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Pre EB stingray on gumtree ! MMMMMMM maybe not


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[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1367953386' post='2071567']
Can some enlighten those not in the know?
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If you look at the headstock logo here:
http://www.elderly.com/vintage/items/images/55U/55U-4382_headstock-front.jpg
obviously it's an EB model. Doesn't the Gumtree one look just like that, but with the 'Ernie Ball' erased?

This is a real Pre EB decal:
http://basschat.co.uk/uploads/monthly_01_2013/post-9204-0-77109700-1359133075.jpg

Added to that, the Gumtree one is 3eq, whereas pre EBs were all 2EQ

I'm sure there are plenty of other things that the expert would spot, but those are the two main giveaways

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Looks like it might be a 1987/88 Stingray, assuming all parts are original to that bass. B prefixed serial numbers could be found as late as 1988, and the 3 band preamp and that logo design both came in about 1987.

But, a previous owner has shaved maybe £200 off the value along with the Ernie Ball part of the logo.

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[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1367953386' post='2071567']
Can some enlighten those not in the know?
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EDITED ( Bugger roland rock beat me to it as i was doing this)

As cloudburst said the logo was a dead giveaway its the wrong one for a start and someone has rubbed out the EB bit, ....
see here for pre logos.....
[url="http://www.musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0008.htm"]http://www.musicmanb...tompage0008.htm[/url]

and as martin said 3 band eq is an EB addition, and did not come in till 87
[url="http://www.musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0019.htm"]http://www.musicmanb...tompage0019.htm[/url]

1 dot too many on neck.
Address on back of head is a EB thing

I may be wrong here but i have never seen a what looks like roasted Birds eye neck on a Pre EB.

Edited by funkgod
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[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1367964519' post='2071820']
Nice bass but DEFINATELY not pre eb
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To me it looks like a sh*t bass. And I mean that in terms of finish alone. Who knows if it's otherwise okay after what looks like an unusual life for a Stingray.

[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1368023960' post='2072174']
But, a previous owner has shaved maybe £200 off the value along with the Ernie Ball part of the logo.
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Shaved all the value off it in my book.

CB

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[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1368117654' post='2073471']
[size=4]So is this bass a fake music man bass ?[/size]
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I think it's a genuine Ernie Ball Musicman bass, but they're advertising it as a much more sought after Pre EB model, which it's clearly not.

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