Hello HSMers, I'm trying to figure out a better way to secure the endpin of a standup bass. At the bottom of the instrument is a wood socket with a steel collar and a thumb screw. There is a hole through the collar which holds a rod. If the rod is metal the collar/thumb screw works well enough, but many bass players think that a wood endpin sounds better. None of the typical approaches work very well for wood, so I am thinking of drilling a 5/8" hole (the pin diameter) orthogonally into a piece of 7/8 aluminum round, slotting most of the length in the same axis as the hole center, and drilling a second hole into the round, through the slot, near the open end, and using a thumb screw to draw the halves together. Look at the drawing (Sorry, my CAD skills and software are a bit primitive):
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17 years ago