In urgent need of a Kolstein Busetto

[Happy Jack]

My existing bass is teetering on the brink of oblivion and the best replacement for it that I can imagine is another Kolstein Busetto.

 

If you have one one - or know someone who has one - that is looking for a new, gigging home please get in touch.

[Clarky]

Oh no! I know that Kolstein had been through the mill, with the neck etc, but I assumed it would (a) be fine and (b) that I would buy it off you one day, lol!

Good luck tracking another down, sadly a new one is uber spendy by the time import duties and delivery from US are included

[Happy Jack]

1 hour ago, Clarky said:

... sadly a new one is uber spendy by the time import duties and delivery from US are included

 

Do they still make them?

 

Your old one (yours too @bassace) is still in one piece ... just. The neck needed major surgery shortly after I acquired it from Roger and Laurence Dixon obliged, but halfway through Set #1 last night a crack big enough to insert a thumbnail suddenly appeared right through the heel, and at roughly the point where the previous repair finished. I had to stop playing the bass and quickly detune to take off the string tension before the bass became the world's most expensive folding pen-knife. 😟

 

I imagine that it can be repaired ... most things on a DB can. But now we're into cost/benefit analysis and whether or not it would make more sense to buy another/different/new/whatever instrument rather than chucking serious money at the existing one. Don't forget the slow but steady collapse of the table on that bass. 😱

 

It's a miracle it's lasted this long.

 

I'll be calling Thwaites in the morning to see if I can take it in for an assessment.

 

[Clarky]

Oh darn it. Sorry it has started to fall apart. The fact a hard slapper like Lee Rocker plays one made me think its very durable. I just checked website and last price was £6k but also it's "currently unavailable"

[Happy Jack]

10 minutes ago, Clarky said:

I just checked website and last price was £6k but also it's "currently unavailable"

 

[Poirot] Exactement, my little cabbage. [/Poirot]

[Staggering on]

I believe there is some question as to whether Kolstein's is still in business. they have had some serious financial issues and the New York store is closed and empty. There was/is another branch in Florida I think run by the person who bought the business a couple(?) of years ago. Lots of stories on TB and questions re availability of their basses, strings and rosin. Lots of rumours, not sure where to get the truth about all this.

[Happy Jack]

Thwaites are confident that the bass can be recovered, so my Kolstein now resides in Bushey until further notice.

 

Strangely enough, they are far more relaxed about the sunken table than I am. Apparently it looks far worse than it is.