Obscure Musical Backwaters - The Great SGC Nanyo Thread

[neepheid]

Daft question (which has probably been answered in these 26 pages, I tried searching - honest!) - see the tuners are mounted facing each other (as in the E and G are mounted "upside down") - is that so that when the bass is strung up properly (with the strings following the path of least resistance and winding on the tuner on opposite sides), you still turn the tuners the way one would expect on each side of the headstock?

 

Sorry, it's one of those questions where your gut is screaming the answer at your brain, and your brain is going "hold on, gut, I need to give this some more thought"...

[Happy Jack]

Yup, that's exactly it.

 

However, it is surprisingly easy to get the string routing wrong and end up with randomly turning tuners. 🙄

[neepheid]

Now see that's the kind of attention to detail I can get on board with and tickles me greatly.

[chrismoon]

i’ve got a 5 string in pearlescent white that may be for sale if there’s any love for it? Had it since 1990ish says BASS COLECTION produced by SGC nanyo made in japan on electrics cover.

Sno. 910994.

im a newbie on this site and i’m struggling to upload photos 

Edited April 21 by chrismoon
im a muppet who can’t spell

[neepheid]

Hee hee, I joined the club, and it's all this thread's fault (only kidding, I've been well aware and curious about these beasties for many years)

 

 

Proper NBD later, but here's a starter for 10.  I think it's a 310, it's a 1991 model and it has a Glockenklang preamp in it.

[neepheid]

SGC Nanyo owners - would you say these knobs are close in appearance to the originals?

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GBTLFN6

 

[Happy Jack]

No - not even close.

[neepheid]

2 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

No - not even close.

 

I'm maybe being silly here - do the OG knobs not look like this?

 

 

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick completely?  Have I gone snowblind by looking at many pictures?

[Happy Jack]

All of mine have had chromed, knurled, dome-top knobs in some sort of metal.

 

I've never had/played one with tapered plastic knobs.

 

[neepheid]

1 minute ago, Happy Jack said:

All of mine have had chromed, knurled, dome-top knobs in some sort of metal.

 

I've never had/played one with tapered plastic knobs.

 

 

Well, that'll explain the "not even close" comment

 

I think these ones look pretty similar to my untrained eye.  Bit of a square pin in a round hole situation, being that they're press fit and the Glockenklang pots are solid shaft, but I'll see what I can come up with...

[kodiakblair]

2 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

No - not even close.

Look very similar to the ones mine came with.

 

[Happy Jack]

Maybe ir's a Made In Japan / Made In Korea thing?

 

[Happy Jack]

These were mine (over the years):

 

SB310FL - cylindrical black plastic with a distinctive top, mainly flat but 'chamfered' down on one side.

 

 

SB320

 

 

SB320

 

 

SB325 - lousy photo but these were the same knobs as the SB310 (above)

 

 

SB330

 

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

SGC Nanyo owners - would you say these knobs are close in appearance to the originals?

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08GBTLFN6

 

 

Yes.

 

EDIT: SB310, MIJ.

Edited 4 hours ago by tauzero

[AndyTravis]

How many do you need? I’m sure I have a couple

[neepheid]

Just now, AndyTravis said:

How many do you need? I’m sure I have a couple

 

All 4, and thanks for the offer but I'd rather muller some Musiclily knockoffs than some OG knobs because I'm going to be making press fit knobs work with solid shaft pots