Anyone else find a bass without strings sort of....cringe?

[mcnach]

I don't know what it is about a bass with no strings, but I hate it. It makes the bass feel and look SO different, and it bothers me. I don't even like seeing basses for sale with no strings. It's just....weird.

There will be certain times when one of my basses will be bare for a few days until strings come and I can barely look at that bass during that time.

Anyone else share this strange feeling?

slow day? ;-)

 

[HolmeBass]

I do not. But it’s ok that you do.

I think that covers my feelings on this subject.

 

[micguy]

What are the best strings to remove for metal

What pickups sound the best without strings?

 

[Mike Vee]

Yeah...seeing a bass with no strings, or even a broken string, bugs me. I see basses for sale on FB Marketplace all the time that have a missing string.

I have discovered, though, that people will often sell those instruments pretty dang cheap, too bad the basses are usually beat up pretty badly or are missing other parts as well.

lol yes a missing string is bad as well

 

[Smooth_bass88]

I don't know what it is about a bass with no strings, but I hate it. It makes the bass feel and look SO different, and it bothers me. I don't even like seeing basses for sale with no strings. It's just....weird.

There will be certain times when one of my basses will be bare for a few days until strings come and I can barely look at that bass during that time.

Anyone else share this strange feeling?

the main issue for me is the fact that it's impossible to play a bass without strings. also, where are all these basses without strings?

 

[funkinbottom]

LOOK AT IT

 

[chadds]

Stringless. Is that good for metal?

 

[Lance Bunyon]

You've truly come unstrung...

 

[Jefenator]

Someone else's bass, like a for-sale listing I might have to wonder what's up.
My own stuff where I know the condition of the neck, I don't really care.
It doesn't really come up that often, though. I don't change strings without the next set handy. I do oil the fretboard sometimes, but that takes up maybe 10 minutes?
If that's the worst phobia you have to deal with, consider yourself lucky.

 

[GodsLove66]

Bass without strings??? Sure!! No problem!!!

 

[JimmyM]

Never once thought about it. I bought one once that was missing a couple strings. I figured I had strings and I didn’t like the two it had, and I can’t think of ever buying a bass and not changing the strings immediately, so no, it doesn’t matter to me.

 

[Thegreatzambini]

Not really relative but, kinda funny this was brought up. My cousin (bass player) asked me how I changed strings? I said: what do you mean, how? He said he cuts his all at once, OK. I told him mine are done one at a time starting with the "B" string. Tuned and then going to the "E" and so forth.

He asked why I don't just cut them all down at once? I told him it's just my way of doing it. I didn't like all the tension off the neck at one time. This way the neck should stay pretty much where I had put it to begin with, weather it matters or not how it's done? To each their own. All I got from him was a hmmm.

So I don’t feel like going through the whole thread to see if you answered the question, but once again, why are you taking the strings off before your new ones even arrive?

 

[chadds]

So I don’t feel like going through the whole thread to see if you answered the question, but once again, why are you taking the strings off before your new ones even arrive?

…..and someone asked has TB changed? This.

 

[2112]

I have been told my playing sounds best on a bass without strings....

 

[skycruiser]

Here's one that does make me cringe. Facebook ad for a completely unloaded bass. The seller calls it a "husk". Just freaky and gross sounding to me.

 

[Hounddog409]

I'll cut off all five strings to clean the fingerboard and frets, then install the new strings at that time, never had any real problems doing this.

I'd not be in a hurry to cut them off and leave it unstrung waiting for new strings in a few days, and I wouldn't buy an unstrung bass: I can do my own setups, but would require a real tech to reel in neck gone wrong from being unstrung for a length of time, as sometimes you're lucky, and sometimes it's going to take a real pro to bring it back.

You actually cut the strings???

 

[Watchootognbout]

LOOK AT IT

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Isn't that the bass that Jason Newsted used on Metallica's "And Justice For All"?

 

[FunkyThunder]

To see a stringed instrument without strings, other than between string changes and maintenance, always feels like it is just incomplete and if the guitar or bass has any animated feelings, it would feel sad. How can it be properly loved with a decent set of strings?

 

[BassyBill]

Stringless. Is that good for metal?

Stringless. It’s just a brass bass.

 

[J Wilson]

You actually cut the strings???

You bet. I'll detune them to wobbly loose, pull out a set of side-cutters I use only for that, and snip them somewhere over the fingerboard.

I'm not going to stand there and unwind them then try and get those curled up bits through the bridge. Life is too short, and I never save old strings.