The thread about making a Blueshawk Bass got me thinkin'.
Ok...I was at my luthiers and in walks a guy carrying a bunch of slabs of really nice rosewood. Half a dozen guitar fretboards and one larger bass board piece. I When aksed if the bass board was available he said yeah and I immediately jumped on it. So I have this great thick piece of Brazillian Rosewood sitting at his shop waiting to be built into a bass. My local Gibson rep came by my teaching studio and left a relatively new release guitar called a '339' with me. Anybody familiar? It's basically a 335 (same construction and everything but with a scaled down body). A student of mine was playing it yesterday while we were recroding a song and it clicked that maybe I should have a small body EB-2 made. I have an old mudbucker with black plastic cover that's been waiting for the right bass as well.
The 339 is made of plywood like a 335. That got me thinking about the Gibson 336 which is also a scaled down 335 body but with a carved top. It is really a piece of mahogony that has been hollowed out and then maple topped. It has a center beam like a 335 or EB-2. Soooo...that's kind of where I'm headed. 336 mahogony body with a nice big late 50's/early 60's profile neck like an early EB-2, EB-O or early 2x2 Newport. Old looking late 50's/early 60's sunburst nitro finish. Black plastic mudbucker with Uwe's three position mod. I think I have an old choke as well (I like the Paul Samwell-Smith, Chas Chandler tone).
Anyway...before jumping deep into it i was hoping for some/any opinions.
Anyone have any thoughts on the viability of a small bodied EB-2?
Here are a couple reference points...first a 336:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250200170655&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebayphotohostingand a 339:
http://strings.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/ProductSpotlight/NewModels/Gibson%20Custom%20Proudly/