The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs => Topic started by: Basvarken on October 19, 2023, 05:45:26 AM
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Another new Brooks bass was born today!
As most of the Brooks bass guitars this a hybrid design.
The Brooks PB-2 combines the characteristics of a Gibson EB-2 and of a Fender Precision.
Specifications:
- Hollow Maple body with maple centre piece
- Flamed Maple with mahogany veneer neck. Glued in
- Colour: Cherryburst
- Ebony fretboard. Mother Of Pearl inlays
- Jumbo frets
- 34" scale
- Handcut buffalo nut
- Guyker two point bridge and tailstop
- Spokewheel double action trussrod
- Seymour Duncan SPB-3 Quarter Pound pickup
- Hipshot Ultralite tuners
- Controls: Volume - Tone
- Rotosound Swing Bass RS66LDN strings
- Weight 3.7 kg
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-full2-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-body-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-headstock-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-full-back-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-body2-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-trussrod-cover-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-headstock-back-1500_orig.jpg)
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-made-in-velp-1500_orig.jpg)
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Very nice bass!!
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Another winner.
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Dangit, I don't want to see this! More lust in my heart for that gorgeous bass!!!!!
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Hey nice semi hollow. Is there anything you can't do?
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Hey nice semi hollow. Is there anything you can't do?
I cheated this time. ;-)
Bought the body off AliExpress.
Actually bought the Guyker bridge there first. And those bastards keep sending you emails with suggestions like: "this would go well with the bridge you bought a while ago".
I normally just dismiss those emails as unwanted spam. But the body tickled my curiosity. Because it had no routings or holes drilled into it.
So I bought it. I had no real plan for it. But eventually came up with the PB-2 idea.
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-pb-2-body_orig.jpeg)
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That is a gorgeous bass! Not a million miles away from the things Peter Hook plays, but the pickup looks to be in a better place on this.
Does it sound mostly like a P Bass or does the semi hollow element soften up the attack and add other aspects to the tone?
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Yeah the semi-acoustic body certainly does something with the sound.
It sounds less like an amplified log (like a P-bass does to my ears ;-) )
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Made a quick demo-video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-hiETrDVo
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Looks and sounds beautiful as always from Brooks!
Do my eyes deceive me or is the pickup slightly closer to the bridge than on a P bass?
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The distance from inside nut to center of the split pickup is 75.5 cm.
So yes, on a P-bass it would be 72.4 cm
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I have an idea for years, but I first have to win the lottery. One of my dream basses is a one pickup Tbird, like you made for mr. Laut. Well, a reversed one then. I'm also a big fan of semisolids, of the JCS, and the Tbird.
A while ago I visited a guitar shop which had some Trini Lopez sigs and a Dave Grohl sig. This sunday I saw Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer playing Trini Lopez sigs and I love that Firebird headstock on a 335-ish guitar. Not sure about the diamond sound holes though.
But the lottery bass is a Brooks semisolid, with an EB2 style body, two piece bridge, Tbird headstock and I guess one Tbird pickup at the middle position. Maybe an idea for a mock up to see what it looks like.
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Cool idea Chris.
Doesn't even have to be that expensive.
About the same as the PB-2, I'd say.
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Like this, Chris?
(https://www.brooksbassguitars.com/uploads/1/3/3/7/13376708/brooks-e-bird-2_orig.jpg)
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The EB-650 had the diamond sound holes like the Trini.
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Correct!
(https://www.thegibsonbassbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TheGibsonBassBook-tabletop1500.jpg)
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I love it, Rob! I will think about it and the most important thing is: the colour. I guess you know me, seeing that mock up, but I don't think that will be it. Let's think!
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An EB-2 with a single T-bird pickup in the 'sweet spot' would rip. It just needs a parchment pickguard!
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@ Chris:
you can buy Dusty Hill's Crazy Cowboy bass
(https://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/5888/588858_l.jpg?ts=1695170405)
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He and I have the same hat size, but I already have a good black and a nice gray that I inherited from my father.