We offer fast, friendly and professional service for all your violin, viola, cello and bass repair and restoration needs. What old repairs have been done that could interfere with this repair. We have the expertise and faculties to handle any kind of bass repair be it open seams, crack repairs, fingerboard or neck issues, we can help to get your bass repaired and back playing in no time. The difficulty of shipping a bass helps the local repair cost equation, especially if some one blows one out and needs a replacement now. Different glues for use on your instrument and when to use. My upright bass has had many glueandcleat repairs to the top.
Corner and edge repairs, top crack repairs, bass bar repair, cleats and patches, rib crack repair and restoration. After this, theyll clean the instrument, leaving it goodasnew. Patching cracks in an aluminum hull bass boats, canoes. The repair involved reattaching the button, then removing the back. Its important that you act fast when you find a crack on the edge of a cymbal, even if its only a centre metre long. Located in burlingame, just south of san francisco, our large retail showroom holds about 65 basses on display with several more in two two small warehouse spaces in the back. For the top, neck and endblock doubling were needed to repair years of. It never ceases to amaze me how much effort is put into the smooth finish on student instruments. I recognize that a bass bar crack is a serious crack, and will devalue an instrument. Violin, viola, cello, bass crack repairs callierscollard violin shop.
Hull showing cracks skeeter boats indepth outdoors. Sign up with your email address above for interesting guitar. The bass was then reassembled, the neck reset and the varnish touched up. Double bass luthier directory project part of the upright bass links page. The repair was made by first regluing the crack, then using a combination of linen patches and wood cleats to reinforce the repair. Due to the many different techniques required to repair rib damage, this. As an added precaution, i made a few maple cleats to go across the crack with the grain running perpendicular to the crack. Back repairs this flatback bass, although relatively new, had glue that was failing on the back braces. Whether its a neck graft, new bass bar, soundpost patch, a new bridge, crack repair, fingerboard. A headstock crack is generally a little better than a complete break. Bass bar cracks can distort the shape of the instruments top because of the strain of the bass bar. Upton bass also services all instruments and bows of the violin family with world class restoration and repair, to view our online restoration portfolio visit upton bass is ready to offer advice and answer any questions regarding double.
We know that sometimes instruments crack through no. There is no bass luthier here so i took it to a violin luthier and he said hes gonna put glue and its gonna be fine. The crack is 34cm, and its like a thin crack, like a hair. Customer satisfaction is what our reputation is built upon. Restoration, repair and setup the double bass workshop. Hi guys, i attached a photo of where my bass cracked.
Includes articles, videos, news, and forums for beginning to advanced anglers. After hide glue was applied it will most likely be blue forever. From accidents to seasonal changes there are many reasons your bass may need repair. With the brace removed, it was a simple matter of flooding some glue into the crack and closing it up. Repair and restoration upton bass double bass string. The 3 ft long top crack over the soundpost has reopened and the cleats placed on the. By now you probably have realized that stringed instruments routinely get cracks that need to be repaired. Guitar music is generally written in treble clef if you take lessons youll learn to read treble clef, while bass music is written in bass clef. If you want to avoid this repair, its important to remember to always keep your trombone safely stored in a sturdy trombone case where it cant be twisted. Here are a few more photos of the hofner double bass repair.
Performing bass luthier and repair work for over 10 years south dakota sioux. Custom builds build your dream guitar with parts from your favorite source or. Petes bass shop has been providing the finest bass repair, restoration and set up in portland for the past 10 years. Custom setups and acoustic adjustments can be made to your violin, viola, cello, or. There is usually still some wood holding somewhere and aligning the pieces of the crack tends to be straightforward.
You might fix the existing hairline crack, but the fact that the crack is there suggests theres an underlying weakness in the part thats causing it to fail. Structural repair crack repair, chip fix, finger board regluing, tuning pegs, neck crack repair, etc. Occasionally these types of cracks can be glued from the outside but most likely you will need to remove the top. Upright bass repair standup bass repair double bass. In situations where you have a few cracks on the lower bout near the corner. The images at right are labeled with parts of the bass, and the entries below may also include comments to help familiarize yourself with the. In repair page one we repaired a smaller rib holecrack very. I have seen this before on a 2050zx deep v skeeter boat, i used this boat for a day trip to mille lacs it was a friend of mines boat. Please help me in planning this double bass repair. The thix agents are added to allow the gelcoat to hang on a vertical surface without sagging at thicknesss up to 18 mils or so. A chronicle of a major bass repair project at quantum bass center. I started in the violin trade as an apprentice repairer and restorer and this still constitutes my core activity.
Violin top crack repair fixing a short crack on a violin top. The bass is in a professional grade soft case inside made by mooradian cases, which is inside of the hard case to provide further protection. Our crack repair process takes on average 36 days depending on the severity of the crack. Lemur music everything for the double bass player 32244 paseo adelanto, suite c, san juan capistrano, ca 92675. We are able to provide all types of repairs, from minor adjustments and setups to major overhauls and restoration. Most of the restorations included have been to double basses which is indicative of the historical fact that basses have not attracted very good quality of work and there is much in. A manual for players, makers, and repairers traeger, chuck, brownell, david, merchant, william on. Until youve experienced it, it sounds like voodoo, but after youve heard the difference youll believe, too.
Restoration of an ancient double bass made by pietro pallotta and giovanni. If you bring in your cracked instrument for a repair estimate at master hand, you probably wont be asked how your instrument cracked. The final image in the set is of another bass where we did a similar repair. As shown in the photos above, we have an example of a crack that runs about 2 inches above the left fhole of a viola. We counted 22 top cracks not a huge number for an old bass. Finally, cleaned and reshaped the braces, and then used a couple of scissor jacks to glue the braces back in place.
Then we prepared the broken area for a patch and fit one in. Double bass tuningthe house specialty is mode matching, tuning the tailpiece assembly to work in harmony with the note of the neck and fingerboard extension in order to release the full power and tone of your instrument. Repair and restoration get an inside view of upton bass string instrument co. Ive had a few cracks in the floor from the boat bouncing and making contact with the rollers on the trailer.
From glueing open seams, to completely restoring older pedigree instruments, tom takes pleasure in providing the highest quality work for double basses. Bass bar crack repair the pegbox maestronet forums. During this past steamy weekend, the bass got warm, and theres now a rattling open crack or loose cleat near the trebleside fhole. The area under the bass bar that was severely cracked received a. Then other stuff is added like pigments, uv stabilizers and thixotropic agents.
Filling in the crack might or might not fix that weakness. Setup and repair of the double bass for optimum sound. When i returned the boat to him after i had cleaned entire boat top to bottom, he called about 4 days later and said he had something to show me so i went over to his house and to my surprise the entire port side of boat was full of gel stress cracks, long story. Unfortunately, i have had the displeasure of seeing a bass bar on a double bass that had been fit with blue chalk. Owen lee, cincinnati symphony principal bass 33,347 views. I offer a complete repair and restoration service for violins, violas, cellos and double basses whether you are a student, amateur or professional player, collector, museum or the trade, i offer the same high standard of work and service. Bass is primarily a rhythm instrument while guitar can provide both rhythm and leadmelody. Prescott double bass, c1830 every pet owning bass players worst nightmare. We have an extensive instrument and bow repair workshop.
During this past steamy weekend, the bass got warm, and theres now a rattling open crack or. Gel coat cracks 1996 javelin 400 te bass boat gelcoat is made from nearly the same resin as the laminating resin. The proper way would be to remove the entire top by separating it from its ribs, apply animal glue to the crack joint, and secure the crack further from opening in the future by means of studs or cleats beneath the crack. Very fine luthiers tool,double bass brass repair seam or crack clamp. This instructable is based bassed on an old double bass that i bought some years ago. You might fix it, only to find out in a week or a month or a year that the crack has gotten bigger or restarted in some other area.
This is very easy to fix if you spot the crack early, however the larger it gets the more useless the cymbal will become. This engelhardt came to us with not only two cracks in the neck heel but the male part of the dovetail was sheared off as well. You will be directed to our third party checkout system. On examining the double bass, he could see that the top of the instrument had suffered a 4inch crack. Whether its a neck graft, new bass bar, soundpost patch, a new bridge, crack repair, fingerboard dressing, full restoration or something simple, like a soundpost. Bassbar cracks usually start at either the ends or the middle duh, but for different reasons. Bass is generally plucked using the index and middle fingers to pluck upward on the strings. Herdim bass over rib clamp, 425mm depth, 2mm height product number. Gel coat cracks 1996 javelin 400 te bass boat page. When an instruments top is no longer has the correct arch then the. The most common place to get a crack on the cymbal is on the edge. This repair involves heating the joint with a gas torch until the solder is melted then resoldering around the joint. One drawback of a crack is that, in most cases, its difficult to work sufficient glue into the crack to get a sound repair. Its the white line that i drew on the photo at the bottom of the bass.
At the ends it is often a either a dryness crack, like a saddle crack, extending upward, or due to the weakness of the top just adjacent to the bar, which is inherent to the violin design, but can be exacerbated by a thin top, weird, arching, or ill fitting of the bar. I use diamond shaped cleats for most top and back crack repairs. Repairing an instrument with a sound post crack triangle. The blotting paper from a kitchen roll was inserted into the seam after the hide glue was removed with hot water and various scraping tools.
Double bass cracked after united airlines flight news. The usual repair consists of removing the old bass bar, gluing the crack, fitting a new bass bar, cleating the crack, fitting t. Hello, how long should one wait to allow a repaired crack to set. The best kept secret in bass guitar repair is superglue. Im also well aware, and have done, the standard repair for a bass bar crack. Not just a glossary of upright bass, double bass, string bass, bass viol, contrabass, bass fiddle, bull fiddle, acoustic bass, standup bass, doghouse bass.
Testimonial tom has done a number of jobs on my prized old french bass, from minor set up adjustments, to repairs neck broken off by an airline and a nasty crack from a cello spike, to a. Owen lee demos a 420 year old gasparo da salo bass duration. O90 rsw difficult bass top repair part 1 rosa string works. This section comprises of a number of restoration, repair and alteration jobs that i have performed over the last few years since the advent of digital photography. Repairing rib cracks parallel to rib grain triangle strings. Martyn j bailey luthier, maker, repairer and restorer of.