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Sadowsky/Warwick Announcement Video
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Some scammer in China trade marked Sadowsky...so Roger can’t put his name on Chinese built Sadowskys until he wins his name back in court.
As said before, someone else claimed the name "Sadowsky" in China before Roger could. So now he cannot use it. He is trying to get his brand name back. But that may take a while. For the time being he now uses "Roger Sadowsky Design" as brand name.
It only says "Sadowsky" pick-ups in the specs. What that means we better ask Roger. But if they are good enough for a bass that is 100% approved and got Rogers name on it, than it's good enough for me. These basses will appear on the market about halfway of june. As soon as I got mine I can tell more. These basses should be compared to basses like Sire MM V7/V9, Fender MIM Deluxe, G&L Tribute, Lakland Skyline and others in the
$ 1000 range and not with basses twice the price.
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I've never seen an instrument that I would consider to be anything but low end that was made in Indonesia (I don't think I've ever seen an instrument at all from Vietnam) or China, and I'm certainly no 'aristocrat'. I'm an electrician, and playing music and working on instruments is just kind of a hobby of mine (granted, it's the hobby I most care about by far). Pretty far from an aristocrat.
Modern manufacturing processes have made entry-level instruments much better than like 20 years ago, but they haven't made them no longer entry-level. People can pretend all they want that they're just as good as instruments that cost 6 times as much. They're not. The gap just isn't as vast as it once was.
I've heard lots of good things about Eastman guitars, made in Beijing. They don't make bass guitars but they have uprights.
In that case, I don't agree. Mexican Fenders do not, in my opinion, live up to the name. Japanese ones did, but they were (I assume) not profitable enough once Fender got greedier due to Japanese workers making decent living wages and being treated like human beings in exchange for their precision, experience, and craftsmanship. Mexican labor is nearly as cheap as far-east, that's the only reason they make them there.
Yep I've played them and they're great! Shen makes the best upright basses for the money IMO. My issues with China and ordering things made there don't have anything to do with the instruments.
I don't think that a factory in China employing unskilled workers making appalling wages can make as nice a bass guitar as can be made in another location where materials and QC are more closely regulated and workers are satisfied and take pride in their work. Of course there would have to be plenty of skilled luthiers in China, but they're not working in big guitar factories.
Inevitably a lot of people are going to be comparing the Expresses to other Sadowskys more so than to other brands in the same price range. Metros were always being compared to NYCs and the Expresses (when the were first introduced) were compared by many people to both the regular Metros and the NYCs. It’s a totally normal thing to do with a brand like Sadowsky, where the reputation has been built on the particular qualities of a very limited line.
I’ve been hearing that tired old refrain how (insert country here ____) don’t have luthiers capable of making high end instruments or decent instruments for that matter since I bought my first bass in the mid ‘70’s.
Buy what you like, or what you can afford.
Buy what you like, or what you can afford.
Yes, that exactly. Pretty simple request, or so I thought.
Sadowsky has always used 60s spacing on their J basses unless otherwise specified.
