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Originally Posted by Katie Long
.... it is doing fairly well although the white  hair it came with is really not to my liking and very cheap I think! Planning to get it rehaired with some black hair and then I'll let you know what that does to it. As a second bow, it's really good for the money so far. |
It's weird that these mass-produced Chinese bows all have that crappy, weak bleached-white hair on their bows.
I bought a KSB bow from Ken about a year and a half ago (you can read the review at the top). It's a really nice bow considering that it is mass-produced, and it draws a big, deep sound compared with other bows that have a similar weight. It is a ton better than my old Upton $99 bow in almost every way.
The one aspect that the Upton definitely had an edge over my current bow was with the hair. Both bows came with white hair. I bought the Upton 2 years ago and just recently sold it. When I packed it into a shipping tube, I noticed that the bow hair looked like it hadn't been used much; all the hairs were pretty much intact and looked brand new. Sure I used it for only half a year and another bassist used it for another half a year, but still, I was amazed with how good it looked. My C. Loveri bow on the other hand is close to losing half its hair, and the Shostakovitch that's coming up won't be kind to the remaining hairs. I'm definitely looking forward to rehairing my bow when I get back to NYC.