Well, after waiting since late December, it arrived yesterday. And it is indeed worth it!
I really like how the tort looks on the green. For some reason the color rendering on my camera is not bringing out the color quite right. The actual body color is similar to the pale green from inside of an Andes mint. Pastel green tipped just slightly toward blue in the blue-yellow scale of greens.
A shot of my two most recent shorties. The SBMM StingRay has been covered a bit on this thread: NBD - SS Sterling by Music Man Stingray Daphne Blue
The new Ace is notably lighter, coming in two pounds less at 6.5 lbs. Balance without strap is quite good, and the feel of the neck is really smooth and fast.
Last two shots are of the tort completely uncovered. I really like the layers of the pickguard and how the edge of it looks.
I've yet to plug it in, but after a tune-up I played some acoustic and it's a bit louder than some of my other solid body basses. I figure that's because of the large route behind the pickguard. Tone unplugged is quite good.
I've heard of others saying that the push-buttons only had inked-on images for the controls, but mine has recessed images. Very nice. Oops, I will post a pic of them later, I forgot to take it so far.
I got the stock strings, and they play well. The wrap stops right on the nut, which I've never seen before. I'll post a pic of that later too.
So far, this is a splendid bass, absolutely quality. I consider it to be one of my nicer instruments. The Nordy Mute that came with it is also a cool new toy, and I'm looking forward to playing with it.
Thanks to Nordstrand and to Sonia for keeping me updated!
I'll post updates and any modifications here.
I really like how the tort looks on the green. For some reason the color rendering on my camera is not bringing out the color quite right. The actual body color is similar to the pale green from inside of an Andes mint. Pastel green tipped just slightly toward blue in the blue-yellow scale of greens.
A shot of my two most recent shorties. The SBMM StingRay has been covered a bit on this thread: NBD - SS Sterling by Music Man Stingray Daphne Blue
The new Ace is notably lighter, coming in two pounds less at 6.5 lbs. Balance without strap is quite good, and the feel of the neck is really smooth and fast.
Last two shots are of the tort completely uncovered. I really like the layers of the pickguard and how the edge of it looks.
I've yet to plug it in, but after a tune-up I played some acoustic and it's a bit louder than some of my other solid body basses. I figure that's because of the large route behind the pickguard. Tone unplugged is quite good.
I've heard of others saying that the push-buttons only had inked-on images for the controls, but mine has recessed images. Very nice. Oops, I will post a pic of them later, I forgot to take it so far.
I got the stock strings, and they play well. The wrap stops right on the nut, which I've never seen before. I'll post a pic of that later too.
So far, this is a splendid bass, absolutely quality. I consider it to be one of my nicer instruments. The Nordy Mute that came with it is also a cool new toy, and I'm looking forward to playing with it.
Thanks to Nordstrand and to Sonia for keeping me updated!
I'll post updates and any modifications here.
