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Hey there,
Life-long MusicMan fan from the Netherlands here, 19 years old now and it all started with my dad's 1976 MusicMan StingRayBass at around age 10. I started out as a bassist but soon also wanted to bend some higher pitched strings.
Because of my dad's StingRayBass and my curious nature I soon found the StingRay guitars of the 70s that (from what I understand) were loathed by most guitarists. I always loved the look and when I found one I ended up loving their sound and feel as well. A few days ago I managed to pick up a second example of a StingRay guitar that's been severely butchered as you'll see in the pictures, but I didn't pay too much for it.
So I thought I'd share my two StingRays here and tell their stories, hoping to get some feedback.
As you can see, someone removed the original logo on the one I just got and replaced it with something horrific. I'm looking to put an original logo on it again, so if anyone has any tips on where I can get a waterslide that would do this guitar justice, that'd be greatly appreciated!
The story of the pickguard is as follows: It was originally black, then someone put another layer of something what I assume would've been some kind of fluid plastic on it to make it look white. The 3 plies on the side were also covered in this. Years later someone else spraypainted it black yet again, leaving the pickguard with a total of 5 layers of black and white. I decided to polish off the latter black layer and found the white plastic-y layer again. I used my pocketknife to scrape off the layer off of the sides of the pickguard to reveal the original 3 plies. As you'll see in the pictures, it's basically a 4ply now, black-white-black-white. I'm content with how it looks this way, and it'll be nice to have a blackguard and a whiteguard StingRay. It took me like 4 hours to get all the black off and shape it to my liking aesthetically.
The guitar with the ugly logo has weird frets too, I think they're not original because they don't look anything like the ones in my other StingRay, which are original. The body has been painted red with a layer of grey underneath it at some point in its life. The dark wood as compared to the original one is because of this previous red layer of paint, since some of it is still left in the wood. The entire guitar was also coated in an awfully cheap coat of laqcuer. Other than that both sides of the neck have been sanded off approximately half a milimeter for some reason. The entire neck has been sanded horribly at some point in its life. It's still comfortable, but the headstock has been massacred along with the heel of the neck. Date stamps are gone on both neck and body because of the sanding/painting.
The guitar that's still original is pretty much just that, except for the nut, which someone replaced for me with one he made by hand. Neck dates May 1977 and body dates either November 1976 or 1977. Serial number G00290x. The uglier one is serial number G00464x.
Alright, that's it for now I guess. Thought this would be an interesting topic for this forum.
Hope someone can tip me on a waterslide decal, all replies, questions and feedback is appreciated!
Life-long MusicMan fan from the Netherlands here, 19 years old now and it all started with my dad's 1976 MusicMan StingRayBass at around age 10. I started out as a bassist but soon also wanted to bend some higher pitched strings.
Because of my dad's StingRayBass and my curious nature I soon found the StingRay guitars of the 70s that (from what I understand) were loathed by most guitarists. I always loved the look and when I found one I ended up loving their sound and feel as well. A few days ago I managed to pick up a second example of a StingRay guitar that's been severely butchered as you'll see in the pictures, but I didn't pay too much for it.
So I thought I'd share my two StingRays here and tell their stories, hoping to get some feedback.
As you can see, someone removed the original logo on the one I just got and replaced it with something horrific. I'm looking to put an original logo on it again, so if anyone has any tips on where I can get a waterslide that would do this guitar justice, that'd be greatly appreciated!
The story of the pickguard is as follows: It was originally black, then someone put another layer of something what I assume would've been some kind of fluid plastic on it to make it look white. The 3 plies on the side were also covered in this. Years later someone else spraypainted it black yet again, leaving the pickguard with a total of 5 layers of black and white. I decided to polish off the latter black layer and found the white plastic-y layer again. I used my pocketknife to scrape off the layer off of the sides of the pickguard to reveal the original 3 plies. As you'll see in the pictures, it's basically a 4ply now, black-white-black-white. I'm content with how it looks this way, and it'll be nice to have a blackguard and a whiteguard StingRay. It took me like 4 hours to get all the black off and shape it to my liking aesthetically.
The guitar with the ugly logo has weird frets too, I think they're not original because they don't look anything like the ones in my other StingRay, which are original. The body has been painted red with a layer of grey underneath it at some point in its life. The dark wood as compared to the original one is because of this previous red layer of paint, since some of it is still left in the wood. The entire guitar was also coated in an awfully cheap coat of laqcuer. Other than that both sides of the neck have been sanded off approximately half a milimeter for some reason. The entire neck has been sanded horribly at some point in its life. It's still comfortable, but the headstock has been massacred along with the heel of the neck. Date stamps are gone on both neck and body because of the sanding/painting.
The guitar that's still original is pretty much just that, except for the nut, which someone replaced for me with one he made by hand. Neck dates May 1977 and body dates either November 1976 or 1977. Serial number G00290x. The uglier one is serial number G00464x.
Alright, that's it for now I guess. Thought this would be an interesting topic for this forum.
Hope someone can tip me on a waterslide decal, all replies, questions and feedback is appreciated!
