Brooks EB-PL NOIR

[Basvarken]

A new bas is born!
The Brooks EB-PL Noir

- One piece mahogany body
- Three piece mahogany set neck. Glued in
- Black high gloss transparent acrylic finish
- Checkerboard binding
- Ebony fretboard with circle inlays
?- Jumbo frets
- 34" scale
- Handcut buffalo horn nut
- Single ply matte black pickguard
?- Black 3D bridge
- Spokewheel double action trussrod
- Single coil pickup Seymour Duncan  SCPB-3
- Black Schaller lightweight tuners
- CTS pots
- Sprague capacitor

Price € 1700  (1990 USD)












For more pics (of the build process) check:
http://www.enkoo.nl/brooks-eb-pl-noir.html

[gearHed289]

Super nice. Love the inlays. Is buffalo horn the new thing now? Just last night I saw a friend post about using that material on a Chris Squire 8 string re-creation he's building.

[Basvarken]

Thank you Tom.
Don't know about the buffalo horn. I was just looking for non-plastic black nut material. And my supplier happened to have bufallo horn.

[Granny Gremlin]

Another beaut, bud!

[OldManC]

Wow, that's beautiful bass!

[4stringer77]

That body style is crying out for a version in TV yellow or TV white/ Limed Mahogany. I hope you don't because I'd be in tormenting amount of temptation. Any classic Gibson custom color finish would be cool too.

[Dave W]

Beautiful work, Rob.

[Basvarken]

I made a quick video this afternoon.
I used Photobooth on my iMac. In the first attempt the sound quality wasn't that good. Somehow I couldn't control the input level. So it kept distorting a bit in the lower frequencies. Here's the second attempt with the input level set much lower.

[Granny Gremlin]

Needs a mudbucker 

[Basvarken]

 

[Dave W]

I like it. The mahogany must be why it sounds mellower than the same pickup in an ash body/maple neck Fender. Either that or it's the dark finish. 

[dadagoboi]

Looks and sounds GREAT, Rob!

[Basvarken]

Thank you guys.
@ Dave: yes, it does sound rather black doesn't it?

[godofthunder]

    Sure is a beauty Rob!

[Highlander]

+1