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Club Sadowsky!!!

#9,161
jmeyers44 said:
Speaking of PLEK vs the human touch, has anyone ever sent their Sadowsky back to the shop for work (fretwork for example)? What is their turn around time? Just curious, I probably would send mine back to the shop regardless.
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We turn around most repairs in 7-10 days. A complete refret might take a little bit longer, especially with a maple board.

I personally have no interest in a PLEK. What a PLEK is doing is removing meat from the frets to compensate for imperfections in the fingerboard. With a well trued fingerboard and well executed fretwork, I do not think a PLEK treatment offers too much. Keep in mind, if you have spent $80k to $120K for a PLEK machine, you need to PLEK a lot of instruments to make that monthly payment. So you have to shout about how great it is in order to generate business to pay for the machine. A lot of the PLEK owners do as many PLEKS in a week as I used to do fret levels and recrowns in a month when I was doing repairs full time.

I do think the machine is very cool and I appreciate all that went into developing the software and the machine. But even the US representative for PLEK told me "Roger, you are one the guys that doesn't need a PLEK".

Roger
 
#9,165
Sadowsky said:
Hi Kirk,

PLEKs level and recrown frets and can now cut nut slots.
That's it, as far as I know.

Roger
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That's it, except for a new feature they were showing this past NAMM was the ability to do inlay cuts as well.

I think where Kirk is getting confused is one of Plek's marketing points in a document with a customer comment saying; "To see how accurate it is … and get a neck truer than it’s ever, ever been – it’s just amazing!".
 
#9,166
yeah.. i was under the impression that the Plek trues the fingerboard first.. then after the luthier installs the frets you put it back in the PLEK and you get it perfectly leveled...

Thank you for clearing that up for me..

I have 2 nyc Sadowskys and a couple of basses by another manufacturer that posts on here .. neither is done by a PLEK and both are very good... I can see the results and the time that Roger and Jimmy put into their instruments with only their hands and hand tools and i kind of like it...
 
#9,176
nenor said:
I apologize for not catching up with you guys. It's not my native language after all... nevertheless, there will be no deleting since my statement is true regardless :p
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Good for you! :)

Thing is, even though you missed the joke (which is totally understandable), you still made a good point. :)
 
#9,178
Jerry J said:
Bart, hard cases are cool and do offer a very high degree of protection. If I wasn't the one handling my bass then the hard case or a road case would be the mode of choice.

The one instance that has always aggrevated me with a bass hard case has been the times when I've gone through doors or turns in a staircase. With a gig bag like the Portabag or the Incase is that I can hold the bag upright by the spare handle or by the straps. Not an option with a hard case or soft-sided case.

Plus, Tolex does tear, which drives me nuts.
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Good points.

Has anyone tried the new hard case?

I sure do like the look of the Portabag though.
 
#9,179
BartmanPDX said:
Good points.

Has anyone tried the new hard case?

I sure do like the look of the Portabag though.
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The Portabag is really, really nice. Perfect fit for the undersized Sadowsky body, 80% of the protection of a hardcase (the only thing I would be uncomfortable with is checking it on a flight), tons of pocket space, and comfortable on the back. It's really a nice bag, and the hard sides along with the big front pocket and high quality straps makes it a great all around gigging case for the 'one trip guys' like me.

Highly recommended!

That new hardcase looks beautiful. It's kind of 'too pretty' for heavy duty uses (i.e.,throwing it in the back of a truck or checking through on an airplane), and cumbersome to gig with (like any hard case is, at least in some contexts, like my playing situation). It seems more like a 'store a very nice bass at home in a very nice case' sort of thing to me, but maybe it is tougher than it looks. I have a hard case like that for one of my Rob Allen's. It's as pretty as the bass is... I'm afraid to take it out of the house:D
 

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