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#10,143
I love how the bare wood on the back of my double bass feels and I'm wondering if I want to speed up that feeling on my Sadowsky by lightly sanding the back of the necks, so those of you that have gone that way, post your impressions and some photos of well broken in necks.

How should I do it? (Rob? Roger?)
 
#10,144
frandiaz said:
I love how the bare wood on the back of my double bass feels and I'm wondering if I want to speed up that feeling on my Sadowsky by lightly sanding the back of the necks, so those of you that have gone that way, post your impressions and some photos of well broken in necks.

How should I do it? (Rob? Roger?)
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If your neck is finished in Nitro you don't want to screw with it but if it's finished in Poly you can use 0000 steelwool and just rub it down. Once you've gotten to bare wood it's best to treat it with Butchers wax. I've done this with a few basses over the years and use the steel wool to clean the neck and get any stickyness out, you won't break through the finish for years.
 
#10,145
frandiaz said:
I love how the bare wood on the back of my double bass feels and I'm wondering if I want to speed up that feeling on my Sadowsky by lightly sanding the back of the necks, so those of you that have gone that way, post your impressions and some photos of well broken in necks.

How should I do it? (Rob? Roger?)
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Steel wool is great for stickiness but other then that just play the heck out of your bass.

there's nothing like time.
 
#10,146
peterpalmieri said:
If your neck is finished in Nitro you don't want to screw with it but if it's finished in Poly you can use 0000 steelwool and just rub it down. Once you've gotten to bare wood it's best to treat it with Butchers wax. I've done this with a few basses over the years and use the steel wool to clean the neck and get any stickyness out, you won't break through the finish for years.
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It's nitro finished, but I don't want to take all the nitro away. I know that at the shop, and by request, they sand the back of the neck, making it feel as if had already been played for some years.
 
#10,155
DrSmaggs said:
Where do you like your pickups for slapping?
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I like my pickups in the regular JJ position. Its not so much the pickups position but the neck length. If I play with 20, 21, 22 frets Sadowsky, I don't find a problem but with 24 frets the distance between the neck pickup and the neck is too small for popping.

Or coarse this is in relation to a vintage 24 JJ. In the case of the more modern 24-5 with soap bar, its not a problem.
 
#10,157
sok monkee said:
Yea that's it I think I'm going to order a modern 5 with single coil j pups. thank you for the pics
Mike
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"Your chariot waits without!!!" :D
 

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Here's some example of what I'm talking about.

The distance here is pretty close and not really practical for me to slap.
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here's a different storie, plenty of room.
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That's why the Will Lee as 22 frets. Roger wanted to put 24 but Will didn't have enough room to slap. So they compromise to 22.
 

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