Double Bass Bag repair

[fdeck]

This was a TKL bag that I got 15 years ago. My luthier had a few of them, and warned me that they were low quality, but the price was appropriate to my bass at the time, a hideously beaten up Kay.

Many of the straps have fallen off, and the music pocket in the back will no longer zip closed. But the bag still functioned until the main zipper started coming off. I loaded the sewing machine, an old Singer, with upholstery thread, and went to town.

Success! The bag is back in business.

 

[Tom Lane]

I believe that this makes you an honorary if not official *yankee* in the best, most cost-effective sense of the word. Other folks might call you a cheapskate, but I'd call you resourceful! Personally, I'm particularly fond of duct-tape, but my wife does not appreciate my frugality. Which brand do you recommend?

 

[neilG]

I'm particularly fond of duct-tape, but my wife does not appreciate my frugality. Which brand do you recommend?

We work in theaters, don't we? Gaffer's tape is what you want, not duct tape.

 

[Tom Lane]

We work in theaters, don't we? Gaffer's tape is what you want, not duct tape.

Oh, now you're gonna go all *Beverly Hills* on me and require only the *good stuff*?

 

[neilG]

Oh, now you're gonna go all *Beverly Hills* on me and require only the *good stuff*?

You're closer to Beverly Hills than I am, but the trick is never to buy it. You have to talk a stagehand into giving you a roll. Or swipe it.

 

[Tom Lane]

You're closer to Beverly Hills than I am, but the trick is never to buy it. You have to talk a stagehand into giving you a roll. Or swipe it.

And still MORE Yankee fugality! Con your gaffer's tape!

 

[robobass]

You've got to be the only one here ever to sew his own bag. Congrats!