Can a brothah get a MM Stingray 6 string?

[king_biscuit]

I remember that whole fiasco but I don't ever remember Sterling being that way to the fans that asked. The only ones he spoke out harshly against were those who attacked his Dad's memory and name.

I was very much a part of that ugly thread, and your post is total BS. No one attacked Ernie Ball (Sterling's dad), and it certainly was not the theme of that thread.

 

[drTSTingray]

The bass was offered with a limited ordering window, in one color/fretboard option, at full MSRP, which was over 2k as I recall, and a buyer had to come up with half the money up front only to wait half a year or so for it to be built. No way this was ever going to work, and it was certainly not a fair gauge of the market.

KIng Biscuit - this sounds exactly like the restrictions I would have if buying one of the Premier Dealer Network limited instrument runs EBMM do - I would dearly loved to have ordered a mahogany bodied Bongo or Ray in the recent run - just couldn't afford it.......................... but a load of people have - I think someone's even ordered a Bongo 6?

I'm surprised the 19 mm spacing 5 string players haven't gone to their local friendly luthier and have them make a new neck with the required spacing and fit it to their EBMM 5 er. Has anyone done this? I've never seen anyone post pics on a forum of such a beastie.....................

On the John Myung 6 string - I read a recent interview with him and he said the BODY was as per a 5 string - the string spacing is a special to suit his requirements - and the controls are different.

Time for more pics of EBMM basses??...................and has anyone done a photoshop of a Stingray 6??????

 

[king_biscuit]

I'm surprised the 19 mm spacing 5 string players haven't gone to their local friendly luthier and have them make a new neck with the required spacing and fit it to their EBMM 5 er. Has anyone done this? I've never seen anyone post pics on a forum of such a beastie.....................

That wouldn't change the spacing at the bridge, and it would be terrible invasive -- i.e., major surgery for the wider neck pocket.

 

[jim777]

On the John Myung 6 string - I read a recent interview with him and he said the BODY was as per a 5 string - the string spacing is a special to suit his requirements - and the controls are different.

One more time

 

[drTSTingray]

I was very much a part of that ugly thread, and your post is total BS. No one attacked Ernie Ball (Sterling's dad), and it certainly was not the theme of that thread.

Are you sure............you weren't reading the same thread as I was then - I seem to remember it was populated with a bunch of reasoned posts, but part full of puerile vitriol and attacks - I was surprised it didn't spontaneously combust.

 

[king_biscuit]

Are you sure............you weren't reading the same thread as I was then - I seem to remember it was populated with a bunch of reasoned posts, but part full of puerile vitriol and attacks - I was surprised it didn't spontaneously combust.

There was plenty of all of that, but 100% of was directed at Sterling Ball, not anyone else in his family.

 

[drTSTingray]

That wouldn't change the spacing at the bridge, and it would be terrible invasive -- i.e., major surgery for the wider neck pocket.

Amazing - a 6 string Stingray is easily do-able for not too much money but no-one can fit a different neck on a 5.

Pull the other one...........I think you guys are in denial to be honest!

 

[spade2you]

Amazing - a 6 string Stingray is easily do-able for not too much money but no-one can fit a different neck on a 5.

Pull the other one...........I think you guys are in denial to be honest!

I think you think we think you think the wrong people are in denial.

 

[drTSTingray]

There was plenty of all of that, but 100% of was directed at Sterling Ball, not anyone else in his family.

Presuming that's correct, you think that's OK then?????????

SO what gives anyone the right to bully people on the internet?

 

[king_biscuit]

Presuming that's correct, you think that's OK then?????????

SO what gives anyone the right to bully people on the internet?

I haven't bullied anyone and I am not going to be dragged into an argument with you. However, I was merely stating that no one attacked Sterling Ball's dad in that thread as was suggested in the post to which I replied.

 

[king_biscuit]

Amazing - a 6 string Stingray is easily do-able for not too much money but no-one can fit a different neck on a 5.

Pull the other one...........I think you guys are in denial to be honest!

Whether a different neck could be fitted to an SR5 or not, it wouldn't make the spacing 19mm at the bridge.

 

[drTSTingray]

I think you think we think you think the wrong people are in denial.

But you know it'd give you your perfect 5 string so why not have your Musicman 5 modded?

Hey you could even A/b it against a regular Musicman 5......

 

[drTSTingray]

I haven't bullied anyone and I am not going to be dragged into an argument with you.

That's fine - I just got the flavour that some people on here think it's fair game to bully Sterling Ball......

Hope the vintage pastry is going well

 

[king_biscuit]

Hope the vintage pastry is going well

It is going very well, thank you for asking!

 

[KwinS]

That's fine - I just got the flavour that some people on here think it's fair game to bully Sterling Ball......

Hope the vintage pastry is going well

I have no idea what went on in the 5-string order thread. I don't really care much. The flavor that I got from my personal searching on the EBMM forum is that It's fair game for Ball to insult others.

...and I think my JPXII BFR 7 string guitar is the finest guitar I have ever owned.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

I'm sure they would make you a 6 string Stingray on steroids.