Your perfect EBMM...

[Stu_R]

Apologies if this has been done many times before but....

If you could spec your ideal (right now at least) Musicman guitar, what would it be?

Here's mine for starters:

Luke III body size and Rosewood neck but with a bound board.
Mahogany or Limba body with quilted maple cap.
Ocean blue burst finish (quite deep).
Medium Jumbo fretwire.
MM Vintage Trem.
Passive pickups from Bare Knuckle or haussel.

Cheers!

 

[lessthanone]

Trans green EVH...nuff said

 

[Tollywood]

Welcome to the forum, Stu...are you playing an 'off the shelf' ebmm now?

 

[Stu_R]

Just picked up my first, though my wife is hiding it away until Christmas.

A Luke III HSS. Was looking for something that was a departure from what I usually play.

I'm very picky but I was instantly won over by the sound, playability and obvious build quality. Was hugely refreshing to play a "factory produced" guitar without flaws in fit and finish .

 

[bbake1]

Reflex body, Axis neck, and ..... of course ...... a locking trem.

 

[yngzaklynch]

Roasted maple birdseye neck, JPXI body in buttercream finish, jumbo SS frets, floydrose locking trem, chrome hardware

 

[DrKev]

I love the Silhouette Special styling and overall proportions and balance, so that's where I'd start. Go with the BFR body wood combo, alder with maple top and mahogany tone block. Maple top should be plain rather than highly figured, classy in it's understatement, perhaps some sort of dark sunburst colour, like the current PDNs, or a transparent dark blue or even a solid dark blue or dark grey pearl finish. Maple neck with Pao Ferro fretboard, 10" radius, stainless steel frets, matching headstock. Standard vintage trem with bent saddles. Pickups HSS, Y2D-style clear pickguard, and the Game Changer.

Call it the "Silhouette Extra".

 

[musikarero]

Albert Lee roasted neck, SS frets, MM90 in fiesta red.

 

[Icedlatte]

An ash bodied Silo Special HSS in tobacco burst with a roasted maple neck or a Reflex with a figured maple top in Bahama Blue Burst also with a roasted maple neck.

 

[Norstorm]

MusicMan 8 string


* JP style BFR body and neck (27")
* 8 string config
* Mahogany body
* KOA top
* Mahognay neck w/ ebony board
* JP bridge fixed w/ piezo

 

[ScoobySteve]

To be totally honest, mine is on it's way. And it cant get here soon enough

 

[joe web]

funny thread, just talked about this yesterday with my wife and i told her, that it would be great to have a x-over between a JP and a Y2D...
the Y2D neck with 24 frets (roasted birdseye maple + ebony board and ss frets) and the body of a JP but with a maple top and of course the piezo tremolo bridge with black hardware and a transblack finish.

 

[alf cockle]

Axis sport alder body,with arm contour,rosewood fingerboard,mm90 neck pickup,sport bridge,pearl blue,MM trem...simple,perfect.

 

[jzeijen]

Black sugar / Roasted maple AL HH..

But I will let the incoming Y2D PDN surprise me.

 

[coldsummer]

Quite fancy a pearl red burst AL HH with Rosewood neck, JP trem and black hardware...........oh and a piezo too!

 

[Tollywood]

Just picked up my first, though my wife is hiding it away until Christmas.

A Luke III HSS.

I'm sure it'll be worth the wait!

 

[beej]

I'd love a standard white SSS AL with a roasted neck.

 

[jvh]

I haven't really been posting here lately, but I would really like to chime in on this topic. I begged for stainless frets a while back and bam we got them so I'm more than ecstatic. So I am very grateful that a. someone was listening or b. random luck fufilled my dream. I guess my only other dream guitar would be an axis with a carve top. Maybe next years limited edition Honestly, the best limited edition axis IMHO is the rosewood model... the resonance on that guitar is incredible. The funny thing is that at the time it seemed like they didn't really sell that well.

 

[Stu_R]

I haven't really been posting here lately, but I would really like to chime in on this topic. I begged for stainless frets a while back and bam we got them so I'm more than ecstatic. So I am very grateful that a. someone was listening or b. random luck fufilled my dream. I guess my only other dream guitar would be an axis with a carve top. Maybe next years limited edition Honestly, the best limited edition axis IMHO is the rosewood model... the resonance on that guitar is incredible. The funny thing is that at the time it seemed like they didn't really sell that well.

Off-topic question. Are all EBMM guitars now fitted with SS frets? I'm asking in reference to the Luke III really :-?

 

[ScoobySteve]

No. Some limited runs like the recent PDNs get SS frets. The only production model with SS frets are JPs and that begun this year.