Hi everyone, I’ve just signed up to the Forums. I bought a SBMM Axis last year that I’m very pleased with.
My favourite EBMM body shapes are Axis, Silhouette, Luke and Valentine.
And last night the penny dropped why that is, when I saw a picture of a Reflex next to a Valentine.
They all take the waist down part of the body shape of the original Stingray Bass, and reuse it. That slightly squashed circle of the lower body, flowing into two waist curves that are slightly offset from each other.
The Silhouette, the first guitar of the EBMM era, is a Stingray Bass body that’s scaled down, and then has SG-like bevels from the waist up to the horns.
The Steve Morse is scaled down pretty much the same way, but looses the bevels, keeps the small Stingray Bass corner radius. And has a similar pick guard to the Silo, changed slightly because it’s 22 frets.
The Luke looses the pick guard entirely, and has a larger corner radius all over, much more rounded.
The Axis takes that Silhouette lower body shape and size and pairs it with a Telecaster style top left bout and top right horn, for a single cut look. Also the slab top and slab edge have almost no corner radius at all, like a Tele.
The Reflex scales up and elongates the Axis shape, so the lower body circle is back to Stingray Bass size.
And the Valentine re-profiles the upper left bout of the Reflex into a second horn, it’s basically a double cut Reflex.
And now we have the Cory Wong Stingray II, that looks like an unaltered Stingray Bass body, turned into a 25.5 inch scale, 6 string Guitar.
Why didn’t I see this before?
My favourite EBMM body shapes are Axis, Silhouette, Luke and Valentine.
And last night the penny dropped why that is, when I saw a picture of a Reflex next to a Valentine.
They all take the waist down part of the body shape of the original Stingray Bass, and reuse it. That slightly squashed circle of the lower body, flowing into two waist curves that are slightly offset from each other.
The Silhouette, the first guitar of the EBMM era, is a Stingray Bass body that’s scaled down, and then has SG-like bevels from the waist up to the horns.
The Steve Morse is scaled down pretty much the same way, but looses the bevels, keeps the small Stingray Bass corner radius. And has a similar pick guard to the Silo, changed slightly because it’s 22 frets.
The Luke looses the pick guard entirely, and has a larger corner radius all over, much more rounded.
The Axis takes that Silhouette lower body shape and size and pairs it with a Telecaster style top left bout and top right horn, for a single cut look. Also the slab top and slab edge have almost no corner radius at all, like a Tele.
The Reflex scales up and elongates the Axis shape, so the lower body circle is back to Stingray Bass size.
And the Valentine re-profiles the upper left bout of the Reflex into a second horn, it’s basically a double cut Reflex.
And now we have the Cory Wong Stingray II, that looks like an unaltered Stingray Bass body, turned into a 25.5 inch scale, 6 string Guitar.
Why didn’t I see this before?
