Brooks EB RBL

[Basvarken]

A new bass was born today!
I built this one on assignment for a bass player in The Netherlands.

Body and neck are mahogany
Fretboard is rosewood
Transparent black finish with pearloid binding
Seymour Duncan SRB-1B (rickenbacker replacement humbucker)
MEC on-on-on toggle (series, single coil, parallel)
Volume pot CTS
Babicz bridge

[exiledarchangel]

Very nice bass, minimal but not boring. Truss rod access is on the heel under those two screws I get? Any soundclips?

[Basvarken]

Truss rod access is on the heel under those two screws I get?

Correct. I used a spokewheel truss rod (MusicMan style).

No soundclips yet. Tomorrow my customer is picking it up. I'm sure he'll record some soundclips.

[godofthunder]

   That is smok'n hot!

[Stjofön Big]

Beautiful!

[BTL]

That's beautiful!

34" scale?

On the SRB-1B, it looks like you had to modify the base plate and create a new ring.

Is that correct?

[Basvarken]

Thanx guys.

Yes it's 34" scale.

And yes it's the SRB-1B . And yes I cut off the "ears" and made a pickup ring for it

Here's a pic of the pickup before I modified it



I chose three ply pickguard material(b-w-b) for the pickup ring. The white line is a nice little detail that goes well with the pearloid binding on the all black bass. And I even changed the height adjustment screws to black ones 

[Rob]

Really nice.
I would be temped to swap out the truss screws for chrome or paint those back.

[Highlander]

 

[4stringer77]

A Gibson may be good enough but a Brooks is better. Feel free to take that. Nice bass. I bet Gene Simmons would dig it too.

[Dave W]

Beautiful!

I'm usually not a fan of binding but that pearloid looks great with the black.

[amptech]

Looks great. How's the balance?

[Basvarken]

Thank you guys

How's the balance?

Perfect. The body is slightly oversized and the tuners are Schaller lightweights. No neckdive at all!

[ramone57]

looks great, Rob!  very nice!

[Chris P.]

I was already drooling over the instagram pics. How great!! great job!!