Fran Diaz Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 (edited) Many more photos can be found [url="http://perso.wanadoo.es/funkychicken/gear.htm"]following this link[/url]. Some of my favorites: My main bass. Sadowsky NYC Vintage PJ4. It's routed to swap the P pickup for a jazz pickup in case I want to convert it to the standard jazz configuration. I have a fretless twin on order. This bass gives me everything I need. Sadowsky NYC VJ4. I sold it to order the fretless. It's a great bass and the single coil pickups shine, but I didn't want to have more than 3 basses at the same time and since I started studying upright bass the fretless GAS was hitting me hard. My old Lakland 4-94s (fretted and fretless with custom SD alnico pickups). I sold these when I bought my first Sadowsky and I have no regrets: My MusicMan StingRay. This was my only bass for many years. It has a lot of sentimental value although I rarely take it out of the closet. I might sell it when I need to buy a good upright. As you guys can see, I have a fixation with natural ash/maple combos. If you follow the link at the begining of the post you can see more photos of other Sadowskys, a '79 MM Stingray... Edited January 31, 2008 by Fran Diaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdphysio Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Fran, thats a beautiful collection......wouldn't mind something similar myself! I'm also into the natural look.....'pure wood' (just like my wife prefers!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Diaz Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 [quote name='kdphysio' post='131374' date='Jan 31 2008, 05:22 PM']Fran, thats a beautiful collection......wouldn't mind something similar myself! I'm also into the natural look.....'pure wood' (just like my wife prefers!)[/quote] Thanks! Everytime I buy a new bass I tell to myself that it's going to be the last 'natural blonde' that I get, and then I do it again My fretless Sadowsky on order ATM is going to be my last bass for a long time. Next in line has to be an upright and then I'll be done, so I don't see any 'painted' basses in my future...unless I buy me a rockabilly style upright full of flames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderthumbs Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Lovely Musicman. Always wanted natural/black configuration. Shame you're not selling, and wish I had the money anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Diaz Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 [quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='131385' date='Jan 31 2008, 05:38 PM']Lovely Musicman. Always wanted natural/black configuration. Shame you're not selling, and wish I had the money anyway [/quote] It's been with me in hundreds of gigs and rehearsals. I love its neck. I replaced the stock electronics with a Seymour Duncan alnico pickup and a SD preamp. IMO It was a big improvement over the stock electronics. I don't want to sell this bass, but an upright isn't cheap and I might have to part with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeward2004 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Truely fantastic collection there Fran, really like the Sadowsky's - only thing that would make them better IMO would be Pearl block inlays and binding... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Diaz Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 [quote name='lukeward2004' post='131890' date='Feb 1 2008, 02:06 PM']Truely fantastic collection there Fran, really like the Sadowsky's - only thing that would make them better IMO would be Pearl block inlays and binding...[/quote] Thanks. Blocks and binding are not available in NYC Sadowskys and I'm not a fan of them; I can only tolerate them in maple fingerboards and only pearl, never black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub_junkie Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 lovely collection what does the switch do on the StingRay? and I agree,black blocks and binding on maple is simply inteloreable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Diaz Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 [quote name='dub_junkie' post='132315' date='Feb 2 2008, 12:40 AM']lovely collection what does the switch do on the StingRay? and I agree,black blocks and binding on maple is simply inteloreable![/quote] It's a parallel/series switch for the pickup...parallel is the standard SR wiring. Series is louder and more aggressive; it's nice to have it as an instant boost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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