String Thru Bongo?

[cgworkman]

Hello all:

See the pic I attached - doesn't it look like the Bongo has a string thru body? Or is this a piezo model? The site I got the pic from didn't say anything about it being a piezo model.

Just curious....

 

[Kennyhoe]

Whoa, does look like a string-thru model. Has Jack been messing around in photoshop again?

 

[cgworkman]

nope - it's 100% genuine

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

My guess is that it may be one of their limited editions

here:

http://www.ernieball.com/newscontent.php?item=20040302_limiteded.html

OR a special run of orders for a distributer like this one:

Year 2000. E19545. Normal down-sized unmuted bridge but with strings through body setup. One of 20 made for "Station Music" Germany:

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/DE/38/26492126-833c-012F00C8-.jpg

http://a6.cpimg.com/image/B8/05/25212856-7528-01EC0096-.jpg

 

[cgworkman]

i got the pic off of musiciansfirned.com - it's supposed to be just a standard issue bongo....

 

[sdguyman]

I didn't believe it so I went to Musicians friend and your right there it was a string through BONGO.

Is this new????

 

[sdguyman]

I just went on :

www.ernieball.com/musicman/bongo and click on one of the guitars and lo and behold, string thru BONGOs.

Now if they will just make them in translucent, I'm sold!

 

[cgworkman]

why is nothing said about that in the specs anywhere? i've been to allot of sites looking at the Bongos - none have been advertised as being String thru.

What's up with that?

 

[Don Juan de Bas]

does that mean the bongo i ordered two weeks ago is going to be string thru?? that would totally make this the coolest bass ever

 

[cgworkman]

i guess it's possible.... i just ordered one and the picture surely looks like it is - i guess we'll both see

 

[bovinehost]

This would be news to me, and I have two of 'em - neither string thru. Not that I'd feel good or bad one way or the other; I've had basses with both options and frankly could never tell any tonal difference.

Had a hell of a time stringing a 35" Lakland with flats through the body....ended up using the bridge thru option. Difference?

Zip.

 

[Don Juan de Bas]

yeah, it doesnt matter to me either way, it would just be extra icing on the cake for an already kick ass bass

 

[midopa]

Hm... I see a single Humbucker config for the Bongo. Has anyone tried that out?

 

[bovinehost]

One thing to keep in mind is that those Bongo pics on the EB site have been up there for quite a while....since before production models hit the stores. So....not sure, but there could have been changes made BEFORE the Bongo went into big-time production, rather than after.

 

[midopa]

Ah, I see. That might explain why there's no way to reach that page on the MM website. Haha

 

[sdguyman]

yeah but they could have updated the pictures just recently????


I'm supprised that people are just now realizing this.

 

[jubjub721]

YOU FOOLS
cant u see that thier just playing our emotions like a....BASS

 

[Derek]

Those photos on the website are over a year old. We do have plans to update the photos but are also trying to redesign the website.

The Bongos are string thru the bridge production
basses.

Derek

 

[bovinehost]

Mwahahahahahahahahahah.

It is good to be right!

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Derek...when was the string-through-body introduced???