Fender P Neck + OLP Stingray Bass...

[dxbx]

hi people, how are you? thats nice. i am currently playing a left handed OLP Stingray 4 bass with a 21 fret jumbo neck, however i would like to put a Fender precision bass neck on it and i have a few questions.

firstly, is this at all possible?
secondly, does anyone know a website or anything that would be able to help me get this done?

 

[bovinehost]

Is it POSSIBLE?

Well, yeah. You'd have to reshape the body or the neck heel and reconfigure the attachment process. You'd have to measure the replacement neck and figure out how to get the scale right. My bet is it's going to look like murder on a popsicle stick unless you have serious woodworking skills, but maybe you don't mind it looking like that.

You wouldn't find me attempting it.

 

[five7]

Unless the olp neck is warped or shot, don't do it! I have had 2 olps and I liked the necks better than any of the p basses I have owned. Save your money and time and buy a musicman sub or one of the new stingray 34 basses. You will be alot better off in the long run!

 

[buckethead777]

my bet is it's going to look like murder on a popsicle stick

lmao!!!!!

 

[koogie2k]

Sure...anything is possible. But, go with what Jack said.

 

[Psycho Ward]

First, welcome to the forum and to the Kingdom of Lefthanzia.

Cross breeding is dangerous, breed a cat with a rabbit you get a cabbit, a cow with a horse you get a corse, a fawn with a duck.... well, you get my point.

I suggest you get a real Ernie Ball, the real deal and enjoy an excellent bass.

Good luck to you.

 

[Davecg2]

First, welcome to the forum and to the Kingdom of Lefthanzia.

Cross breeding is dangerous, breed a cat with a rabbit you get a cabbit, a cow with a horse you get a corse, a fawn with a duck.... well, you get my point.

I suggest you get a real Ernie Ball, the real deal and enjoy an excellent bass.

Good luck to you.

Probably not the answer hes looking for but i have to agree, just save and get an EBMM or atleast a SByMM.

 

[MingusBASS]

Probably not the answer hes looking for but i have to agree, just save and get an EBMM or atleast a SByMM.

There are no lefty Sterling by Music Man at this time.

 

[syndrome666]

Eek!!! Fender mixing with MM...that's horrible, although it is do-able and I've seen some hybrids as such only it was fender p body with a squire jazz neck, kinda ugly too, but if you can work around the woodwork, why not? I personally don't like disassembling instruments, maybe only upgrading the hardware, since I like black hardware, and most of these instruments come with chrome only, but I'd never go as far as doing wood transplants. Besides, why would you want to do that? Go for the real thing, or at least hunt down a stingray neck on ebay or something like it. Still don't know what OLP is exactly. I know they make MM based instruments, but how exactly are they licensed to do so? Is it the way Squire is to Fender and Epiphone to Gibson?
Well anyway don't do it, unless you like ugly basses. I like my stingray just the way it is, it's the most comfortable and awsome sounding 5 string I've come across thus far, never tried the 4 strings, not much of a fan of 4s. But I wouldn't trade or sell this bass for anything. Still haven't come across a 5 string neck I like better that this, I've yet to try the bongo, looks interesting. Well good luck with the neck to body matching, hope this clears up some thoughts on that...wait hold that thought...now that you mention this, I could've sworn I've seen someone do someting similar, check out the MMbassPictures thread, I saw a stingray or was it sterling with a Fender P neck, It's somewhre before page 50 I believe and it's easy to spot, there's a huge pic of the headstock that reads Fender, can't miss it. Try asking that poster.

 

[trunkshope6]

Does anyone know if a ernie ball musicman or pre eb mm neck would fit in an olp body??

 

[patpark]

There are no lefty Sterling by Music Man at this time.

We have a lefty Ray34

Ray34LH HB honeyburst finish

 

[drTStingray]

We have a lefty Ray34

Ray34LH HB honeyburst finish

I thought you only made them in black - are there other colours in the Ray34LH as well as honeyburst?

 

[patpark]

I thought you only made them in black - are there other colours in the Ray34LH as well as honeyburst?

Black was for 2010. For 2011 we discontinued black and introduced Honeyburst.

Just the one finish in lefty.

http://www.sterlingbymusicman.com/ray34

 

[drTStingray]

OK thanks. Nice colour.

 

[Musicman Nut]

hi people, how are you? thats nice. i am currently playing a left handed OLP Stingray 4 bass with a 21 fret jumbo neck, however i would like to put a Fender precision bass neck on it and i have a few questions.

firstly, is this at all possible?
secondly, does anyone know a website or anything that would be able to help me get this done?

Well no it won't fit unless you have a P Bass with the extra Fret, stock P Bass Neck will never intonate properly so you'll never be in tune if that doesn't matter then go for it.

 

[ericmanoa]

OLP Stingray with a Fender Jazz (style neck) it has happened

Sorry to resurrect an old thread...but the internet is forever.

I did a recording session years ago (on drums) and the studio owner gave me an old OLP to mess around on. Well as I got more into the Bass I realized that my OLP MM actually had a 22 fret Moses graphite Jazz style neck installed...SCORE! I've since taken the neck and put it on a $50 Warmoth PBass project.

But I can tell you that the Fender Jazz style neck did fit on this OLP. Review the pics...check out the saddle positions...22 frets (instead of 20 or 21) though I'm pretty sure the intonation was ok. Looks like some decent woodwork probably happened.

Here are pics of the OLP body and a shot of the neck that was formally on the OLP.

 

[Golem]

Does anyone know if a ernie ball musicman or
pre eb mm neck would fit in an olp body??

No. There is no functional or structural relationship
between OLP and MusicMan. Read the reverse side
of the OLP headstock. Read it exactly. Do NOT read
anything into it. Just read it literally, word for word.

Now, if tinkering is your unstoppable thing, a pair
of advices:

1. Do NOT waste a pre-EB MM neck, as if you could
really find one, on such travesty. Someone will hunt
you down and transplant YOUR neck onto an OLP.

2. If you swap necks, do not let all that bidniz about
scale length etc cause you to over-work your wood
butchery. You acoarst would hafta butcher the neck
pocket to some degree, but more often than not the
solution to exactly matching up the scale length lies
in just moving [and-or replacing] the bridge

 

[five7]

Every OLP I have played has been neck heavy, I would hate to waste an MM neck on a lightweight OLP body.