I don’t think so. Pau Ferro has a distinct fox-red hue to its brown, along with an even tighter grain.
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EBMM StingRay Special Club
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It came in the mail today, and the build quality is still top notch.
I owned a 2018 and 2019 previously but sold them after about two years.
Is it me, or does this newer model have less curves to it, and is slightly larger?
I also ordered a matte black pickguard for it, so I’m leaving the plastic on the original one.
-ScottM
That would be gorgeous with a Brown Pearl pickguard on it.
I might have to give that a try.
It has much more of a yellow tint to it than the pics let on.
I’ll try to take some better pics when I get the matte black pickguard next week.
It plays great after a quick setup. I’m always amazed at how much you get for your money with Ernie Ball.
-ScottM
Threw Cobalt Flats on the Ray. They sound great on my P Bass and they sound great on this beauty too.
My go to bass and my go to strings !!!
They are so good! Out of curiosity how low do you all run your action?
WOOHOO - NBD - you up for a (long) story??!
Well, it's here, but it took a while... TLDR - got a new 5HH, skip to bottom for pictures...
As I've mentioned in this thread before, you can't buy a Stingray Special from any shops in New Zealand - EBMM don't ship to our little corner of the earth. Just over a year ago (with the help of Basscliff and this thread) I bought a 5H and a friend of mine brought it back from the States for me (story here). My key criteria was weight, and an extra pickup adds about 1/2lb - I coudn't find a 5HH in a colour that I liked that weighted <8.5lb. So, I pulled the trigger and it's been my main player for a year.
But - I had a hankering for more tonal variety, so have been keeping my eyes out reasonably casually for a 5HH. Well, one popped up at 8lb3oz (I know - awesome!) and happened to coincide with another friend heading to the US and offering to bring it back for me - serendipity, right?
I bought online, and had it shipped to North Carolina - only had a week window to get it to my friends, but I ordered on a Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. Because it comes with a gig bag that from the advice from the good folks in this very thread was probably not up to the rigours of an international flight, I came up with the cunning plan to buy an SKB 1SKB-44RW hard case - essentially a shell with a TSA lock that you can fit a gig bag in. Not sure of the dimensions of the EBMM mono case, I asked the vendor to confirm that it would fit in the SKB and test it in their warehouse - they confirmed in writing that it would fit. Nice - we're good to go.
My order arrived in two parcels where my mates were staying in Raleigh, and they sent me this photo with the text "is the softer case supposed to fit into the harder one??"
And then this one....
Something must've got lost in translation - must be my accent (via email...)
At this stage it's 8:30pm on Wednesday 3rd July at the vendor's location - and they close at 9pm the night before a relatively big public holiday... Oh, and my friends fly out at 2pm on Saturday...
So, I'm frantically on the phone, they recognise their mistake as I send the photos, and agree to fast ship another case (a Gator TSA case - gig bag will have to travel separately). "Will it get there by Saturday at 12pm?" I ask. "Yes, no problem, it'll ship Friday and we'll overnight it...". Ok - Plan B in action. Of course, I have to pay for the 2nd case otherwise their system won't ship it... As a contingency I also search for music shops local to Raleigh and manage to locate the same case, just on the slim chance it doesn't arrive in time - and my friend calls them and reserves it on the Friday morning - you know, just in case...
Friday comes and I can see it's left the origin - excellent. I go to bed (the timezone difference is a bit of a drama), wake up the next morning NZ time, and instead of being routed directly to Raleigh as the first shipment was, it's heading to Memphis. I'm all for paying homage to the King, but this could be pushing the friendship. No way it's getting to Raleigh for Saturday, so Saturday morning US time we invoke Plan C, they pick up the Gator case locally (3rd case I've now purchased) and they're off to the airport, on the way to Houston, and then Auckland.
Or so we thought - storms in Houston meant that the plane wouldn't land and any rerouting meant they'd miss the connecting flight - so they disembark with the other passengers and head back to where they were staying to arrange new flights for Sunday - where they had to fly via San Francisco. Sunday comes, they get on the flight and with a 50 minute connection time, get on the international flight and do the 14hr long haul down to Auckland, arriving Tuesday morning - exciting, new bass that night!
But wait, there's more! I get a text from my mate about an hour after they've landed in Auckland: "Ummm, we're home safely but none of our luggage - including your bass - made the connection". Fabulous...! Thankfully Air New Zealand were able to quickly locate the bags and agreed to ship them out when they arrived.
So, the bass arrived safely on the Wednesday night and it's all I could hope for. A quick trip to my luthier to install straploks, set it up with my strings, tweak the setup from travel and do the coil split switch mod that @pertyman showed us and I have it back. Can't put it down - love the tones I'm getting from it (8 different tones with the switch mod), how it looks (Black Rock), how it feels. I know @ics1974 has modded a 5HH with full coil splits but 15 different tones is probably too much choice for me!
Now, I'll need to sell the 5H in Frost Green Pearl - any takers in NZ???!
If you're read this far, I applaud you! "Enough of the verbage - show me some pictures" I hear you say?!
Thanks for sharing the joy of a new bass with me!
Well, it's here, but it took a while... TLDR - got a new 5HH, skip to bottom for pictures...
As I've mentioned in this thread before, you can't buy a Stingray Special from any shops in New Zealand - EBMM don't ship to our little corner of the earth. Just over a year ago (with the help of Basscliff and this thread) I bought a 5H and a friend of mine brought it back from the States for me (story here). My key criteria was weight, and an extra pickup adds about 1/2lb - I coudn't find a 5HH in a colour that I liked that weighted <8.5lb. So, I pulled the trigger and it's been my main player for a year.
But - I had a hankering for more tonal variety, so have been keeping my eyes out reasonably casually for a 5HH. Well, one popped up at 8lb3oz (I know - awesome!) and happened to coincide with another friend heading to the US and offering to bring it back for me - serendipity, right?
I bought online, and had it shipped to North Carolina - only had a week window to get it to my friends, but I ordered on a Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. Because it comes with a gig bag that from the advice from the good folks in this very thread was probably not up to the rigours of an international flight, I came up with the cunning plan to buy an SKB 1SKB-44RW hard case - essentially a shell with a TSA lock that you can fit a gig bag in. Not sure of the dimensions of the EBMM mono case, I asked the vendor to confirm that it would fit in the SKB and test it in their warehouse - they confirmed in writing that it would fit. Nice - we're good to go.
My order arrived in two parcels where my mates were staying in Raleigh, and they sent me this photo with the text "is the softer case supposed to fit into the harder one??"
And then this one....
Something must've got lost in translation - must be my accent (via email...)
At this stage it's 8:30pm on Wednesday 3rd July at the vendor's location - and they close at 9pm the night before a relatively big public holiday... Oh, and my friends fly out at 2pm on Saturday...
So, I'm frantically on the phone, they recognise their mistake as I send the photos, and agree to fast ship another case (a Gator TSA case - gig bag will have to travel separately). "Will it get there by Saturday at 12pm?" I ask. "Yes, no problem, it'll ship Friday and we'll overnight it...". Ok - Plan B in action. Of course, I have to pay for the 2nd case otherwise their system won't ship it... As a contingency I also search for music shops local to Raleigh and manage to locate the same case, just on the slim chance it doesn't arrive in time - and my friend calls them and reserves it on the Friday morning - you know, just in case...
Friday comes and I can see it's left the origin - excellent. I go to bed (the timezone difference is a bit of a drama), wake up the next morning NZ time, and instead of being routed directly to Raleigh as the first shipment was, it's heading to Memphis. I'm all for paying homage to the King, but this could be pushing the friendship. No way it's getting to Raleigh for Saturday, so Saturday morning US time we invoke Plan C, they pick up the Gator case locally (3rd case I've now purchased) and they're off to the airport, on the way to Houston, and then Auckland.
Or so we thought - storms in Houston meant that the plane wouldn't land and any rerouting meant they'd miss the connecting flight - so they disembark with the other passengers and head back to where they were staying to arrange new flights for Sunday - where they had to fly via San Francisco. Sunday comes, they get on the flight and with a 50 minute connection time, get on the international flight and do the 14hr long haul down to Auckland, arriving Tuesday morning - exciting, new bass that night!
But wait, there's more! I get a text from my mate about an hour after they've landed in Auckland: "Ummm, we're home safely but none of our luggage - including your bass - made the connection". Fabulous...! Thankfully Air New Zealand were able to quickly locate the bags and agreed to ship them out when they arrived.
So, the bass arrived safely on the Wednesday night and it's all I could hope for. A quick trip to my luthier to install straploks, set it up with my strings, tweak the setup from travel and do the coil split switch mod that @pertyman showed us and I have it back. Can't put it down - love the tones I'm getting from it (8 different tones with the switch mod), how it looks (Black Rock), how it feels. I know @ics1974 has modded a 5HH with full coil splits but 15 different tones is probably too much choice for me!
Now, I'll need to sell the 5H in Frost Green Pearl - any takers in NZ???!
If you're read this far, I applaud you! "Enough of the verbage - show me some pictures" I hear you say?!
Thanks for sharing the joy of a new bass with me!
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What a great story. Congratulations on the new bass, I hope you‘ll have fun playing it for years to come!WOOHOO - NBD - you up for a (long) story??!
Well, it's here, but it took a while... TLDR - got a new 5HH, skip to bottom for pictures...
As I've mentioned in this thread before, you can't buy a Stingray Special from any shops in New Zealand - EBMM don't ship to our little corner of the earth. Just over a year ago (with the help of Basscliff and this thread) I bought a 5H and a friend of mine brought it back from the States for me (story here). My key criteria was weight, and an extra pickup adds about 1/2lb - I coudn't find a 5HH in a colour that I liked that weighted <8.5lb. So, I pulled the trigger and it's been my main player for a year.
But - I had a hankering for more tonal variety, so have been keeping my eyes out reasonably casually for a 5HH. Well, one popped up at 8lb3oz (I know - awesome!) and happened to coincide with another friend heading to the US and offering to bring it back for me - serendipity, right?
I bought online, and had it shipped to North Carolina - only had a week window to get it to my friends, but I ordered on a Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. Because it comes with a gig bag that from the advice from the good folks in this very thread was probably not up to the rigours of an international flight, I came up with the cunning plan to buy an SKB 1SKB-44RW hard case - essentially a shell with a TSA lock that you can fit a gig bag in. Not sure of the dimensions of the EBMM mono case, I asked the vendor to confirm that it would fit in the SKB and test it in their warehouse - they confirmed in writing that it would fit. Nice - we're good to go.
My order arrived in two parcels where my mates were staying in Raleigh, and they sent me this photo with the text "is the softer case supposed to fit into the harder one??"
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And then this one....
View attachment 6986409
Something must've got lost in translation - must be my accent (via email...)
At this stage it's 8:30pm on Wednesday 3rd July at the vendor's location - and they close at 9pm the night before a relatively big public holiday... Oh, and my friends fly out at 2pm on Saturday...
So, I'm frantically on the phone, they recognise their mistake as I send the photos, and agree to fast ship another case (a Gator TSA case - gig bag will have to travel separately). "Will it get there by Saturday at 12pm?" I ask. "Yes, no problem, it'll ship Friday and we'll overnight it...". Ok - Plan B in action. Of course, I have to pay for the 2nd case otherwise their system won't ship it... As a contingency I also search for music shops local to Raleigh and manage to locate the same case, just on the slim chance it doesn't arrive in time - and my friend calls them and reserves it on the Friday morning - you know, just in case...
Friday comes and I can see it's left the origin - excellent. I go to bed (the timezone difference is a bit of a drama), wake up the next morning NZ time, and instead of being routed directly to Raleigh as the first shipment was, it's heading to Memphis. I'm all for paying homage to the King, but this could be pushing the friendship. No way it's getting to Raleigh for Saturday, so Saturday morning US time we invoke Plan C, they pick up the Gator case locally (3rd case I've now purchased) and they're off to the airport, on the way to Houston, and then Auckland.
Or so we thought - storms in Houston meant that the plane wouldn't land and any rerouting meant they'd miss the connecting flight - so they disembark with the other passengers and head back to where they were staying to arrange new flights for Sunday - where they had to fly via San Francisco. Sunday comes, they get on the flight and with a 50 minute connection time, get on the international flight and do the 14hr long haul down to Auckland, arriving Tuesday morning - exciting, new bass that night!
But wait, there's more! I get a text from my mate about an hour after they've landed in Auckland: "Ummm, we're home safely but none of our luggage - including your bass - made the connection". Fabulous...! Thankfully Air New Zealand were able to quickly locate the bags and agreed to ship them out when they arrived.
So, the bass arrived safely on the Wednesday night and it's all I could hope for. A quick trip to my luthier to install straploks, set it up with my strings, tweak the setup from travel and do the coil split switch mod that @pertyman showed us and I have it back. Can't put it down - love the tones I'm getting from it (8 different tones with the switch mod), how it looks (Black Rock), how it feels. I know @ics1974 has modded a 5HH with full coil splits but 15 different tones is probably too much choice for me!
Now, I'll need to sell the 5H in Frost Green Pearl - any takers in NZ???!
If you're read this far, I applaud you! "Enough of the verbage - show me some pictures" I hear you say?!
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Beautiful bass @Bassed in NZ , congratulations!
-ScottM
-ScottM
Here is comment by Roger Sadowsky
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/club-sadowsky.390234/page-3199#post-28588181
I’m glad that this bass worth all that it took to get it to you. Thank Goodness for divine connections and friends that truly care.WOOHOO - NBD - you up for a (long) story??!
Well, it's here, but it took a while... TLDR - got a new 5HH, skip to bottom for pictures...
As I've mentioned in this thread before, you can't buy a Stingray Special from any shops in New Zealand - EBMM don't ship to our little corner of the earth. Just over a year ago (with the help of Basscliff and this thread) I bought a 5H and a friend of mine brought it back from the States for me (story here). My key criteria was weight, and an extra pickup adds about 1/2lb - I coudn't find a 5HH in a colour that I liked that weighted <8.5lb. So, I pulled the trigger and it's been my main player for a year.
But - I had a hankering for more tonal variety, so have been keeping my eyes out reasonably casually for a 5HH. Well, one popped up at 8lb3oz (I know - awesome!) and happened to coincide with another friend heading to the US and offering to bring it back for me - serendipity, right?
I bought online, and had it shipped to North Carolina - only had a week window to get it to my friends, but I ordered on a Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. Because it comes with a gig bag that from the advice from the good folks in this very thread was probably not up to the rigours of an international flight, I came up with the cunning plan to buy an SKB 1SKB-44RW hard case - essentially a shell with a TSA lock that you can fit a gig bag in. Not sure of the dimensions of the EBMM mono case, I asked the vendor to confirm that it would fit in the SKB and test it in their warehouse - they confirmed in writing that it would fit. Nice - we're good to go.
My order arrived in two parcels where my mates were staying in Raleigh, and they sent me this photo with the text "is the softer case supposed to fit into the harder one??"
View attachment 6986408
And then this one....
View attachment 6986409
Something must've got lost in translation - must be my accent (via email...)
At this stage it's 8:30pm on Wednesday 3rd July at the vendor's location - and they close at 9pm the night before a relatively big public holiday... Oh, and my friends fly out at 2pm on Saturday...
So, I'm frantically on the phone, they recognise their mistake as I send the photos, and agree to fast ship another case (a Gator TSA case - gig bag will have to travel separately). "Will it get there by Saturday at 12pm?" I ask. "Yes, no problem, it'll ship Friday and we'll overnight it...". Ok - Plan B in action. Of course, I have to pay for the 2nd case otherwise their system won't ship it... As a contingency I also search for music shops local to Raleigh and manage to locate the same case, just on the slim chance it doesn't arrive in time - and my friend calls them and reserves it on the Friday morning - you know, just in case...
Friday comes and I can see it's left the origin - excellent. I go to bed (the timezone difference is a bit of a drama), wake up the next morning NZ time, and instead of being routed directly to Raleigh as the first shipment was, it's heading to Memphis. I'm all for paying homage to the King, but this could be pushing the friendship. No way it's getting to Raleigh for Saturday, so Saturday morning US time we invoke Plan C, they pick up the Gator case locally (3rd case I've now purchased) and they're off to the airport, on the way to Houston, and then Auckland.
Or so we thought - storms in Houston meant that the plane wouldn't land and any rerouting meant they'd miss the connecting flight - so they disembark with the other passengers and head back to where they were staying to arrange new flights for Sunday - where they had to fly via San Francisco. Sunday comes, they get on the flight and with a 50 minute connection time, get on the international flight and do the 14hr long haul down to Auckland, arriving Tuesday morning - exciting, new bass that night!
But wait, there's more! I get a text from my mate about an hour after they've landed in Auckland: "Ummm, we're home safely but none of our luggage - including your bass - made the connection". Fabulous...! Thankfully Air New Zealand were able to quickly locate the bags and agreed to ship them out when they arrived.
So, the bass arrived safely on the Wednesday night and it's all I could hope for. A quick trip to my luthier to install straploks, set it up with my strings, tweak the setup from travel and do the coil split switch mod that @pertyman showed us and I have it back. Can't put it down - love the tones I'm getting from it (8 different tones with the switch mod), how it looks (Black Rock), how it feels. I know @ics1974 has modded a 5HH with full coil splits but 15 different tones is probably too much choice for me!
Now, I'll need to sell the 5H in Frost Green Pearl - any takers in NZ???!
If you're read this far, I applaud you! "Enough of the verbage - show me some pictures" I hear you say?!
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I’m sure you won’t have any problem moving the 5H since they are so rare in NZ.
Congrats !!
I used mine live tonight for the first time in a full band context and couldn't tell any difference. It did however kill it though. Such a great bass.
Nice bass. Glad the mod turned out greatWOOHOO - NBD - you up for a (long) story??!
Well, it's here, but it took a while... TLDR - got a new 5HH, skip to bottom for pictures...
As I've mentioned in this thread before, you can't buy a Stingray Special from any shops in New Zealand - EBMM don't ship to our little corner of the earth. Just over a year ago (with the help of Basscliff and this thread) I bought a 5H and a friend of mine brought it back from the States for me (story here). My key criteria was weight, and an extra pickup adds about 1/2lb - I coudn't find a 5HH in a colour that I liked that weighted <8.5lb. So, I pulled the trigger and it's been my main player for a year.
But - I had a hankering for more tonal variety, so have been keeping my eyes out reasonably casually for a 5HH. Well, one popped up at 8lb3oz (I know - awesome!) and happened to coincide with another friend heading to the US and offering to bring it back for me - serendipity, right?
I bought online, and had it shipped to North Carolina - only had a week window to get it to my friends, but I ordered on a Monday and it arrived on Wednesday. Because it comes with a gig bag that from the advice from the good folks in this very thread was probably not up to the rigours of an international flight, I came up with the cunning plan to buy an SKB 1SKB-44RW hard case - essentially a shell with a TSA lock that you can fit a gig bag in. Not sure of the dimensions of the EBMM mono case, I asked the vendor to confirm that it would fit in the SKB and test it in their warehouse - they confirmed in writing that it would fit. Nice - we're good to go.
My order arrived in two parcels where my mates were staying in Raleigh, and they sent me this photo with the text "is the softer case supposed to fit into the harder one??"
View attachment 6986408
And then this one....
View attachment 6986409
Something must've got lost in translation - must be my accent (via email...)
At this stage it's 8:30pm on Wednesday 3rd July at the vendor's location - and they close at 9pm the night before a relatively big public holiday... Oh, and my friends fly out at 2pm on Saturday...
So, I'm frantically on the phone, they recognise their mistake as I send the photos, and agree to fast ship another case (a Gator TSA case - gig bag will have to travel separately). "Will it get there by Saturday at 12pm?" I ask. "Yes, no problem, it'll ship Friday and we'll overnight it...". Ok - Plan B in action. Of course, I have to pay for the 2nd case otherwise their system won't ship it... As a contingency I also search for music shops local to Raleigh and manage to locate the same case, just on the slim chance it doesn't arrive in time - and my friend calls them and reserves it on the Friday morning - you know, just in case...
Friday comes and I can see it's left the origin - excellent. I go to bed (the timezone difference is a bit of a drama), wake up the next morning NZ time, and instead of being routed directly to Raleigh as the first shipment was, it's heading to Memphis. I'm all for paying homage to the King, but this could be pushing the friendship. No way it's getting to Raleigh for Saturday, so Saturday morning US time we invoke Plan C, they pick up the Gator case locally (3rd case I've now purchased) and they're off to the airport, on the way to Houston, and then Auckland.
Or so we thought - storms in Houston meant that the plane wouldn't land and any rerouting meant they'd miss the connecting flight - so they disembark with the other passengers and head back to where they were staying to arrange new flights for Sunday - where they had to fly via San Francisco. Sunday comes, they get on the flight and with a 50 minute connection time, get on the international flight and do the 14hr long haul down to Auckland, arriving Tuesday morning - exciting, new bass that night!
But wait, there's more! I get a text from my mate about an hour after they've landed in Auckland: "Ummm, we're home safely but none of our luggage - including your bass - made the connection". Fabulous...! Thankfully Air New Zealand were able to quickly locate the bags and agreed to ship them out when they arrived.
So, the bass arrived safely on the Wednesday night and it's all I could hope for. A quick trip to my luthier to install straploks, set it up with my strings, tweak the setup from travel and do the coil split switch mod that @pertyman showed us and I have it back. Can't put it down - love the tones I'm getting from it (8 different tones with the switch mod), how it looks (Black Rock), how it feels. I know @ics1974 has modded a 5HH with full coil splits but 15 different tones is probably too much choice for me!
Now, I'll need to sell the 5H in Frost Green Pearl - any takers in NZ???!
If you're read this far, I applaud you! "Enough of the verbage - show me some pictures" I hear you say?!
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I think it makes a super duper slight difference (more than fingerboard wood will since its the thing the string is actually vibrating against). That said its very slight, most would probbably actually prefer the tonal qualities it has, and in the case of our basses and Roger Sadowskys, they both have active pre-amps in them anyways. So to me its a bit of a wierd flex for him to claim he hates the difference (despite it being minnute) then slaps active pre-amps in his basses that drastically make the bass brighter lol. Not implying he doesn't make good basses, just pointing out i think his opinion is a bit stubborn and born out of tradtion / marketing his product.
Either way you look at it it can be "fixed" to your ears with a minor tweak of some knobs on your amp, and you will literally never ever need a fret dressing again - which i think outweighs anything lol.
Looks like I’ll be joining the ranks again soon. Round 2 of a SRS 5H in ash/maple 
Quick demo of the tones available with the neck pickup single coil mod in case it's helpful.
8 different tones - 4bars per setting with some quick switching between them at the end of each sequence! One take, so forgive when the timing is a little off as I'm changing settings. No changes to the eq...
Settings in order of recording are:
1) Bridge humbucker (Position 1)
2) Outer coils (Position 2)
3) Bridge single coil (Position 2, no neck coil 4)
4) Bridge humbucker + neck single coil (Position 3, no neck coil 4)
5) Both Humbuckers (Position 3)
6) Inner coils (Position 4)
7) Neck humbucker (Position 5)
8) Neck single coil (Position 5, no neck coil 4)
8 different tones - 4bars per setting with some quick switching between them at the end of each sequence! One take, so forgive when the timing is a little off as I'm changing settings. No changes to the eq...
Settings in order of recording are:
1) Bridge humbucker (Position 1)
2) Outer coils (Position 2)
3) Bridge single coil (Position 2, no neck coil 4)
4) Bridge humbucker + neck single coil (Position 3, no neck coil 4)
5) Both Humbuckers (Position 3)
6) Inner coils (Position 4)
7) Neck humbucker (Position 5)
8) Neck single coil (Position 5, no neck coil 4)
Great; When I read Rogers Post I thought well if SS Frets changed tone it was for the Better with Stingray Special
