EB-3 in Russia

[ilan]

I'm looking at this thread from 2008 and this post-72 EB3 also has a bar bridge.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=1324.0

[uwe]

Even Gibson wouldn't have put a bar bridge on a bass come the 70ies - unless you asked for it specifically and they still had one in storage. My 80ies short scale Explorer for the Texan car dealer has a bar bridge, but he specifically asked for that to ape those few first Explorer basses in the early 60ies and it was custom built.

[ajkula66]

I'm looking at this thread from 2008 and this post-72 EB3 also has a bar bridge.

http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=1324.0

But that one was pretty much proven to be a fake in the given thread...

[doombass]

I'm not sure what you're seeing there. To me, it looks exactly like a second-design Gibson bar bridge. Only the first-design bar bridge had the offset mounting posts.

I stand corrected. I was unaware of a second edition bar bridge. When were these fitted? I suppose the second edition still had a wider spread of the poles than the tune-o-matic?

[FrankieTbird]

I stand corrected. I was unaware of a second edition bar bridge. When were these fitted? I suppose the second edition still had a wider spread of the poles than the tune-o-matic?

Change to 2nd version was about '65, same time-frame as the transition from nickel to chrome hardware.  Pretty sure the stud spacing on the two different bar bridges is the same, the Tilt-O-Matic and the 3-point are both slightly different.  I'm gonna see if I can find the measurements in my notes.

[FrankieTbird]

Here's what I wrote down years ago.  These are taken from my own measurements, not the actual specs, so there's some variation.  Looking at these numbers now, I suppose it would only take a slight amount of "clearancing" to fit the bar bridge to the Tilt-O-Matic posts.

[ilan]

But that one was pretty much proven to be a fake in the given thread...

Ooops. Didn't read the whole thing.

About the Russia bass. The bridge pickup route looks like the fake from the 2008 thread, and unlike any other EB3 bridge pickup route I googled.