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Double Bass Can I continue to play my bass before getting it repaired?

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GretschWretch said:
I won't even allow Gorilla Glue in my house.
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It has its place. For example, I have an old canvas briefcase that's closed wtih velcro strips that were all worn out. I started out trying to sew new velcro strips onto the heavy canvas. After breaking a couple needles I just glued the stuff on with Gorilla. The expanding and wetting properties of urethane were just the thing. Since I got the briefcase for free, off the curb, I certainly wasn't going to track down a luggage repair or shoe repair shop with the heavy duty sewing machines and pay twice what a new briefcase would cost me (I already had the velcro strips, so the total repair cost was the smallest bottle of Gorilla, I guess less than $5).

I like doing quick and dirty repairs on cheap and cheerful (or free) items and getting more use out of them. I don't like making a crappy irreversible repair that won't hold up on something expensive.
 
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TroyK said:
Okay, let's keep going...

Your profile has an extensive list of gear that you own and gear that you have previously owned. Not one mention of a doublebass anywhere in there.
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I never had double bass, played since from 1968 onward with School and outfit owned instruments, I went to college and I was playing a double bass (school instrument) in bluegrass band and then further along I was playing double bass in a 22 Big Band for about 20 years and I was also in a Trad Dixie band which had their own equipment. Most of those outfits have their own equipment they have their own pianos, they have their own drum sets and they have their own double bases so I've never had the need to own one. Additionally I lived in the DC metropolitan area which had a Metro and I could just take the basses (both old Kay plywood doghouses), hit the metro and get to the venues.

After I left the Washington DC metropolitan area the need to own a double bass ( and support vehicle) didn't exist.
I've always had electric fretless basses and fretted.

Does that answer your inquiries Columbo?
 
#44
GretschWretch said:
Are you implying that there are false idiots? Bogus idiots? Didn't Homer compose a couple of epic poems about these: the Idiot and the Oddity?
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Reminds me of the evil scissors. You know how you're always hollering "Has anyone seen the GOOD scissors?" Well, if there is a pair of GOOD scissors (the ones you only use to cut cloth) that implies there's at least one pair of EVIL scissors - the ones you use to cut pieces of aluminum flashing, currugated fiberboard, masonite, wire, and stab into oil cans to open them.
 
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#45
Geogio said:
I never had double bass, played since from 1968 onward those with School and outfit owned instruments, I went to college and I was playing a double bass ( school instrument) in bluegrass band and then further along I was playing double bass in a 22 Big Band for about 20 years and I was also in a Trad Dixie band which had their own equipment. Most of those outfits have their own equipment they have their own pianos, they have their own drum sets and they have their own double bases so I've never had the need to own one. Additionally I lived in the DC metropolitan area which had a Metro and I could just take the basses (both old Kay plywood doghouses), hit the metro and get to the venues.

After I left the Washington DC metropolitan area the need to own a double bass ( and support vehicle) didn't exist.
I've always had electric fretless basses and fretted.

Does that answer your inquiries Columbo?
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Never owned one, never repaired one, always (or most always) played plywood basses. Thus an expert on the benefits of using inappropriate glues for repairing carved double basses.
 
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turf3 said:
Never owned one, never repaired one, always (or most always) played plywood basses. Thus an expert on the benefits of using inappropriate glues for repairing carved double basses.
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I never said I never repaired one. So you're putting words in my mouth I have done repairs they're not professional repairs but they worked they kept the bass on the road. And the band couldn't afford to have a bass sitting in a luthier shop for months on end, which seems to be the case these days, I had to keep her up and running and the original poster mentioned the fact that he wanted to keep playing but I did not think that was a good idea other people said draw a pencil line see if the crack spreads whatever.... but hey if he wants to keep it on the road there are shortcuts available and I don't particularly care what you think...
 
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Geogio said:
I never said I never repaired one. So you're putting words in my mouth I have done repairs they're not professional repairs but they worked they kept the bass on the road. And the band couldn't afford to have a bass sitting in a luthier shop for months on end, which seems to be the case these days, I had to keep her up and running and the original poster mentioned the fact that he wanted to keep playing but I did not think that was a good idea other people said draw a pencil line see if the crack spreads whatever.... but hey if he wants to keep it on the road there are shortcuts available and I don't particularly care what you think...
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You have sufficiently explained your experience and credentials. Thank you.
 
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Greg Clinkingbeard said:
I’m 62 years old and still remember my third grade teacher giving students strips of construction paper as rewards or punishment. Boy, did I feel bad getting a black one one day. I got something similar here on TB for calling someone an idiot and I vowed to never do that again……
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I'm in the right mood, at 62 as well, that I just might do it for you...
 
#52
turf3 said:
Reminds me of the evil scissors. You know how you're always hollering "Has anyone seen the GOOD scissors?" Well, if there is a pair of GOOD scissors (the ones you only use to cut cloth) that implies there's at least one pair of EVIL scissors - the ones you use to cut pieces of aluminum flashing, currugated fiberboard, masonite, wire, and stab into oil cans to open them.
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Yes. I am in possession, and guardian, of The Good Scissors.
In my house, permission must be granted, by me, on a case-by-case basis, for anyone to use "The Good Scissors", and they must be returned directly to me,(unsoiled/undamaged), upon completion of said cutting task.
Milwaukee - the "Stradivarius of Scissors".
Not A Joke...
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