Fingerboard

[symcbass]

Long shot, but worth a try, looking for a 3/4 double bass fingerboard with or without Romberg level, must be in good condition Rosewood or ebony only thanks.

[yorks5stringer]

There are sellers on ebay from China who do them for around £50 plus tax to your door or people like [url="http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/ttwp25.html"]http://www.touchstonetonewoods.co.uk/ttwp25.html[/url] do them as well, but around £100-£164 depending on quality.

Edited January 10, 2011 by yorks5stringer

[scojack]

Also David Dyke at [url="http://www.luthierssupplies.co.uk"]http://www.luthierssupplies.co.uk[/url].
The quality of the Chinese ones are a bit hit and miss TBH, usually come in at around £80 inc P&P.

IanM

Edited January 10, 2011 by scojack

[27 frets]

[quote name='symcbass' post='1081769' date='Jan 8 2011, 05:13 AM']Long shot, but worth a try, looking for a 3/4 double bass fingerboard with or without Romberg level, must be in good condition Rosewood or ebony only thanks.[/quote]
For quality ebony, you could try Klier in Germany (my Gedo Musik bass has one of theirs fitted): no prices listed though.

[url="http://www.klier-josef.de/index_us.html"]http://www.klier-josef.de/index_us.html[/url]

[symcbass]

Thanks folks,
I'll stay away from the Ebay ones though, the quality of the Ebony is very suspect on ones I've seen. If you try to plane/dress them the grain is not straight at all, nightmare to work with. I've seen a nice one at Bob Gollihur's , just thought I'd give it a go on here first, thanks again for your ideas.
Sy.

[symcbass]

E-mailed Klier too, waiting for a price now, thanks again.

[fonzoooroo]

email these guys:
[url="http://shop.violinbridges.co.uk/"]http://shop.violinbridges.co.uk/[/url]
Their top quality stuff's very good. Even going down to 3rd quality gives usable timber.