Old Smoothie

[mynan]

Pretty cool article...

1976 Music Man StingRay Prototype "Old Smoothie" - Premier Guitar

 

[Colin]

I read this the other day, really cool. Thanks for posting

 

[jadams]

sweet! where's the bass at now? hopefully in Sterling's collection!?!

 

[bovinehost]

The vault at SLO.

 

[Thunder139]

Pretty cool article...

1976 Music Man StingRay Prototype "Old Smoothie" - Premier Guitar

When I was at the Philly Guitar Convention on Sunday, I saw the one-off SR4 Classic which is the modern day "Old Smoothie". I'm now the proud owner of the new "OS" hehe... This is one time in my life I can say I was in the right place at the right time....

 

[Big Poppa]

yes the only difference is that old Smoothie was the name that LEo gave it because the pickup is hand made and has the strings going inbetween the pole pieces


I never knew I was an up and coming star.....hahaha

 

[Thunder139]

yes the only difference is that old Smoothie was the name that LEo gave it because the pickup is hand made and has the strings going inbetween the pole pieces


I never knew I was an up and coming star.....hahaha

Yea the hand-made pickup is a beauty, very cool feature on the original.

 

[keko]

Very cool story about this Old Smoothie!

I wonder how sounds this 4 banger with that custom 5&5 pole pieces pickup?
Very interesting pickup solution!

 

[fly]

could you drop say...........an SR5 pup into like say............an SUB4,altercations of course but........could it be done?

 

[njhammer]

could you drop say...........an SR5 pup into like say............an SUB4,altercations of course but........could it be done?

How would that affect the sound (if at all)?

 

[fly]

not sure,the original Old Smoothie had one.

 

[Big Poppa]

Yeah it was because of how hot leo made the prototype pickups along with the massive magnets I kept wanting s different sound...He looked at my old 57 p bass and said "you know the strings are between the pole pieces here...let me make you one....This pickup is hand made by LEo....I came to get it and he said "I really like it...I call it "Old Smoothie"
For awhile he wanted top make it a model but we got everything dialed iin and it wasnt necessary...It still sound different and pretty cool though....

 

[fly]

love it when you drop in BP and throw us all some insight.


thanks.

 

[Lynottfan]

May I ask why it has a Canadian maple leaf type symbol on the headstock?

 

[Big Poppa]

its a secret

 

[bovinehost]

The other photos are up here:

MusicManPhotoRepository: Old Smoothie: Built By Leo For Sterling Ball