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The Setup and Repair of the Double Bass for Optimum Sound by Chuck Traeger    #70-6601 Info & Price A Manual for Players, Makers, and Repairers From the back cover "This big new book is the bible for the bass - complete information on repair & optimization. "For the player who wants more & better sound, & for the luthier who will provide it. "Presents detailed, clear, correct & efficient techniques for pracically any repair. Thoroughly illustrated, 377 pages. "This book contains secrets you will find nowhere else on how to make ANY bass louder, evener & easier to play." With David Brownell and Bill Merchant. Table of Contents I. Philosophy 1. Some General Observations 2. Optimum Sound 3.Science Catches Up With Art 4. Bass Repair - A Specialized Form of Repair II. The Setup for Optimum Sound 6. Some General Observations on the Setup for Optimum Sound 7. The End Pin 8. Making a Nut 9. Making and Positioning a Soundpost 10.Mode Matching 11. Making a Bridge - Proper Bridge Placement & Preventing Warping 12. Making a Regular Saddle - Making a High Saddle   III. Section 1 General Outside Repairs 13. The Shop 14. Glues and Gluing 15. Repairs to the Outside of the Body 16. Re-cutting a Bridge Top & Extending the Bridge Legs 17. Making a Bidge, Part 1 - Centering the Bridge & Fitting the Feet 18. Installing & Making a Bridge, Part 2 - Adjusters & Finishing the Bridge 19. Lengthening or Shortening a Fingerboard 20. Replacing a Fingerboard 21. Fitting a Shimunder the Fingerboard 22. Dressing the Fingerboard III. Section 2 The Neck and Scroll 23. Neck & Scroll Repairs 24. Neck Thickness 25. Re-setting a Neck 26. Replacing an Entire Neck and Scroll 27. Neck Too Short - Endgrain Shim at the Neck Butt 28. To Shorten and Existing Neck with Original Scroll Graft 30. Another Scroll Graft 31. Scroll & Tuning Box Broken 32. Tuning Machines 33. Installing a Fingered C Extension III. Section 3 - Major Open Repairs the the Body of the Bass 34. Opening for Repairs - Taking the Top Off 35. Repairing the Back 36. Blocks 37. Ribs and Linings 38. Top Repairs 39. Plate Graduation 40. Installing a New Bass Bar 41. Reshaping a Top 42. Tongue & Groove & 'Flying Dutchmen' - Dutchmen (Double Dovetail) Keys 43. Putting the Top Back On IV.. Alternative Repair Techniques 44. Adding a Big Piece of Top or Back 45. Repair a Broken Neck - A Hidden Inlay Spline 46. Inletted Peg Box Repairs 47. Shims in the Mortise for the Neck 48. Dowel Pins in Bass Bar 49. Preserving the Scroll with a C Extension 50. Grafts: Corners, Edges and Button 51. Custom Purfling 52. Center Insert to Widen a Shrunken Round Back Bass V.. Finishing Up 53. Re-hairing the Bass Bow 54. Other Bow Problems 55. Varnishing & Touch up 56. Writing an Appraisal Appendices A. Specifications for Optimum Sound B. The Air and Wood Modes of the Violin C. Humidity and the Double Bass D. List of Suppliers Home Info Center violins@violins.ca Print Page

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