Ernie Ball StingRay Natural 45th Anniversary Prototype

[Grandpa Bob]

I'm so glad to be part of the StingRay5 Bass players!! I paid 1400 for mine in 2010. Looks like a replacement would cost around 3600. Wish my other investments grew like that. I agree that's a little much.

Sunday's Praise music was fun. Listen at www.lifechurchco.com
on the last song I play my Journeyman U-Bass but the camera never shows it......
GBYD,
Grandpa Bob

 

[bigdaddybass12]

For $599, you can use some of the cash you'd have left over to have the neck sanded and refinished as bare wood. I know a lot of folks who did that with the USA-made SUBs. I never minded the painted necks and I had 3 of them - a fretted one in teal, an active fretless in black, and a passive fretless in white. Wish I had all 3 of them still. I sold them in a fit of GAS. The fretless SUB was the best recording bass I've ever owned, and a dream fretless to play. They never show up for sale anymore for a reason.... they were a unicorn of amazing value in a USA-made EBMM axe.

Yeah, the pass was about 4 or 5 years ago!

 

[nivagues]

Does anyone know how long MM used the black and silver plastic knobs like the ones on this bass? My first Music Man Stingray back in the day had these knobs. I dont have the serial number, all I know is that it was a very early example.

The plastic "Radio" knobs were used from the start of production (around June 1976) up to Aug/Sept 1976. My understanding is that the plastic knobs were used as a substitute for the late arrival of orders for intended metal knobs.

 

[Siiverado44]

I am sick to death of EBMM using COVID as an excuse for limited production capacity. No, they CHOOSE to use their production capacity on dumb meme basses like the Joe Dart Jr, or recreating a specific mineral stain on Cliff Williams' old Stingray. There is obviously a massive demand for classic Stingrays, and probably Sabre's too, as evidenced by the fact that this horrendously overpriced Stingray flew off the shelves in an hour.

I love the instruments to death, but it's time for them to start making working-man's Stingrays again like they used to. Give us back the 2EQ, Alnico, and fretless options on the Stingray Special.

 

[beyondhelp]

I am sick to death of EBMM using COVID as an excuse for limited production capacity. No, they CHOOSE to use their production capacity on dumb meme basses like the Joe Dart Jr, or recreating a specific mineral stain on Cliff Williams' old Stingray. There is obviously a massive demand for classic Stingrays, and probably Sabre's too, as evidenced by the fact that this horrendously overpriced Stingray flew off the shelves in an hour.

I love the instruments to death, but it's time for them to start making working-man's Stingrays again like they used to. Give us back the 2EQ, Alnico, and fretless options on the Stingray Special.

To be honest, people buy Chinese Dingwalls all day long for the same price as the stingray special. The market has changed for everything, and sadly its not going back. Sadowsky Metrolines from Warwick are $3600, and both of those manufacturers in house basses start at 6k!!