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Double Bass Bent endpin - Where to buy one?

jheise

jheise

Aug 11, 2004
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Hamburg, Germany
#1
Hi all,

I'm interested in putting a bent endpin on my bass, but first I have to get one. And here's the problem: I don't know where to order one. I asked some luthiers here in Hamburg, Germany, but only one of them had a client who bent an endpin for himself. None of them ever had to do this for a client, so they also didn't know where to get one. I mailed to Slava Pub. a few days ago but didn't receive an answer yet. Any hints where I could order a Laborie endpin in Europe or Germany or even Hamburg?

tia,

Jan
 
#2
I don't know about ordering one, but it's super easy to make your own. All I did was go to the hardware store and buy a piece of steel rod the same diameter as my endpin. Then, I measured and marked the shape I wanted, clamped it in a vise and with some help from a propane torch, bent it into shape. I also filed a flat along one side so the screw could grab better and keep the thing from moving side to side. Good luck...
 
#5
I ground mine to a point, then stuck a chunk of randonm rubber on the end along with a few wraps of black duct tape. Ghetto? definately, but it works... Oh and by the way, I quit using mine after a few weeks, I found I just didn't want to change my entire technique to get the seeming small advantage the endpin offers. I can see though that if your technique was allready condusive to it, it could be a good thing.
 
#7
Hi again,

I bent an endpin yesterday and I'm very pleased with the result. I bent the rod of a spare endpin my luthier gave me. Only the rod was intact, the rest of the endpin was broken. The rod had the same diameter like the one in my endpin. I bent it and afterwards i tapped a screw thread (hope that's the correct term - I'm not a native speaker) so i could screw on one of the same rubber tips that I have for my unbent endpin.

I didn't have the time yet to play it extensively but my first try was very promising.

Jan
 

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