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Originally Posted by Ken Smith
Don't shop for repairs on line. Would you have your Dental work quoted this way or Medical care? Without a one-on-one with the person doing the work you are just wasting ink here.
A Hybrid bass that needs a full Top restoration will far exceed its value, period!
I don't know without seeing it in person and nor does anyone else what the Bass actually needs.
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Mr. Smith, I'm not shopping for repairs and I didn't even imply that I was asking about a 'full top restoration'. In my original post, (which, in your words, "I posted on deaf ears") I believe that I stated that "The goal would be to make the bass playable, not new."
The owner of the bass brought it to the theater where I'm working and asked me what I thought of the instrument, and if it was worth fixing. As I said in my original post, I've never had this sort of work done before, and wouldn't know within an order of magnitude what it might cost.
Since this forum actually has active members who do this sort of work (and is the only forum in which I participate at that talks about basses at all), it seemed to be the best place to ask a general question about repairs to a double bass.
I have received some very helpful responses from this thread, via PM and email (thanks, Wayne and Matthew), so I can at least respond to the young man who owns the bass without making figures up out of my own head; that was the reason I asked.