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[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1399112909' post='2441114'] Thanks, GAS is now difficult to control...Parp! [/quote] Hehe ok;) I saw an typo in my earlier post I meant "gospel licks" not "kicks".. No seriously everyone I know who owns/owned a few types of basses always rave about the necks on stingrays. I think the whith of the nut would be comparable to you warwick only it would be more shallow back to front and ofcourse you'll get a radius board instead of the flat warwick type... Which I personally don't find ergonomical pleasant to hold.. But thats personal ofcourse;) I'm already looking forward to your comment once you have played one or two!

Well I'm recently into stingrays, I had one 18 years ago a '95 stingray 3 band, while it was one of the best basses I had at the time I felt it was too specific in sound. Now years later I tried a pre eb stingray at a shop fell in love with the more rounded tone that one has, especially gospel like kicks really shined. I bought that bass not only co's of the tone but the necks on these are one of the smoothest most easy in the world that even goes for the eb stingrays aswell. I'm not saying a pre eb is the way to go as the concept and pickups/preamp where never changed.. Just play a few preferrably a secondhand bass. My guess is if you like the warwick you must loooove the original stingray especially the feel of the neck.

[quote name='rubis' timestamp='1398499604' post='2434654'] I should think when it was repainted, the control cavity would be sprayed, that's quite normal, but the neck pocket would masked off or covered by a " holding stick " to maintain the neck pocket fit. This would, as pointed out already, give a clue as to the history of the bass. Shame it wasn't left silver, I imagine that would make it quite rare and valuable I wonder if any " home relic-ers " will try out your method of leaving an instrument in a damp gig bag for a month! Did it warp the neck or cause any other damage? Good luck with this bass, anyway, are you intending to buy it? If so, I'm sure the seller would send you more pics, including the neck pocket, electrics etc [/quote] No I'm not intending to buy, altho it's offered for not that much money and still has the original epoxy preamp. But one has to invest too much money in getting it the way I would like. The fretboard was refinished when it was refretted and the board is alot lighter then the original bfinish on the back of the neck, looks kind of off to me, and then there is the pickguard missing and the tuners are replaced with hipshot ones I believe... All is reversable but then you'll end up investing as much as getting an original anyway... I already have a pre eb that was also refinned it's better to save myself from yet another project, I think;) Or does someone know if it has such an unusual color it would be a really outrageous sounding one? I mean did they hand pick better bodies or necks for such a color? I don't think it would be likely... But who knows...

Well I don't own the bass, I do have a pic of the control cavity, it seems that is also fully black. There is no pic of the neck pocket, just wondered if someone knew if undercoats like that do excist.... But I definitly have the feeling this was a silver bass and had a overspray in black later on...

Yup, but I can relate to that, it's prolly been somewhere humid when a bass body gets damp e.g. in bad vented storage or whatever, the wood expands and shrinks quite a bit and you get some severe checking in the finish. When that is happened it doesnt take much to get bare spots as the finish doesnt hold really well anymore to the wood of the body. I had this once myself on a 1971 jazz bass where I had washed a gigbag innthe washing machine apparantly wasn't fully dried yet, put the bass in, when I took it out again, after a month or so, even the clear lacker on the fretboard was fully checked.. I can imagine something similar happened with this one...

Thanks RhysP, So you think it's a silver bass with black overspray? I'm not sure if Leo also did overspray on badly finished customs colors like he did at Fender in the early 60s... I'm not sure what to make of this...

Hi there, I was just wondering I know black pre eb basses 76-78 had undercoats or atleast some do. I have seen gray or white. Now here is an example where its black over silver over white... Would one assume this was a silver bass, if they even had that color at that time, and then sprayed black? Looks quite unusual to me this would be a '78 stingray bass Here are the pics

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