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You'll be looking for 'double ball end' for headless bass. Here's a useful start: https://www.basscentre.com/elites-dbe-series/elites-double-ball-end-v.html

My first DB was a 3/4 Zeller, and it got me well off the ground for the first few years. Great kit!

GLWTS 👍

I'll take it!

29 minutes ago, Bass Wielder said:

Hi, is this for 4 or 5 string?

cheers

These look like the standard size but will work with 4 or 5 string as they have a bar pole inside. Follow the Instruction link on EMG page for dimensions.

I've used them on both.

The longer 5 string size are a different code. I have some of those as well on another bass, but not at home at the mo to check.

GLWTS, @ead

I had a similar Chinese made thing about 10 or so years back.. it collapsed in on itself while waiting to play a gig; I took it for repair with a trusted friend, who told me the construction was crap but she'd do what she could. A few weeks later it collapsed again, so I scrapped it except for the neck which is decent and is now part of my ongoing project EUB.

More recently I bought an unashamed doer-upper Stentor DB with quite a few cracks and splits. My friend is now pretty much retired, and a DB would take up her whole workshop, so she taught me the basics of crack repair over the phone plus there's a ton of good stuff on YouTube. I've now played loads of gigs on is, love it, paid for itself times over!

Could be worth getting the basic techniques together yourself @Happy Jack!

Great stuff.. bet they looked good under stage lights! 👍

I just checked my Stentor.. here's a close-up of the tuner plate, which does look identical. 

Dunno re models, but I'd go for at least a 10" speaker then pretty much any level of amp section will sound decent for home. For my taste the 8" equipped combos only sound decent if you're spending decent money!

Happy to be wrong on this. 👍

7 hours ago, SumOne said:

The only correct way to do a medley:

 

 

That's superb, both comedically in that very skilled performance and so well arranged. It doesn't have to be Jive Bunny! Actually I found JB irritating the first time round; successful formula, mind.

Edit.. jings, 35 years ago! 😳

My first dB was a 3/4 Zeller, excellent bit of kit which kept me going for the first few years til it became with upgrading. 

Enjoy the ride! 👍

On 31/10/2024 at 15:03, Happy Jack said:

 

On 31/10/2024 at 15:03, Happy Jack said:

 

Troo dat, and this would include the legendary "You'll never get that under your chin".

Danny Thompson has a brilliant retort to that one: "If I had a mouth as big as yours I'd have no problem!"

Probably helps he used to do boxing.

From your post it sounds like the push-pull switches from humbucker to single coil. You can wire it as you wish, eg just humbucker or just single coil, the you're correct it's that alone.

The cable from the pickup is probably 4core plus screen, which gives the aforementioned options. No need to replace that cable.

Make sure you get the wiring right .

Without reading all 5 pages of this (on break at a dance gig), has anyone mentioned a more powerful pa, ie one with more headroom? 

Back in the 80s we struggled with 100 or 200W pa heads, no headroom therefore feedback 

On 29/10/2024 at 08:57, petebassist said:

Hugh, I bought my Stentor 1950 on the basis of watching a video that you did about the same model - helped me immensely. 😁

Thanks for the comment! I'd all but forgotten about that one:

The next vid in search was actually by a chap who'd just got a 1950 a couple of days previous, so a really good follow-on for someone coming from electric onto dB:

Don't suppose you're on here, Jason?

My first dB was a Zeller, and in shop days I sold quite a few Stentor 1950. I've recently bought a Stentor Student 2 cheap as it needed loads of work  

Recommend any of those. Budget for your choice of pickup and strings.

Longest term, remain open to the idea of bowing.. even physically it's remarkably different on a 'real' dB compared to an EUB.

14 hours ago, Hellzero said:

I play both... 😉

Ah, hence your distress! We feel for you, you're among friends. 👍

16 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

Moan on.

 

First finger = thumb

Second finger = index

Third finger = major

Fourth finger = annular

Fifth finger = auricular

 

Instead of using the same stupid terminology as electric bass player naming their pickups front or rear 🤦, simply use the correct names for your fingers, everybody will instantly and clearly understand what you mean.

 

Moan off.

 

Gonna have to rewrite all the instruction and teaching books ever, there! 😀

Hmm.. interesting. I've only ever heard of ball of thumb as the bit at the base, as you say "Thenar Eminence" is a name I've just been introduced to so thanks for that. Wikipedia suggests that nowadays it can also be used as the pad at the tip end, not at all confusing!

Anyway, on any instrument, if your fretting hand is on the neck in a club or cradling hold, so base of the thumb against the neck, try your maximum stretch 1st to 4th finger (we *are* all using your 4th finger, aren't we?). Now try it with the pad or tip of your thumb on the back of the neck.. gives me a good couple of inches more range, which especially on double bass means way better flexibility and far fewer position shifts. 

Nice idea, but if the ball of your thumb is in contact with the neck you'll be seriously limiting your finger spread, very noticeably so on double bass.

2 piccies.. 1st position I have my thumb right between 1st and 2nd fingers. When I get to the heel of the neck it's behind the first then comes around to the side of the fingerboard. Working on thumb position.

Not something I've specifically concentrated on, but by far the most comfortable positioning so I can get on with the playing. 

A good teacher may well point out the shortcomings of my thinking!

I came here hoping for some wine chatter! 👍

If it doesn't work out with gyrus, at that price I'll have them!

If it's useful for anyone, I have a couple of Cream cables from their early days.. the 10 years warranty expired a few years back! Trouble-free operation over lots of gigs and recording sessions, plus the colour makes them much easier to avoid with the size 10s on stage.

GLWTS!

35 minutes ago, alyctes said:

How big a job is the bridge replacement?

Needn't be a major job, but from here it looks like somebody put the finger wheels on top rather than I  between the two parts of the bridge.

Picture shows mine..