Mmmmm, Buttercream. I wanted the limited-edition Buttercream in 2006---2008?. I forget exactly. 2008 sounds right.
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EBMM StingRay Special Club
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Right?! Gun to the head, I could get behind a Sea Breeze (in that case, pretty much mandatory to wear white loafers with no socks)... I like Crockett & Tubbs as much as the next guy/gal, but these new colours just aren't my bag.
My aqua sparkle 5hh had ebony. No it wasnt brighter than maple. It was in between maple and rosewood. Ebony has a more even response up and down the fretboard and the notes bloom immediately. It has more note operation than maple and rosewood. With rosewood, the notes bloom . With maple the notes punch. With ebony it's more like piano sustains. It's immediate and it holds .
That honeyburst is lovely. I almost got a burnt ends thinking it would look a bit more like Honey (based on their site images). I couldn't, though: too much burn on those ends!
The BE finish is a bit all over the place. I find some iterations of the finish looks much better than others.
I love my ebony fretboard on my Aqua Sparkle. I find ebony brings really good note definition and clarity. I wouldn't describe it as overly bright.
I’m guessing natural and probably any finish you can see wood grain will be on hold for normal production runs until the supply of swamp ash increases and they stop relying on “premium hardwoods”.
In the other release thread I mentioned that this was disappointing and that the colors look similar to the Ray 4’s. I was hoping for a production run of short scales. Also Sterling’s NAMM 2023 releases have nothing for bass. I emailed them asking if anything is planned. I’ll post their reply in this thread.
Are they still producing new ones in 2023? They do have models, usually BFR or limited runs in the vault, that are ash. I figured they were avoiding doing a full production run in anything ash like Fender until supply improves. Fender now has some of their higher end vintage models in ash (instead of the pine they started using for the AmProII line) so maybe things are improving.
This is complete speculation on my part so I definitely could be wrong!
Yeah, I haven't seen one in person but pictures I've seen give me that impression.
My Special is a Vintage Tobacco Burst and I've seen Burnt Ends that look a lot like that but other times I've seen Burnt Ends that look nothing like it. But I attributed those differences in the appearance of the finish to the quality of the pictures rather than on the finish itself. But you may be right.
It's funny, I thought I had a pretty clear memory of Miami Vice, but my mind seems to have blanked all these highly choreographed musical numbers.
Here's mine. It's definitely more gray than purple. And although it's not exactly glittery, there's considerably more sparkle than this photo shows. I didn't really want this color at first, was holding out for the smoked chrome when I was trying to buy one back in December but the Snowy Night was the only one consistently in stock (and only just barely). It has DEFINITELY grown on me over time and now I think it's my favorite of all the current colorways.
With a good lighting or a spotlight on it there is a lot of sparkle on the Snowy Night, I mean a ton!! Here is a closeup of the headstock which shows sparkling pretty well. After seeing the new colors I'm glad I bought Snowy Night to add to my Maroon Mist and Tectonic Blue Sparkle when I did, but to be fair I'm not convinced these are all the new colors. There has be some ebony and maple fret board combinations we have not yet seen. If I am wrong, very disappointing.
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