98 LP Bass finished (mostly!)

[drbassman]

when you goin on vaca again ,doc?....................
That looks awesome. I hope Gibby doesnt  get ideas from this. That should be a one of a kind.

Well now....if anything turns up missing, I know who to finger when the cops arrive!!! 

I don't think Gibson has the imagination when it comes to basses.  They have 1,000 versions of LP guitars though!!   

[Barklessdog]

This would be cool to do, with one of those bodies, using Greatdealz G-3 pups is a bass version of this -




I was considering this for my Blueshawk, but really calls out for a flat top LP body.

[drbassman]

Oh yeah, that is cool looking. I love the body, headstock, pup combination.

This would be cool to do, with one of those bodies, using Greatdealz G-3 pups is a bass version of this -




I was considering this for my Blueshawk, but really calls out for a flat top LP body.

[Chris P.]

That would be a great prject. i happened to drool over a picture of this guitar some days ago. it's a very underrated guitar, but a great design. Didn't Woody use one in the Faces?

[Bass VI]

That would be a great prject. i happened to drool over a picture of this guitar some days ago. it's a very underrated guitar, but a great design. Didn't Woody use one in the Faces?

I'm sure he was featured in ads for them at the time, but I think he'd joined the Stones by then. They are very underrated, my brother had one for a while, quite a lot of tones with three pickups and a varitone. I have its' sister the Marauder, Gibsons' "Keef" it hangs next to my Grabber in the pointy headstock bolt-on section of the collection. Hmmmmm...........a bass version?!?
Nah, gotta' do the RD next!

[Barklessdog]

It would be so easy & inexpensive to build using one of those LP carcasses that were floating around. or you could us an EPI Bolt on LP body and a G-3 Neck that pop up on the bay from time to time.

It would also be cool to make a Ripper thickness Maple Body like it. Maple is a tough wood to work with though, need freash Carbide bits

[Granny Gremlin]

This would be cool to do, with one of those bodies, using Greatdealz G-3 pups is a bass version of this -

I was considering this for my Blueshawk, but really calls out for a flat top LP body.

Given Gibson's history of using the same pups on both guitars and basses what makes you think that the S1 pups are not the same as G3 pups?  Even the naming convention implies similarity.

Isn't the S1 a flat top?  Or did I completely misunderstand you there.

[Barklessdog]

My bet is they are the same pups. I don't know if anyone has ever truly confirmed that though.

It is a flat top and isn't, it has a large contour on the top edge, so is not exactly like the Paul flat top body, only in shape, I guess?


Certainly would be easy to change that!


The upper pickguard even has a tip of the hat to a JE Fenderbird, by using an upper horn pickguard on a body without a horn!!. Using that type pickguard sure makes life easy to build one

[Dave W]

It's sort of like an SG curve on a LP shape.

[Barklessdog]

Good point, I also kind of see a smaller lower edged contour and a slight SG like contour on the inside of the lower horn.

[drbassman]

Man, I do like those shapes.  Maybe I'll have to do a bass like that when I get the other 5 done!!!

[Chris P.]

I also thought about the SG shape. Of course it's family..

I know such a guitar for sale somewhere and it isn't expensive

[drbassman]

I honestly had never seen one of these before!  New look to me!   

[drbassman]

OK, I wired up my LP and it's not quite right.  What's the best layout for wiring a LP bass with a 3-way?  Anyone have a diagram they could share?

[ramone57]

I wired my Ripper with a 3 way switch 2 (independent) vol and 2 tone.  I think I used the diagram StewMac has on their site.

http://www.stewmac.com/freeinfo/Electronics/Wiring_diagrams/i-1217.html