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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='945935' date='Sep 5 2010, 09:53 AM']Another one who has moved from the SUB-sidance! Great looking necks around that time.Somewhere on here is thread suggesting that era of Stingray will be next in line after the pre EB's for the prices to go up in comparison to the newer ones like my 2002.Along with early Leo era G&L's. [/quote] Don't get me wrong I love the SUB to pieces, it's like when I had a Gibson melody maker, it was only £375 new but you could feel it was crafted in the US and for £375 it was better than almost anything I could of ha at the time. Like with the SUB, the only thing I don't like is the finish, but at the same time it gives it it's character, it's like the grungy younger brother to a refined gentleman. I'm sure that's you predicting that? I do see where you are coming from though as I've seen slot of mid 90s rays with the mute paded bridge. The neck is wonderful though, I can't wait. Im expecting it in around 2 weeks!

[quote name='JTUK' post='945953' date='Sep 5 2010, 10:02 AM']Just lately, other musos and bass players. My basses aren't that usual and some say nice things about my sound, which I appreciate. I mean, I think I know when I have a good sound but its is nice that some musos acknowledge it[/quote] Its nice whenyou know you didn't do so hot aswell.

Once my band has finished playing I just get bassist asking about my lines and gear. No girls, the room is full of old men. The music scene I love it.....

I hope some of you got that stingray link. I've been shopping around the used Market for weeks for a reasonably cheap and great looking Stingray. I've had a SUB but it's not the same (well it is it's just the finish and the snobbery of a stingray) Anyway; the story was over here you are either lucky to get a good one for little money, or you buy a new one. I did the usual eBay searches until I realised my phones eBay search didn't turn up all the basses that were listed. I found one in america. It's White with black pickguard, my favourite colours, 3 eq and has the string mute bridge, so I can guess it's around the mid 90s. It comes with the hard shall case. The big sell for me was the neck, the best neck I've seen on a bass is on my jag (some light quilted flame) but this ray is Birdseyed all over it. It's almost a shame it's got a rosewood board. Its got a few dinks which can explain the nice price I paid for it. Even after it gets here and after postage, Import and handly charges it should work out to hopefully £100 cheaper than used price over here. I can't wait. I just have to sell my SUB now and my spare Delano pup. So ; 3EQ White/black Rosewood on birdseye maple neck Spare SD bassline P/U String mute pad Bridge Hipshot D-tuner Hard Shell Case That's a lot of bass me thinks. I'll get pics if I can.

Someone on here went by crack convertors on walked out with a MM stingray for I think £99 or something stupid. Someone found a fender stu Hamm urge bass with kubicki pre-amp- I think.

You should go try one however if you want one, it's not for everyone. At the end of the day it's a jazz bass. Regardless of switches. Pickups on in series vol and tone on 10, and there you go.

Well I have one, I got it straight from the factory in japan, it came beautifully setup, although I chaned the bridge to a badass 2 an it lost all it's vibe so put the factory standard back on. On the treble side, you have on/off switch for each pickup and a parallel/series switch. The bass side gives you an on/off switch for the active EQ. And two roller swtches;one for bass one for treble. Master tone and master volume The neck is the standard jazz profile, although mine seems a bit thinner than other standard hazard I've played, it's also finished in the orangy lacquer for vintage vibe. Tone wise, it's a jazz tone basically. 70s spacing so it's a got an extra treble bite, also the added switches gives you a lot of variation. My only negative is the pickups and active EQ. The pickups are the cheap ceramic ones, I upgraded mine to fender custom shop 60s and the overall sound is a lot better, a lot clearer but still aggressive. The active eq (on mine) is very boomy past half way on the bass, the knobs arnt very graduated like on higher end pre-amps. However it's basic passive tone with the original pickups is very good. But it's so much better with alnico magnet pickups. That's it really, I've had mine since last November and it's about the only bass I can't bare to part with. It's a nice change though from the basic jazz design.

There are the SLO special necks for stingrays, basically the sterling neck on a ray body, it's apparently a Jazz profile neck. Or you could get a used sterling but then it's still not a ray. I understand why some people may have difficulty going from fat an thin necks, for me the difference is I'm a bit speedy on slim and more accurate on fatter necks, but I don't have to much difficulty adjusting to each one.

It would work but expectto wait a while. Just play the damn thing.

[quote name='mcnach' post='934620' date='Aug 24 2010, 11:51 AM']You got me curious, so I removed the pickguard. The pickup routing is, as I expected, a big square, bigger than the pickup, and won't look nice. In addition, I think this bass used to belong to a "Jim" at some point, who carved his name on the body under the pickguard! Not sure it shows clearly in the pictures. I also found that the greenish tinge is not the original, but just the way the blue fades! Because under the pickguard it's VERY blue (again the pictures didn't show it as much as you can see it in person), but it's still a different blue from later OLPs. Maybe I'll set a stand by the window just for this bass to fade the blue even further. Perhaps in another 15 years it gets a little greener [/quote] I that's more dirt, than fade.

What colour did you go for?

[quote name='Musicman20' post='934250' date='Aug 23 2010, 10:25 PM']Hmm I seem to be finding that the 2EQ models I want are actually MORE expensive than some of the 3EQs, and the 3EQs have cases. Im not talking about the offer basses at £999 here. Im actually trying to stay away from black even though a Ray looks great in black. I bet ill end up with 2 3EQs![/quote] You know it makes sense to have a 2EQ if you can get one with the case aswell. No point having two of the same bass....

I think I saw this on the bay? There's a nice double humbucker one on now I may buy. Personally I prefer the White, maybe White pearloid.

To... Much ....... GAS...... Must ...... Resist ...... !! I may explode with all this talk of stingrays.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='930475' date='Aug 20 2010, 12:19 AM']Thanks! Sounds great to me. I might check one out. I keep looking at other basses, then coming back to the simple P bass design.[/quote] Do I smell GAS?