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I've had a few fretless Stingrays, all with Pau Ferro boards and found them all well suited to the job. I don't think it looks as cosmetically nice as ebony but that's a minor point. One thing I did note though is that it's a bit on the brittle side, I had the board resurfaced on a SR5 as it had a little wear and when the nut was removed a bit of the board at the back of the nut popped off and had to be glued back into place.

Is the Pink Lionel active/passive? Did you get it from Bass Direct?

All our venues are cash only. If they aren’t cash then they aren’t one of our venues. Fortunately we don’t do it for a living and can be choosy.

Cheers, I’ve used Jon on a couple of jobs before and he’s the only guy I’d trust on a pricey bass.

Bass Direct requested I use my own Luthier and had EBMM send the replacement part directly to me. I will of course request reimbursement of costs….

Because the vendor isn’t fitting it Kev.

A new pre is now on its way from EBMM via UPS (so fingers crossed…..). Mr Shuker has agreed to fit it so here’s hoping it’ll be fit and ready soon.

I remember them as a nice bunch of lads. They used to frequent a local jamnight I went to years back every Friday when they were learning their trade.

Is it tone Lego or ordinary Lego?

I had a 4004Cii for a while. Yup, just normal rods. The thing I did though was to make sure I put the same number of (partial) turns on each rod. To be fair once I'd done the adjustment I never needed to touch the rods again, neck was very stable.

He'll love it Dave. Still use mine in preference to my EBMM Ray Shorty which was a fair bit more (even used), they are awesome little basses. Us old Glamsters have found a sweet spot with Sandbergs eh?

Over the last 40 years or so I've had a fair few Fender Jazz and Precisions, US, Mexican and Indonesian. I currently have none and expect that'll be the case until I hang up my gigging gloves.

I think you'd be safe with this one Lozz. https://www.thomann.co.uk/sandberg_california_vs_lionel_pf_bk.htm?srsltid=AfmBOop68odtvY22cC7MOJ5e3dIi5pbPqQ9y96_qnavhNNdId965YODafgE

No that's a CW-2; that's one of the later one's that doesn't have the graphite through neck though I believe it could still be ordered with the carbon fibre shell like on the original CW-1.

Lozz, I've had 4 of the Alder bodied ones through my hands, they've all been near as dammit 7.5lbs. The ash ones are a pound heavier. Alder is used on the relic and gloss painted ones. I know what you mean regarding Thomann's enquiries on specific basses though; I bought a B stock Lionel from them last year and enquired on the condition before buying. I was assured it was just a return and it had minimal signs of handling; as it was a soft relic I was happy with this and placed the order. When I received the bass it was in a rough condition, the back was ripped up with buckle wear and it was grime ridden. In comparison to the gold soft relic I already had it looked like it had been dragged behind a car. It went back but it took me 6 weeks (and a couple of email reminders) before I got my money back.

If it’s a sanded down sub neck there’s likely still some flecks of black in the wood. I had mine sanded and the luthier said he’d have had to sand too much off to get it all out - mine was a Sterling profile neck though.

Status Chris Wolstenholme original graphite neck version. Can't remember the last time I saw one on here for sale.

That awful bridge still offends my eyes. For the extra few bucks why can't they put the nicer, smaller Sterling bridge on it (Rhetorical). Sounds nice though....

I think I’ve hidden more of this thread than is left….. Play nice.

In the interim, try and pick up an alder bodied Lionel they come in at 7.5lbs (I’ve had my hands on 4 and they’ve all been about that weight). The gloss finished and aged models are alder. The satin finished with visible grain are ash and about a pound heavier.

A twofer for the Glam Lads this week, played to a group from Mencap Gateway on Thursday night, we love doing this and the clients always love the show. We normally only do one per year but we’ve already agreed a return in December. Last night was a private party in a local WMC, we normally avoid private jobs as they rarely work for us but the couple who booked us have been to a few gigs and convinced us. Surprisingly it was a great night with enthusiastic dancers all the way through both spots. Resting these aching bones now until next Saturday for a more normal gig at the Pen Nook in Deepcar north side of Sheffield. Oh….red, white and blue sparkle Converse.

Thanks Warren. I got the DarkRay version because I was specifically looking for a lightweight Ray in Starry Night finish. There were no Specials in this colour so.... I'm hoping its a circuit swap out at the worst; the bass is lovely......to be honest I'm happy enough with the clean 2EQ but I guess if I came to sell then who'd want a DarkRay without the Dark?

So my fairly new (bought new last October) and pretty much unused (so far a bedroom noodling toy) EBMM Darkray crapped out on Sunday . It was fine on Friday but when I got it out on Sunday for a pootle the alpha and omega bits no longer worked. The clean bit still works but when the alpha or omega are engaged - no output. Blending the alpha/omega with clean just results in volume loss. Did the normal checks, batteries, output jack connection, leads etc but nothing of note. Just wondering if any fellow DarkRay owners have had any issues? The guys at Bass Direct are on the case and have referred it to Musicman so I'm hoping for a swift resolution.

We're fairly busy up until the end of May and then it goes quiet until August for some reason. We've been actively promoting to pull gigs in for June/July but not much headway as yet.