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Sandberg California VM4 Soft aged vintage white (cream) Sold
£875


Opticaleye
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*Now sold *

 

*Now £800*

 

For sale is my beautiful Sandberg "California" VM4 made around 2004-6 (I believe). 



It doesn't say California on the headstock instead it says "Custom Shop Instrument". From enquiries I made to Sandberg I believe this was a special bass built before Sandberg officially started making the California series.
I bought this on here in 2010 and have used it regularly since. It has a very reasonable weight of 9lbs 2oz and has terrific balance. When I originally bought this I really wanted a passive VS4 and I recently  bought one so I'm not really using this to it's full potential. A new model VM4 in this spec would cost around £1500.

I upgraded the old active circuit with a brand new Sandberg preamp as the old one did not have a passive treble control and I also upgraded to the newest style Sandberg bridge and string tree.
The finish is a really nice soft-aged white/cream. I don't think I added any further dings!

This bass now has a Sandberg P style rather than the original Delano as I tried a more recent VM4 and realised why Sandberg modified the design fairly quickly. I find the Sandberg P is less nasal sounding in the "reverse P" position. I kept the original Delano MM on as it sounds great. The aforementioned preamp is Sandberg's own 2-band with active/passive push/pull volume knob (made by Glockenklang for Sandberg)

The neck is 39mm at the zero fret, so a little wider than a Jazz but narrower than a typical Precision and has a fairly slim feel and plays very well. I believe that the body wood is Alder.

This bass is sale only (no trades) as I seem to have accidentally amassed 5 Sandbergs (!) and I really need to get this down to 3 eventually before I move house "up north". I'm currently based in Northampton. Collection or meet within reasonable distance only please.

The bass comes with a Sandberg gig bag.

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27 minutes ago, StevieE said:

That's a beaut, nice mods and interesting headstock info. Very cool 😎

What's the other sandy you're looking to move on?

Cheers.

Well I'm torn whether to sell one of my Umbos. If I do it probably won't be on here as it's already spoken for many times over.😉

 

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