Gibson EB-0 Lo Z Christmas project

amptech · March 04, 2014, 03:50:03 PM

Quote from: BlendedCat on March 02, 2014, 10:04:37 PM
Been a couple of weeks amptech. Any chance for some updated photo's of the project?

Ta daaa..

Finished it yesterday!
Something´s wrong with my camera, though.. I´ll try to post a couple of pics and comment on the finishing the next few days, been busy with writing for my band.

Here´s the starter

hieronymous · July 12, 2014, 04:25:18 PM

Waiting for the rest!

Highlander · July 13, 2014, 04:08:38 PM

Going to be hard going to top me for project speeds... took me 2 decades to resolve the PC fin and the RD has been "in hand" since the end of the eighties...

amptech · July 14, 2014, 02:24:38 AM

I actually did finish it in March!

I borrowed a good camera (had some problems with my old one) and took 50 pics of this beauty. Then I got the pics on a USB key,
but all I got was 50 file errors!

I'll try to work out something out with my old camera. This is getting silly, I know. In the meantime I have almost finished another 60's SG,
and set up a spray boot. I bought guns, filters and a bunch of nitrocellulose. I figured I wanted to learn to spray nitro first, and then decide what I like best. I have a '63 EB0F with a polyurethane refin, I think it's way too thick although it does a good job protecting the instrument.

Not shure how much this poly 'skin' affects the tone, but it's acoustic resonance and volume appears to be somewhat limited compared to those I have with original finish. On the other hand, it plays like a dream and sound great plugged in, so I will leave it for later to refin it again.

amptech · July 14, 2014, 03:05:22 PM

Ok, here it comes... The pics seems kind of blue (!) but it´s polaris. Colour came out right, in my opinion

Rear view, XLR clear of the top. Happy with the layout. Had to modify the knobs for set screw, as the cts had smooth shaft in low values. I like the supertone bridge, but it´s a bit chunky. Should have found a good old two point bar bridge!