Sandberg California Ida Nielsen Signature 4-String Bass £1975 Loughborough, Leicestershire

[ChrisDWright]

This is a wonderful bass in very good condition.
It was purchased new from Bass Direct and has never been gigged.
I will also throw in a Bass Direct hard case, purchased at the time.

 

I'm reluctantly selling for financial reasons, so please do not offer trades.

 

Here's the current Bass Direct advert, which lists it at a new price of £2699
The bass I'm selling is exactly the same spec.

Each scratch guard has a unique pattern.

It comes with a factory-fitted Hipshot drop-D Extender.

 

https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/sandberg-california-ii-ida-nielsen-4/

 

Here's the Sandberg blurb:

A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy, Ida Nielsen became known to audiences around the world as Prince’s bass player. For her virtuoso style between funky slaps and pushing grooves, she has for some time been swearing by electric basses from the Braunschweig cult smithy Sandberg, who have tailored her a signature bass according to her ideas with the Sandberg California TM4 Ida Nielsen. Accordingly, the classically constructed four-string has a bird’s-eye maple fretboard, Sandberg Black Label pickups with active 2-band tone control and a D-tuner for lightning-fast drop-tunings.

 

The Spec:

 

•Origin: Germany

•Body Wood: Alder

•Colour: Black

•Finish: Soft Aged

•Neck Finish: Satin

•Neck Material: Birdseye Maple

•Fingerboard: Birdseye Maple

•Pickups: Sandberg Black Label

•Preamp: Sandberg 2 Band

•Pickguard: Black

•Hardware: Gold + Hipshot Extender

•Frets: 22

•String Spacing: 19mm

•Nut Width: 40mm

•Scale Length: 34”

•Weight: 8lb11oz/3.95kg

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by ChrisDWright

[Reggaebass]

Very nice Chris, these look so cool