A picture is worth a thousand words.................
Early '59 EB-2, (with last of the single coils) & '68 ES-335 12.
Whoa.... beautiful!
TUNERS: I can at least add my vote for ultralites, used them on four gibson basses now. I do like the looks of the old klusons, but for performance - hipshot. They can be bought with small keys, as dadagoboi suggested. I have a set I got for one of my EB6 projects, the clovers are quite small. I even dabbled with ideas on how to ´fill´the split post, maybe some kind of `coin´on top to make it look solid.
BRIDGE: I like the bar bridge more and more, I´d do it! If you´re up to it, go all the way. Never met a set of strings a bar bridge could not intonate within reason. Someone installed a 3 point on my ´63 EB0F, I´ll reverse the mod as soon as I find a proper bar bridge - and bury that 3 point deep!
PICKUP COVER: I followed that ebay cover for a while, the price is high but still not sold after a year or two?
It certainly looks the part, and on a 59...
Guess it might sound different too, although that pickup does not reproduce terribly much treble. Didn´t Uwe report
that his EB0F was more middish than a regular EB0 with metal cover once?
I dabbled with superglueing a pre cut plastic ring and a top plate, to shape it like a bakelite mud cover.
Might give it another go.. I´d buy one if it looked correct, but wether or not there is a market...