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Lovely 

Looks lovely, it has a kind of SD Curlee vibe now. 

P/Jazzbucker is a great pickup configuration in my opinion. I have it in my Maruszsczyk and it sings. 

I imagine two of them is the sonic equivalent of a sledge hammer?

You'd think they'd know better than to use the most flawed bridge design in history. 

I got a second hand TT4 passive recently. I've had Jazzes and Jazz adjacents before and always moved them on for one reason or another. I was looking for a J type equivalent to my Maruszsczyk Jake. 

This is easily the best example of a Jazz I've ever had. The body shape is much more ergonomic without looking out of proportion like the Lakland DJ, the balance is impeccable. 

Mine has the black label pickups which I really like, they have all the attitude in the world if you play them hard but mellow out nicely when played softly. 

Fit and finish seem basically perfect. I really like the flatter profile fingerboard. It feels really solid too, also the quality of the in house hardware is amazing. The machine heads feel incredibly smooth. 

Long story short, I think it's a keeper. 

Great colour scheme 👌

38 minutes ago, ead said:

 

That looks like my old one.  I traded for a Sandberg TT4 TSBS as I like the battered look.  It has the Black Label p/ups that are rather nice too.

 

Interesting! Do you remember who you traded it to? This one has a 2020 serial number and I bought it off a guy called Mark in Nuneaton. 

This is gold. 

Hey everyone, 

I got my first Sandberg yesterday, I'd been looking for a passive jazz with a flattish finger board radius and this came up on eBay. It's a California TT passive in matt black with blocks and an off white scratch plate, actual matt black rather than the black stained natural on the configurator. 

After a moment of thinking the bridge pickup was broken, I turned all the controls right up, not realising that they were vol, blend, tone, I'm blown away by how good it is. It feels incredibly well put together and has the burp and clang that I wanted from a Jazz type instrument. Also it's much more comfortable than the traditional Jazz shape.

I used to have a candy apple red with matching headstock Japanese 66 reissue Jazz which I instantly regretted selling. This is super tempting. 

This is a streamer, not a corvette.

I really like these. I shouldn't, but I do.

Wow. I wish I'd spotted the body for sale. 

I was going to say exactly the same thing

15 hours ago, Old Horse Murphy said:

The very best colour scheme for Rays in my opinion and a great weight too 

After what felt like the longest 3 weeks of my life, my BTB605MS arrived on Monday. It's my first multi scale and a bit of a departure from what I usually look for in a bass but my god it's good. 

The electronics package is amazing, passive mode is identical to preamp flat. My favourite setting so far is low mids slightly boosted and bridge pickup slightly favoured. The overall tone is super clear and punchy. It's super resonant unplugged too. 

Multi scale feels really intuitive, it took next to no getting used to. The 35-37 scale is big, scales around the 3rd fret D are quite a stretch but I'm sure I'll adapt, also it makes the B string enormous. 

There's absolutely no reason why T-Bird wouldn't work in any kind of rock band. 

Also make with the pics! 

Absolute belter of a bass! 

I have one that's a decade older, with a rosewood neck and front routed control cavity, it blows me away every time I plug it in. 

GLWTS

This is in no way helpful, but I was having a similar argument with myself and ended up ordering the Ibanez BTB605MS.

This is all sorts of cool.

Damn this is cool. 

Some of my latest configurations 

I was enjoying the combination of pastel colours, ebony, black hardware and white/off white pick guards. 

This is something I struggle with too. I had a Grabber that was very slightly different to 34" and I could never get used to it. 

Super classy! Congrats on your purchase.

I keep looking at this. It's amazing, I just wish it was closer

This is really cool! 

I'm assuming this is the model above the foundation?