Reissue stingrays - wonky control plate

[NJE]

I don’t know if I am losing the plot and my eyes playing tricks on me, but has anyone else noticed that the control plates on the 76 Ltd edition and 70s Stingrays seem to be weirdly positioned?

 

Most of the current and pre-EB basses I have seen have the control plate following the lower contour quite evenly/equally, I presume the plate was designed to follow the shape. However the new ones seem to tilt up to almost touch the pickguard and seem wonky.

 

I love the spec of both but this just messes with my brain, I can’t un-see it. I know there are a billion more important things to concern myself with but I can’t see why it was done? Black one is a new 70s reissue and the Natural is a pre-EB.

 

 

 

 

[LeftyJ]

The one in natural looks slightly better, but that black one is just wrong! Yes, that would bug me too.

[ebenezer]

Bit sloppy me thinks

[Pea Turgh]

Absolutely does my head in when a scratchplate or control plate doesn’t follow the body line! 

[neepheid]

8 minutes ago, Pea Turgh said:

Absolutely does my head in when a scratchplate or control plate doesn’t follow the body line! 

 

 

Tee hee 

Edited 4 hours ago by neepheid

[tauzero]

It seems to have been pivoted about the centre point so the bridge end is lower and the neck end higher. Seems a strange thing to do.

[NJE]

35 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

 

Tee hee 

I was really interested in these until I saw the pickguard…shocking

[NJE]

11 minutes ago, tauzero said:

It seems to have been pivoted about the centre point so the bridge end is lower and the neck end higher. Seems a strange thing to do.

Yes that’s exactly what I thought, it just seems too close to the pickguard, not seen any original 70s ones that close.

[Bass Direct]

7 hours ago, NJE said:

I don’t know if I am losing the plot and my eyes playing tricks on me, but has anyone else noticed that the control plates on the 76 Ltd edition and 70s Stingrays seem to be weirdly positioned?

 

Most of the current and pre-EB basses I have seen have the control plate following the lower contour quite evenly/equally, I presume the plate was designed to follow the shape. However the new ones seem to tilt up to almost touch the pickguard and seem wonky.

 

I love the spec of both but this just messes with my brain, I can’t un-see it. I know there are a billion more important things to concern myself with but I can’t see why it was done? Black one is a new 70s reissue and the Natural is a pre-EB.

 

 

 

 

Just play the thing ;), seriously though, they are just different, both feel great though IMO...

[Piers_Williamson]

The black one is just wrong!

 

This is the wrong way up (for most people), but a detail from my 1980 Stingray