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Thoughts on the Hofner Verythin??

#16
meursault42 said:
old dead rounds are so awesome. wish there was a way to buy them that way. hmm, maybe i should post a classified. send me your "crappy" old rounds that you were planning to toss out...
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...maybe this'll help>>>

I have a short scale '60s Les Paul Recording bass (heaviest bass known to man in the known world FWIW) and I had just bought a set of tape wounds for it, but the store ( McCabes in Santa Monica) was out of the short scale size so I bought the long scale set.

I got home to put 'em on and the freekin E breaks at the winding post immediately ($60 bucks btw...) so I scrounge around and find the forgotten short scale Kingston bass in the closet and grab the low E but it's a bright and shiny round wound and I need this thing strung up for an audition in an hour so I put on my thinking cap and... open the fridge.
I grabbed some yogurt and smeared it into the string. That took off some of the top but it was still too bright then I ran my gooked up hand along the baseboard (BASS board?) and smear in some human remains of dead skin and the cat hair junk that collects in such places. Getting closer to the sound now but still not dead enough... Back in the fridge I pulled out the big hunk of pork shoulder I had just bought and cut off the outer flab/fat/skin piece and run it up and down the length of the string like a fine BBQ rub.
The perfect dead E string sound was achieved with this very scientific convergence of inspiration, perspiration and desperation. I've had that same sting on there for a few years now and everyone always asks me why it looks different than the others... it's great seeing the look on their face when I tell them the reason!
 
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bottomend! said:
I put on my thinking cap and... open the fridge.
I grabbed some yogurt and smeared it into the string. That took off some of the top but it was still too bright then I ran my gooked up hand along the baseboard (BASS board?) and smear in some human remains of dead skin and the cat hair junk that collects in such places. Getting closer to the sound now but still not dead enough... Back in the fridge I pulled out the big hunk of pork shoulder I had just bought and cut off the outer flab/fat/skin piece and run it up and down the length of the string like a fine BBQ rub.
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lol! you should just keep taking this idea as far as you can. ask roscoe's chicken n waffles if you can store your E strings as a grease catcher under their fryers.
 

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