Not usually a Musicman fan, but....

[markytbass]

There are some more on here [url="http://www.musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0021.htm"]http://www.musicmanbass.org/mycustompage0021.htm[/url] not for sale but it gives you an idea of other options. I do like the binding and some of the colours are well sweet

[Kiwi]

I think £2200 is a crazy price for a stingray, no matter what kind of fancy wood is slapped on the front of it. That redwood wouldn't have cost much BTW. Apart from the binding, you'll just be getting a bog standard stingray for your money. You might as well take a secondhand natural stingray, have a luthier slap on a redwood front and a binding plus a respray for £3-400? I know that won't make it a limited edition but for goodness sakes how many limited editions are needed before people get limited-edition-fatigue and see through the hype? Maybe sooner than I think, the depreciation on limited edition instruments is pretty heavy.

I do like quilted redwood though, but with the binding, it looks a bit too 'country and western' for me.

[Kev]

dude you could say the same with any manufacturer who have custom options, look at warwick, fender etc etc certainly not just a Musicman thing

[Kiwi]

[quote name='BassManKev' post='243343' date='Jul 19 2008, 01:52 PM']dude you could say the same with any manufacturer who have custom options, look at warwick, fender etc etc certainly not just a Musicman thing[/quote]
Yes I could, and in the past I have. Musicman have produced more limited edition models in the last 5 years than any other manufacturer I know of so its more of a Musicman thing than any other brand as far as I'm concerned. Usually the only thing distinguishing a limited edition from a standard bass was the paint colour, although thats changed a little with some recent models.

[Kev]

well at the end of the day, people must buy them otherwise musicman wouldn't bother making them

[Alun]

I'm on the "don't normally like MMs but like this one" side of the fence although I agree that it would be nicer with the grain on the back too.

Reminds me of the Musicman ( and Peavey ) guitars used by Eddie Van Halen.

Cheers
Alun

[markytbass]

These days LTD edition can mean anything, whether its colour, type of wood, hardware or pickup config. For arguments sake if only 500 basses were made unique to any other by that manufacturer then can they be classed as LTD edition? Whether anyone would be prepared to pay more for such a bass would be down to the indavidual (I personally wouldn't).

I am a Stingray owner so I may be a bit bias about this but put my standard 2eq 'ray against the LTD one's and the difference would be obvious to me. On the other hand Ive seen LTD basses by other manufacturers and I probably couldn't tell the difference between that and the standard.

I do like the look of the MM basses in the link on my last post but as has already been posted if I wanted a stingray in a particular finish I could get a pro refin for a reasonable price

[Kiwi]

[quote name='BassManKev' post='243354' date='Jul 19 2008, 02:14 PM']well at the end of the day, people must buy them otherwise musicman wouldn't bother making them[/quote]

Indeed, caveat emptor.