Making a double bass

[Christopher Jacoby]

It's the bible for luthiers! Thank you, Roger.

[Martin McClean]

Sincere thanks for making this available. I may have missed it but is there a way we can make a financial contribution to

[Martin McClean]

Sincere thanks for making this available.

[Mike Spencer]

Many thanks Roger (and others) what wonderful project and your generosity to share is unparalleled!!!

 

Mike Spencer

[CarloBartolini]

Roger, thank you very much for this wonderful piece of literature, looking forward to it. 

[Jim Bress]

My thanks as well!  For this latest effort and all your many other contributions.

 

Cheers,

Jim

[Rue]

That is awesome.  I downloaded...and did a quick scroll through (I'm at work)...and am looking forward to reading through it later!

[James M. Jones]

Amazing! Thank you!.... Saw the bass in Indie.....Wow!....

[Roger Hargrave]

Sincere thanks for making this available. I may have missed it but is there a way we can make a financial contribution to

 

Hi Martin, You are one of several people that have asked about making a contribution. Well it is all done now and like so many of these things that sound like a good idea at the time; its time has gone. I am just glad that it is (almost) finally over. I still need to do the super deluxe version 3. Maybe someday I will even print a copy for myself. For now, as they say, it’s 'never again'. My next project is the book that I have been wanting to complete about identifying Cremonese instruments. I have been working on it since 1993. I’m a bit of a slow coach.  

 

http://www.roger-har.../Bibliothek.htm

[saintjohnbarleycorn]

I also add my thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with everyone. 

[Urban Luthier]

A grin a mile wide crossed my face when downloaded this last night! I even showed it to my family.

 

Thanks Roger and Rene, I now how much effort you put into this, and the result speaks for itself. I honestly think this is one of your most significant publications.

 

Chris.  

[Doug Cotterill]

Thanks extremely much, Roger, for putting so much time into producing this. It's extremely well presented, and informative. I learnt a lot from it, and I'm certain many other people will too. You are very generous to freely share your valuable knowledge and experience, and I appreciate that very much.

[Doug Cotterill]

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[Davide Sora]

Thanks Roger, excellent and very informative work.
Secrets and omissions are kept to a reasonable minimum .....

 

Davide

[tango]

Hi Martin, You are one of several people that have asked about making a contribution. Well it is all done now and like so many of these things that sound like a good idea at the time; its time has gone. I am just glad that it is (almost) finally over. I still need to do the super deluxe version 3. Maybe someday I will even print a copy for myself. For now, as they say, it’s 'never again'. My next project is the book that I have been wanting to complete about identifying Cremonese instruments. I have been working on it since 1993. I’m a bit of a slow coach.  

 

http://www.roger-har.../Bibliothek.htm

 

Dear Roger

I am very gratefull for your  work. It will occupy a special place in my library

Thanks and regards to Rene also

 

Tango

 

PS; Please!!! hurry up with ; ... identifying Cremonese instruments.

[MikeC]

I would like to request that the next book you write be 'Replicating the Cremonese Ground'  

 

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[Adam Edwards]

Many thanks Roger, I have learnt heaps, you've made a wonderful contribution to humanity, 

Best Adam

[jezzupe]

Yup, great stuff, there is no greater wisdom than that which is set free.

[Caoimhín]

Well done Roger, Rene & Chris

 

Fair play to ye

[Urban Luthier]

I ran my printed copy over to the guys at Heinl's here in Toronto. They hadn't seen the blog but still knew about the project. They seemed genuinely excited to see the book!

 

i'll check in on them in a week or so to see what they think

 

C

[Húslař]

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I just completed the final checks on the bass blog. Because of its physical size it has been a complex exercise. For the moment it is protected by a pass word, but this week end it should be free. It contains 371 photographs and more than 24000 words. Consequently it may present some problems for those wishing to download it. For this reason I have provided three downloading possibilities. The first offers a quicker download, but the photo quality is compromised. This is mainly for reading. The second possibility offers better images, but it will take longer to download and it may tax slower systems. Please note that the second option MUST be completely downloaded before you attempt to print it. This will take several minutes; however, if you do not download it completely, it will not print correctly. The third option is for high quality photographs and it will take a further month or so to complete. I am not sure what it will look like or how long it will take to download. 

 

Please note that although anyone is free to download this article, print and use it, a licensing agreement does apply. 

 

This blog has had 122,000 plus hits. I hope that this new piece, which has a number of additions, will be worth the effort that Chris (Urban Luthier) and others have invested in its production. My thanks to all on MN that have contributed. Have fun! Any comments should be addressed to Rene Zaal or me on this website. 'That's all folks!' 

 

 

 

http://www.roger-hargrave.de/Seiten/english/Bibliothek/Bibliothek.htm

 

 

Thank You very much Mr. Hargrave!

I was eagerly waiting for this book and patience paid off!

Excellent work. I am not alone who is looking forward to another Your books and also topics here on Maestronet!

Once more thank You!

[Caoimhín]

I know you're probably sick to the teeth of this whole project by now, and fair enough, but I'd absolutely love to see a Strad poster of the original Amati bass and the measurements ye took. Proper posters of basses are few and far between and any decent set of measurements are greatly appreciated by those amoung us who endeavour to make them. There's very few decent resources available to bass makers.

Not trying to give you an ulcer! Just thought I'd put it out there... maybe something might come of it...

[James M. Jones]

I have been enjoying the down load immensely, surly there is some sort of saint-hood-ly -ness'esss  for all involved. what a body of work . 

  I am wondering about printing the document , I down loaded the second / Higher pixal version , and when I look for any print function I can't find it . I really enjoy reading in bed and other places( I won't go into the details)   ...Am I missing something?

[Urban Luthier]

Hi James

 

Since it is a PDF doc you can print it directly from the doc itself. It would be much easier however to take the file to Fedex/kinkos and have them print and bind it for you.

 

Roger posted an outline of the form earlier in the thread. I bet if you played around with it you could get a fairly good outline from this.

 

Chris

9210--309.pdf

[Caoimhín]

Thanks Chris

It's a beautiful model. I'll see if I can manage to get a scale print out of the pdf...