Nice EB-650 on the Bay

[Dave W]

isit the wood or the pickups on the sgz thats not so good?

The pickups. They look like TB soapbars but they aren't.

[gearHed289]

Even nicer in blue...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110870000760&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

Man, you guys are making me want one of these!

[uwe]

The blue is cooler and rarer.

It was certainly the pups that left the SGZ sound ball- and bassless. Plus their positions way back to the bridge. I have an SGZ modified with a mudbucker and that has ample lows. However, even after modification its bassy tone is one thing not: assertive. That I think has to do with its sleek looks - thin neck and thin body (both maho) -, there is simply not enough wood. I have - courtesy of Herr Carlston - a one off long scale SG with TB Plus pups and that has a hugely thick body and a fat LP bass style neck. All elegance is washed away, but that bass takes no prisoners.

[clankenstein]

aha so its a bit lean in the wood department.a pity ,its nice looking.

[drbassman]

Even nicer in blue...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110870000760&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en

Man, you guys are making me want one of these!

Yep, if I had the cash to burn, this one would be mine already.

[clankenstein]

was there ever a lefty eb-650?

[uwe]

Gibson generally doesn't do lefties, period. And certainly not for a model with as short a production span as the EB 650.

[TBird1958]

Wish they'd paint T Birds in that pretty color  

[Dave W]

There certainly wasn't a lefty EB-650 in production. It's not beyond possibility that one was made by special order.

[Wilbur88]

Lovely model; I'd love to play one given the comments on it's assertiveness.

[uwe]

There certainly wasn't a lefty EB-650 in production. It's not beyond possibility that one was made by special order.

Unless you are a celebrity, you'd be hard-pressed to have the Custom Shop build you a lefty even today, no matter how long the delivery or the price. I left both open on my doubleneck bass project and they still gave me a polite no.

[clankenstein]

do tell please what sort of doubleneck you wanted.

[uwe]

Nuthin' fancy: SG body, long scale fretless (possibly with a low B), short scale fretted with only D and G double octaved. All maho and cherry, TB Plus pups in whatever shape or form. Was that asking too much given that I declared to accept any price and any delivery date?  

I try to console myself with the thought that they did not even take me serious.   Their email to me was certainly worded in a way that they thought I was stark raving mad, but did not want to make me feel bad.  

Of course I could get any luthier to build one for me with original parts (can't be that difficult to cobble an SG-Z and an SG-RI together), but I wanted a Gibson Custom shop doubleneck, damn it!  

Oh yeah, and neck heaviness wouldn't have been an issue!  

And I would have played it too: There ain't no song on earth where I could not combine some long scale fretless slides with some double ocatve chording and short scale fretted riffs!  

[Dave W]

I can't see why they wouldn't want to satisfy a simple request like that! 

[uwe]

Dave, I detect irony in your words!   But realistically, the only thing a little outlandish in my request was the octavizing of D and G (I could have lived without the B on the long scale) - surely there is room for two additional micro tuners on an SG RI headstock? You know what they did within two weeks on that TM Stevens LP eight string headstock.







It's just that I'm not TM Stevens but some boring kraut attorney.