thedontcarebear

Reduced, don't think I can go lower than this.

It is a genuinely fanatic bass, but not being played.

Been playing years, although bands took a back seat for years.

Into most music but especially Rock and Funk, from Clutch to Deftones to Stevie Wonder.

Not wanting to play Reading Festival or support Madonna, or, join an Oasis tribute band.

It is a great bass, which I still don't really want to sell, but I still barely play any of my instruments.

9 hours ago, ead said:

Nice.  Just out of interest what lead time have you been quoted?

 I was originally quoted around 7 months and it took over 11.

On 28/01/2022 at 12:49, thedontcarebear said:

Just ordered this from Mark at Bass Direct....

 

 

Will be the third Sandberg I've owned, sold the original one I had, but the 2nd is my favourite bass ever.

And today it arrived!  Not been able to plug it in, but it feels awesome.

I'm near Dishforth, just had to say that, haha.

Nice looking bass, had loads of Warwicks over the years, but don't at the moment.

It's awful.

How can you use an Ashdown and sell an EBS?! Haha.  Great amps!

Wasn’t Suhr a master builder at Fender?  Is this master built custom shop?

Final reduction before it is kept!

Would take a lightweight amp head up to half the value in part exchange too, 350 watt+

9 hours ago, briansbrew said:

It sounds like you want to keep it 😍

Yeah, that might be the case!  I am just in the mood of thinking I have too much though, so still not sure, it seems a massive waste.

My Tokay AJB-118?  Haha.

Yeah, I've owned many Tokai's over the years - and no issues with the necks whatsoever, guitars and basses.

Price reduction to £699.

I've been round the US factory, and to be honest, your US Fenders are mainly made by Mexicans anyway.

I don't see any issue with a greater shift to Mexican production, the factories aren't even that far apart in the grand scheme of things, few hours drive down the coast.  So they can easily keep management from America, with a cheaper Mexican based workforce.

On 28/06/2022 at 17:15, Reggaebass said:

There’s a nice California on Bassbros at the moment, great colour 

This was for sale on this forum before there, at an awesome cost, I imagine they sold it for hundreds more!  Can't believe someone didn't buy it from here.

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Thinking about removing and sending it to a shop to sell for me, so last weekend of it being up here.

That is super nice.

I like light strings - thicker strings with more tension are just harder to play for me.  I get Ernie Ball Extra Slinky Bass, which are 40-95.

I can only really put up with heavier if I play with a plectrum, or it's just rock kind of stuff.

I like a bit of rattle in my sound too, for a super clean sound, heavier strings are better.

Sounds like you’re the odd one out and should probably leave?

Their customer service replied to me before via this address...

[email protected]

Gave this a big old price reduction to £1699.  That's £300-ish less than the non 1st 46 one that Bass gallery have on Reverb.

Can post this now if needbe, will just have to be insured of course!