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Gibson Basses / Redecorating ze Office Wall ...

« on: February 20, 2008, 08:30:37 AM »

It was time for a change, those hollowbodies I had up there were getting boring so I took a couple from my 20 SG shape basses and hung them up ...

From left to right:

- Seventies EB-0 with Warwick bridge, RD Standard extra pup, refinned ivory (you can even tell on this pic how much fatter those seventies models were, real tanks)
- Melody Maker in CAR,
- Satin SG Supreme
- EB-6, stripped by pre-owner, but nice job,
- they shoot basses in Texas, don't they?
- the object of ze Herr Moderator's regular, if unwarranted derision: banana SB 450,
- it's another Tequila Sunrise ... Ebay Giveaway of Month
- batteries included: EB-0F (eternal thanks to Chris who made me aware of this one even though I still keep the bike my grandfather confiscated from his grandfather in the cellar ...)

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Gibson Basses / Money, Money, Money! aka The Deleted Ones

« on: February 20, 2008, 08:06:41 AM »

Well, one Doublecut and two Moneys (Monies?) to be exact. Another chapter in Gibson bass history closed.

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Gibson Basses / Sheer Beauty: Virgin Black Metal!

« on: February 19, 2008, 08:14:06 AM »

Jawohl, on German ebay I put a bid in for this:

Such joy it will bring to a future project ... My precioussssssss ...

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Gibson Basses / Springtime for ... (no, not him) ... my luthier!

« on: February 19, 2008, 05:05:23 AM »

Once he's done with fixing the truss rod of my 62 Fender Reissue P bass and has turned it fretless, he'll no doubt need something else to do. This could be it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1959-GIBSON-EB-2-BASS-GUITAR-NO-RESERVE_W0QQitemZ280202029687QQihZ018QQcategoryZ118993QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I've put a bid already in, but what do you guys think it is worth? Neither a possibly bad neck reset, an only vertical rather than horizontal headstock crack nor a complete rewinding of that mudbucker seem insurmountable obstacles for having that missing banjo tuner headstock EB 2 in my collection.

Discuss!!!

Herr eb2's input especially welcomed, never mind those misguided foreign policy opinions!

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Rotating the minibucker on your SG RI/Supreme

« on: February 08, 2008, 11:20:09 AM »

My satin maple top SG Supreme's strings were dead so I decided to put on D'Addario Halfrounds I had lying around. And while I was at it I unscrewed the frame of the minibucker, turned it 180 degrees (the lead is ample long enough for that) and rescrewed it so that the pole screws at the side of the mini are now facing towards the neck and not the bridge (I could have also unscrewed the pup within the frame and rotated that but fidgeting with the springs seemed too much work!). The mini in this new position loses presence, but gains quite a bit of mid attack and some more bass: Playing it by itself now or together with the neck TB Plus mockbucker has the bass sound even a bit more vintage than it already does with a honky mid emphasis that is not unreminiscent of g(l)ory EB-3 days.

And it's a totally non-invasive and at anytime quickly reversible mod even an attorney can do!

I'm really proud of myself thinking of that one!

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Gibson Basses / Gibson revamps site (and GoW turns into GoM)

« on: February 08, 2008, 04:04:43 AM »

http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/divisions/gibson%20usa/products/bass/

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Gibson%20USA%20Introduces%20the%202008/

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Gibson Basses / Brokeback Epi Embassy

« on: February 06, 2008, 11:05:16 AM »

Remember my sparkle charcoal Epi Embassy with the loveless neckbreak fix (that's how I bought it from Chicago Music Exchange), basically a not very stabilizing "volute" they had pasted to the back of the original (broken and splintered) neck? It came off eventually - unsurprisingly -, so off the Epi went to my luthier for some deutsche Wertarbeit. Some carbon and maple and voilà, this is where we are right now: