NBD: EBMM Roasted "Old Smoothie" Stingray

[Relsom]

And I thought I was over my StingRay attraction..........

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Wow just beautiful... The neck is a piece of art.

 

[TMARK]

The Smoothie is the best Ray made in my opinion.

 

[levis76]

I'm personally not a fan of the Ray, but I have to give it up, that is a beautiful bass top to 'bottom'.

You should swap the white guard for a tort.

 

[vivaknoxvegas]

Looks amazing, congrats.

 

[Dean N]

How do they "roast" the neck?

Spoiler

 

[stringthrough]

"Stingrays roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at . . ." . . . Oh, sorry, that time of the year is over.

 

[bobba66]

That neck, Wow!

 

[TheCouchBassist]

Well, after almost a year of wanting to get one of EBMM's 40th Anniversary "Old Smoothie" Stingrays, I finally took delivery today of a roasted one from Sweetwater! Simply put, it's an exceptional bass in both its aesthetics and ability to produce sweet, deep lows!

I think I would spend as much time just sitting on the couch looking at the rig as I would actually playing it. Awesome!

 

[dave64o]

Wow, that finish with that neck is BEAUTIFUL. Congrats!


EDIT: That's a mighty nice rig you play it through, too.

 

[Fluid Power]

Very nice and I bet it sounds great with that amp!! drool

 

[Grumry]

Holy wow! That's awesome.

 

[PBassin]

Very nice and I bet it sounds great with that amp!! drool

Thanks! I mainly play through this little amp. The 810 would get me in a lot of trouble at home.

 

[Mikey F]

That is one of the sexiest Stingray's I have ever seen.

 

[DavetheDude]

Good Lord, I'm not that much of a music man type, but I admire them for their roasted necks, makes me drool. Guess I have to request a roasted maple neck with my next custom build.

 

[Hues]

Great mix of class and bada$$.

 

[bikeplate]

Killer

 

[Toonfish]

Hi there/// Also playing on an old smoothie for some months (hard to find in Belgium !), as the '76 radio knobs installed by myself, being tuned by me both for low action and fast playability, I have on order the Hipshot BT-1 short drop d tuner and some brass saddle, added some D'ADDARIO EXL 220 BT strings also in 40-95 gage.

At first I installed some GHS Bass Boomers L3045 on the old smoothie, but it didn't match at all, so took those strings back off after one week to get the D'ADDARIO, smoother and with the nice balanced tension, a dream to play now with very low action.

Normally will have the Ampeg Heritage SVT 410 HLF & Heritage SVT CL head to go with the old smoothie bass.

Regards, Eric.

 

[PBassin]

For anyone who is interested and sees this in time, I've listed this roasted Smoothie bass on eBay. There's about 12 hours left on the auction as of now.