Well, since this is from 3 years ago, I doubt it. And I certainly hope you are not trying to sell your bass here, since that is against the rules. Sales allowed only in Classifieds.
Well, I hope he does not sell it, but it does not look like he was actively advertising it here, I'm sure for trading we'd all go to the classifieds. I think the intent here is comparison.
Sorry for bumping this, but there is a lot of information about these basses in this thread. If you look at the advertising, you'll see that there were slight design changes over the four years these were made. I am not sure but I believe that mine was made the first year: Mine is identical to the one posted by "BlueFlameRick" - Instead of having Jazz-Bass style pickups and the scroll-style tuners, mine has the Badass Bridge, the single Blondie humbucking pickup - Who made that pickup? They need constant adjustment and you can never raise them very high, else they rattle against the strings.
Martin had two solidbody bass models, the EB-18 (single DiMarzio Model 1 pickup) and the EB-28 (DiMarzio PJ pickups). They were available fretted and fretless.
Every EB-18 I've seen had a natural finish maple body and neck with a dark fingerboard (rosewood? ebony?), every EB-28 I've seen was a darker wood (mahogany?). Both had a paddle shaped headstock with a dark (rosewood?) cap and a script "CFM" inlaid.
Thank you for that information, my question would be, all 4 years of production, they had both models? By your description, I have the EB-18. I was under the wrong assumption that there was only one model, and Martin had been changing the design each year of pruduction... Kind of like how Lincoln kept changing the design of the Thunderbird until they lost the sleek look they originally had.
I can't recall if these were set neck or neck through but they were definitely not bolt-ons. Very well made and not cheap (around $700-1000 at the time, same price range as Pedulla, B.C. Rich, etc.).
Set neck. I am not as familiar with wood as I used to be... Looks like Mahogany Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, Walnut over the top of the headstock.
There were matching guitar models with DiMarzio pickups.
-I'd love to have a "Matching Set"
Very well made instruments (no surprise) but they sold poorly and were discontinued after about two years.
The Stingers were cheap (Korean?) imports, Fender style bolt-on neck basses. They were not sold as Martins but rather "Stinger imported by Martin"
-Yah, kind of like those "Sigma" acoustic guitars. Well Mine is no Stinger- This is the first time I've heard that Martin farmed out solid body basses.
Mine has serial number 2882- I got it for a song from Moze Guitars in La Mesa, CA back in 2002- It was in such good shape, I though it was a a Brand New solid body Bass series, but then it only had 4 strings, not 5 or 7.
When I plugged it into my Ampeg rig, it was the sound of thunder - I used it live for a while, it works better for live work compared to my 1979? Ricky 4003 which I use for recording.
I am not in the least interested in selling this, but I am interested in finding out if I can get a new Pickup - Mine is developing some cracks.
I've got to say that this bass is a high quality piece of equipment - And I appreciate the information that has been posted here. I am wholly surprised that they made a series of these with Jazz-Bass style pickups, and I am intrigued to hear what they sound like.
I think the best way to describe mine is that it is the big brother of a Gibson EB-0, except that the pickup is not a huge as the ones made for the EB-0.
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