What is my bass

[David Blane]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

If you mean seasonal movement then I don't call this shrinkage. Shrinkage is something that is permanent like the plates at the lower bouts no longer overhanging the ribs so you have to shorten the ribs at the block. THAT is what I call shrinkage. Still, the bass looks new and well antiqued. Not French but possibly Hungarian. That treatment in the upper back is found on newer basses from China, Romania and Hungary.

Something like this but without the purfling frills.

The back no longer over hangs the ribs at the bottom of the bass, and I will have to shorten the ribs that is what I have been told by a luthier, but cant afford it at the moment