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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: gearHed289 on June 27, 2014, 03:26:58 PM

Title: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: gearHed289 on June 27, 2014, 03:26:58 PM
It's kind of cool, weed sticker and all. But just what is it? And that pickup???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gibson-SG-style-Solid-Body-4-String-Bass-Guitar-Metallic-Blue-/321444795385?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: chromium on June 27, 2014, 04:06:18 PM
I'm guessing its just a '66-'67 EB-0, and someone just sprayed the hardware and pickup cover black

The flaked-out violet/midnight blue is kinda cool
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: Highlander on June 27, 2014, 05:05:01 PM
I did mine in metal-flake as a temp measure until I can afford a gold plate job...

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Peter%20Cook%20Custom/20100523assembly009.jpg)
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: amptech on June 28, 2014, 11:08:14 AM
Quote from: chromium on June 27, 2014, 04:06:18 PM
I'm guessing its just a '66-'67 EB-0, and someone just sprayed the hardware and pickup cover black


I´d guess pre 1965 : old neck joint (!) , wide neck and the old bridge with the thin ´forks´.
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: chromium on June 28, 2014, 11:21:24 AM
Quote from: amptech on June 28, 2014, 11:08:14 AM
I´d guess pre 1965 : old neck joint (!) , wide neck and the old bridge with the thin ´forks´.

Ah - you're right.  Didn't notice the neck joint.  The "centered" crown inlay threw me off...
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: amptech on June 28, 2014, 11:41:28 AM
The crown can be difficult to make judgements by, although It´s usually centered or high.
My ´63 EBOF has a high crown, and my ´65 EB-3 have it placed in the middle like both my 1967 EB´s.

I´m inlaying a 1966 SG melody maker these days, I´m completing a ´standard´conversion with a normal headstock.
I took my caliper and measured my three high crown basses, just to compare.
Just to find that none of them was in the same place :) I ended up just throwing it in where it looked right, like Gibson probably did too!
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: 4stringer77 on June 28, 2014, 01:41:27 PM
Maineiacs. This is what happens when you live in a place where bears outnumber people.
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: Captcolour on June 29, 2014, 06:43:10 PM
Could be a '60 - '61 pu cover and/or pu if it was originally black and not painted.
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: Dave W on June 29, 2014, 09:51:27 PM
That doesn't look like one of the black covers. They had ridged edges.
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: ilan on June 30, 2014, 01:45:44 AM
This could be powder coating.
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: amptech on June 30, 2014, 04:12:27 AM
Quote from: ilan on June 30, 2014, 01:45:44 AM
This could be powder coating.

For what we know, the owner might have been familiar with powder too :)
Title: Re: What the heck is this SG/EB0 bass?
Post by: uwe on June 30, 2014, 12:03:05 PM
The decal certainly plants a seed of doubt.

I hear these basses are now legal in Colorado and Washington.