm honey color without that harsh orange cast is easy on the eyes. And the tight grain of the willow in the sides is attractive and unmistakable. It really is a refreshing change from the flamed maple look. Is that ebony where the neck joins the...

Conte is a title of Italian nobility and in other Catholic European countries. In English, the title is count. The female form is contessa. That's a very pretty instrument Trix. Looks like nobility to me... Enjoy her in good health!

Check out the band "Fairground Attraction". Their record "First of a Million Kisses" is all Guitarron in the bass parts. Cool sound. Unmistakable. Once you hear them you'll want more... kinda like The Creaking Trees Quartet. Happy hunting! [edit: "The Creaking Tree String Quartet"]

Scope it? I know it's probably not going to happen but it would be interesting to see a sound analysis on a screen when you have something as inexplicable as a bass that should not sound so good but does. As a graphic artist, I know how to look at curves and levels in an image and see exactly...

I think Sam is sitting on a time machine! Hey man, next time you go back, bring me a Lloyd Loar model OK? I think I have some old 30s currency from my Grandpa in safe deposit...