QUESTION about the Nut Material on early 60's EB-3

[dc10bass]

Group...

What material did Gibson use for the nut on early 60's EB-3s?
Bone? Phenolic? ...?

Also, was the nut thicker than your standard nut?
...thicker than a Thunderbird nut? (it seems to look that way in pictures)

Thanks!!!
Curt

[godofthunder]

 I do not know the material(might be bone, color seems to consistent though) but they have a almost 1/4 round profile, not the thin rectangular profile you see on say a Fender.

[Dave W]

I think they're bleached bone.

[Bionic-Joe]

I know that it was a resin impregnated fabric.

[dc10bass]

I know that it was a resin impregnated fabric.

Does anyone currently sell it?

[Dave W]

I found this, which says the material was "nylon 6/6" on Gibson electrics in the 50s and 60s. But I don't think the big quarter round nut on the EB series is any kind of nylon.

[EvilLordJuju]

The 1965 parts catalogue suggests all nuts are 'molded plastic' with a list of exceptions. The only bass exception is FN-660 Formica nut, which is used on 'E. Bass'

Does this mean the EB bass, or all basses? I'm guessing the former. Do early EB basses have a nut made of something tangibly different to later basses?

[Dave W]

It probably just means electric bass. But again, I don't think the EB series is formica. I've never seen nut blanks that shape, maybe they were hand profiled.

As always, I could be wrong.

[uwe]

My early to middle sixties and fifties EBs as well as the early to middle sixties TBs all have these nuts made of glistening, miilky, for lack of a better word "tooth-like" material and those nuts are all thinner than the nuts of my late sixties and seventies Gibson basses.