Interesting bass comparison

[Dave W]

I want a '54 EB!

Granted, it doesn't sound different from my '71 EB-0, but that is so cool!

[4stringer77]

Of course it's different from an EB-O. For one thing, it has a single coil mudbucker, and it has that made in the fifties Gibson magic that I'm sure you can hear 

[Dave W]

Of course it's different from an EB-O. For one thing, it has a single coil mudbucker, and it has that made in the fifties Gibson magic that I'm sure you can hear 

And there's the clear difference between Cuban and Honduras mahogany which is easy to hear with those pickups. 

[4stringer77]

The fifties EB was Cuban mahogany? Wasn't that species of mahogany a scarce commodity and not really in commercial usage or circulation even at that time?

[Dave W]

Cuban from Cuba was pretty well done by then, but the same species was still being harvested in Mexico and Belize. My remark was tongue-in-cheek, no one really knows for sure what Gibson used. Lots of speculation, no hard evidence.

[Grog]

I want a '54 EB!

Granted, it doesn't sound different from my '71 EB-0, but that is so cool!

+1...... I've always had a hankering for an original EB, never sprung for the high price tag. When I bought my '59 EB-2, I bought it because it had one of the last of the single coil pickups on it. PURE BALLS!

[uwe]

I know they are desirable, but those old overwound singlecoils are so HUMMPRONE you wish your Ric back because it is quiet in comparison. When I play mine in the rehearsal room, people can tell where I stand with their eyes closed from the sound of the humm.