Chiliwailer

Sold Mark a pickguard, very easy going sale and some good chat along the way 👍

Pleasure to meet Steve yesterday when he came to buy a bass from me. Easiest of deals, and we probably could have talk bass and such for hours if we were able to. Enjoy the bass 👍

Actually - just remembered, for anyone interested their new site is easier for orders - https://pickguardheaven.com

Just in case you didn’t know, the hex parts are likely original to the bass - in ‘95 most Rays were shipped without the mute kit, this may be because the ‘Flea bridge’ introduce in around ‘94 changed the string placement, and they no longer sat in the middle of the mute on all strings. BTW - if you want to get an original style matt pickguard, Planet Pickguard in the States made the originals and still make them to order - about £55 landed I think.

The original ‘95 pickup would need to be modded for coil split, but it’s possible as I’ve done it before. I wonder if the switch wiring is causing the issue though 🤔 If you tap the coils with something metal, like a screwdriver, it’ll let you know for sure which ones are on/off in each position. Odd that the blend wasn’t removed from the circuit tbh - maybe because the OBP-1 wiring can need a few changes when using different set up configurations, but it’s not that hard really, there are diagrams on their site. Anyway, lovely bass - I have a couple from that period 👌

Sticking with the theme of fretless Rays… I met @bernard_beard last night to buy one - perfect deal from start to finish - and it’s clear Mark is one of the good guys Thanks Mark - the bass is excellent.

If you go to ‘account’ and then ‘my attachments’ you can delete 👍

I doubt you’d say that to a blind or visually impaired student, or musician or virtuoso, so I’m genuinely a bit lost on that statement. (though in 32 years of playing bass I’ve never considered myself a musician )

1995 Stingray, modded. Number of strings: 4 Number of frets *1: 21 Scale length *2: 34 Number of pickups: 2 Number of controls (switches/knobs) *3: 6

Groove as ‘micro-timing’? 🤔 - ’Micro-timing is in the heart’ - ’One nation under a micro-timing’ - ‘Micro-time me’ - ‘Get into the micro-time’ Nah 😊

Year started playing: 1993 Number of basses: 2 Music theory: 2 Technique: 4 Groove: 8

Just for fun. If you were a card in a Basschat Top Trumps game… Year started playing: Number of basses: Music theory: Technique: Groove: Marks out of 10 👍

It’s got the mojo for sure 👍 You’re a bad influence.

Cheers for the GAS Chris, I wonder if fretless sales will be up this week? So, if I get a 5 string fretless P Bass I’ll cross off 3 areas of occasional GAS itches that I’m currently missing 🤔

What a rabbit hole - I’m leaving this well alone now 😂

Looks like this is a sensitive topic for Sterling Ball…

Interesting, I always thought pre-Specials were mostly Ash, with the occasional Alder (like trans red), and that Poplar was just in some brief instances. For example, this old page from EBMM simply states Ash as the body wood, which is how I recall it for years, but I may well be wrong; wondering where you got the info about Poplar? https://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/stingray

Sorry to read that. You may be able to find the original advert, via Google cache - it may say ‘ash’ as the body in the spec, which they still list for all Stingray Specials despite EBMM stating something like ‘select hard wood’ in the spec for a few years now. So if yours is a Poplar one, you’ve been misled, albeit perhaps not intentionally - but I do notice they get body wood wrong from time to time, which I find quite annoying. The EBMM serial database may help, or an email to the distributor Strings and Things, who are good folks.

I really like these - https://www.fralinpickups.com/product/split-jazz/?srsltid=AfmBOooGyRHW3CfNFrEQRSDyeEjulbfhzg4CBm04nOBCQJCtx3RHj8q5