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Axis 30th Anniversary

20th Anniversary SR5 ?

teonigil

teonigil

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It's about time that 5 string players will enjoy an anniversary model.
It's always been 4 string basses, 20th anniversary, 30th....
Well, next year the SR5 will turn 20 and I wanted to share my 5 cents here.



My idea of a 20th anniversary SR5 is:

1. Highly figured body and birdseye (to death) maple neck
2. lightly ambered vintage tint in a clear coat for both body and neck
3. Alnico pickup (or pickups in a HH or HS configuration)
4. Round (like SR4) 5 ply pickguard (Tort?) or no pickguard at all
5. crest moon metal plate for knobs (like SR4)
6. Selector switch like on a SR4 HH or Sterling
(or in other words - NOT the standard SR5 hugh pickguard...)
7. NO fancy anniversary logo or gold medal on head stock
8. Just a nice anniversary engraving on the neck plate...


What say you?
 
hankSRay said:
Well I'm just gonna post this to steal Stanky's answer:

METAL FLAKE BROWN!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
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That was one seriously cool color. In hindsight, that is:D

An anniversary SR5 isn't hardly going to look like a sub 5 is it? I pretty much feel they should just offer it in a special color, prolly a trans, and write 20'th ann on the head stock.
 
strummer said:
... I pretty much feel they should just offer it in a special color, prolly a trans, and write 20'th ann on the head stock.
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Hope not.
I want tons of birdseyes and I want it now.
 
teonigil said:
It's about time that 5 string players will enjoy an anniversary model.
It's always been 4 string basses, 20th anniversary, 30th....
Well, next year the SR5 will turn 20 and I wanted to share my 5 cents here.



My idea of a 20th anniversary SR5 is:

1. Highly figured body and birdseye (to death) maple neck
2. lightly ambered vintage tint in a clear coat for both body and neck
3. Alnico pickup (or pickups in a HH or HS configuration)
4. Round (like SR4) 5 ply pickguard (Tort?) or no pickguard at all
5. crest moon metal plate for knobs (like SR4)
6. Selector switch like on a SR4 HH or Sterling
(or in other words - NOT the standard SR5 hugh pickguard...)
7. NO fancy anniversary logo or gold medal on head stock
8. Just a nice anniversary engraving on the neck plate...


What say you?
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So, basically, in celebrating the 20th anniversary, you want to completely redesign the layout of the instrument and make no mention on the front of the bass.

Gotcha. :confused:
 
bassmonkeee said:
So, basically, in celebrating the 20th anniversary, you want to completely redesign the layout of the instrument and make no mention on the front of the bass.

Gotcha. :confused:
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Well..... Yeah!
Enhancing the good things and taking out the bad.
+ hate those anniversary stickers, they look like dirt from over 10 ft away :D

Actually, it doesn't have to be the Anniversary SR5, it's just the bass I want.
Now since EB will not take special orders, I thought it would be the only chance for 5 bangers to get something nicer than usual until the 30th annivessary SR5...
 
strummer said:
Yeah, ok, that's cool. But the wouldn't a mahogany neck be even cooler?
About the rest: I was just reacting to your suggestion that in celebrating the SR5 they should make it something it has never been.
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Wasn't the 20th and 30th Ann. StingRays something they have never been too?
 
teonigil said:
Well..... Yeah!
Enhancing the good things and taking out the bad.
+ hate those anniversary stickers, they look like dirt from over 10 ft away :D

Actually, it doesn't have to be the Anniversary SR5, it's just the bass I want.
Now since EB will not take special orders, I thought it would be the only chance for 5 bangers to get something nicer than usual until the 30th annivessary SR5...
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I think I'd just buy another Bongo:D
 
I dunno if this is it BUT a little birdie done told me to hold on to my knickers 'cause there's gonna be some rumblin' bumblin' in the MusicMan Bass Dept. this coming year........ :cool:


I kinda don't think it has to do with the 20th SR5 but that'll probably be on the plate as well as we all know that our wonderful dealer...er, I mean Leader BP is a nut when it comes to creating craaaaazy basses and fun stuff for the masses to sound better with.
 
Psychicpet said:
I dunno if this is it BUT a little birdie done told me to hold on to my knickers 'cause there's gonna be some rumblin' bumblin' in the MusicMan Bass Dept. this coming year........ :cool:


I kinda don't think it has to do with the 20th SR5 but that'll probably be on the plate as well as we all know that our wonderful dealer...er, I mean Leader BP is a nut when it comes to creating craaaaazy basses and fun stuff for the masses to sound better with.
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Too many models... :confused:
Back in the 70's you stepped into a music store and only got one Stingray model.
Took you 5 minutes to figure out what it's all about and another 5 minutes to pay for it. Now today... that's another story... You step in, check out 15 models while trying to remember their names, then you go home to think about it, a week later you lose GAS and buy a used SUB.
 
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teonigil said:
Wasn't the 20th and 30th Ann. StingRays something they have never been too?
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I don't think so. The 20:th ann had that figured top going, but it also had the "right" shape pg, even if it was glued on. And rear routing a SR doesn't feel the same as messing with the gargantuan pg on the SR5 to me...
The 30:th is all about stuff they've done, if packaged a bit differently.

Anyways you can of course dream all you want:D hell, I want a Bongo sans pg and knobs:D :cool:
 
teonigil said:
True.
They're comming out with a 5 String Sterling...

Too many models... :confused:
Back in the 70's you stepped into a music store and only got one Stingray model.
Took you 5 minutes to figure out what it's all about and another 5 minutes to pay for it. Now today... that's another story... You step in, check out 15 models while trying to remember their names, then you go home to think about it, a week later you lose GAS and buy a used P bass.
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It's really not that complicated a process.

And, I'm not sure saying "try out the Musicmans and buy a PBass" is really going to help your case.
 
teonigil said:
a week later you lose GAS and buy a used P bass.
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Like there aren't gazillion variations on that one?
The thing about the different EBMM models is that they are truly different.

And aren't you just a bit ambivalent here? You "complained" earlier that EBMM don't have a custom shop, yet you don't like that you have like many thousands of choices? Make up your mind:p
 
strummer said:
Like there aren't gazillion variations on that one?
The thing about the different EBMM models is that they are truly different.

And aren't you just a bit ambivalent here? You "complained" earlier that EBMM don't have a custom shop, yet you don't like that you have like many thousands of choices? Make up your mind:p
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P bass?!? What P bass? Did I say P bass?

Hey guys, why do you turn the defense switch on every time somebody mentions any other bass other than EB's.

Now, "ambivalent".... hmmmmm, as if you never played a p bass huh? :p
 
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lamerjay said:
What do you honestly think ;) ...
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I honestly love everything EB ever made.
I'll lick the 20th Anniversary sticker at the front of the headstock. twice. in a slowww circular motion.
honestly ;)
 
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strummer said:
I don't think so. The 20:th ann had that figured top going, but it also had the "right" shape pg, even if it was glued on. And rear routing a SR doesn't feel the same as messing with the gargantuan pg on the SR5 to me...
The 30:th is all about stuff they've done, if packaged a bit differently.

Anyways you can of course dream all you want:D hell, I want a Bongo sans pg and knobs:D :cool:
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You are right of course!
Lets meet half way Okay?
Why not put the gargantuan pg on the back?
This is very good for those belt buckle marks too :D
 
teonigil said:
P bass?!? What P bass? Did I say P bass?

Hey guys, why do you turn the defencing switch on every time somebody mentions any other bass other than EB's.

Now, "ambivalent".... hmmmmm, as if you never played a p bass huh? :p
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Of course I have played P basses. I love P basses. They don't compare favourably to the Bongo, tough, so I don't play them anymore.
The ambivalency was to be understood form the pow that you first said something like "I wish there was a EBMM custom shop" and then say that with all the models and options it gets confusing.
So, you misunderstand. I didn't flick the defense switch, but merely pointed out that if you feel the EBMM palette of bass models to be big and confusing, F*nd*r is like a 100 times worse.

All is well, now buy a Bongo!
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
Bongo
 
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