Double Bass Rosin utilization

[jfv]

I didnt quite know what to call this thread, what I wanna
know is if you have a cake of rosin, and as you use it you
wear a furrow in the cake, right, how do you use the
rosin on the sides? Do you just not bother, or is there
some trick to 'reform' it and get use of the rest?

I know rosin really isnt that expensive, but still...

 

[anonymous0726]

I rotate the swipes on the cake as I go along, thereby not creating a channel. I'll roll it around in the light before I swipe and use the high spots.

 

[Dave Whitla]

+1 on rotating the swipes. I always try to swipe along a sort of corner on the cake, and also swipe the whole length of the hair in one go so the rosin heats up more and gets onto the hair better.

 

[kpo]

... how do you use the
rosin on the sides? Do you just not bother, or is there
some trick to 'reform' it and get use of the rest?

I try to use my rosin evenly, but I also know that sooner or later it will "melt" and flow into a blob anyway, erasing some of the furrows.

Incidentally, I'm using the "old oak" rosin, in soft grade, and I love it. It gives a more meaty sound than Kolstein, with as much "stick" as Pops.

 

[flint]

Here in the deep south I don't have to worry about creating furrows in my rosin for one reason-I use pop's. It gets hot enough here that the rosin just flows back into the furrow before I need to use it again. In the winter I just put it on the top of the television, and that seems to warm it up enough to even out the cake between uses.

 

[Holly Wright]

Here in the deep south I don't have to worry about creating furrows in my rosin for one reason-I use pop's. It gets hot enough here that the rosin just flows back into the furrow before I need to use it again. In the winter I just put it on the top of the television, and that seems to warm it up enough to even out the cake between uses.

You read my mind

But that is the reason i switched to Nymans. My house is really hot and i always over used it because it was too melted

 

[fingerstyle]

almost every cake of nymans ive ran into has been ALOT softer than pops. im in australia.. its weird.

 

[anonymous0726]

Mebbe it's because gravity is reversed down there?

 

[fingerstyle]

I thought that might be the case.

*kills thread hijack before it gets out of hand*