Acoustic Bass find

Zakk Wylde · Post by **Zakk Wylde** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:29 pm

To answer your statement... Yes. We all want an acoustic bass.

How cool would it be to jam without a drummer, and without the 15" 300w bass screwing your innards.

Very Cool

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:12 am

To answer your statement... Roger has never wanted an ABG or an AUB.

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Fri May 20, 2005 9:58 am

I'm intrigued to know how they strut them without the risk of the top caving in - the old doghouse bass had fairly thick tops as did the bush band tea chest (Contray to rumour the overseas PG Tips tea chests don't have *rareuniquewowawsome* tone)

The bass strings are fairly thick and on electric bass (my only point of camparison - have fiddled with accoustic in a shop but a long time ago) under some tension so you'd wonder what the likely life span of accoustic basses like the Eko one would be?

ash · Post by **ash** » Fri May 20, 2005 10:51 am

Most acoustic basses I've seen have A-frame bracing like an archtop guitar. This system gives plenty of longitudinal stiffness and strength to hold the heavy string tension. Some have a fairly lightweight looking X brace system, which looks rather flimsy to me. They seem to survive nonetheless. I'm sure google can tell us the respective total tensile loads on bass and guitar strings... I might look if no-one else does first