Question 25th Anniversary Birdseye? BFR? Chambered?

[Manfloozy]

A few quick questions....

Was birdseye maple (board or neck) an option on the 25th? DuBaldo has a few on order that list birdseye goodness....

Ernie Ball Music Man - On Order

Second question: will there be a BFR run on 25ths? What is the basis for the BFR issues?

This BFR 20th is JAW DROPPING:
20th Anniversary StingRay5 BFR

The GAS pains are hurting me.... and somehow I don't think Gas-X or Tums are going to help.

Lastly, Is the 25th bass chambered or not? I can now recall hearing that it was, and that it wasn't (only the Gee'tar was)... just curious.

(Can anyone tell I found the DuBaldo Music website today? )

The wait continues, and is killing me softly.

 

[oddjob]

A few quick questions....

Was birdseye maple (board or neck) an option on the 25th? DuBaldo has a few on order that list birdseye goodness....

Ernie Ball Music Man - On Order

Second question: will there be a BFR run on 25ths? What is the basis for the BFR issues?

This BFR 20th is JAW DROPPING:
20th Anniversary StingRay5 BFR

The GAS pains are hurting me.... and somehow I don't think Gas-X or Tums are going to help.

Lastly, Is the 25th bass chambered or not? I can now recall hearing that it was, and that it wasn't (only the Gee'tar was)... just curious.

(Can anyone tell I found the DuBaldo Music website today? )

The wait continues, and is killing me softly.

I bleeb birdseye was requestable - but not sure.

I think a lot depends on what you mean by BFR. Now I could be totally wrong on all of this but the 25th is in itself its own BFR. The BFR rosewood neck option is not part of it and the finish is not optional. The thought is that when the run is done it will go into regular production without some of the "special" features.


The bass chamber I think got scrapped. I know it makes a huge difference in the guitar but I don't think it produces what BP and company were looking for in the bass so it went bye-bye.

 

[mmbassplayer]

The GAS pains are hurting me.... and somehow I don't think Gas-X or Tums are going to help.

GAS pains are nothing once you see the price tag on the 1 of 10 BFR Stingray 5! I'd pay 10$ just to see it. JOSH

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Yeah, if those were regular models or even BFR or Anniversary models, I think you'd see us grabbing them up. At 10 instruments made (and only 8 available commercially worldwide, if I am not mistaken), you're getting into collector prices.

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

The bass is even more beautiful in person!

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/mus...th-ball-family-reserve-dealers-announced.html

Hello everyone

REMEMBER THE BLUE BURST 20TH ANNIVERSARY BFR WITH EBONY AND THE 20 YEAR OLD FIRST TEN SERIAL NUMBERS?

Here is where they are going

Serial #1 Dargie...because he is my favorite son.....ok because he has done such a good job of instigating all of these cool pieces...

2-9..Dubaldo Music, Bass Central, Guitar Center, Musicians friend.....Intl Mogar, Italy, Musik Meyer Germany, Strings and Things England, Kanda Shokai Japan

10 Big Poppa. It is really going in the vault at work

WE have no idea how they will be sold. I have a feeling ebay one at a time..They retail for $7,500

Back to the 25ths

The 25th guitars come with figured/birdseye maple necks, the 25th basses may or may not have figure in the neck. The first ones we received did not. I'm guessing it depends on what the EBMM wood pile allows. The guitars are chambered, the basses are not.

 

[Dargin]

The 25th bass necks are not figured...the guitars are. There will also be a number of flame necks

 

[RobertB]

Yeah, if those were regular models or even BFR or Anniversary models, I think you'd see us grabbing them up. At 10 instruments made (and only 8 available commercially worldwide, if I am not mistaken), you're getting into collector prices.

Those beauties are evil (from a temptation standpoint). I love everything about 'em. What's not to love? Whereas some don't, I happen to like the finished necks - like it a lot on the 30th, for example. I love ebony boards, so ... check. And Those tops? Those necks? That finish? The eb tone block? The coolness of having one of the first 10 bridges ever made for the SR5?

But above all, I see the creation of that particular instrument as a statement - an expression of pride in excellence, and I raise my glass to it. I'd buy one in a second, and hope to some day, if there's still one available when I'm ready. The one Pete has is gorgeous.

I went recently (online) to look longingly again at the one BassCentral had - couldn't remember if they had an H or HH ... and it was gone. Wonder where it ended up.

 

[Duarte]

I'd buy one in a second, and hope to some day, if there's still one available when I'm ready.

I will have one. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but it will be mine. I'll probably buy yours when you're 'done' with it!

 

[RobertB]

I will have one. I don't know when, and I don't know how, but it will be mine. I'll probably buy yours when you're 'done' with it!

ha ... ha ... and haaaa.

Not likely. This one would be like trying to take Charlton Heston's guns from him ... "from my cold dead hands!!!".

 

[Duarte]

"from my cold dead hands!!!".

Well if that's the way you want it...

And lets face it, you don't have a great track record for hanging on to basses, not even the very special ones.

Or for the price of that SR5, I could get something like five bongos or some shiz.