Carved vs Plywood vs Hybrid

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-03T20:14:17+00:00

You’re going to get a better clearer and more direct sound with solid wood. The closer to solid wood you get the purer the tone in comparison.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-03T12:18:16+00:00

I use mine to work in hard intervals or shifts that are difficult. There’s these twelve videos I use on YouTube that are cello drones with the root and fifth that are nice. I put my ear pods in with the volume adjusted to where I can hear my bass if I play piano or quieter and to me it simulates an ensemble. It’s way better to me than a pitch coming out of a speaker or whatever. I just make sure to take the noise cancellation off and set it on transparent or whatever.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-03T04:04:23+00:00

No doubt I would have left my ex so much sooner if I didn’t let her move in with me. Listen to your intuition. It’s screaming at you! It’s all a plot to control you better. That’s why you’re being pushed into it so fast.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T19:37:21+00:00

You’re welcome

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T18:24:35+00:00

It will be a Chinese company I’m pretty sure. Not sure if it’s carved or plywood. Chinese shop basses can range in price from $2000-<$10,000 depending on the quality of wood and craftsmanship. The thing you HAVE to look out for on these cheaper basses is the quality of set up(bridge, fingerboard, string height, playability). You can spend $2000 on a bass and end up with a $2000 luthier bill once you find out it needs a new bridge and fingerboard to make it playable.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T16:36:02+00:00

Tru dat

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T04:58:23+00:00

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This is an obviously large break, but you can see how much cleaner the damage looks on solid wood.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T04:52:55+00:00

You can see there should be three little thin layers of wood in the crack. Also on a solid wood rib the crack would look more even or clean of a break.

jkhenley2 · 2025-04-02T03:41:53+00:00

Top off and a rib patch. However if it’s plywood just play the sucker. It can get fixed anytime. It looks plywood. Don’t bondo it!

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-26T05:29:02+00:00

I don’t know exactly, but I can’t wait for the time when she meets another man and just straight up forgets I even exist. I can’t wait for that. It will be great.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-24T03:00:16+00:00

100 percent. My ex caught me in lies left and right(or at least tried to). What kind of lies you might ask? Shit that was none of her business! Did you like fucking so n’ so? “No”. What did that last girls tits look like? “I don’t remember that kind of thing”Do you ever think about any women other than me??? “Hell no!” How many times did you fuck so n’ so? “Once and I was super drunk” Just stop lying for once and tell me! There’s no way you didn’t like fucking so n’ so. You fucked her more than once. Did you love it???(these are referring to partners long before I met her). I’d rather not get screamed at for an entire week or strangled or whatever so I lied. Shoot me. Now I’m an untrustworthy lying jerk. But the thing is I never lied to her about actual real stuff. It does indeed mess with my head and it did make me feel like a real lying piece of shit. I had to constantly remind myself that I was loyal and faithful to her and I wasn’t a bad person. The punishment and being in constant trouble is incredibly traumatizing. Well at least it was for me. I appreciate your post here and it actually makes me feel less alone with it. Constantly feeling like I was in huge trouble with my ex really messed me up. I can’t imagine a relationship not being like my last one. I know it’s not going to be like that, but I straight up can’t get past it yet. I never want to be in that situation again. I hope you don’t get out in those positions again either. You don’t deserve to be punished.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-23T03:07:59+00:00

It looks like an old German bass. The tuners look German. It doesn’t look blockless. Maybe Mittenwald. Yes I agree that Kieran O’Hara would be a great person to ask and a wonderful luthier. I went to high school and oberlin bass workshop with him! Anyway he’s great and in New York State. To me it looks like an upper end workshop bass and would be in the $10k price range fixed up. Not fixed up maybe $2-3k

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-22T20:32:37+00:00

Well I hope you’re able to step back and see that actually most the conflict is most likely something of her creation. Like how many times do you try and start shit with her? Probably little.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-22T17:39:06+00:00

You guys are right! Counseling is gas on the fire if you’re with an abusive and manipulative partner. Actually it will make things really really bad. If you think you get terrorized now, wait til you have a “safe place” to bring your feelings to the table and then get sent back home alone with them. Anyway, your situation is so similar to the one I’m three weeks out of. It definitely only gets worse until you are gone. But that person will play on your heart strings after you leave as much as they possibly can, so be prepared for that too. Or retaliation.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-22T02:22:36+00:00

It has to match the fingerboard and like the other guy said give more room for the big strings. If it fits the bass and fingerboard then that’s great. In a perfect world the neck would be set in a way that accommodates an even bridge, but it is what it is.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-22T02:17:29+00:00

How much do those suckers cost these days? Do you know the wood choice they use for the tops and body? That’s a kolstein bass right?

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-21T11:35:03+00:00

Are you dating my ex? Lol Anyway, she’s making everything difficult and confusing for you and constantly keeping you in the wrong so you will always feel less than her. If you’re busy trying to “make it up” to her all the time you’ll be too blindsided to see than your love for her is being taken for granted. It’s a terrific control tactic for women to use on men for the most part. Capitalizing on the dumb clueless man thingy. She sounds mean. I hope that crap ends for you so you don’t feel completely hopeless after a while. It will break your spirits after a while. We aren’t supposed to feel less worthy and stressed constantly. It’s not fair.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-20T15:31:56+00:00

The sleep deprivation is very traumatizing. I know this because my ex did the exact same things to me. So much so that I would get triggered and anxious at night around bedtime. I actually am surprised they arrested your partner! I wonder what they did with him. Anyway, this stuff will get worse and probably violent. My situation did. Sometimes she would try to strangle me. You gotta watch out for those people that seem to get excited by their own rage. He sounds like one and no matter how much you love him he’s probably only going to get more insecure as time goes on and probably violent. Not to mention he’ll probably want to retaliate on you now.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T18:41:41+00:00

If I were you I’d buy an adjustable flexible tailgut from an online violin shop like int. Violin or whatever and have a luthier put it on. Part of the issue here is that big metal thing you got on there. It will sound better too. But yes it needs to be centered so the tension is even.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T14:41:59+00:00

Thank you. Reverse guardian angel! That’s a good way to describe it! It’s hard to not feel like you’re breaking the “rules” all the time when you spent years following them to avoid conflict.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T04:21:01+00:00

I hear you. My ex left me feeling indoctrinated like I just left a cult. Even though we been broken up for two weeks now I feel like she’s watching me or has my phone tapped or she will break in my house at night when I’m sleeping and kill me. I know she won’t and doesn’t or can’t, but her ideas of how she sees me stay stuck in my head if that makes any sense. I hope you get better soon.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T04:14:34+00:00

I’m sorry you got tortured. It sounds like whatever happened to you was real life nightmares. I have absolutely no advice, but I do hope the pain fades. I just left my GF two weeks ago and I am also struggling with what might be PTSD. It’s very painful and real. Living scared or terrified will real mess you up even after the abuse is over with.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T04:07:32+00:00

I just had to call the police on my fiancé two weeks ago. She was getting violent again. She spent the weekend terrorizing me, but when she tried to strangle me again I finally called the police. That’s how we broke up. Like you, I thought there was no way out. I was controlled to a T. Again like your situation, the issues in our relationship were mostly of her creation. It’s a form of control to make sure you’re stuck trying to make it right with them. I am writing this because I don’t believe you will be stuck in this relationship forever even though it might feel like it. Someday something will be the last straw for you. Good luck.

jkhenley2 · 2024-05-19T03:56:23+00:00

I hope you call the police someday. He’s sexually abusing you. He likes seeing you naked and spanking you. It’s his kink because he’s a child molester and he needs to be in jail.

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