The Last Bass Outpost

Is there anybody that can identify this bass? What brand?

wow a chef!
nice to know...there is a pic of him (looks like him) at the link you provided ..moustache heavy as always..
http://www.thenortonsrestaurant.com/2006-03-31_Nortons_-_4.jpg

punk rock years (or post-punk like it was defined by critics in italy at the time) seem long gone


..and what bass is the one flying with him in this pic?
http://www.winexmagazine.com/images/5point6/small/wt22.jpg

One thing that I have found no info about ...

Looking at 70's jazz basses I have seen sometimes that the necks have the binding covering the frets ends. If you look at this picture in the page (search in page for Binding Nubs) :

www.fretnotguitarrepair.com/frets.htm

you can see what I mean (in the pic there is a Les Paul, but the concept applies to fender jazzes too).

Sometimes the frets are placed over the binding and have the frets end filed as happens in unbound necks. I've seen that all the time in modern japan reissues, for example.

I wonder if the original in the seventies had the binding nubs covering fret ends (and so the ones that do not have it have been refretted or simply filed away) or if both ways of binding a neck in the factory were actually used, maybe in different periods..

I know that I'm splitting hairs here..but maybe fender experts have some info about it.

Thnx

So I just need to figure out how to scratch out a gibson logo from an overcoat of black paint:

If the logo matches this one maybe it could be better to use this :
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Gibson-Parts-NOS-Black-Fiber-Head-Veneers_W0QQitemZ260237270340QQihZ016QQcategoryZ41424QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

not period correct for sure, but easier to do..

Great sound from that maple necked shifted mudbucker 70s eb3!

 I own a 78 EB3 and I love its sound.
I'm always after a deep and fat and dark "dubby" bass sound and I can get plenty of it from varitone pos 1 (free mud, methinks), 4 (mud + notch filter, compacting a bit the sound with tone rolled off or adding some bite if more open) and 3 (mud+bridge pickup adding a bit of edge to the attack).
Bridge pickup alone is not bad at all...i'd dare to say even a little bit fenderjazzish if you play by the bridge.

One thing that sometimes I keep on wondering is about the difference in pure mudbucker sound for 60's all mahogany EBs vs. the seventies maple necked ones. A question for someone that owns both kinds of EB basses and can hear them on the exact same system.
How much ultralows (percentage..if it makes any sense) impact got lost in transitionin from a 60 EB to a 70 EB?

in italy an SG guitar or bass or even clones with the same shape are usually known as "diavoletto" that stands for little devil. so red devil sounds a bit familiar as a nickname

Well..yes there is some bass...and there is a distinct mahogany sound in the tone..The guitar is very resonant unplugged by the way. Currently I have used a set of TI jazz rounds that I had around because I was afraid of stressing too much the neck with bass strings tension and because I needed to cut the strings to make them fit on the 25'' scale and be able to wrap the ends on the thin posts..a thing that you cannot do -say-with labella flats for sure!

Now I want to try to swap the P100 pickup with an actual bass pickup..I have the temptation to route for a mudbucker placed against the end of the neck but maybe it is a too deep route to dig..I'm afraid of destroying the guitar..

Anyway, having the pickup so close to the bridge like it is now makes for an interesting tone..