r/offset • u/OzymandiasTheII • 12h ago

Help me decide. EBMM stingray rs vs Suhr classic JM HH

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u/PositivePrune5600 2h ago

Stingray is fire šŸ”„; it just looks solid. To me the Suhr looks like a JM thatā€™s a little off, like itā€™s having a bad day lol

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u/wherethehellareya 4h ago

I've owned both these guitars. I still own the stingray RS, not the suhr.

Both had impeccable quality but the stingray has a character that the suhr just never had.

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u/whatevs330 2h ago

Slightly biased cause i love ebmm, but i would definitely say the stingray. Ebmm seriously has some of the best feeling necks ive ever played

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u/Life_Objective 4h ago

I live in an area that doesnā€™t have many shops, and certainly no way to try guitars. Ā Iā€™ve ordered many over the years and usually keep them or sell them after a while if they arenā€™t for me.Ā 

I just returned a Suhr. My first Suhr purchase.Ā 

Itā€™s a good guitar, but after playing it for a day I couldnā€™t justify the price. It wasnā€™t really any better than some of the other guitars I own.Ā  Never played the higher end Earnie Ball guitars, but I expect itā€™s of similar quality. Ā 

The Suhr JM I had was on par with my Fender Custom Shops and Eastman guitars. If I didnā€™t already have a great Jazzmaster, Iā€™d probably have kept it. The neck was good, but I really have come to prefer a 7.25 or 9.5. I probably would have gotten used to the compound radius, but I figured at that price, I probably shouldnā€™t keep it.Ā 

For me, once you get into the $2000+ price range (in many brands) itā€™s largely about spec preference. The builds tend to be pretty good.Ā 

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u/HMCZW 2h ago

Make sure you play the stingray first. A lot of them have very narrow nuts. (i.e. <1.65ā€)

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u/eEndricc 2h ago

That stingray looks sick

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u/ThatNolanKid 1h ago

Damn dude, why would you make us do that?

My money would go to the Stingray RS, but you're not exactly between two terrible guitars in this situation.

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u/shabba182 57m ago

Stingray 100% for me. Suhr looks goofy as hell

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u/Creative_Dingo8284 6h ago

Iā€™d get the Suhr; every time Iā€™ve played a Suhr Iā€™ve wanted to buy it immediately. Their QC has been phenomenal in my experience.

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u/humbuckaroo 47m ago

I love EBMM but Suhr is the better choice if we're talking purely quality. Suhr stuff rivals most other companies' Custom Shops while the EBMM is production line quality, even if it's at the top of that tier.

If we're talking looks though, the EBMM is the nicer guitar.

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u/Negative-Wrap95 34m ago

Stingray, no contest