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Wow, this looks fabulous, love the colour!
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Wow, only just seen this.
So sorry to hear about your back problems. I dread the day when/if it comes that I can’t play any more.
Shame I can’t play fretless 😢
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Happy to help. I also spotted that the preamp is a John East Uni Pre, with passive tone.
Also that it weighed 8.4lbs according to the Gallery.
It really is a great gigging bass with that slim neck, light weight, LEDs, pickup flexibility and the East.
I found you could get a huge variety of tones from it - perfect for a covers band player!
I only sold it because I only ever gig my Ritters these days. I’ve got so used to the feel and neck profile now.
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On 07/01/2024 at 10:28, johnbiffa said:
Were you the original owner or do you know who spec’d it initially 🤔or when 😎
I first saw it for sale back in April 2017. I think it had been listed via The Gallery from the first owner.
It then reappeared in Dec 2020 and that’s when I agreed to buy it. I can’t for the life of me remember what the delay was but I took delivery in May 2021.
I think that made me the 3rd owner.
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I owned this one for a while. Nice bass and the 33” scale makes it just that little bit easier to whizz around the neck
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On 21/06/2023 at 17:17, PaulWarning said:
I'm not convinced that our website is value for money, but the singer loves the perceived kudos of having one and he runs it (the band pays) so it's not worth the aggro of having an argument about it, I don't understand tictok but it seems to have traction, I'll have to investigate
It shouldn’t cost much to run. Ours is £9 a month(and that actually allows me to maintain 5 sites).
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So sad to hear this, one of my absolute favourite bassists.
Always seemed to be able to get so much heartfelt emotion to even the simplest of parts.
I adore his playing on this from John Martyn:
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9 minutes ago, Biscuity Boyle said:
Maybe the 1-String - I actually love the idea of this 😂
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Knirrir - whereabouts in Oxfordshire are you?
I’m right down in the south in Henley
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21 minutes ago, Mudpup said:
I think you had about 4 on the wall when i visited. I wonder if anyone else on here has one?
I reckon the first batch was 4 and then we received another 4 about 18 months later.
As far as I remember, all initial sales were in the UK (although we did sell a lot of instruments into Europe).
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On 18/04/2023 at 21:26, Mudpup said:
My Zon Sonus Standard Import is the only one I can't see being sold. Mainly because I could never replace it as they are so rare. I saw a couple on the wall at a now defunct bass specialist store around 2011 (Bass Gear in Twyford - I think @molanmay have had something to do with the place?), played one, loved it but couldn't afford the £1000+ price tag on it. Moved on and forgot about it.
And then walked into my local guitar store a few years ago to buy some picks and saw one hanging on the bass wall (amongst the usual stock of a couple of Fenders and Ibanez basses). It was used, mint condition and very keenly priced as they didn't know too much about them. I couldn't believe it. 30 seconds later it was coming home with me..... I've never seen another one in the wild since that first sight back in 2011.
We had the exclusive rights to sell these when they first came out. The biggest problem was getting hold of them. We more or less agreed to take every one that Joe could get to us but I don’t think we even made it into double figures.
I’d say that if you got one for under a grand then you picked up a real bargain!
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18 hours ago, Cato said:
I'd have to go proper top end, stuff I probably wouldn't feel able to justify even if I had the spare cash, so Alembic, Fodera, maybe a particularly high spec Ritter.
I'm intrigued to find out what the additional outlay gets you.
I kind of get that much like Wal, nothing sounds quite like an Alembic because of their unique electronics, but with Fodera and Ritter, aside from body shapes, the differences between them and other basses are less obvious.
I own a couple of Ritters and have 2 more on order.
For me it’s the playability and feel. I can play stuff on my #1 Cora that I simply can’t play on other basses. I can come close of course but not quite in the same way as my Cora.
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On 27/02/2023 at 22:55, ped said:
Looks great and you must feel relieved to have it all sorted. I’m amazed that nitro checks so quickly - I assumed it happened over a long period of time with temp changes etc.
I think the paint is probably 4-5 years old now but it’s been in a case and not played.
We were planning to sand the neck back a little but decided to wait and it’s now checking as well.
Neck must be 11 years, or more, since it was refinished.
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40 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:
That looks gorgeous Barrie. Congrats on getting it completed.
It took a good few years in the end - some of that was total inaction on my part though 😆
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A few years back I importedt an old '64 P bass in bits and in quite a sorry state. The previous owner had been able to afford a neck refinish from John Kallas (owner of JohnK Vintage Guitars who's built or restored some crazy amount of instruments over the years!). However, he ran out of money and offered it as a parts bass to get it finished. When he first bought it, the entire neck & body had been stripped back & finished some sort of horrible, slightly sticky to the touch, lacquer:
Here's how it arrived to me in it's original, but totally knackered, case:
I contacted a few people about refinishing the body but quotes were either really high or they didn't want to take it on given how nasty the existing finish was.
Then, one day, I was chatting to my good friend, and local luthier, Julian Mullen. I mentioned that I wasn't sure what to do with this albatross and he took a look at it. He had actually closed the refinishing part of his business because it was too time consuming and a pain in the donkey to try and run a paint shop. He had a good look and confirmed that everything definitely appeared to be original and that the first colour would have been Olympic White as you can see the overspray in the pickup and wiring cutouts.
He then said he had just one pack of genuine US nitro paint kicking around in his workshop and it just happened to be Olympic White - it then became a bit of a challenge for him and he decided to take it on. One of the first things he discovered, having stripped away the lacquer, was that the body was a little thinner than it should be for a '64 but that he could rebuild it up using a few more layers of paint than usual. This was no easy job as it required several coats of primer and nitro with full sanding down between each one. ules is something of a perfectionist and carried this out over a long period, making sure it was completely dry and ready between every coat.
He then fitted all the parts that came with it, pickguard & pickups not show in the pic above. After all this work, this is how it looks now, I couldn't be happier:
All pics taken on my phone so apologies for the quality. I've tried to show the true colour of the paint and this has darkened the board and guard a little. The guard is a lovely deep red tort and the board has some really nice dark grain running through it that almost looks like ebony (it will be brazilian rosewood).
Hopefully you can see that the nitro is already checking nicely and the neck has begun to do this as well (the neck was refinned back in 2011 so it's had a good 10 years to 'catch up' with the body finish). It should now continue to age gracefully
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7 hours ago, johnbiffa said:
This is an unbelievable bargain for a bass of this quality
Thanks John,
it is a beauty and sounds great. It’s simply that I’m so used to my 33.3” scale Ritters now that I never really play it.
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Something has popped up that I’ve been looking at for a while so I’m reducing the price to £3,950
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Now posted on eBay. Might help if anyone wanted to pay on one of those wonderful interest free credit cards
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A couple of edits applied to the original post.
I've had some queries about international shipping and I can confirm that this instrument does not require a CITES certificate. I've checked official shipping sources and also with Roger Sadowsky himself.
Someone also queried the strong spacing as the 21 fret series would normally come with 20mm spacing, again, Roger confirmed this is the standard spacing. I've taken a, rather rudimentary, tape measure to the strings and this appears to be correct to me
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23 hours ago, JohnR said:
I would have been very interested but I'm a lefty. 😆
Spin it over and pretend you are the Hendrix of bassists 😂
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23 hours ago, JohnR said:
I'm waiting on a German built Sadowsky with an ETA of February 2025.
Need something to play whilst you’re waiting 😂It should only rise in value between now and then 🙈
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21 hours ago, Alanbass said:
And it is the vast increase in cost that simply astounds me - it almost beyond boutique! I can’t see these basses having the demand there has been in the past for new nyc basses. Perhaps there will be a growing pre-owned market in the years to come?
Warwick Masterbuilt prices went through the roof about 5-6 years ago. It was almost as if they wanted to reduce the volume of these custom builds. Personally I'd always try to go through NYC for anything custom. It also gives you the option to travel over, meet Roger & the team and collect in person etc. All part of the experience when spending £6K-£7K+ on your very own custom build.
Ot you can just buy a lovely pre-owned one and save a few grand 😂
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15 hours ago, pierreganseman said:
28 month build time on German made ones now
Oh my, that’s crazy - a 2 year+ wait!
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How does it balance on a strap?
With such a light body weight, I’d be slightly concerned that it could be a little neck-heavy?