The Last Bass Outpost

Merry Christmas from Norway🌲🌨🙂

I just love those EB's🤩

That bridge position looks like the regular scale. Did they shorten the body?
I like the old thicker horns .

The Rinus bass looks like it has normal bridge position,  but different neck joining.

now I want to try mandolin frets !

Just buy an old Jolana Diamant bass It's a fretless wonder for sure! Less expensive too.

My Super 400 Acoustic is "just" medium scale. Sound wise, I notice that less on that bass than on my electrics.

I hate it when you mention it
Now that thing I'd lose a bit of testicle to own.

Interesting. I've been working on getting a fretless EB-3 for probably 15 years now, but gave up Gibson.
I have to admit, none of the wood/body types of Gibson shortscale EB basses really works without frets.
I tried every possible combination of electronics, including positioning of pickups, LoZ pickups and strings but no luck.
Not even the bar bridge helps (Uwe can use this comment later if he wants to). The best so far must have been the SB300 I got from Scott, it needed a fret job so I tried it out as fretless for some time. But it was never better than OK, so I put frets back on.

In the end I built a body (60's EB3 thickness) out of an Abachi/Maple sandwich and a really fat laminated maple/katalox neck with a thick slab katalox board. I could hear it was better even as I strung it up the first time, it really sings. Can't wait to have it finished, hope to post a project here when it's done. I guess it's the woods that make it good, but I do have strong belief in a fat neck being better for this instrument.

Of course, now I want to build one with frets too 

That’d be great if it can fit an EB-1. Is he on Reverb or does he have a website?

I don't think it's a drop in if you have the later two point, but if you have the old one it will fit. I bought one a few years back to try out. Finish is not 100%, but good enough. Otherwise it's perfect.

I bought one through his ebay site, not sure if he is present elsewhere.