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Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« on: September 09, 2018, 12:04:15 PM »


Mark Agnesi from Norman's Rare Guitars just tweeted and posted this to Instagram: "Going through old pictures this week I stumbled across this Factory Black, EB-2 Bass with 355/LP Custom appointments, custom made plaque and green floral pickguard.  Probably the raddest bass I have ever seen. Wonder where it is now."

Anyone here knows anything about it?

https://twitter.com/markagnesi/status/1038847167727890432
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2018, 01:17:53 PM »
Well that looks good with a bound headstock doesn't it?
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2018, 02:34:05 PM »
When he says plaque he doesn't mean tooth decay, right?

Interesting to see the Custom plate below the bridge. These show up on factory and less-than-factory Bigsby'd Gibsons to block the tailpiece mounting holes, which are rendered obsolete with a Bigsby is installed. I'm wondering why Gibson would install this at random on a bass.

The bound, inlay'd headstock is cool. Unfortunately I've only ever seen the split diamond inlay on Japanese Gibson-oid basses of various sorts, so that is where my mind went! Not doubting the authenticity at all, simply that the aesthetics are a bit Pacific Rim for me.  :mrgreen:

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2018, 02:40:51 PM »
Well that looks good with a bound headstock doesn't it?

and bound f-holes

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2018, 04:10:41 PM »
Almost any EB-2 might be considered "rad."  Still, I much prefer dot inlays (which I seem to almost have a fetish for, though, I will admit.)  I like that pickguard. 
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2018, 10:45:13 PM »

The bound, inlay'd headstock is cool. Unfortunately I've only ever seen the split diamond inlay on Japanese Gibson-oid basses of various sorts, so that is where my mind went! Not doubting the authenticity at all, simply that the aesthetics are a bit Pacific Rim for me.  :mrgreen:

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2018, 05:38:07 AM »

I bought a mint condition early '67 EBO for a buddy about 12 years ago.  It had one of those Gibson 'custom made' plates on it.  Nothing custom about it I could see.

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2018, 06:53:56 AM »
Maybe the body was originally intended for a 355 with Bigsby.

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2018, 09:46:43 AM »
The holes (if there are holes under the plate) are too far back for an ES-355 body.


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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2018, 11:56:01 AM »
OMG that is my dream EB2.
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2018, 12:29:05 PM »
I bought a mint condition early '67 EBO for a buddy about 12 years ago.  It had one of those Gibson 'custom made' plates on it.  Nothing custom about it I could see.


My '67 ES-335 looks identical to the photo above, but instead of a "CUSTOM MADE" plaque on it, it had a "CUSTOM" TRC. It must have been custom ordered with a Bigsby instead of the lyre tailpiece that seemed to be on most ES-335's that didn't come with the stock trapeze tailpiece. In 1967 there were no stop tailpiece holes to cover with a plaque.
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2018, 05:36:11 PM »
That’s a sweet EB2. IMO the flower on the pickguard is unnecessary, but wow!
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2022, 02:36:02 PM »
Any chance this is the same EB-2 in Geddy's book?






At a guess the pickguard was replaced.

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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2022, 02:24:16 AM »
Someone should notify Mark Agnesi.

BTW the block markers are wider than on a LP Custom, which leads me to think this might have started life as a standard dot neck, and the wider blocks were needed to cover the 12th fret dots.
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Re: Black EB2 with LP Custom appointments
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2022, 06:51:44 AM »
The one in the book has the “CUSTOM MADE” plaque and a “CUSTOM” TRC. The first one didn’t have the “CUSTOM” TRC.
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