Bass Bar Profile Question??

[Aren Winebrenner]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

the Bass Bar like any other part of the instrument needs just as much thought as anything else in a Bass. Maybe even more!

That's what scares me!!!

I have made just one instrument so far, under the tutelage of Kevin Flannery in Grand Rapids, MI. So I'm very new to all of this. I picked up a "very distressed" turn of the century Germanic shop bass as an instrument to practice various repair techniques on (as it needed just about every repair imaginable short of a scroll/neck graft). It had an integral bar with cracks to match, so it had to go. I used Kevin's methods for determining bar length and placement. Which brings me to this. I have discussed this with Kevin, but with everyone having their own idea of how to approach it, I thought best to see what some of the other battle hardened veterans have to say!

Thanks Ken.