Waiting with........antici......pation

[gweimer]

Well, it was time to get a pickguard for the Embassy.  After getting a tracing from Carlo (many thanks...including the grocery list taped to the inside of the envelope), I took the bass over to Pickguardian (www.pickguardian.com) to get the job done.  Tony, who is the owner/staff, suggested a parchment color rather than white, which would be a little too new on a faded bass.  I agreed, and the color may match my chicken knobs.  I decided to go one further and I got some 4-3/4 oval head screws and painted them, so I'm hoping to have a nice match.  The original holes are the only ones ever used, and one of them is right on the rout, so I may not be able to use that one.  It was made that way.  Real handcraftmanship!  Here's the first two pics.  I should have the p/g on it tomorrow and will post the finished look.

[Basvarken]

Did Epiphone and /or Gibson make their neckjoints like that more often?
It's a good thing the new pickguard will obscure that 

 

[gweimer]

One thing I found out about the neck years ago was that the neck was set a tiny bit off.  My luthier informed me that the neck has about 3 degrees of pitch, and that whoever made the bass probably didn't set it exactly right.  It still plays nicely, and sounds great.

[clankenstein]

Ah a gap! Shove a mudbucker    there

[drbassman]

That is such a cool bass Gary.  Can't wait to see it with the guard.

[godofthunder]

Ditto! Can't wait to see it!

[gweimer]

Ah a gap! Shove a mudbucker    there

Fetch me a stick to beat you with.   

[Dave W]

Did Epiphone and /or Gibson make their neckjoints like that more often?
It's a good thing the new pickguard will obscure that 

 

It's a standard looking tenon. On most models it would be covered by the fretboard and/or a maple top.

[gearHed289]

Cool, that's gonna look great! I still wanna play one of these some day.

[Stjofön Big]

I had the great luck of finding an old pickguard, for my second Embassy, on the net, maybe ten years ago. $25.00 plus shipping! It was during the heydays when one could find old T-bird pups for $50.00, or something like that. Glorious days! I remember...(free to fill in info for anyone).

[gweimer]

Here it is!  Pretty nice.  He didn't like how the one screw hole fit, and offered to do it again, but I'm happy.  The one thing he noticed was that the hole patterns varied when he was doing some research online.  Some pictures he found had an extra screw, but all the holes are accounted for on mine.

[Pilgrim]

That's a classic.  I like it.

[Granny Gremlin]

it's a beaut.  totally jeals over here.

[Chris P.]

Very pretty!

[Denis]

Looks great, congrats! Did they originally come with white chicken head knobs?