Flying V Bass

[clankenstein]

cool.is that a middle pickup?

[4stringer77]

It's another mudbucker. Same bass ended up with John Entwistle.

[gearHed289]

Yup...

[Basvarken]

So JAE got it from Dusty Hill? Or was it the other way around?

[4stringer77]

It was built by Don Summers. He played bass for the Moving Sidewalks. Billy Gibbons was in that band before ZZ Top. The bass ended up getting sold to Entwistle and ultimately by Sotheby's after the Ox's departure.

[amptech]

Gibson neck and hardware? Maybe just an EB3 glued to a guitar V body?

[Granny Gremlin]

I thought the headstock looked a bit wrong.

[Rob]

Are those the same bass?
Tommy looks more pointed.

[Dave W]

Is it just me, or does the body look larger than a V guitar body?

[Basvarken]

It does look like it is yes. If you look at that ZZ Top shot.

[4stringer77]

Is it just me, or does the body look larger than a V guitar body?

I saw something about an SG/EB body being chopped and having different wings grafted on.
I don't know if it's another one of Don's creations; however, there's another similar bass called the Discoverer that is a mirror image of a Dean ML guitar.

[gearHed289]

there's another similar bass called the Discoverer that is a mirror image of a Dean ML guitar.

He purchased that one under the false pretense that it was an actual Gibson prototype. Turned out to be completely fake. Looks like it may have started life as an EB.



Also, I didn't recall the second mudbucker on the V, and here's why:



Now that I think about it, it could still be the same bass with a different pickguard.

[amptech]

Now that I think about it, it could still be the same bass with a different pickguard.

But the headstocks are not the same?

[Basvarken]

I'm pretty sure these two photographs are photoshopped mockups.
The shadows of the knobs and bridge don't look consistent. They're different angle.
Plus with the Flying V there's an entire piece of the bridge missing on the right side near the stud.

The real Flying V that Dusty Hill and JAE used had a different shape headstock. Not triangular but with curved outlines.

[gearHed289]

But the headstocks are not the same?

Yeah, I see that now.