{"id":443,"date":"2009-09-26T21:31:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2009-10-06T01:20:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T23:20:21","slug":"how-to-remove-an-endpin-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"How to remove an endpin easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doublebassguide.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/endpin_removal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bass\u2019 (and cello&#8217;s) endpins usually don&#8217;t get glued in \u2013 as both the plug and the hole are conical, the endpin gets just plugged into the body. But some endpin plugs are really a challenge to get loose again. The best way I found so far is to use a hammer without handle. I screw the rubber tip off,\u00a0 slide the hammer onto the endpin, and screw on a large washer (as I don&#8217;t want to damage the rubber tip). Usually, it takes just two or three blows with the hammer to get the whole endpin assembly out off the bass\u2019 body again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bass\u2019 (and cello&#8217;s) endpins usually don&#8217;t get glued in \u2013 as both the plug and the hole are conical, the endpin gets just plugged into the body. But some endpin plugs are really a challenge to get loose again. The best way I found so far is to use a hammer without handle. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}