G3 Reissue

[Dave W]

Dave.....Did a 3 point bite you in the butt at some distant past occasion? 

No, I just think it's a poor design and it's clunky and ugly to boot.

Nothing at all wrong with the tune-o-matic principle, this is just the wrong way to implement it.

No matter how many years Gibson has used it, it's not too late for them to correct their mistake!  

[TBird1958]

I think it gets a lot of undeserved hate - I let Lull do my set ups, they all work/play great, as apperances go I prefer it to most anything else - I like two points tho. 

[ilan]

The new pickups layout and visible pole pieces make it look a bit Strat-ish IMHO.

[uwe]

If you have grown up like me thinking that Ritchie Blackmore was God you appreciate a Strat look!  

Actually reminds me more of what EBMM has on their Bongos etc and I've always loved that fat pole piece look, it is what I found most enticing when the Stingrays first came out. Never mind how the darn things always get in the way of my pick and chew up my beloved Heribas!

[uwe]

No, I just think it's a poor design and it's clunky and ugly to boot.

Nothing at all wrong with the tune-o-matic principle, this is just the wrong way to implement it.

No matter how many years Gibson has used it, it's not too late for them to correct their mistake!  

I dissent, not clunky, but "airy" yet stable and "sustainy", of timeless elegance. And you can also clean up underneath it, tell me one other bridge that satisfies our craving for cleanliness being next to Godliness. Just imagine the myriads of bacteria hidden away underneath other (base-mounted) bridges and eating away the wood undetectedly ...  

I loved it first time I saw it. Archaic, idiosyncratic. As American as tail fins on a Buick. The bison of bridges. It looked like no other bridge, you had to use large manly tools with it, not flimsy allen wrenches that fall to the floor and you never see them again. A right size screwdriver for a three point falls to the floor and you might have a hole in the floor, but you'll find that screwdriver. Moreover, it can be used for efficient self-defense if someone tries to take the three point (with bass attached) away from you.

[uwe]

The way those pups look and are positioned apart, I can't believe that you can only have them on as pairs as on the original where they were single coils and you always had (at least) two working to cancel hum (making for a broader magnetic field too). These are probably stacked humbuckers and work by themselves. I liked that set-up on the BFG LP Bass already, there really should be more three pup basses out there, always had a soft spot for them. More is more.  

[TBird1958]

I think it's more likely that you have a "hard spot" for them 

[Dave W]

...
I loved it first time I saw it. Archaic, idiosyncratic. As American as tail fins on a Buick. The bison of bridges. ...

Bisons were hunted to near-extinction. Can we hope the three-point meets the same fate? You wouldn't be allowed to own one, they would be preserved in a museum of curiosities, maybe one of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditoriums.

[Barklessdog]

Saw this over at Jules'

Not bad!!








Looks like Gibson finally managed to design new pickups (for) themselves. No TB+ in disguise (that would have been very inappropriate), no J-bass single single coils (like the RD reissue).

They were not JAZZ PICKUPS, jazz pickups are from Fender Jazz basses, when will you guys learn?

[uwe]

The original three pup set-up was - like all good things - a German invention, Bill Lawrence. He certainly got it right, there is hardly another Gibson long scale with as varied a sound. Make that varied usable sounds. In a year where the Stingray set out to conquer the world, the look of that three pup set-up just wasn't very alluring. Compared to the novelty effect of the sliding Grabber and the conservative Ripper, the G-3 always looked like a nerdish afterthought.

The new pups look a lot cooler.

[TBird1958]

Those pups look kinda like Seymour Duncan '51 P Single coils.... Big Strat pickups.

[Barklessdog]

Either way its a nice looking bass.

[godofthunder]

The original three pup set-up was - like all good things - a German invention, Bill Lawrence. He certainly got it right, there is hardly another Gibson long scale with as varied a sound. Make that varied usable sounds. In a year where the Stingray set out to conquer the world, the look of that three pup set-up just wasn't very alluring. Compared to the novelty effect of the sliding Grabber and the conservative Ripper, the G-3 always looked like a nerdish afterthought.

The new pups look a lot cooler.

The new pups look cooler What could be cooler than see through pink plastic?

[Dave W]

It's certainly possible that Gibson is having Seymour build theses pickups to spec. Although they may be similar, I doubt they are actual '51 P pickups. Only the Quarter Pounder version would have polepieces that big, and all versions have wider polepiece spacing than the string spacing of a G-3 with 3-point should have. We won't know until someone has one in hand.

[uwe]

The new pups look cooler What could be cooler than see through pink plastic?

Unfortunately, both my G-3s already have the opaque black casing of the pups. Not that I thought the see-throug ones looked cool, "interesting" more like.