MUSICMAN PORN THREAD

[Horizontalste]

Recent stupid (& not serious) hand injury made playing my 35 scale 5 strings a bit of a mission so to keep the cobwebs at bay I've dug out my favourite 4 string.

The pain of the hand injury just melted away as I remembered why I love my Stingray so much.

[TheGreek]

Recently acquired Sterling 4HH. 

 

 

 

Edited December 3, 2022 by TheGreek

[MM Stingray 62]

Eventually got them all together 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 5, 2022 by MM Stingray 62

[Eldon Tyrell]

14 minutes ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

Eventually got them all together 

 

IMG_4291.MOV

🤩🥰😍

[dub_junkie]

Swapped out the neck on two of my Sabres. Sledge is wearing a new pickguards.com

black abalone guard as well as the maple neck. The natural is now the same as the Sabre I owned for a while and then stupidly sold a long,long time ago.

Probably keep them like this for a while...

[MM Stingray 62]

Both very nice indeed I think I preferred the natural one with the maple neck. But saying that the both look great. I must get myself a Sabre on day instead of buying another stingray.

[dub_junkie]

16 minutes ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

Both very nice indeed I think I preferred the natural one with the maple neck. But saying that the both look great. I must get myself a Sabre on day instead of buying another stingray.

I'm the same with the Sabres though I am looking at a StingRay Special as my next MusicMan hopefully.

My sunburst Sabre is now wearing flats with the mutes doing their thing. On the P bass setting it sounds great so that bass is staying that way.  

[MM Stingray 62]

My 2007 Teal i think it looks great when the light hits it.

 

[ezbass]

1 hour ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

My 2007 Teal i think it looks great when the light hits it.

 

My favourite EB colour. 😍

[Chiliwailer]

Calling @MM Stingray 62

 

BFR - Retro ‘76 Ray 🤤😍

 

https://www.music-man.com/bfr/spring-2023

Edited March 29, 2023 by Chiliwailer

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

11 minutes ago, Chiliwailer said:

Calling @MM Stingray 62

 

BFR - Retro ‘76 Ray 🤤😍

 

https://www.music-man.com/bfr/spring-2023

I was there right up to the 3 bolt neck 🤷‍♂️

[Chiliwailer]

19 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

I was there right up to the 3 bolt neck 🤷‍♂️

Haha! I seem to recall Sterling saying “I don’t do reissues” on the Old Smoothie promo vid… its nice to see one 👍

 

[NJE]

I’m not sure if I have posted mine on here.

 

This is my 2000 Stingray, I have had this about 6 years now. I have mixed feelings about this bass, it plays so well and just feels so comfortable, but I have never been thrilled by the colour. I just can’t seem to bring myself to sell or trade it for fear of not getting another quite so good.

 

[Deedee]

12 minutes ago, NJE said:

I’m not sure if I have posted mine on here.

 

This is my 2000 Stingray, I have had this about 6 years now. I have mixed feelings about this bass, it plays so well and just feels so comfortable, but I have never been thrilled by the colour. I just can’t seem to bring myself to sell or trade it for fear of not getting another quite so good.

 

A black plate and pickup cover would make it all better 😉.

[NJE]

3 minutes ago, Deedee said:

A black plate and pickup cover would make it all better 😉.

Never thought about black on it, off to google to find an example.

 

I have a Pearl white which I always pair with a black pickup cover when I fancy a change.

[Horizontalste]

4 minutes ago, Deedee said:

A black plate and pickup cover would make it all better 😉.

Usually I agree with @Deedee, that's why my Stingray is his (one of) old Stingray.

However, I really like the colours just as they and I don't say that about many Ray's without maple boards!

It's a cool lookin' bat!

[Deedee]

36 minutes ago, NJE said:

Never thought about black on it, off to google to find an example.

 

I have a Pearl white which I always pair with a black pickup cover when I fancy a change.

 

33 minutes ago, Horizontalste said:

Usually I agree with @Deedee, that's why my Stingray is his (one of) old Stingray.

However, I really like the colours just as they and I don't say that about many Ray's without maple boards!

It's a cool lookin' bat!

I must point out that I believe sticking a black plate on improves the look of most basses, although when black’s too much, a minty green one could be the answer.

 

This was mine 😍

 

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by Deedee

[MM Stingray 62]

I think an aged pearl one would work really well. I had a tortoise one on my classic and changed it for the aged pearl. It completely changed the look of the bass for the better in my opinion.

 

[peteb]

3 minutes ago, MM Stingray 62 said:

I think an aged pearl one would work really well. I had a tortoise one on my classic and changed it for the aged pearl. It completely changed the look of the bass for the better in my opinion.

 

 

Actually, I think that I prefer the tort on that! 

 

Edited April 4, 2023 by peteb

[mep]

Mirror pickguard and black pup. No contest.

[Deedee]

35 minutes ago, mep said:

Mirror pickguard and black pup. No contest.

Ok, ok, I’ll give you that. A mirror plate could do it too.

[Bunion]

Clear plate looks great too 

 

[NJE]

I was thinking clear at one point. When I was taking the pickup cover off I thought it looked pretty good.

 

[mep]

8 hours ago, Bunion said:

Clear plate looks great too 

 

Indeed. Had one before my mirror scratch plate. 

[Stingray5]

It's been a while since I posted here so thought I'd pop this pic of me 'n' my '89 Ray5 at a recent festival gig. Bought in '97, it's been my main go-to bass ever since. All original apart from the white pearl plate.

Yeah, it's weightier than a modern Ray -- about 10.5 lbs -- but it's not really a problem. Ask me again when I'm the other side of 70! 👍🤠👍