Lousy photo time: the Gibson lives!

[Big_Stu]

Anyone care to offer up the ultimate exponent of the mudbucker, or even a tune or two...?

[nofi]

i keep confusing them with Slave, the r&b band.

[Highlander]

That hits the spot, Stu...

[Pilgrim]

Sounds like tasty mud to me!

[Pilgrim]

Better photos of the resurrected 1964 EB-0:






And the repaired headstock, rear view:

[Aussie Mark]

Great job!

[Freuds_Cat]

very nice.

[Dave W]

That looks great.

[clankenstein]

as we say in n.z. - sweet as!

[Big_Stu]

Is it me - or do you just now get grain as gorgeous as that any more? Or has the skill of the finisher lessened over the years??? I remember reading that a Gibson cherry finish was something like 12 coats of cherry & 15 of clear??

[Pilgrim]

Is it me - or do you just now get grain as gorgeous as that any more? Or has the skill of the finisher lessened over the years??? I remember reading that a Gibson cherry finish was something like 12 coats of cherry & 15 of clear??

But that would go against the sage wisdom of all doze guyz who swear that the less finish on a bass, the better.  All that finish dampens the "tone", don'cha know.

Harrumph, harrumph.

[uwe]

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Finish does not influence sound.

[Pilgrim]

Finish does not influence sound.

I'm with you!  I don't agree with all the mooks who intone about "thin nitro finishes" being the best for "tone", and opining that layers of paint somehow compromise the "tone".

"The opiner doth obesss too much, methinks." (Or that's how the Queen in Hamlet would put it if she were a bass player.)

[nofi]

finish absolutely affects tone on an acoustic instrument. on a solid electric probably not so much at all.

[Pilgrim]

finish absolutely affects tone on an acoustic instrument. on a solid electric probably not so much at all.

Fair enough.