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Club Sadowsky!!!

#45,703
deepestend said:
Let me get to this tomorrow. There was actually a build for a customer in Germany that was a P with a plexi pickguard...not something we usually do.
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This is not the bass I was talking about above, but it was a special one: note the ebony board with morado blocks and the rosewood pickguard.

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Ok, so I read that some Sadowsky Basses were made to where you could retrofit a PJ config or go full Jazz set up. Is this true ? And if so was this done special order or for allowing the player the versatility to be able to switch if he wanted to do so. Or was what I read completely bad info...
 
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kev451 said:
Ok, so I read that some Sadowsky Basses were made to where you could retrofit a PJ config or go full Jazz set up. Is this true ? And if so was this done special order or for allowing the player the versatility to be able to switch if he wanted to do so. Or was what I read completely bad info...
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Pretty much all true, I think. Some Sadowskys could be ordered with a "universal route" that could accommodate either a P or a J pickup (don't recall if it could also do a reverse P). Separate pickguard required for each pickup choice, of course.
 
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Fuzzbass said:
Pretty much all true, I think. Some Sadowskys could be ordered with a "universal route" that could accommodate either a P or a J pickup (don't recall if it could also do a reverse P). Separate pickguard required for each pickup choice, of course.
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Wuao that’s pretty cool. I wonder why most basses in general aren’t done this way. I know everyone has their preferences according to style of music and how they want the bass to sound. But IMHO this could eliminate the need have so many basses. You could keep that “one bass” and convert it at it any point and if you don’t like it just go right back.
 
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kev451 said:
Wuao that’s pretty cool. I wonder why most basses in general aren’t done this way. I know everyone has their preferences according to style of music and how they want the bass to sound. But IMHO this could eliminate the need have so many basses. You could keep that “one bass” and convert it at it any point and if you don’t like it just go right back.
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If companies did this, there goes any sort of profitability from one person owning multiple instruments from the same manufacturer.
 
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Fuzzbass said:
Pretty much all true, I think. Some Sadowskys could be ordered with a "universal route" that could accommodate either a P or a J pickup (don't recall if it could also do a reverse P). Separate pickguard required for each pickup choice, of course.
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I had a Mike Lull bass spec’d this way...came with (60’s position) PJ and JJ routing, two pick guards, neck J+P pu, and quick connect clips soldered on both neck pu’s for easy change. Very, very cool...but yea, it’s TB...of course in a weak moment, I sold it. ;) I’d assume that Roger might do the same, if requested with an NYC order...
 
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kev451 said:
Wuao that’s pretty cool. I wonder why most basses in general aren’t done this way. I know everyone has their preferences according to style of music and how they want the bass to sound. But IMHO this could eliminate the need have so many basses. You could keep that “one bass” and convert it at it any point and if you don’t like it just go right back.
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Nonsense. One bass? That's just not done around here!

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