Chris2112

I always thought Sandberg could do no wrong, until they farted out this absolute horror.

They do seem to churn out the instruments at fairly cheap prices so it's not surprising that there will be a gaffe or twelve along the way.

I think it sounds pretty damn cool as it is.

Yes, I think you're right about that. When I went on yesterday the price was still up but the picture was gone and the box to the right of the listing said 'product unavailable'.

Unfortunately it looks like a real basket case, a 'tweeker special' as they'd say on Talkbass. It was probably a really nice bass at one point, before the deranged modification programme started. Really, it's the sort of thing that should just be given away for nothing, to someone with the skills or desire to see it fixed up and reborn as something worthy. But aside from the wood it's made of, there is nothing of value there. Bidding on it seems mad; you're just paying for a ticket to a lot of work and headaches.

It would be a dream if they were.

This is a most unfortunate turn of events. However, I'm sure that the pre-owned business has been quite lucrative for them and some small losses for buying bad instruments will probably be covered by the profits they make. As far as guitar shops go, GG are the good guys as far as I'm concerned.

It's been pulled for now. Guitar Guitar are decent so they'll not put it back up for sale. Does anyone have any pics of the suspect instrument? I'd be interested to see it.

They must surely be hidden in a lockup somewhere. Even the most feckless fence would have have determined quite quickly that these could be identified and traced. That said, they could end up elsewhere, outside of Europe, where they might be more easily sold on.

It may be a relatively minor aside but those leather scratchplates on the older Wals always looked awful to me, a nightmarish hangover from the ghastly 70's that should have been binned 😂

Argh, my eyes! 💩

Mike's channel is great. He has great taste in basses and I find the format and presentation a bit more exciting than Low End Lobster etc. I'll look forward to watching this!

I happened to stumble across this video a while ago and found it equally bizarre. Clearly, he is not a fretless player and probably should have asked for the interview to be kept brief with a spec sheet in front of him. The short clip where he is playing is pretty hokey. That said, I found this particular bass a really odd place to start with fretless, if you're not a fretless player. The Thumb is idiosyncratic enough without having two more strings than you'd normally have on a Thumb. I play both lined and unlined fretless and I do prefer a lined board when the going gets tough. Whenever I see these heavily figured boards on an unlined fretless I always wonder if the figuring there wouldn't just distract you from getting your fingers in the right place. Obviously the guy has spent thousands and thousands on this bass without the chops to get to grips with it, but that's nothing new. Everyone will have seen players who have walls of Alembics yet nothing more exciting than three chord blues. I hope he is getting on better with it now but I expect that it's probably being used as an ornament.

How was the high end on the blue LT? Looking at Bartolinis (one of my favourite pickup brands, it must be said), one assumes that the high end will be a little softer and the mids more immediately pronounced than some other pickups offered in Spector basses, but then I had a Streamer Ltd 1990 with Bartolini soapbars that was so bright as to be almost Spector-ish in it's tone. I may well be considered a traditionalist in Spector terms as my preference is for EMG pickups with either an EMG or Hazlab preamp.

They'd be nice with some fresh roundwounds on.

It certainly looks to be in good condition but Jesus, that price!

Absolutely. I never liked Chappers in the Andertons videos because he seemed to think he was the star and had a unique talent of making everything he played sound awful. That he was so thoroughly exposed by the people he was trying to goon-rush was a relief. I still watch and enjoy KDH's videos now.

FWIW Tony played his Vintage P Bass signature live on tour with Big Country. So he obviously liked it enough, I always thought they looked like a good option if that's your kind of bass.

Chapman have always lacked credibility and have been mocked for their 'sigs for friends' of owner Rob Chapman. Given he way Chapman was seemed to vanish from Andertons following the KDH exposé (the one about bullying, not the one about Chapman's production problems), I'm surprised that he's even trying to keep Chapman Guitars chugging along.

I haven't seen that video in years, it certainly brings back memories of when a comparison to a Wishbass was an outright insult 🤣🤣

It's an interesting looking bass but I'm not a fan of that 'elastic bands on a butter tub' tone. I've heard better sounding Ritters, with roundwound strings.

The tobacco sunburst on these looks great. It's not a body shape that appeals to me but more the more Spectors, the better as far as I'm concerned.

Very cool!