EBMM launches custom design bass orders

[narad]

Wow, could custom order JPs be on the horizon?

Custom Design Experience

Design your dream instrument, review your specs, and hit submit. Our team will process your order and it will ship within 4-6 months.

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I'm very partial to the default one:

 

[nightsprinter]

I wonder if I can custom order a Stingray 5 where the G string isn't aligned directly on top of the fret bevel where it's borderline unplayable.

 

[velvetkevorkian]

I wonder if I can custom order a Stingray 5 where the G string isn't aligned directly on top of the fret bevel where it's borderline unplayable.

It's what Leo would have wanted

 

[Crungy]

I really like the finish in the 5 string. Citrus af.

 

[nightsprinter]

It's what Leo would have wanted

I was thinking the first response would be "sounds like a technique issue" XD

 

[Soya]

Will they do a 6 string Bongo with a 5 string neck, Myung style? That'd be the business.

 

[Musiscience]

Wow, could custom order JPs be on the horizon?

Don’t threaten my wallet like that…

 

[profwoot]

Cool. I've been wanting a bass with humbuckers...

 

[Sermo Lupi]

Wow, could custom order JPs be on the horizon?

They'd been teasing this for a while, going back to 2021 at least. I stumbled across it yesterday when trying to find the name of a custom JP15 colour.

It's a big step forward for EBMM for anyone that's followed the company over the last decade or two. Given past actions, I'd expect that EBMM will focus on high-volume SKUs for the foreseeable future as a way of balancing out how 'custom' these orders truly are. By starting with the Stingrays, the Design Experience might not fragment production any more than a dealer run.

In hindsight, trimming down the JP models to just the JP15 and the Majesty, as well as setting their specs in stone (sans finish and hardware colour) was likely to suit this pivot to semi-custom orders. I'd suspect those two models are among the highest volume SKUs EBMM offers, and due to the fixed specs, they're certainly easier to offer than different configurations of a generic model like the Saber.

I just hope the colour selection is decent. There's been so many amazing one-offs done for endorsees, yet a lot of those finishes were never offered as production colours.

 

[imyourpriest]

They'd been teasing this for a while, going back to 2021 at least. I stumbled across it yesterday when trying to find the name of a custom JP15 colour.

It's a big step forward for EBMM for anyone that's followed the company over the last decade or two. Given past actions, I'd expect that EBMM will focus on high-volume SKUs for the foreseeable future as a way of balancing out how 'custom' these orders truly are. By starting with the Stingrays, the Design Experience might not fragment production any more than a dealer run.

In hindsight, trimming down the JP models to just the JP15 and the Majesty, as well as setting their specs in stone (sans finish and hardware colour) was likely to suit this pivot to semi-custom orders. I'd suspect those two models are among the highest volume SKUs EBMM offers, and due to the fixed specs, they're certainly easier to offer than different configurations of a generic model like the Saber.

I just hope the colour selection is decent. There's been so many amazing one-offs done for endorsees, yet a lot of those finishes were never offered as production colours.

I hope part of the specs or custom options is unloaded JPs again. I highly prefer no piezo or shields, but they seem to be getting rarer, especially newer ones with the updated bridge + stainless frets. I don't even know if I have ever seen an "unloaded" majesty, I've seen a couple special runs with no inlays, but I think they all had piezo.

 

[jephjacques]

JPs or Majesties with more than two color options would be so sick.

 

[Big Dumb Bitch]

You can't get an ebony board on a fretless even tho it looks nicer with the cool purple finish than pau ferro does

 

[odibrom]

I really like the finish in the 5 string. Citrus af.

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I'd call it Brazil and I'm Brazilian...

 

[Crungy]

I'd call it Brazil and I'm Brazilian...

Muito brasileiro!

(I had to look that up, I don't know Portuguese)

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Cool.

 

[Sermo Lupi]

I hope part of the specs or custom options is unloaded JPs again. I highly prefer no piezo or shields, but they seem to be getting rarer, especially newer ones with the updated bridge + stainless frets. I don't even know if I have ever seen an "unloaded" majesty, I've seen a couple special runs with no inlays, but I think they all had piezo.

I think EBMM hung onto the JP16 for several years specifically to cater to that market because it's easier to offer a different model than one model with a bunch of options.

I could see inlays returning as an option. I doubt sans-piezo will ever be an option again, especially where the Majesty and JP15 have never not had the piezo. You have to change the tool paths for that, which is more than EBMM are willing to do.

I'm willing to bet the Custom Design Experience is just a curated selection of the dealer run options. You can look to those to get an idea of what the future holds once the CDE rolls out for guitars. Mainly, it'll be finish and hardware colour swaps, limited inlay options, and neck wood choices.

 

[StevenC]

Options seem kinda limited. Doesn't seem that far off what was already available except for mixing and matching a few colours.

Will they do a 6 string Bongo with a 5 string neck, Myung style? That'd be the business.

Don't they make that already as a signature?

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Options seem kinda limited. Doesn't seem that far off what was already available except for mixing and matching a few colours.


Don't they make that already as a signature?

Nothing wrong with that. They already sound and play wonderfully, no reason to kill the formula for the sake of it.

Giving these 37" scale and Darkglass preamps would just be a shame.

 

[Soya]

Options seem kinda limited. Doesn't seem that far off what was already available except for mixing and matching a few colours.


Don't they make that already as a signature?

Only in gloss black though, barf

 

[StevenC]

Nothing wrong with that. They already sound and play wonderfully, no reason to kill the formula for the sake of it.

Giving these 37" scale and Darkglass preamps would just be a shame.

Yeah, like, I wouldn't want that either. It just seem as though there aren't really that many options here, even within the limits of colours and simple things that you expect. I can't even get a yellow Stingray 4 without a pickguard like Tony Levin's.

Not to be that guy, but it just doesn't seem any different to the regular production stuff.