cooked maple = balderdash!!!! try cooked mahogany...

[sniper]

notice the great body lines and the totally passive pickup along with the feather touch tuners:

http://s170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/cooked%20mahogany%20EBO/

i think i'll make a player out of it! already found a Honduras Maho neck blank, have some tuners, a 60's pup and a 460 bridge either NOS or a NOS missing the tail piece but i have a Hipshot D type tailpiece to bolt onto it. the body don't look too bad and Chip says there is enough neck to make a pattern from. a few shots ... visit my photobucket for more pics.

[Dave W]

I'll bet you can get some crisp sounds out of that. 

[sniper]

i like the super fast shortened fretboard. checked the prices at warmoth and a mahog (saple) guitar body was 225$, i got this body for 82$ with enough of a pattern to make a neck.

here is the neck blank:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230731648254?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649



from nut to the end measures 21.75" should be enough to mount a 30.5" scale fretboard onto with about 20 frets.

[drbassman]

Man, when you play that baby, I bet it will really be hot!!! You'll be cooking' for sure!   

You are amazing, I can't believe you grabbed that!  Well, in the end, it should work for you.  And I thought a missing headstock was a challenge!!!!

[Grog]

I can tell that Sniper knows a good piece of ash when he sees it!

[drbassman]

I can tell that Sniper knows a good piece of ash when he sees it!

I hope he doesn't get burned out working on this project!  Sorry, I couldn't help myself.   

[sniper]

yeah, yeah, yeah,  lets see when Chip 'the master' gets through with it. in the mean time i'll take all the kidding you can throw at me. i know Uwe is cooking up a goody but don't forget he saw a diamond in the rough when he made the bullet bass. hot licks tonight, lol.

http://www.vintageguitarman.com/vintage_parts.php

[Dave W]

here is the neck blank:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230731648254?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649



from nut to the end measures 21.75" should be enough to mount a 30.5" scale fretboard onto with about 20 frets.

Before you get all fired up about this project, better double check the situation. That's enough neck length for your scale length, but it looks to me like the end of that blank will extend beyond the pickup cavity, which would mean rerouting that and moving the bridge (and posts) closer to the end of the body.

As always, I could be wrong.

[sniper]

good observation Dave, i think the contoured part of the heel will get shortened a bit and the heel itself will stick into the pup cavity and need to be shortened. i have my Epi beside me now and have been measuring it and a fretboard i have as well as the Epi fretboard. i think it a gonna work. if not Chip can carve me a neck. good input though.

Doc, love ya, sounds good on my healing and yours. money going out tommorrow for the pups. Carlo, love you too and i'm going to have a 66-69, no 65 but you are the inspiration for this (hope it works, lol) as that day we last talked i really got the GAS for a 60's EB of some sort.

[sniper]

P.S. Dave, if you think this would be better moved to the projects section, then by all means do it. CW

[exiledarchangel]

I've heard EB0s have a damn hot pickup, but didn't knew they were so hot! (I know, cheap joke).

[eb2]

As long as it doesn't smell like cigarettes.

[Pilgrim]

Possibly used by Arthur Brown's bass player for his hit "FIRE"??

[Droombolus]

Nope. Sorry to say there was no bass player in Brown's Crazy World band, Organist Vincent Crane used the bass pedals ... 

[exiledarchangel]

Yea cause someone set the bass on fire!