Butchered EB-2

[Grog]

It was in Willie's for about a year or so. After a lot of negotiating, I was able to swap the pickup cover with the one on my EB0-F. I also traded my 67 EB-2 pickguard, that had a cutaway for a handrest that was never installed, for the pickguard it had. It isn't very often a guitar shows up that is in rough enough shape to swap parts off of it. A few years latter it showed up at a guitar show in Elgin Ill, still had my parts on it. 

[Dave W]

That's the one.

Did you sell or trade your EB-0F to Willie's?

[hollowbody]

I remember an EB-0F at Willies about 1999 or 2000.  The Fuzztone didn't work.  Wish I would have bought it.

[Dave W]

The reason I asked is that I bought my EB-0F from Willie's about 1997.

[Grog]

No, I still have it. Nate had another one that had a ferrel (?) missing around one of the tuners, I gave him a gold one that I had. He sold it & it ended up at Guitar Center some time later.

[Dave W]

That was the one I bought. Had it for about 3 years. It did wind up at GC.

Small world!

Edit: I remember trading in a crummy 1988 62 RI Precision plus a couple hundred dollars. It was a ridiculously good deal for me but the EB-0F had sat for a long time and Nate could move the P quicker.

[Grog]

There were three EB-0F's floating around this town about that time, two were at another local store before he died of a brain aneurism. I bought mine at his estate sale. It surfaced at several guitar shows for under $300 dollars before he bought it. I bought the handrest off of it & a few years later bought it & put it's handrest back on. I've never seen another around here. One year we had three Les Paul Signature Basses in town. I owned two of them, (traded one for a better one), I've never seen any more LP Sigs either.

[Dave W]

Benedict's Music. Same place Twin Town is now.

[eb2]

Dear God - I remember that red white and blue EB2 at Willies too.

[Pilgrim]

Seems to me that the bass in the OP could have a new wood partial panel put in the front to get rid of the pickup holes and bridge error, and then the top could be painted gold top.  That would cover the new wood and not be out of keeping for a Gibby.

[Dave W]

Al, I wouldn't waste my time trying to do that on a laminated arch.

[Pilgrim]

Me either.  I was just thinking about what might be possible - not something I'd care to try.

[Grog]

Dave, You have a good memory! Roger had two EB-0F's hanging in his store. He was asking $699 or $799 for the one I ended up with & about $1699 for the other. A lot of money for an EB-0 at that time. I was in the market for a cherry ES-335 at the time. He had three of them. 

[EvilLordJuju]

Price is going up on this.... (the EB2) over $700 already