Not sure at the moment.....sorry I cannot be more specific.

Roger

I doubt if you will need a new battery every 2 months.  This is just a recommendation if you don't want your battery to die unexpectedly.   Feel free to push the battery level as far as you are comfortable.  I think 3 bucks every few months is a cheap way to have piece of mind.

Roger

I recommend replacing the battery at 7.5 volts.
You will get longer battery life if you unplug your bass after soundcheck.

Roger

Get a Batt-O-Meter!  Someone in Australia must carry them.
5 months sounds reasonable if you play a lot.

https://secure.sadowsky.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=243&osCsid=11bb8c89b652c256f375340a10c16f20

Here is the Will Lee bass with the Sadowsky narrow soapbars.  Will is using this now as his main ax on Letterman.  It is officially available now as an option on the Will Lee Model.

Glad you like them!

Roger

Hi Bob,

I originally suggested you see a local tech to save you the trouble of having to ship it to me for what I assumed was some basic set-up issues.  But apparently you do not have a good local tech if he blamed the problem on the nut slot.  Once you fret the string, the nut is irrelevant and has no effect on what you are hearing.

So I suggest you send the bass to us and let's see what is going on and take care of it for you.
Please include all of your contact info and a description of the problem.

Roger

Amazon Rosewood is so similar to Brazilian Rosewood that even experts have difficulty telling them apart.

See here:
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/club-sadowsky-part-25-a-810474/index34.html#post11778337

Roger

My recollection was that it was a two piece body.

R

Sorry for the delay.....I have been to busy to check into the forum the last week.

The guitars I made for Prince that were intended to replicate his Hohner had an ash body.  I made a top of flame maple with a walnut strip in the center.  The neck and fingerboard were maple.

I am planning to write more about my Prince adventures on my blog, as soon as I can find the time.

Roger

Here are my thoughts (a lot of it based on my knowledge of acoustic instruments).

If you took a new instrument and just put in storage for 25 years, it would sound like a new instrument.   The question is not a matter of age, but a matter of how much the instrument has been played.   I think the more they are played, the better they sound.

Roger

Using my new strobe tuner I have noticed that string intonation requires some adjustment after a couple days on a set of new strings. Is that normal or am I missing something in my method? I even noticed that I get a different reading if I use only fretted notes & harmonics as opposed to open strings in the process. The touch on the neck does seem to have a bearing. 5th / 17th fretted notes seems to be the most reliable.  Thanks in advance.
B.

Hi Blair,

Welcome to my world!

Roger

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/club-sadowsky-part-24-a-786998/index50.html#post11515824

This topic has been moved to Sadowsky Basses.

http://sadowsky.com/forum/index.php?topic=247.0

This was from my second batch (I think) of 5 strings and my first 24 fret version.  Probably around 1990.  It may also be the first time we used our current 19mm string spacing and neck width.   We called these, in retrospect,  "Longhorns".   The tip of the horns are the same as the would be on a J-bass, with deeper cutaways.  We then shortened the treble horn on the next batch which resulted in the body shape we have used ever since.

The description on the Low End site is incorrect in that Tom Anderson never made any 5 string parts for me or anyone else.