Damonjames Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Hey all, this may sound like a daft question, but have you all seen many of the PDN sparkle finishes for the musicman basses? I absolutely LOVE the look of these, but can't say I have seen many pop up for sale here in the U.K. I'm particularly interested in the the USA sterling bass and stingray 5's preferably with HH. I'm not in a position to buy right now, but I'm guessing it will take time to track down, so it's not really a "wanted" thread, just wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingrayPete1977 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Hens teeth, unicorn milk etc etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damonjames Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 Rocking horse poop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibob Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 I've been talking to the UK distributor recently, they don't have any Sterling 5s and the wait is 5-6months from MM. All of the options are on the MM website now, very few customizable options. Sometimes they do limited runs (there's a midnight sparkle thing at the mo), but nothing more. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damonjames Posted October 21, 2016 Author Share Posted October 21, 2016 MM are a bit difficult like that. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled, they made them, they must be out there somewhere!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 (edited) If you mean the red and green PDN sparkles at the end of 2013, they were on an order window of one month. The only one I've ever seen in this country was played by the bassist on The Voice - an SR5H in cardinal red. The other colour was emerald green. They most certainly made them and there are some Big Als, Bongos, Sabre Classic and Stingray Classics - and those are just ones which members of the Musicman bass forum mentioned at the time. There were lots of sparkle colours made around 2000, 2001 - some are extremely rare such as fuchsia sparkle (a sort of pink). If you want to see what there was then look at the colours thread on the Musicman forum. They occasionally crop up on Talkbass but to be honest, unless they were customer ordered from the UK they were unlikely to figure as a dealer stock order so I guess they'll be rare here, even more so in dual pick up 5 string variants. Bass Central had quite a few of the emerald green and cardinal red ones in various models at one time and Station Music in Germany is worth a check as they sometimes have rare Musicman basses. There was also a blue sparkle SBMM Ray 34 model a couple of years ago (I recall Andertons had one) which looked very cool. As well as the heavy flaked sparkles there was a range of more subtle ones, often burst colours such as blue dawn and Autumn Red burst - again quite rare but they do crop up. Edited October 21, 2016 by drTStingray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBlackarm16 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1477076988' post='3159777'] Hens teeth, unicorn milk etc etc [/quote] I used to one of the PDN Gilded white Stingrays from 2012, lovely bass, lovely pearlescent finish, traded a guy his Mayones for a week as a trial trade and asked for my Stingray back at the end of the week, he never replied, he listed my PDN Stingray on eBay for £2,250...technically he nicked it from me and left me with a Mayones I didn't really want, the week was a trial and at the end I asked for it back....still gutted. Then he has the nerve to put my bass on eBay, along with the pictures I took too 😡 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302103996113 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingrayPete1977 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Jeez that is terrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingrayPete1977 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 [quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1477087968' post='3159866'] As well as the heavy flaked sparkles there was a range of more subtle ones, often burst colours such as blue dawn and Autumn Red burst - again quite rare but they do crop up. [/quote] I have a Blue Pearl SR5, it's a flat blue hanging on the wall right now, put it in the sun at a summer festival and it's a glitter ball! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M@23 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 [quote name='CaptainBlackarm16' timestamp='1477106858' post='3159905'] I used to one of the PDN Gilded white Stingrays from 2012, lovely bass, lovely pearlescent finish, traded a guy his Mayones for a week as a trial trade and asked for my Stingray back at the end of the week, he never replied, he listed my PDN Stingray on eBay for £2,250...technically he nicked it from me and left me with a Mayones I didn't really want, the week was a trial and at the end I asked for it back....still gutted. Then he has the nerve to put my bass on eBay, along with the pictures I took too 😡 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302103996113 [/quote] Have you informed ebay that is not his to sell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damonjames Posted October 22, 2016 Author Share Posted October 22, 2016 Do you not know where he lives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drTStingray Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1477129309' post='3159991'] I have a Blue Pearl SR5, it's a flat blue hanging on the wall right now, put it in the sun at a summer festival and it's a glitter ball! [/quote] Nice - I've got a blue dawn SR4HH which is very sparkly in bright light as well. It has fine metal flake in the paint. And therein apparently lay a problem for EBMM - the metal flake gums up the spray system so running a number of sparkle colours as options when most people bought black, natural or sunburst created a problem - I guess that's why they're now done as short run limited editions to avoid tying up the production process on low volume, higher production impact and thus lower margin standard options. The new starry night sparkles should start to appear soon - I read somewhere that some distributors have bought a limited number for stock (maybe Thomann, not sure about S and T for the UK) - there's at least two members here who've customer ordered them. Worth looking out for if you want a heavily flaked colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treb Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) There's an awesome emerald green sparkle SR4 @ Esse Music: [url="http://www.essemusic.it/EN/Electric-Basses/Music-Man/Stingray-4-Emerald-Green-Sparkle-Rw/"]http://www.essemusic...een-Sparkle-Rw/[/url] Edited October 23, 2016 by Treb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBlackarm16 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 [quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1477135464' post='3160052'] Do you not know where he lives? [/quote] I met him at Coventry so nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainBlackarm16 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 [quote name='M@23' timestamp='1477130824' post='3160001'] Have you informed ebay that is not his to sell? [/quote] Technically it is now I guess, I have no proof the thing actually belongs to me aside from a few pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudpup Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) Theres a bunch of PDN sparkly ones here [url="http://www.promusictools.com/gb/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=pdn+sparkle"]http://www.promusict.../?q=pdn+sparkle[/url] i bought my stingray from them and no probs with the transaction, they were very helpful via email and the bass was exactly as described when it turned up a few days later.... Gratuitous sparkly (non PDN) MM pic below :-) [URL=http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/mudpup1/media/Guitars/2d2d3c87-33db-449d-b69d-cdf0fededa72.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj640/mudpup1/Guitars/2d2d3c87-33db-449d-b69d-cdf0fededa72.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [url="http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/mudpup1/media/Yellowhouse/Britannia%2014.jpg.html"][/url] Edited October 23, 2016 by Mudpup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damonjames Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Cheers mudpup. Long term saving plan required!!! The emerald green looks amazing!! Nice stingray you have there too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlfer Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1477308337' post='3161213'] Cheers mudpup. Long term saving plan required!!! The emerald green looks amazing!! Nice stingray you have there too!! [/quote] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, cos that'll happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc S Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='CaptainBlackarm16' timestamp='1477259400' post='3161000'] I met him at Coventry so nope [/quote] There's a mobile number on the ebay ad - so why not get a mate to arrange to meet him.... At least then ask him to explain himself & get his registration number... I'd be gutted if I were you Don't suppose you got anything in writing re the temporary exchange? Hope you can get it back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largo Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I'd just get Mr Shuker to build me a bass & get a sparkle finish on it. Oops, wait a minute, I already did that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damonjames Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 (edited) [quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1477308551' post='3161216'] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, cos that'll happen [/quote] Bugger off Karl 😄 Edited October 24, 2016 by Damonjames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treb Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='CaptainBlackarm16' timestamp='1477106858' post='3159905'] Then he has the nerve to put my bass on eBay, along with the pictures I took too [url="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302103996113"]https://www.ebay.co....tm/302103996113[/url] [/quote] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]£2,250 for that bass, what a rip-off! That's a lot of money considering you can buy a new one @ Esse Music for €1900 ([/size][/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]£1690[/size][/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]): [/size][/font][/color]http://www.essemusic.it/EN/Electric-Basses/Music-Man/Stingray-Classic-4-white-perloid-Rw/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingrayPete1977 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 [quote name='Treb' timestamp='1477340302' post='3161610'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]£2,250 for that bass, what a rip-off! That's a lot of money considering you can buy a new one @ Esse Music for €1900 ([/size][/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]£1690[/size][/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]): [/size][/font][/color]http://www.essemusic.it/EN/Electric-Basses/Music-Man/Stingray-Classic-4-white-perloid-Rw/ [/quote] That's cheap for a classic of any type tbf, a natural 4 string is £2100 at GAK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrikmarky Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 [quote name='CaptainBlackarm16' timestamp='1477106858' post='3159905'] I used to one of the PDN Gilded white Stingrays from 2012, lovely bass, lovely pearlescent finish, traded a guy his Mayones for a week as a trial trade and asked for my Stingray back at the end of the week, he never replied, he listed my PDN Stingray on eBay for £2,250...technically he nicked it from me and left me with a Mayones I didn't really want, the week was a trial and at the end I asked for it back....still gutted. Then he has the nerve to put my bass on eBay, along with the pictures I took too 😡 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/302103996113 [/quote] looks like Bedford ....what's an arsehole I'd go look and take a few big mates !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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