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Club Sadowsky!!!

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sps500 said:
This one is so HOT!!!!

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I like that color combo...:D

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#21,225
jonno1707 said:
I'd honestly MUCH rather have your natural no top...:D
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I'll pre-apologize for that one's lack of availability. So many things so cool about that bass... the fact that it looks like "nothing special" but my gosh... the tone... I dare say it's even better than 5249, and 5249 is among the best I've played... truly awesome. The B string on 4098 is a force to be reckoned with, and I am not exaggerating on that. One of the best in all my arsenal. :)
 
#21,226
Sadowsky said:
I have posted a lot about lemon oil over the years. First, let's look at what lemon oil is. Lemon oil is just mineral oil with added lemon scent and color and chemical drying agents. Roger
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AFAIK this only applies to widely available, cheap pseudo lemon oil. There is real stuff available (at higher cost) that is real, pure lemon oil that works wonders on a board.
 
#21,229
lomo said:
AFAIK this only applies to widely available, cheap pseudo lemon oil. There is real stuff available (at higher cost) that is real, pure lemon oil that works wonders on a board.
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Got a URL or brand and product name?

I've seen people post this before, and been curious, but I have never been able to find it.
 
#21,230
Vic said:
Got a URL or brand and product name?

I've seen people post this before, and been curious, but I have never been able to find it.
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I'll get it and post later, after work. I was told about this by a well-respected Quebec luthier with 30 yrs of experience (has done numerous builds for Alain Caron, among others) and have been using it on my non-maple boards for 9 years (since I began playin). I have had only good results-no drying at all.
 
#21,231
lomo said:
I'll get it and post later, after work. I was told about this by a well-respected Quebec luthier with 30 yrs of experience (has done numerous builds for Alain Caron, among others) and have been using it on my non-maple boards for 9 years (since I began playin). I have had only good results-no drying at all.
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Awesome. Thanks! :)
 
#21,232
Vic said:
I'm thinking about doing something crazy...

Selling off my Metro MV5-24 AND my quilt top JJ5 (5249) and spec'ing out a new ash/maple quilt top V5-24 with the thinner neck like on the 24-Fret 5/Modern, and the narrower nut option.

My older NYC just SO SO has that ash/maple single coil J thing covered so well, and the Metro PJ5 just continues to stand up to the best PJ's I've ever played, so the only thing left is fancy/modern/24-fret, and I already know the dual soap thing is not for me. Further, my Metro MV5-24 is just perfect except for the fact that I'd like my 24 fret Sadowsky to have these other options... and you gotta' go NYC for that. Maybe even go birdseye on that board. :) Just not sure if I'd go "standard" or "vintage (with a guard/plate)". I'd actually think standard on this one... maybe even go PJ on the pickups... noodle noodle noodle...
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I'm at a similar place right now. My PJ5 with flats totally nails 'the sound in my head' for warm fingerstyle playing, and yet I have serious GAS for a NYC Modern in Mahogany/Ebony just to have a 'modern' instrument with rounds. Plus, I know from experience that if I had one of Roger's Moderns on the gig, I could get reasonably close to my preferred 'P Tone' by dialing that neck pickup.
 
#21,233
ElMon said:
I'm at a similar place right now. My PJ5 with flats totally nails 'the sound in my head' for warm fingerstyle playing, and yet I have serious GAS for a NYC Modern in Mahogany/Ebony just to have a 'modern' instrument with rounds. Plus, I know from experience that if I had one of Roger's Moderns on the gig, I could get reasonably close to my preferred 'P Tone' by dialing that neck pickup.
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I think you're right, and I also think you'd be making a good call going with a mahogany body on that particular bass, too.
 
#21,235
Vic said:
I think you're right, and I also think you'd be making a good call going with a mahogany body on that particular bass, too.
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What's the difference from, say, an ash bodied Modern with an ebony board, or even a maple/ash variant? I"ve heard the former and have owned and gigged the latter. I"m guessing a more prominent lowmid push than with the ash body versions.
 
#21,236
ElMon said:
What's the difference from, say, an ash bodied Modern with an ebony board, or even a maple/ash variant? I"ve heard the former and have owned and gigged the latter. I"m guessing a more prominent lowmid push than with the ash body versions.
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When we compared my 25th Anniversary 24F 5 (mahogany body, koa top, ebony board) to Ken/Vic's ash/spalted maple/ebony 24F 5, the upper mids and highs were virtually identical, but the mahogany bodied bass had more full lows to low mids.
 
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tombowlus said:
When we compared my 25th Anniversary 24F 5 (mahogany body, koa top, ebony board) to Ken/Vic's ash/spalted maple/ebony 24F 5, the upper mids and highs were virtually identical, but the mahogany bodied bass had more full lows to low mids.
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Thanks for that!! I'm VERY close to snagging one off of Ebay right now with a Cocobolo top. Providing another crafty TB'er reading this post doesn't outbid me!!!

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#21,238
tombowlus said:
When we compared my 25th Anniversary 24F 5 (mahogany body, koa top, ebony board) to Ken/Vic's ash/spalted maple/ebony 24F 5, the upper mids and highs were virtually identical, but the mahogany bodied bass had more full lows to low mids.
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+1

I'm normally ALL about ash bodies on basses, but yours sounded categorically better to my ear. I could kinda' get "close" to your sound by bumping the bass EQ, but even then it still wasn't quite as good.

IMHO(!!), Mahogany is THE body wood for these.

I've never tried an alder one, but I still think the Mahogany would "win"... at least for my tastes.
 
#21,239
Vic said:
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I'm normally ALL about ash bodies on basses, but yours sounded categorically better to my ear. To get "close" to his sound I had to bump the bass EQ, but even then it still wasn't quite as good.

IMHO(!!), Mahogany is THE body wood for these.

I've never tried an alder one, but I still think the Mahogany would "win"... at least for my tastes.
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Between yours and Tom's comments, not to mention Chasarms' glowing reviews of his, let's just say my bank account is in trouble!!! Next thing you know I'll come up with some convoluted reasoning to pick up a JJ style Sadowsky. There's some sort of mindcontrol being employed by Roger and Co possibly hidden in the font of his posts on TB and on his site......that or they simply make highly-addictive basses.
 

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