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One of the things I have learned in my work on guitars is that people are very impatient. Much of the work is simply waiting for the last step to dry/cure/expand/contract etc.. I'm very patient and I don't look at this as a bargain hunt or a shortcut. Some people put together jigsaw puzzles to kill time. I tinker.
Along with Treager and another title Icant remember or find right now I have this (not granular just size and reference charts)
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A little positive help from the gang would have been nice (I don't mean you @GretschWretch)!
Oh, no offense taken! I have very little of use to offer on this forum, anyway. (Not that my contributions on the EB side are all that useful, either.) And thanks for reminding me of Strobel. I had quite forgotten about him.
Well said indeed! Please keep us updated if and when you get a suitable bass to work on.
All of the most worthwhile things I have ever done in my life have started with at least a few people telling me that I am a fool. Going on auditions. Going to Conservatory. Getting married. Adopting two kids, one of whom is VERY special needs. Honestly if I try to do something and nobody thinks I am being foolish that just tells me that it is so mundane that it's probably a waste of time. I'm content to let ordinary people do ordinary things. I want better than that for myself.
If I understand correctly, you are not particularly interested in actually playing the bass. This to me and I think quite a few of the other posters is somewhat hard to understand. Playing a bass that I had completely restored would be a huge kick. The playing part is what would make it worth doing. That must be because I'm a player primarily. I've worked on basses but always with the idea that I or somebody I know would be playing them- different strokes, I guess.
Excellent observation. Sometimes I fail to see how there can be a disconnect between what I'm thinking and what I actually say. First off I wouldn't say that I'm not interested in playing it when it's done. I would say that I am concerned that due to a lifetime of injuries I would be unable to play it meaningfully once it's done. But I certainly would noodle on it. Maybe even go out and play the occasional bluegrass jam session, here in Pittsburgh we have a few, if my physical limitations would allow. However, that is different than my interest in woodworking. I'm not any good on guitar either but I am currently making myself a guitar. I am enjoying the process thoroughly. So it's almost like two different interests that are being married together by their commonalities. I'm not building the instruments because I want an instrument to play. I'm building them because I want to learn how to do that. Just for my own edification. At the same time, I also happen to enjoy playing music. When I realized it was the last little bit of reach on a 34 inch scale that was aggravating my rotator cuff I went to a 32-in. The choices on 32-in are much more limited, so when I got one I made some modifications to it so that it would be a little more to my liking. My eventual goal in all of this is to build myself the 32-in scale bass that I want to own. But before I do that I'm doing all these other things to learn how to do that. And in doing so I have been finding that the process of creating and assembling the instrument is just as much fun for me as playing it is. So now I'm looking to expand my horizons a little.
