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Augh, I finally managed to decrease the action by almost 0.5mm, while keeping the intonation correct. The bridge config is fussy but not terrible once one understands which of the many screws does what exactly. I feel like a true Sandberg owner now 😁

Three Strepsils To Heaven - Showaddywaddy

Pool Halls Richard - The Faces

Lock(ets) And Load - Bob Seger

That will be you at bottom left by midnight...

Finally got around to re-cutting the front of the cab.... This is the finished article... At a total outlay of £77.50 I'm extremely happy with the outcome.

I remember that. Bad ass.

Justin bought my Darkglass Adam and a PRS Holcomb 7 I had on sale - he was super communicative, attentive and serious. Great communications and a lovely chap to deal with, would absolutely recommend dealing with him. Thanks again buddy! Ander.

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Yeah I saw them there too, back to back with Slayer, needed a lie down after that.

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I bought it on here from @hooky_lowdown about 3 years ago as I just wanted to try a shortie. I swapped the pickup to an Aguilar with a loom made by our own @KiOgon as the stock controls were really just on/off. It neck dived a bit so I swapped the tuners for Hipshot Ultralights. It’s a cheap bass but the basic quality and build is more than good enough to warrant spending on those swaps. I love it! I liked it so much I found another one for roundwounds. I thought the bridge string spacing would be a bit tight but I’ve discovered I much prefer it for everything other than slap, and I don’t do a lot of that.

Welcome to the madhouse, Helios. Nowt wrong with a bit of SFG.

Good stuff, really love your shortie, was not familiar with this little Jim Deacon prec!

I'm going to put this here, just for the sake of information should any ever have a desire to do the same thing. I swapped the magnets out on the aforementioned pickup, replacing the ceramic magnets with Alnico 5 to see what the difference is. To summarise, the output drops noticeably, and the main voice of the pickup moves up somewhere around the 1k range (to my ear at least). It starts to sound a bit like a Precision Bass pickup, but with less bottom end. I think a lot of the output in this pickup comes from the strong ceramic magnets, rather than the copper wire. Anyway, he's some pictures of the process should anyone else be mad enough to want to do this. If you are, you'll have to look at bar magnets for 7 string humbucker pickups to find something close to fitting. The original magnets are 67x13x5mm, which seems to be quite non standard. I got hold of a pair of A5 68.5x13x5mm and ground them down.

Two sets of chromes... must be getting on for 15 plus yrs. Sound glorious... nice and gnarly.