Show off your finished Gibson/Epi project basses - all of them!!!

[Barklessdog]

I thought it would be cool to do a project Gibson/Epi bass thread to give others ideas on what to do or not to do. It can be something as a swapped out pickup to a total recreation

List any modifications you have done or things you had to restore.

My Project EBO

Slot head Ebo had a new custom made neck grafted on
Added-
Rio Grande Pitbull
Big D varitone
Single Coil mode push pull switch/pot
White nitro paint
Light Weight Sperzel locking tuners

[Barklessdog]

Vintage Part Replica John Entwistle Fenderbird-



Parts
78 Precision neck
Hand made single piece Honduran Mahogany body
70's Tbird Bridge pup
70's cover with Lindy Fralin custom built Tbird pup from two melody maker rewound pups
6O'S T Bird Bridge
Custom made pickguard with custom engraved logo

work safe picture!

[drbassman]

OK, here goes:

60's rehab (I need some better pictures of this one!)





NR repro:





Upgraded Allen Woody  (now in the possession of Herr Uwe)





My first parts bass,  I did the headstock myself and got addicted to bass tinkering:

[uwe]

Not much of a "project" really, but sticking TB Plus pups into an Epi Explorer created my best non-custom shop Explorer, the Epi creams my two Gibson regular line mid-eighties Explorers into the ground:





My EB-"U", a seventies maple neck, "pup-in-the-middle" EB-0 (originally a totally run down brownish original with a body so worn it couldn't have served as a table in a Mexican cantina) that had an additional RD Standard stacked humbucker implanted plus the beloved two point "tipomatic" bridge exchanged for some "Deutsche Technik". Great sounding bass, the RD Standard pup works better with the mudbucker than any other combination.



My dilapidated 67 Non Rev IV *** and what became of it, resurrection works!
















I was never happy with the bass output of my SG-Z, a radical solution was needed:



And then I reversed the process with this gunshot EB-0L (2 TB Plus were added to the original mudbucker), resident stylistesse Fräulein Rommel came up with the trendy and one of a kind orange/blue concept:







A 1965 TB Rev IV *** in yet again sunburst would have been boring, the fins of the (meanwhile deleted) "Gibsons for Girls" Godess line inspired me here:






*** All TBird bridges shown used with friendly permission of S. Dasson Technology Labs!

[shadowcastaz]

Former Gibby SB400

bergermeister

 
Pontiac gold  Tbird HO(which has an old pontiac logo on the PG now)


Hobbit Triumph Ho. this is my  favorite player

[shadowcastaz]

Uwe,I remember the bullet bass but never saw the finished body. what is the story on the color?

BTW, the lab on the couch does move ,although that is my seat she is in . go figure!

[uwe]

Uwe,I remember the bullet bass but never saw the finished body. what is the story on the color?

We were fooling around in an old thread about what color it should be refinned. Blue came up and so did orange and then Mark quipped to make it both. Said and done!
BTW, the lab on the couch does move ,although that is my seat she is in . go figure!

I find that most touching how people grow so emotionally attached to their dogs that they have them stuffed after their demise and keep them around as display in the house ... 

[shadowcastaz]

Im laughin ,but that makes me gag!
That sb4oo is gonna get a trim on the baseball bat neck , some new holy pup surrounds and a pair of single coils like the orig. some time back  a friend of a friend had a an orig sb w/ singles and I loved the tone. At one point I was  goin to do it pelham blue ,but I still like the white. I love the Blue NR. I need to fix a friends 335 w/ broken head. . Do you have any more pics of the  neck job you had done ?  M

[TBird1958]

Is that a brass chandelier I see behind that cool lookin Gold 'Bird?................
Please let me sell you something to replace it!
I'm at least happy to be a small inspiration for Uwe's orangeand blue EB
Seriously tho, very nice stuff, I'm more than just a little envious of the collective talent here. I wanna see some pics from Scott, (God of Thunder) and Scott (BassIV) 

[Chris P.]

Please don't get Uwe started again about his terrible clownburst....

[Dave W]

When I showed the seller what had become of the gunshot EB-0L, let's just say he was impressed with Uwe's repairman's skill but not with the color choice. 

[uwe]

"Do you have any more pics of the neck job you had done ?"

Not of the TBird, but of the Epi Embassy:

[shadowcastaz]

 "Is that a brass chandelier I see behind that cool lookin Gold 'Bird?."

Yes it is and the reason its on the table is I replaced. I like old brass,the new crap is cheap looking. Ill take a pic of what I put in its place. I have to reset the neck on the gold HO . . angle needs to be increased a couple degrees. The bach bird may end up Pelham blue . I like it Uwe

[shadowcastaz]

Thanx Uwe. They both will help.M

[drbassman]

Great thread and great projects!