GM10 Posted February 18, 2008 Share Posted February 18, 2008 Anyone considering a Sandberg? This may help with your decision making. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255467"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255467[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdy Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Thats an interesting read, thanks for that. Finland looks beautiful too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkThrust Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 [quote name='Gloria stits' post='142790' date='Feb 18 2008, 10:15 PM']Anyone considering a Sandberg? This may help with your decision making. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255467"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=255467[/url][/quote] D'you work for Sandberg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM10 Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 No I just own one. I don't endorse for them either. Infact I'm bugger all to do with Sandberg. I just thought it was a good review that could benefit some people in their decision making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I love my Sandberg, I've not touched the other basses since I've got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Very interesting, thanks for that. I was reading the piece, expecting him to say he'd dropped it a snapped it in half or something!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nimrod Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Sorry, but I've seen some really badly built Sandbergs (problems with the frets). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 Well, I'm just back after some gig - Guadalajara (ska rock) from Austria was here in Kaunas, by the way.. Fun thing is, that I've seen this J/MM Sandberg for the first time today, and, bang, same evening a bassist uses 4string one on the stage! It wasn't bad at all, sound, I mean - bass was ran through an Ampeg one, no compressor though, but then again, it was ok, maybe a lil more punchyness wanted.. I got a nice chat with bassist after the gig, he was pretty cool guy by the way, simply very easy to communicate with. So he told, as he doesn't like Fender ( he had few of them - J and P...) he wanted to try Sandberg, and it fitted for him veryyy much. J/MM pickups are very versalite, he mentioned, there's just a bit of playing with bass eq, that's all. All in all, if run'ed through good compressor, I think, that's a good one bassy thing. I liked it, he liked it, so +2, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM10 Posted February 19, 2008 Author Share Posted February 19, 2008 [quote name='David Nimrod' post='143409' date='Feb 19 2008, 09:52 PM']Sorry, but I've seen some really badly built Sandbergs (problems with the frets).[/quote] I've only ever seen two Sandbergs and I own one. Both were spot on so I don't quite get the inconsistancy in quality control. In doing some research on Bass talk, the yanks absolutely rave about them. Read a number of threads and not yet found anything regarding any issues with the quality of build. Where as on Basschat there's been a few negatives? Couldn't resist adding a little picy of mine. [attachment=5761:New_Bass...c_07_008.jpg] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setekh Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 [quote name='Gloria stits' post='143463' date='Feb 19 2008, 11:18 PM']I've only ever seen two Sandbergs and I own one. Both were spot on so I don't quite get the inconsistancy in quality control. In doing some research on Bass talk, the yanks absolutely rave about them. Read a number of threads and not yet found anything regarding any issues with the quality of build. Where as on Basschat there's been a few negatives? Couldn't resist adding a little picy of mine. [attachment=5761:New_Bass...c_07_008.jpg][/quote] purdy! are you sure you don't want to start a porn thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I own one now, and have owned another (which a mate now has), and have seen others in shops/people in bands playing them and haven't seen anything wrong with any, I am surprised they would let a bad one out, they seem like a very good company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM10 Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 [quote name='setekh' post='143559' date='Feb 20 2008, 10:04 AM']purdy! are you sure you don't want to start a porn thread? [/quote] Can't deny it is a bit of a pimps bass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nimrod Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 [quote name='Gloria stits' post='143463' date='Feb 19 2008, 11:18 PM']I've only ever seen two Sandbergs and I own one. Both were spot on so I don't quite get the inconsistancy in quality control. In doing some research on Bass talk, the yanks absolutely rave about them. Read a number of threads and not yet found anything regarding any issues with the quality of build. Where as on Basschat there's been a few negatives?[/quote] They were at PMT in Birmingham. Several Sandbergs had the slot for the fret tang cut a mm or so deeper than the fret tang itself, all down the neck... leaving a gap. When I pointed this out to Dave Sheriff, who had been going on about 'custom shop quality' he was a bit downcast me too I was thinking about one pretty seriously at the time. However, I've seen others that have looked and played beautifully, so who knows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJW Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Mine is pretty perfect in terms of build quality. No instance of the fret slot thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Funk Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 [quote name='Gloria stits' post='143463' date='Feb 19 2008, 11:18 PM']Where as on Basschat there's been a few negatives?[/quote] The only dodgy ones I've seen were in the Bass Centre where a good few basses (of all makes) looked as if they'd been thrown around the shop as hard as possible (eg. knobs missing, several dings). That wasn't a build quality thing though. I was initially tempted by a Sandberg California J/MM but now I'm leaning more towards a Clover with they Hybrid MM/J bridge pick-up. I'm also vaguely tempted by a 7-string Sandberg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I was in Electro Music in Doncaster where they have a good range of Sanbergs, Dave had just got a new one in and urged me to try it out, It was a black bass with matching headstock rosewood board with pearl blocks - sexy sexy !! Pups were Musicman / Precision OMG how BIG did that sound ! Really well put together too, only thing that put me off was the big plastic Nut !! looked really cheap and out of place on such an instrument Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwickhunt Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 [quote name='Marcus' post='162497' date='Mar 24 2008, 06:38 AM']I was in Electro Music in Doncaster where they have a good range of Sanbergs, Dave had just got a new one in and urged me to try it out, It was a black bass with matching headstock rosewood board with pearl blocks - sexy sexy !! Pups were Musicman / Precision OMG how BIG did that sound ! Really well put together too, only thing that put me off was the big plastic Nut !! looked really cheap and out of place on such an instrument[/quote] Come on then, what did you walk out of EM with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 [quote name='warwickhunt' post='162500' date='Mar 24 2008, 07:06 AM']Come on then, what did you walk out of EM with? [/quote] Nothing at all...... can you believe it ? Am I cured ? (I doubt it) Am I skint ? (Isn't everyone) Didn't Electro Music have anything in the Bass Dept (Actually a lot more than usual) I did try the Mark Bass F1 through a MB cab and an SWR cab, one sounded average one sounded AWESOME !!! I'll let you make your own mind up which was which !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I want a Panther Special one day to go with my Sandberg I have now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northy Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 [quote name='David Nimrod' timestamp='1203457948' post='143409'] Sorry, but I've seen some really badly built Sandbergs (problems with the frets). [/quote] I really find that hard to believe, one thing people usually rave about is the frets being amazing AND they have some incredible fret levelling systems in place too. Sandberg have to be one of the best finished basses I have ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el borracho Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Maybe quality control has improved in the last 9 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Traded a Stingray for my California JM4, think it's a 2004, before they changed the shapes to be "less Fendery". Just a really well made, versatile workhorse of a bass. Never felt in any way restricted by any aspect of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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