I've had a couple of very nice vintage guitars that had the neck and tail blocks with the grain running the same direction as the ribs. One of them had a hard fall that hit the endpoint, cracked the block, and then zippered all the way up both sides and cracked the neck block- basically split the guitar in half.....I'd never want that around the endpoint on a bass; even with cross grained structure, they break often from impact and have a tremendous amount of stress in that area. A crack running completely through the c bout and both blocks sounds like an unnecessary lesson that I don't need to reinvent....
I've spend most of my lifetime working around and redesigning areas of instruments that everyone else told me I had to do another way that just didn't seem logical to me. By about age 13 I gave up listening to old crusty types telling me, "You can't do that!"....I support you new ideas and innovation 100%. For me, it seems like only abput 20% of the time do they work out well on the first go, but often a series of 3-4 unsuccessful attempts lead to little advances that wind up exactly where I wanted to go the 5th time and It allows me to get all of that stuff out of my head.
I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who said that the people sitting around telling the world it can't be done need to shut up and get out of the way of the people who are doing it.
Is that really a banner ad for Nordstrom poser workbooks that I'm seeing flashing up on the screen as I type this????????? If is, we're circling the drain.........
J.
I've spend most of my lifetime working around and redesigning areas of instruments that everyone else told me I had to do another way that just didn't seem logical to me. By about age 13 I gave up listening to old crusty types telling me, "You can't do that!"....I support you new ideas and innovation 100%. For me, it seems like only abput 20% of the time do they work out well on the first go, but often a series of 3-4 unsuccessful attempts lead to little advances that wind up exactly where I wanted to go the 5th time and It allows me to get all of that stuff out of my head.
I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who said that the people sitting around telling the world it can't be done need to shut up and get out of the way of the people who are doing it.
Is that really a banner ad for Nordstrom poser workbooks that I'm seeing flashing up on the screen as I type this????????? If is, we're circling the drain.........
J.
I really like your bass design on many different levels. My intention was that I 've met countless folks with a passion and intent building instruments with areas that don't always agree with others or make sense to folks who have been building for quite a while, myself included among that group on a daily basis. One of the interesting things about going against tried and true advice is that I knowingly accept regular amounts of failure with tested and proven ideas in the understanding that often very good and high functioning results come out of the process. Often it is going through the process that teaches me the lesson I'm after and not the design issues.
