white refin EB3 shell on eBay $299 BIN - project anyone?

[Aussie Mark]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gibson-1973-White-EB-Bass-Body-Neck-/350492629946?pt=Guitar&hash=item519afd1bba

[Dave W]

Might be good for a project bass. Pass if you're looking for an accurate restoration b/c you could buy an all-original one for no more than you'd have to spend in vintage parts.

[Basvarken]

It's a long scale EB3. You don't see that too often.

[godofthunder]

 Pretty certain that this is the white EB3 I shipped back because the body was reworked.

[Dave W]

Pretty certain that this is the white EB3 I shipped back because the body was reworked.

If that's the one, I'd avoid at any price.

[godofthunder]

 Funny thing was it played great ! Not worth the asking price tough.

[Barklessdog]

If that's the one, I'd avoid at any price.

States in description-

To start we believe the bass neck is Gibson.
We recently found out that the original owner did work on the body at some point.
They say they converted it to a Les Paul type and then converted back to an SG shape.
What ever that entails we can see is that the body is a two piece made of mahogany now.
The pickup cavities look routed however the rest of the body looks professional.
The control cavity doesn't look like a Gibson design. We're told the neck was reset.
You can feel bumps at the neck heal under the finish. Also the serial number looks re-impressed.
It's hard to know anything else because the body was refinished in this nice white color.
The refinish looks great and recent.  The headstock has two small dings on the back edge.
The front has a ding. The frets feel good and might have been replaced in the past few years.
The bass scale is 34" which isn't common to the EB series. The bass looks great with parts installed.
Keep in mind when buying that we don't really know how authentic this bass really is.

[godofthunder]

The sereial # was re impressed, def. the bass I sent packing. Funny thing is I could have had the whole deal for $500 after I pointed out its flaws. I's going to take a lot more than 200 bucks to put it back together.

[Dave W]

States in description-

Sorry, I didn't read the details, just looked at the BIN.

In that case:

[godofthunder]

 Run Run Away!

[Dave W]

The "youtu.be" URLs don't display with our software, at least yet.

[godofthunder]

  Dave,Thanks for fixing it i have no idea how to do it any other way 

[Dave W]

  Dave,Thanks for fixing it i have no idea how to do it any other way 

Problem: YT keeps changing things, they've changed the "share" URL. Look at the URL you posted, instead of the old youtube.com, it's now youtu.be. That doesn't work with forum software, at least yet. So you have to use the original style URL in your address bar. Then if there's anything added like "&feature=related", drop that. That's what I did to post it. Hope that makes sense.

[Barklessdog]

I can't use spell check, as when I click "change", it deleates the whole thing I typed.

[SKATE RAT]

i would love that bass. it's exactly what i want!!! i have tuners and a pup. if i had the $ i would buy it. but no $ to speak of. this past year has sucked for me. i tempted to go sell something.