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

uwe · April 21, 2008, 12:44:02 PM

My favorites currently are: John's white EB-0 turned -3, his Fenderbird (because it is shaped like no other), Dr Bassman's first single coil TBird (that just cries "Boutique!" in a nice way) and Shadowcastaz' classy gold TBird plus the Bergermeister paddle with that awesome pickup.

Uwe

chromium · April 21, 2008, 12:46:42 PM

Great stuff!

Dr B. - what's the story on that - is it koa? - bolt-neck TBird? What kind of neck did you start with? Did you build the body from scratch? How did it sound? I really like the look of that one!

drbassman · April 21, 2008, 01:31:19 PM

Quote from: chromium on April 21, 2008, 12:46:42 PM
Great stuff!

Dr B. - what's the story on that - is it koa? - bolt-neck TBird? What kind of neck did you start with? Did you build the body from scratch? How did it sound? I really like the look of that one!

The neck was a Warmoth paddle head that I trimmed down. The body I bought from a fellow builder off eBay. It was alder with a walnut veneer. I put in a SD 51 p bass pup and it sounded really nice, very strong low end and clear mids and highs. The only flaw was it turned out neck heavy, so I sold it to a guy in a church band down south somewhere.

drbassman · April 21, 2008, 01:32:19 PM

I too love John's white EB and Shadow's gold bird.

shadowcastaz · April 21, 2008, 01:53:39 PM

Danke!..Im not worthy...

Im truly flattered especially the company Im in.sorry for the F content but this is a player with matching headstock

and my baritone....

Chris P. · April 21, 2008, 02:07:00 PM

The white EB3 is my favourite too.

Maybe I'll change my EB0 plans...

drbassman · April 21, 2008, 02:23:31 PM

Quote from: Chris P on April 21, 2008, 02:07:00 PM
The white EB3 is my favourite too.

Maybe I'll change my EB0 plans...

Yes, white is in now!

Barklessdog · April 21, 2008, 02:32:20 PM

Quote from: Chris P on April 21, 2008, 02:07:00 PM
The white EB3 is my favorite too.

Thanks guys. I wish it played as nice as it looks & sounds. The bridge is as low as it goes and just not low enough for me.

Maybe I'll change my EB0 plans...

If you do, make it off white with British racing green stripes. You always wanted a bass with stripes or insignias on it.

Go for it!

Basvarken · April 21, 2008, 04:12:24 PM

Y'all know the story on this one I guess

before:

after:

drbassman · April 21, 2008, 05:22:32 PM

I remember and I've always thought that turned out smashing!

Chris P. · April 22, 2008, 12:40:37 AM

Yeah, I like the added chrome and black to that JCS. And she sure sounds fine!

gweimer · April 22, 2008, 04:39:10 AM

Here's the Holy Crap bass. I call it my experiment gone horribly right.

Here's the EB-1 fretless project I did. Hand-made Lollar one-off pickup and the Schaller bridge. This was a good year before Jack Bruce did the same thing for the Cream reunion. Sadly, I had to sell this one off.