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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #45 on: February 20, 2021, 02:44:14 AM »
Sound demo would be nice... ;)
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #46 on: February 22, 2021, 04:51:45 AM »
Quote from: Highlander on February 20, 2021, 02:44:14 AM
Sound demo would be nice... ;)

I just need to brush up on my Rush licks and then I will record something!  :mrgreen:
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #47 on: February 22, 2021, 04:46:59 PM »
 :mrgreen: :popcorn:
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #48 on: March 02, 2021, 09:25:28 AM »
   That came out great! Looks beautiful.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #49 on: March 23, 2021, 01:15:12 PM »
I finally got a demo together... ish. I filmed this on my iPhone, with the EB-1 running through my Fender 'Rumble' amp:



The bass is hilariously bassy. If I turn down the tone control the higher notes on the G string become faint. If I play low notes I can hear random bits of the room vibrating sympathetically.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #50 on: March 23, 2021, 01:42:49 PM »
Hilariously bassy is a good marketing phrase. :) I like it best with the tone dialed back a little.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #51 on: March 25, 2021, 08:12:54 AM »
That is one cool little bass!
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #52 on: March 25, 2021, 09:06:19 AM »
I think Jack Bruce would be proud of that sound.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #53 on: March 25, 2021, 10:38:39 AM »
Thanks all! I'm tempted to strip the lacquer back off the neck, as it feels a bit too rubbery for my tastes and I'm not entirely sold on the colour. I might do it at the same time I do the Hondo neck, whenever that might be.  :rolleyes:
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #54 on: March 26, 2021, 07:10:39 AM »
The color of the neck is the one thing I don't like. Personally, I would go either natural maple, or figure out how to make it match the body.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #55 on: March 26, 2021, 11:16:51 AM »
Oxalic acid gives wood an older look.  maybe that would work but you would still have to strip and refin it.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #56 on: March 27, 2021, 08:35:43 AM »
Sounds fine to me... :mrgreen:
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #57 on: March 27, 2021, 11:35:56 AM »
That's a good sounding mudbucker. If I'm being honest, based on the demo, probably has more versatile tones than what I can wrangle out of my EB-1. Enjoy it.
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Re: Epiphone EB-1 resto-modding.
« Reply #58 on: March 27, 2021, 09:02:36 PM »
Man, that sounds great!
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