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1960 EBO project
« on: September 07, 2013, 01:59:45 PM »
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2013, 02:08:58 PM »
You can't not really...
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2013, 02:13:59 PM »
 If it stays low I'm all over it  ;D
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2013, 02:14:33 PM »
How would you deal with the big gash of a bridge pup cavity? Maple cap?
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2013, 02:16:42 PM »
I think the sensible thing to do is stick another muddy in there. I don't see the point of doing a full blow restoration. She's a player.
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2013, 02:17:40 PM »
EB3 styleee
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2013, 02:56:32 PM »
Quote from: godofthunder on September 07, 2013, 02:16:42 PM
I think the sensible thing to do is stick another muddy in there. I don't see the point of doing a full blow restoration. She's a player.

Absolutely.  Same idea as my '64 EB-0 with one Dimarzio and one mudbucker...but you're gonna need to fill in a bit around the second pickup...


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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2013, 03:05:26 PM »
  Pilgrim I dig that Bass!
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2013, 09:09:56 PM »
I got it with a headstock break and the Dimarzio, with a hole in the body where the mudbucker useta be. Dr. Bassman kindly sold me the Gibson pickup and I found the cover on Ebay. I wired up both pickups with volume-only controls, because I figured (correctly, so far) that I would never need to roll the treble OFF either one of those pickups.  

It had a Badass bridge on it when I got it - but the original bridge was still in the case!!  I cheerfully re-installed it and sold the BA on Ebay.
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2013, 09:23:40 PM »
Quote from: Pilgrim on September 07, 2013, 09:09:56 PM
I got it with a headstock break and the Dimarzio, with a hole in the body where the mudbucker useta be. Dr. Bassman kindly sold me the Gibson pickup and I found the cover on Ebay. I wired up both pickups with volume-only controls, because I figured (correctly, so far) that I would never need to roll the treble OFF either one of those pickups.  

It had a Badass bridge on it when I got it - but the original bridge was still in the case!!  I cheerfully re-installed it and sold the BA on Ebay.

I sold you that mudbucker (but doc had sold it to me a few years earlier).
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2013, 11:30:06 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on September 07, 2013, 09:23:40 PM
I sold you that mudbucker (but doc had sold it to me a few years earlier).

My error!  Sincere apologies.  Perhaps I flashed back to how it reached you.  Mea culpa.

Severe attacks of CRS are not infrequent here....

What was the question?   :rolleyes:

I was just playing that bass, and the Dimarzio is a more slightly conventional sound than the Gibson pickup.  With both turned up it's pretty powerful.
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2013, 02:17:16 PM »
Oh man, that's  tempting (until it gets bid up some more; have a feeling that will really lift off towards the end).

Another idea: pair of darkstars (or whatever the current Haggis reissue is).
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2013, 07:19:48 PM »
I just got outbid!!! I want to make it into a Gene Simmons Bass!!!!!
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2013, 01:16:07 AM »
Quote from: Baz Cooper on September 09, 2013, 07:19:48 PM
I just got outbid!!! I want to make it into a Gene Simmons Bass!!!!!

The axe? ;D

I got outbid too. I'm not going higher on this..
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Re: 1960 EBO project
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2013, 10:45:12 AM »
Already more than I'd be willing to pay.
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