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This is Why I Can't Have Nice Things

#41
Hi Big Hoss :)

Big Hoss said:
I was having a bit too much Tequila
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:D

Big Hoss said:
I've got a slight ding at the back of the neck
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Next time you have a drink, get one of these! ;):laugh:



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#42
I like dings and chips.

It shows the bass has been played. It has a story, etc.

Plus if it's really worn, it's probably a really good bass. Lemons don't get played until they fall apart.

Example: my Geddy Lee Jazz. Original black shows thru the wear of the silver finish.

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#43
If you have a "fancy" bass, get a fancy gig bad. I carry my basses in a Reunion Blues RBX double bag. I've carried it for about 800 gigs. It protects my basses just fine. I don't quite get the whole "buy a $X,XXX bass, and gig with a $200 bass". I get it makes sense to some people. To me, it's like owning a Ferrari but driving a Geo. I'm bringing all my high end basses out to gigs. So, I use a high end gig bag.
 
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Yango said:
Yet another cheap gig bag story. People never cease to amaze me.

A friend of mine had a 1959 Martin Acoustic in amazing condition, that was his pride and joy. He'd been offered $10,000.00+ for it on a couple of occasions... Guess what he carried it around in? Probably a $15.00 nylon gigbag. This past winter, he slipped on some ice and landed flat on his back on top of it. It's now a worthless pile of splinters and wire. As an extra bonus, he also had no insurance. I suppose the one plus in this story is that the gigbag survived the ordeal.
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That is a horrible story! I am devoted gig bag user, but I use high quality gig bags. I would also only ever use a bag with a solid body instrument. An acoustic guitar or ABG should be transported in a hard case.
 
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#51
eJake said:
I have one fancy bass and yesterday it hit the ground hard.

I usually bring out the 200$ SX but i broke a string the other day which hasn't happened in 10 yrs. So I am waiting on a string to come in from BSO and I bring out my American V Jazz (it's fancy to me!) To do my reggae gig. Some back pain issues lead me to put it in my 30$ gig bag so it won't be heavy.

I'm hanging at a club down the street when a buddy calls me up to sit in so I grab my bass by one strap and sling it over my shoulder. The strap comes apart in the middle and it just keeps on going straight onto the concrete floor.

I try not to freak out about things and pulling it out I found a nasty gouge near the bottom strap lock. It definitely could have been worse. I was gonna post a pic but you can't really see it with the natural finish.

My takeaway is that if you're going to spend too much on a bass (that you still mean to play out) you might as well give it some character because you're sure never going to get your money back on it :)

I consider myself lucky that the bass is still playable and will bring the Protec case when I bring the American J5 out in the future, it's not that heavy.
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I feel you on the case situation. I've had everything from heavy plywood cases and flight cases to gig bags. I gave up on the plywood stuff. It's just unreasonably heavy especially when the bands using multiple guitars and basses. Last two years or so I've veen using the newer plastic SKB cases. They are super light but provide more protection than a gig bag.
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I'd really like to get one of these aluminum bass vault style cases but they are crazy expensive.
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As for the fender. Don't sweat it too much. fender basses actually look better when that have some battle scars imo. As long as it's just cosmetic it actually adds character to the bass
 
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#52
poopie happens....usually the drummers fault.
Cymbals falling... both times force of nature...wind....
1 time sliced my power chord...another time..sliced the finish on my Alembic.ouch.
Always bring 2 of everything including power chords.

JC

holy cr#p, spell checked changed sh#t to poopie
 
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#53
I'm not a physicist in real life but don't most objects reach terminal velocity after 15 seconds? You could save yourself over 23 hours and 59 minutes of watching your bass fall if that that's the case.

And I also prefer a good gig bag. Easier to carry with cables and such and some of my cases don't fit in the trunk of my car, which stupidly does not have a ski pass through or fold down seats.
 
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MoeTown1986 said:
If you have a "fancy" bass, get a fancy gig bad. I carry my basses in a Reunion Blues RBX double bag. I've carried it for about 800 gigs. It protects my basses just fine. I don't quite get the whole "buy a $X,XXX bass, and gig with a $200 bass". I get it makes sense to some people. To me, it's like owning a Ferrari but driving a Geo. I'm bringing all my high end basses out to gigs. So, I use a high end gig bag.
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Where I'm gigging at sometimes I have to worry about things happening to my bass while im playing it more often than when it's. In the gig bag. I like the SX. It gets the job done. If im playing a nice stage I'll bring a nice bass.
 
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#56
Karlson541 said:
Actually I am pretty sure that no amount of padding could save an instrument from absolute obliteration if it were to suffer a fall from such a high altitude that it would take it a whole day to hit the ground.
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JakobT said:
A bass in a gig bag would take about 7.5 hours to fall the distance of the thickness of the atmosphere (480 km), assuming the bass and bag weighs about 8 kilograms and has about the same air resistance as a skydiver, and assuming that the thickness of the atmosphere is constant (which, of course, it isn't). Which means that, if it were to fall for a full day, it would have to start somewhere in outer space, so it would probably burn up due to atmospheric friction before it hit the ground. Which would pretty much incinerate a hard case as well. :D
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redwingxix said:
I'm not a physicist in real life but don't most objects reach terminal velocity after 15 seconds? You could save yourself over 23 hours and 59 minutes of watching your bass fall if that that's the case.
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Don't they have a guitar in the International Space Station? Everyone has ignored the possibility of initial velocity that would allow a guitar to remain in free fall for an entire day without suffering any damage whether in or out of a case.
 
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As great as I'm sure those ultra padded, throw your strat off a tall building to prove how good they are gig bags would be, I can't justify spending more for a case than I did for my bass so I've got a couple of SKB 44 cases and whatever bass I'm taking out of the house goes in one of them. They ran me $125 each when I got them and I don't have to worry about iffy straps zippers, seams, etc. The only exception is the red bass of death. It's so beat up dropping it could only make it look better so it rides in a gig bag that came with a new Highway One.
 
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Karlson541 said:
Actually I am pretty sure that no amount of padding could save an instrument from absolute obliteration if it were to suffer a fall from such a high altitude that it would take it a whole day to hit the ground.
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I will say this, though.... I ran over one of my Rics in OHSC with a Ford F-150 supercrew and that case took the pain! Little crack in the case but the Ric was untouched and still in perfect tune. Thank you Lord
 
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Wfrance3 said:
Not a luthier by any means, and have never tried this, but I have seen YouTube vid about fixing guitar dents with a soldering iron and a fairly damp, decently thick rag. The steam generated coaxed the dent to return to its original shape. Results were very good.

Seems like one of those things that looks easy but will turn out that there's really an art to it. - If you could have this done by someone with good skills locally, you might get the dent out. Depending on the nature of the dent and it's location obviously.
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I've definitely witnessed dings taken out of furniture in this same basic way using a steam clothing iron
 
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