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Doubling the button
This nice Romanian bass suffered a blow to the neck and as a result the button broke from the back and stayed with the neck heel. The repair involved reattaching the button, then removing the back....
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Carbon fiber neck reinforcement
Here’s one way of stiffening the thin neck of a bass – using a carbon graphite bar. Shown is the routing setup post cut, the carbon rod and the maple filler strip that goes over the top.
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Center seam insert
Flat back basses tend to shrink over the width of the back. An insert restores the original width of the back.
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French Style Scroll Graft
Here are some shots of a new neck we installed on a nice old Tyrolean bass. Originally “blockless”.
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New neck for a Kay bass
We installed a new Engelhardt neck on a nice Kay bass from the Forties. You can get the new neck without the dovetail precut which allows you to get a tighter fit in the old mortise. In this case we...
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New Bass Bar
We installed a new bass bar for a smaller German shop bass. The bass had cracks right along the bar at the top and bottom of the plate so we decided to reinforce the glued cracks with egg patches and...
View Articlenew tuning machine spindles
The tuning machine spindles on this Eastern European made bass were made from soft die cast zinc and the driven end eventually deformed. We made some new ones from hard wearing stainless steel and...
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A German “shop bass” came to us where the top was badly sunken and cracked around the sound post area. After opening the bass it was clear the the top had been regraduated at some point and had been...
View Articleblockless neck conversion and restoration
This was a demanding project involving a large South German bass with “blockless” construction and an integral bass bar. The bass was in rough shape and had suffered through many of the typical...
View ArticleEXTREME neck repair
Have a lot of time on your hands? Of course not, and neither do we. But sometimes it’s fun to go nuts. I know that many shops would recommend simply replacing a neck when you have damage in the neck...
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