Has anyone added a pickup to an EB-0?

Pilgrim · May 05, 2009, 02:22:41 PM

So now that I have my EPI EB-3, I find that the short scale and lighter weight of the EB-0 I sold are attractive in retrospect.

Has anyone taken one of the EPI EB-0 models and added a bridge pickup to it? Looks like there's room for the pickup and the electronics......

leftybass · May 06, 2009, 07:45:45 AM

Dennis Dunaway's Gibson started out as an EB-O.

uwe · May 06, 2009, 08:02:35 AM

So have I (on a seventies EB-0, implanting an RD Standard stacked humbucker). It is the most common mod on EB-0s, no reason why it should not work. My luthier just did it for someone with an Epi EB-0 (and complained how hard the multilayer whatever wood of the Epi was to route!

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Pilgrim · May 06, 2009, 08:28:32 AM

Quote from: leftybass on May 06, 2009, 07:45:45 AM
Dennis Dunaway's Gibson started out as an EB-O.

I was going to comment that there's a bit of visual dissonance with the P pickup, but that whole BASS is visually dissonant - by design!

uwe · May 06, 2009, 08:32:37 AM

Split coils don't even look good on a P IMHO. I prefer either the original singlecoil or the Fender-mudbucker there. Guitarists would have never tolerated such an ugly (if sensible and even clever) design, but who cares about bassists of all people? The split coil is Fender's eternal esthetic disservice to the bass playing world, jawohl!

Rocker949 · May 06, 2009, 01:09:58 PM

I find split coils aesthetically hideous. More than anything, they would fit the motif of what you might expect to find in one of those science fiction movies where aliens are examining humans in a lab.

Barklessdog · May 06, 2009, 02:01:45 PM

Quote from: Rocker949 on May 06, 2009, 01:09:58 PM
I find split coils aesthetically hideous. More than anything, they would fit the motif of what you might expect to find in one of those science fiction movies where aliens are examining humans in a lab.

The RIO GRANDE PITBULL is supposed to be P like under its cover. I used one on my Gibson Slothead EB-0 project. It sounds great. It really growls and nails that Billy Sheehan tone- you also get split coil mode out of it.

leftybass · May 06, 2009, 02:07:02 PM

Quote from: uwe on May 06, 2009, 08:32:37 AM
Split coils don't even look good on a P IMHO. I prefer either the original singlecoil or the Fender-mudbucker there. Guitarists would have never tolerated such an ugly (if sensible and even clever) design..

You mean like on the Fender Electric XII?

leftybass · May 06, 2009, 02:08:14 PM

Quote from: Pilgrim on May 06, 2009, 08:28:32 AM
I was going to comment that there's a bit of visual dissonance with the P pickup, but that whole BASS is visually dissonant - by design!

As was the band!

lowend1 · May 06, 2009, 02:22:04 PM

Quote from: leftybass on May 06, 2009, 07:45:45 AM
Dennis Dunaway's Gibson started out as an EB-O.

Ah, the "Frog Bass" in all its glory!

Pilgrim · May 06, 2009, 03:40:41 PM

The apparent ease of this conversion is tempting.

Freuds_Cat · May 06, 2009, 06:14:29 PM

Not sure that plywood Epiphones count but here's mine.

Dave W · May 06, 2009, 08:39:21 PM

Quote from: Barklessdog on May 06, 2009, 02:01:45 PM
The RIO GRANDE PITBULL is supposed to be P like under its cover. I used one on my Gibson Slothead EB-0 project. It sounds great. It really growls and nails that Billy Sheehan tone- you also get split coil mode out of it.

I thought the Pitbull was supposed to be like two single coil P coils under the cover. Somebody (Daniel?) checked out the pole locations with magnetic filings and IIRC that's what it looked like.

clankenstein · May 06, 2009, 10:21:20 PM

a pit bull with the cover off if that helps.from memory i think they say its like 2 1951 telecaster bass pickups in there.

Daniel_J · May 06, 2009, 11:33:51 PM

Hey, guys. My first post here. I've been checking the discussions around here and I'm enjoy quite a lot. This is a very relax and amusing forum, people seem to have a lot of fun.

Anyways, I'm a builder from Brazil and since this thread started with a SG bass and shifted to the PB pickups, I think I have something to share with you all.
From what I read so far, people around here are not to keen on the PB pickup, so I hope nobody gets offended, but here's one of my builds: