Sigh............ my finger is twitching looks like fun! http://www.ebay.com/itm/141054828016?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
You can't not really...
If it stays low I'm all over it ;D
How would you deal with the big gash of a bridge pup cavity? Maple cap?
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.
EB3 styleee
Quote from: godofthunder on September 07, 2013, 03:16:42 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...
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Gibson%20EB-0%201964/PB070018.jpg)
Pilgrim I dig that Bass!
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.
Quote from: Pilgrim on September 07, 2013, 10:09:56 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).
Quote from: Dave W on September 07, 2013, 10:23:40 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.
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).
I just got outbid!!! I want to make it into a Gene Simmons Bass!!!!!
Quote from: Baz Cooper on September 09, 2013, 08:19:48 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..
Already more than I'd be willing to pay.
Quote from: Pilgrim on September 07, 2013, 03:56:32 PM
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...
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Gibson%20EB-0%201964/PB070018.jpg)
You're loaded for bear with that one. 8)
Quote from: cmaj on September 10, 2013, 01:25:06 PM
You're loaded for bear with that one. 8)
"It's nucular!"
- Homer Simpson
No, I meant the Black EBO with Binding and the pickup moved closer to the badass bridge. String through body, schaller tuners.
http://www.vintageguitar.com/3353/kiss-able-gibson/
Quote from: gearHed289 on September 11, 2013, 08:46:37 AM
http://www.vintageguitar.com/3353/kiss-able-gibson/
Thanks, Tom. Interesting article.
The supposedly "original" Pelham blue bass on the bottom isn't. P/G is wrong, hand rest never was...even the headstock is off, it's wide like SG EBOs to fit Klusons. Compare it to to one on Gene's which had banjos originally. I don't think PB was introduced until '63. Must be a "prototype" ;D
Agree with the colour, headstock and the handrest. But the pickguard seems ok?
Quote from: amptech on September 11, 2013, 10:28:23 AM
But the pickguard seems ok?
It's been moved closer to the bridge than it should be. There's something strange going on with the neck heel and where the pickup locates...maybe it IS a prototype. :o
Mine's in the correct location. I lost the original about 40 years ago but the mounting screws are in the original holes. I need to make a better one, did a crap job around the pickup.
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/1960%20EBO/P1040071_zps38e8fe36.jpg) (http://s976.photobucket.com/user/cata1d0/media/1960%20EBO/P1040071_zps38e8fe36.jpg.html)
Yeah, something's definitely off with that headstock, yet it does look like it had banjo tuners. Could have been a prototype but not in that color.
Quote from: Dave W on September 11, 2013, 12:59:23 PM
Yeah, something's definitely off with that headstock, yet it does look like it had banjo tuners. Could have been a prototype but not in that color.
Knobs are wrong also.
I think those banjos were retrofitted to an SG style headstock. They are 3 inches wide compared to 2 1/2" wide banjo tuner headstocks which are also 1/4" longer. Same spacing vertically and horizontally for both types of tuners and the hole diameters are close.
There it goes.............. to rich for my blood.
Well...maybe someday I can find a cheap one...
That's crazy.
Someone bought it for $600!!! Darn it!!
And soon the world might see yet another all original pelham blue EB-0 :)
Noone in here got it, then?
I'd like to think we all got more sense than that.