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heavier bass = better tone?
- Thread starter woaheasylang
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- Feb 16, 2008
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well, as they say, you can tune a bass but you can't tuna salmon...
wow, a seafood trio! Suddenly I'm on the Food Network...
Yes, basswood is softer than some other woods. Seeing that I have had stripped screwholes in Pine, Maple, Mahogany, Ash, Alder, Wenge, Snakewood and Purpleheart, I doubt HIGHLY that your striped screw had much to do with it.
Mounting technique has a lot to do with that as well. I find that dropping a bit of paste wax in the pre-drilled hole stops that process of stripping screw holes. By making the hole easier to drive, I tend not to over torque. Also helps prevent stripped scew heads!
- Feb 16, 2008
- 21,240
- 23,636
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- John K Custom Basses
i have. i had a very hard time sustaining a relationship with a girl that was rapidly getting to be very heavy.
Boy this thread delivers.... all the way from perpetual motion soundwave conductive propagation theories to fat chick puns.
Great thread!!!
Great thread!!!
I always thought there was a connection between conductive propagation and "fat chicks"... ...neither of which had to do with basses, however.
Yes, basswood is softer than some other woods. Seeing that I have had stripped screwholes in Pine, Maple, Mahogany, Ash, Alder, Wenge, Snakewood and Purpleheart, I doubt HIGHLY that your striped screw had much to do with it.
Mounting technique has a lot to do with that as well. I find that dropping a bit of paste wax in the pre-drilled hole stops that process of stripping screw holes. By making the hole easier to drive, I tend not to over torque. Also helps prevent stripped scew heads!
I should have been more descriptive. it wasn't the screw heads that stripped, it was the wood itself, screws were fine. I notice the pickguard holes were similar. I'm sticking with my opinion that basswood is not something I will ever buy again.
I'm also slightly cautious with basswood for the stripped screws reason. I had been in a few bands where the guitarists ripped out the strap buttons, although I'd assume part of the problem was that a lot of stock screws are very finely threaded and not very big.
No, I understood your post. I was sharing that I have had similar occurrences with other types of wood as well.
...until Juvenile Offenders' Continuation Classes let out and it all fell apart.
