Yep @Scoundrel1680, love your family, I love my Warwick neck thru thumb, it gives you that Marty Mcfly feeling 
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Cheers Brian
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My Ibanez SR300EB active complimented by my Fender Rumble 100w. Second Bass my first being a Yamaha TRXB174 (Black).
Love the weathered black look and use friendly neck. Still in my fledgling days but getting there with a good collection of plays.
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That looks like a good set up you have there @Shaun 
I’ve got a couple of Ibanez’s and I do really have a soft spot for their playability and just how good they feel in the hand.
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Thank you! Sort of falls into my hands each time I pick it up. Such a pleasure to play and easy on the fretting hand…
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Fantastic choice, the SR line is great.
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honestly I had no idea where they were made
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But I am still confused?
Did you look at a Sterling Stingray? Is that what you tried and liked.
I love mine.
I got tge Ray 4 from GC for $299. Best $299 I ever spent. Only the $120 I paid for upgrade to Aguilar pick up was money spent very well too.
I also got a Ray34, the more expensive line from Sterling, but its a 2012, I got it used like new from a pawn shop for $400.
I do want to get an Ernie Ball Music Mann(EBMM) stingray someday, they are the ones madi in San Luis Obispo, California. They are 7-8 x what I paid for the Ray 4 ($299) which is very well made in Indonesia.
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yes I am still going to get a sterling stingray, I played a black one for 300 from GC and loved the deep throaty punchy sound, I doubt I will spend more than 500 on any sterling, just because I mainly play my Fender American Precision, but I want to get a 5 string Sterling I think, I don’t have any 5 strings, and honestly, little secret, I’ve never even PLAYED a five string, but I want to learn. I’ve come to the conclusion that the rest of this year will be dedicated to 3 things, my work, my family, and my music/music education, (ie: learning guitar and getting better at bass, and learning the in and outs of recording software), I have over 13k worth of newish gear from the last 6 months, and have yet to use most of it, plus I have like zero experience with recording. I recently applied to Full sail university and it looked like I was going to start on Monday actually, but some stuff happened and they denied me acceptance due to some dumb stuff I did in my late teens/early 20’s, alas, life goes on, there are other paths
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The wood on the body is exquisite!
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Thanks, its a hybrid buckeye burl. It has some nice blue and green in the body. Here’s a picture from the builder.
there’s also birdseye maple on fingerboard. Love this bass.
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I noticed the maple on the fingerboard. It’s certainly very high end. I have a bird eye maple neck on my eBay watch list which would cost the same as the whole MIM Fender when I bought it
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Here’s the latest addition to my family, Rosie II. She’s a stealth black Yamaha BB735. I also have a BB235 (Rosie), which I will sell on Reverb as there’s no sense having 2 different Yamaha Broadbasses around. The BB735 is several steps up from the BB235.
The first things I did when she arrived yesterday is switch out the round wounds for black nylon tape wounds, and of course added the custom pick guard that Sara made for me with my trademark rose.
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Congratulations - she is a beaut!!
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Congrats! One of the best production basses being made today. I absolutely love the matte black they went with too.
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