Meebs, I don't want ya to go spending the grocery kitty on a snazzy bow. Just that it's my preference to supervise the real thing, repair if supervision proves insufficient. But I'm nowhere near a classroom. And mood-altering substances create particular risks (different thread). Guess like everything else, we have our own thresholds and priorities... My cello is a decent student model -- doesn't that mean a nice junker? -- actually it's not a junker but it's certainly a no-name workshop item. But I couldn't do the fibreglass bow. Oh dear, I just pictured a galvanized steel French horn... /babble.

CH.