What can i do with my acoustic bass guitar?
fbtor asked:
I bought it over ebay for $100. I know very little about guitars but wanted to get my hands on one so that one day i might know how to play decently. Well, it came and the strings were too close to the neck. The guitar doctors couldn’t fix it; they said the neck is slightly twisted. Now I feel like i’ve wasted $100.
Any ideas whatsoever as to what to do with it? or how I can solve the problem.
I bought it over ebay for $100. I know very little about guitars but wanted to get my hands on one so that one day i might know how to play decently. Well, it came and the strings were too close to the neck. The guitar doctors couldn’t fix it; they said the neck is slightly twisted. Now I feel like i’ve wasted $100.
Any ideas whatsoever as to what to do with it? or how I can solve the problem.
I would return it. eBay is very strict about people selling junk. Especially if you paid for it though PayPal. You could also get a second opinion from a different guitar repairman. With an acoustic, I don’t think you can replace the neck. I once had an electric guitar that I bought for $4 because it had a broken neck. I out some screws in the neck and played it for 6-months until I could afford a new guitar. Then I took the neck off of that guitar and replaced it with a bass neck and bought bass strings for it. It sounded great as a bass. I refinished it and build my own bass speaker cabinets and installed 2-15″ JBL speakers and drove them with an old Bogan PA amplifier. I had bass players coming up to me all the time asking what kind of bass guitar that was and what kind of amplifier I had that sounded so good. It’s the speakers, not the amp that will give you great bass sound. Today, I have a new bass and amplifier but, I still use JBL speakers and have added two JBL powered subwoofers to the mix and I still have bass players asking about my bass amplifier. They just don’t get it. Dave LaBuda