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Club Sadowsky!!!

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Rockin' my Sad over the weekend. Great room, great gig and a fantastic turnout for our Movember Extravaganza.

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If you were thinking of donating to Movember here's your chance to help support a great initiative and a TB brother...

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thehess said:
There is a beautiful rosewood/oly white PJ 5 at Bass Specialties (near philly). I think it is a metro, but I can't be certain. Pics on his site. I was there on Saturday, and if I wasn't on the amp and cab trail, I would have tried it out.
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Yeah, it's a Metro. Be careful trying it out... you may have trouble putting it back. :)
 
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Musicfreak1988 said:
I found it weird, too. However, I read it somewhere. I can't find the source at the moment, but I found the CITES manual, though... Dalbergia Nigra identification is on page F-5 / F-6.

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EDIT: I found it!

The wood anatomical characteristics of Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia spruceana are too similar to permit reliable species separation, which is sometimes important because D. nigra is a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species-protected species whereas D. spruceana is not. However, the density, water fluorescence, and ethanol fluorescence of heartwood specimens are different between the species and these chracteristics permit the separation of the species. Dalbergia spruceana is denser (&#8805;1.0 g/cm3) than D. nigra &#61472;(<1.0 g/cm3), its water extract is fluorescent whereas that of D. nigra is not, and its ethanol extract fluorescence is blue whereas that of D. nigra is greenish-blue.

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So it's not exactly done by pouring a liquid onto the wood, but still I find it a remarkable technique. But then again, my knowledge of chemistry is not too big, to say the least.
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Electrophoresis.....memories.
 
#25,392
Got to visit Sadowsky Guitars factory/showroom in L.I.C. today. I met the lovely young lady who will be building the two modern 5's I have on order. I also got to try a wonderful alder/pau ferro modern. I had some concern as to whether that configuration would deliver the tonal spectrum I was looking for, which it did. That configuration will nail a Jazz Bass/Jaco vibe, as well as deliver a perfect scooped Marcus Miller tone. I was tempted to go ash/maple, but alder/ morado won. I'm covered tonally.

How good a bass feels is somewhat subjective, but the quality of the fretwork is not. I've never felt better fretwork underneath my fingertips, and there wasn't a buzz or hard to fret note to be found. The action was set to medium bordering on medium low. The neck profile is also good. I could go with a thicker neck, but it's not so thin that my hand is scrunched together.

I think I might have to get figured tops after seeing that beautiful dark cherry flame myrtle burl for sale. That will be the third and last config change...
 
#25,395
Welp, I done it. I'm having the finish on the back of 4098's neck stripped off and replaced with oil. This bass is just such a total and complete player for me, and the sooner it has that well-worn warmer feel to it, the better. :)

Just makes the wait a little harder at this point. :)
 
#25,396
I know this isn't the string forum but, I just have to say that I tried the Sadowsky blue nickels on two basses yesterday. A LeCompte multi-scale custom 5er and a inexpensive Yamaha RBX 5er. The strings not only had a great sound but had an incredible feel and tension to them. I had played both of my buddies basses with other strings before as well and neither were aa good tonally. The Yamaha actually had a terrible tone with another brand I generally like.

Long story short. I've ordered some blue nickels today and cannot wait to try them!
 
#25,397
Vic said:
Welp, I done it. I'm having the finish on the back of 4098's neck stripped off and replaced with oil. This bass is just such a total and complete player for me, and the sooner it has that well-worn warmer feel to it, the better. :)

Just makes the wait a little harder at this point. :)
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NO OIL!!!
What..you don't trust me? :eyebrow: :)
You can always do that later if ....
B.
 

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