Am I the only one

[Tyler Hole]

why ruin a great bass (stingray) by making a 6er.... ...its perfect as it is...im sure theres plenty of good or better 6ers out there ...STEP AWaY FROM THE STINGRAY

I don't see it as ruining it, I see it as improving it.

 

[heath_the_great]

I don't see it as ruining it, I see it as improving it.

so more strings = better bass?..i think not...but why mess with a perfect design? the 4and5 stingrays are classic, and about as common/recognised as a p or j bass...plus i dont think a stingray would suit 6 strings...plus i dont think wouldnt the top c string woudl sound 'thick' enough due to the single pickup near the bridge....IMO you'd have to add a single coil in the neck pos or move the brige pup.....plus i dont think MM have kinda ignored doing it until now, have you thought how much tooling might cost? plus new designed pickups and all that crap, they might have scraped it because of that reason..i know phil kubicki was designing a 5 string factor, Headless one, he does make a 5 string key factor..but he's only made one factor 5 because the tooling cost was almost 75% more than that of a factor 4

 

[vene-nemesis]

I thought that was a Baritone guitar they made? I don't know much about fender, so I'm probably wrong

There is a jazz VI its tuned EADGBE, it has three singlecoil pickups in the stratocaster positions, same controls as the stratocaster's and 30" neck

 

[Tyler Hole]

so more strings = better bass?..i think not

To an extended range bassist, more strings = more range and if its from a company they like but don't make extended range basses, then making one would be in a way an improvement.

And what is this talking about messing with the design? You can keep the same design, would be slightly bigger (hardly noticeable IMO from what I've tried) and a big wider neck to accomadate for another string.

 

[heath_the_great]

There is a jazz VI its tuned EADGBE, it has three singlecoil pickups in the stratocaster positions, same controls as the stratocaster's and 30" neck

its not a jazz..it was called the "bass IV", it had a tremolo, 3 Jaguar guitar single coils, and the jaguar body...same electronics from what ive seen too...so basically its just a baritone jaguar..plus these guitars (the jaguar, not the bass VI, not sure when that came around) were designed in the late 50's.....

Tyler: do you understand what i mean about the tooling costs? here a stingray 4 costs $3500aus, 5er about the $4000aus mark...but with the costs of having to get new machinery and tools and tol bits the price of a 6er might end up being in the $6-7000aus mark...so they might have thoght of this and thoght it unethical and find it unlikely that it'll sell well enough for them to make a decent profit..cos im sure they'll be making a **** load of cash as they are already...cos really, for that price range you would be able to get a decent custom bass made.....they cant just make it because a minority of people want it....cos from the poll on here "what kind of basses do you play?" 4 string fretted and 5 fretless seem to rule the nest,

4 fret+less=3077
6 fret+less=397

MM might find that valuable field study.....it would have to reflect sales, percentage wise

 

[karrot-x]

That is evil looking :0, but I got something similar:

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hehe...ok maybe it's not a 8 string :0.



If they came out with a wide spacing 6 string that I could slap on as well as my 4 I'd go nuts!