Just read a great article about Roger Sadowsky in bass gear magazine. IMO Roger builds some of the greatest basses and guitars...period. In the article he said, "we are working on single-cut prototype". That is something I want to see!
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Sadowsky and a single cut?
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A singlecut Jazz-style bass might look killer. Especially from Sadowsky.
It's amazing to me how most people (me included) hated the look of singlecuts when Fodera started making them many years ago and now companies like Smith and Sadowsky are jumping on the bandwagon.
It's amazing to me how most people (me included) hated the look of singlecuts when Fodera started making them many years ago and now companies like Smith and Sadowsky are jumping on the bandwagon.
DiabolusInMusic
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Another singlecut I will never get a chance to see in person... I am still interested though. I have always wanted to try one.
Suprised Sheldon hasn't make a singlecut yet.... that would be very cool. An AB singlecut.
DiabolusInMusic
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It would be cool but Sheldon does not care for neck-thrus, so I would not expect one anytime soon. Sheldon also finds string-thru body greatly over-rated, so you will not see that on any Dingwall either.
Pavel makes a singlecut jazz bass. I think it looks great!
It there a link to this article? Online versions of Bass Gear Magazine don't seem to have an interview where Roger mentions single cuts.
I have yet to see a single-cut that I haven't found displeasing to the eye. As a Sadowsky fan I'm curious as to how these will turn out.
DiabolusInMusic
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Well snap... this is news to me and a quick google shows some interesting examples. They all look like you would feel the joint and, in some cases, the screws.
I've played a TK std (pictured above) - you don't feel either.
Even in the case of a bolt-on single cut, the neck is more stable in the body/neck joint because there's more area of neck and body making contact and being bolted to each other. Fodera only uses 4 bolts in their design, but other builders use more.
I'm still looking for something that says that Roger Sadowsky is prototyping single cut basses. It just doesn't seem like his thing. Bass Gear Magazine is online and there is nothing I can find that says Sadowsky is actually doing this.
Oh man...I meant to write bass guitar mag...the one out of the UK. My blunder...that's almost as bad as combining a 1 x 15 and a 4 x 10! Fat thumbs + 60 year old eyes = not good. Anyway, it's in the August issue with one of the greatest all time jazz bassists on the cover. Yep, you guessed it...Gene Simmons! BTW Roger's single cut is to make it's 1st appearance at Winter NAMM.
Just out of curiousity; IIRC, the singlecut design came from the collaboration between Anthony Jackson and Fodera, and was based on a hypothesis that the increased neck coupling on the B string would improve the focus of the B.
I confess I haven't kept up with the singlecut school. Is there anything more to it than that? Because it seems to me that B string clarity has been generally sorted out otherwise a while ago. But, maybe, I'm missing something?
I confess I haven't kept up with the singlecut school. Is there anything more to it than that? Because it seems to me that B string clarity has been generally sorted out otherwise a while ago. But, maybe, I'm missing something?
This is mostly correct - Anthony was playing a Fodera for a while and asked them if there was a way to increase rigidity and strength of the neck without resorting to use of a graphite neck or composite reinforcements. The result was the single cut design, which Vinny Fodera designed himself, and AJ didn't immediately accept it as a workable idea.
Jackson mentioned this in his cover story in Bass Player magazine, and the impression I got was that the main point of the design was structural improvement. It wasn't driven solely by the search for a better response from the low B string. The 36" scale was part of the Anthony Jackson Presentation model before a single cut was introduced, and that was done for better B string performance.
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