Ernie Ball Music Man has officially released its long-awaited Artist Series StingRay electric guitar collaboration with Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue.
The Kensrue’s model offers a number of custom tweaks on the StingRay formula, including a Dark Satin Tobacco Burst finish, custom-wound HS Music Man pickups, a stacked volume and tone control and three-way pickup selector.
Most intriguing is the control bypass switch on the lower horn, which is teamed with a TRS stereo output jack.
“The coolest thing about it is a mode where if you press a button, it makes the pickups run to separate outputs,” Kensrue told us last year.
“For me, I do two separate inputs into the Line 6 Helix, and that allows me to control what pickup is used or a blend of the pickups with the settings on my Helix.”
Elsewhere, the guitar boasts a satin vintage tinted maple neck with stainless steel frets, African mahogany body, Music Man Modern tremolo, Schaller M6-IND locking tuners and a five-bolt sculpted heel joint.
The Dustin Kensrue Artist Series StingRay is available now for $2,499 - see Ernie Ball Music Man for more info.
“I was shocked. That was the exact sound that I had been chasing for years”: Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves his epic tone mystery and finds the guitar that Kurt Cobain used for In Utero
“If you’re all about getting as close as possible to period-correct as you can for this price point, then you won’t be disappointed here”: Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom 1960 Les Paul Standard Reissue review
![Epiphone goes high-end with its Inspired By Gibson Custom 2025 collection: [from left] the '63 Firebird in Polaris White is joined by a 1959 Les Paul Standard, a '64 SG Standard, a 1960 Les Paul Special in TV Yellow and a 1962 ES-335 reissue.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3N4uVp3ezzrrhjCbY8KNfn-840-80.jpg.webp)
![YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aqcaqZZK7FsRFWvoMPzMF9-840-80.jpg.webp)
