1960 EBO project

cmaj · September 10, 2013, 01:25:06 PM

Quote from: Pilgrim on September 07, 2013, 03:56:32 PM
Absolutely. Same idea as my '64 EB-0 with one Dimarzio and one mudbucker...but you're gonna need to fill in a bit around the second pickup...

You're loaded for bear with that one.

Pilgrim · September 10, 2013, 02:33:01 PM

Quote from: cmaj on September 10, 2013, 01:25:06 PM
You're loaded for bear with that one.

"It's nucular!"
- Homer Simpson

Bionic-Joe · September 11, 2013, 05:39:54 AM

No, I meant the Black EBO with Binding and the pickup moved closer to the badass bridge. String through body, schaller tuners.

gearHed289 · September 11, 2013, 08:46:37 AM

http://www.vintageguitar.com/3353/kiss-able-gibson/

dadagoboi · September 11, 2013, 10:13:29 AM

Quote from: gearHed289 on September 11, 2013, 08:46:37 AM
http://www.vintageguitar.com/3353/kiss-able-gibson/

Thanks, Tom. Interesting article.

The supposedly "original" Pelham blue bass on the bottom isn't. P/G is wrong, hand rest never was...even the headstock is off, it's wide like SG EBOs to fit Klusons. Compare it to to one on Gene's which had banjos originally. I don't think PB was introduced until '63. Must be a "prototype"

amptech · September 11, 2013, 10:28:23 AM

Agree with the colour, headstock and the handrest. But the pickguard seems ok?

dadagoboi · September 11, 2013, 11:15:55 AM

Quote from: amptech on September 11, 2013, 10:28:23 AM
But the pickguard seems ok?

It's been moved closer to the bridge than it should be. There's something strange going on with the neck heel and where the pickup locates...maybe it IS a prototype.

Mine's in the correct location. I lost the original about 40 years ago but the mounting screws are in the original holes. I need to make a better one, did a crap job around the pickup.

Dave W · September 11, 2013, 12:59:23 PM

Yeah, something's definitely off with that headstock, yet it does look like it had banjo tuners. Could have been a prototype but not in that color.

dadagoboi · September 11, 2013, 01:21:14 PM

Quote from: Dave W on September 11, 2013, 12:59:23 PM
Yeah, something's definitely off with that headstock, yet it does look like it had banjo tuners. Could have been a prototype but not in that color.

Knobs are wrong also.

I think those banjos were retrofitted to an SG style headstock. They are 3 inches wide compared to 2 1/2" wide banjo tuner headstocks which are also 1/4" longer. Same spacing vertically and horizontally for both types of tuners and the hole diameters are close.

godofthunder · September 11, 2013, 05:49:55 PM

There it goes.............. to rich for my blood.

Bionic-Joe · September 11, 2013, 06:04:04 PM

Well...maybe someday I can find a cheap one...

Nocturnal · September 11, 2013, 06:19:11 PM

That's crazy.

Bionic-Joe · September 11, 2013, 11:22:35 PM

Someone bought it for $600!!! Darn it!!

amptech · September 12, 2013, 06:26:20 AM

And soon the world might see yet another all original pelham blue EB-0

Noone in here got it, then?

Granny Gremlin · September 13, 2013, 09:09:08 AM

I'd like to think we all got more sense than that.