What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?

[gearHed289]

It's kind of cool, weed sticker and all. But just what is it? And that pickup???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-SG-style-Solid-Body-4-String-Bass-Guitar-Metallic-Blue-/321444795385?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

[chromium]

I'm guessing its just a '66-'67 EB-0, and someone just sprayed the hardware and pickup cover black

The flaked-out violet/midnight blue is kinda cool

[Highlander]

I did mine in metal-flake as a temp measure until I can afford a gold plate job...

[amptech]

I'm guessing its just a '66-'67 EB-0, and someone just sprayed the hardware and pickup cover black

I´d guess pre 1965 : old neck joint (!) , wide neck and the old bridge with the thin ´forks´.

[chromium]

I´d guess pre 1965 : old neck joint (!) , wide neck and the old bridge with the thin ´forks´.

Ah - you're right.  Didn't notice the neck joint.  The "centered" crown inlay threw me off...

[amptech]

The crown can be difficult to make judgements by, although It´s usually centered or high.
My ´63 EBOF has a high crown, and my ´65 EB-3 have it placed in the middle like both my 1967 EB´s.

I´m inlaying a 1966 SG melody maker these days, I´m completing a ´standard´conversion with a normal headstock.
I took my caliper and measured my three high crown basses, just to compare.
Just to find that none of them was in the same place I ended up just throwing it in where it looked right, like Gibson probably did too!

[4stringer77]

Maineiacs. This is what happens when you live in a place where bears outnumber people.

[Captcolour]

Could be a '60 - '61 pu cover and/or pu if it was originally black and not painted.

[Dave W]

That doesn't look like one of the black covers. They had ridged edges.

[ilan]

This could be powder coating.

[amptech]

This could be powder coating.

For what we know, the owner might have been familiar with powder too

[uwe]

The decal certainly plants a seed of doubt.

I hear these basses are now legal in Colorado and Washington.