Restoring a 1963 Gibson EB-OF Fuzztone Bass

[Dave W]

From the May 2012 Premier Guitar: John Brown restores an EB-OF

Interesting bit about how Gibson used burlap to apply the grain filler.

[eb2]

Very cool!

The burlap was how I learned to do it, and with alkyd flat white oil paint to do a limed LP finish.  When it tacks, the burlap is coarse enough to drag it off the wood, but tight enough to squish it into the grain.

[Grog]

Cool! I'm still trying to get around to having mine restored, I'll get an estimate from them..................

[dc10bass]

Nice! Thanks for posting!

...Having a '65 EB3 restored right now.

[uwe]

You can actually record with that fuzz sound and the results are sweet!

[Big_Stu]

You can actually record with that fuzz sound and the results are sweet!

Like some guy did on almost all of this album

[godofthunder]

Falling on deaf ears I'm afraid.

[Big_Stu]

Falling on deaf ears I'm afraid.

Not surprised; he used 4 x Acoustic 361s .........................not what you meant? 

I have significant mid-range deafness; can't follow a conversation in a noisy bar for eg. I put it down to 36 Slade gigs and around 10 Motorhead gigs.