The Last Bass Outpost

 
They have lost their mind.  Way Way overpiced.  Even if it were a 50s in that condition with half the headstock broken out I don't want it.

If I look at the pictures as an electrical engineer I see that one of the caps is soldered to the case of the varistor but is touching a wire that looks like it comes from a connection to the bridge of the unit.  The other cap is soldered to the same case but is also touching a black wire that looks like it goes to the ground pin of the jack plug.  It could be that these two caps are some kind of surge protection or something.  But they deffinately form two different circuits.

Very nice looking rigs.  Ever think about doing a short scale model with the same body?  I have short arms and the short scale works better for me.  Maybe even a 5 string?

Here is another picture of the whole bass.

I have just got a new Samick bass. Inside the label says it is a HFB 590 model. Every picture I see of a HFB 590 has a Gibson like headstock. Mine does not. I am a little confused. Any idea how old and where this one came from?

I have researched some and found that the Les Paul Special II bass uses something called a 442R pickup.  I have been looking on the net and can't find anywhere or anyone who supplies replacement pickups for the neck and bridge.

I did find the 40HZ pickup from EMG which looks similar to but is shorter than the 442R.  The site did not list the width so I am not sure if it is the same 1 inch width as the 442R.

But I just can't find the 442R offered by anyone.  Anyone have any ideas where to look?

You have an EPI Body?  Is it for an EB3 or EB0?  If it is an EB0 Do you have a short scale neck for it?  If it is an EB3 I must have a set neck.  Is it a short scale neck.  I you haven't figured it out yet I am looking to build another EB3 short scale that I am going to put Firebird pickups into and try to see how that sounds.

Let me know what you have and if we could work out a deal for the material.

Contact me at 49crab@bellsouth.net

Guard was one thing we had to work through.  I am not sure if the body is not smaller on an epi.
But I thought mine turned out very nice.

Got a different address.  Lets see if this can work.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=1431007968&aid=2130908

If not you can go to my facebook Larry Crabtree and see the pictures in my album.

I took some pics of my mod and put them in my facebook albums.  I will try to paste the link here.

http://www.facebook.com/ajax/photos/album/edit/dialog/dialog.php?album_id=2067469492944

See if you can get to the pictures from this.

I got a call from John at All Parts last night to tell me they had got in a shipment of Mini Hummers and their black rings for mounting.  You Might try getting ahold of him for one.  I have a firebird pup that fits for the Mini Hummer if you would like to try that one instead.  I will get some pics this weekend and post.

Don't know about the 79 year, but I had one like this with this same paint and when I checked the Epiphone page this unit they were still showing this color as one of their original colors.  I agree that changing the pickups was a bad decision.

The Mod on my EB0 is completed.  What I can say is in position 1 the sound is that low growely sound.  There is one thing I did not expect that until I reach 7 or 8 position on the volume it is real quiet but then it booms.  In position 2 the volume drops greatly as the choke is engaged but the tone is still very low but crystal clear much like my Jazz base.  In the third position due to the switch I had they had to wire the both pickups out of phase on this position.  The only way I can describe this position is like having a super pickup instead of two because the volume does not drop but if you dial back the volume on either neck or bridge control it is like you are moving the pickup back and forth and the tone changes like it.  This was a great suprise.  I truly believe if I set the switch to position 3 I could dial almost any tone I like.  Finally in setting 4 which is the bridge pickup alone as I moved the tone control from 0 to 10 the tone goes from a low funky tone great for certian songs to on 10 a light sound that several people have said shounds a lot like an acoustic upright bass.

In short this mod has enlarged the sound production of my short scale bass greatly and I will probably become my main bass from this point on.  Thanks to everyone who helped me through parts and advice.  I will try to attach pictures if anyone would like to see the instrument.

I have my coil.  I am getting ready to do the mod.  I was talking to one pickup builder and he mentioned something that caught my interest.  I was talking about the problem of getting the Mini Humbucker pickup for the bridge.  By the way anyone who does not know (like me) the NYT Mini Humbucker that is talked about so much, well NYT is just another name for part of Gibson and you cannot buy directly from them the pickups as they do not sell them to anyone.  This other pickup builder mentioned that I could use the Mini Humbucker from a firebird.  He stated that because they use a bar magnet instead if the posts so it does not matter if it sees 6 or 4 strings.  Anyone ever tried using a firebird bridge pickup on an EB3 style?

I have paid Curtis for my coils but have not received them yet.  I will get them soon so I can get started.