Gibson pickup flaw

Started by drbassman, December 13, 2013, 12:01:58 PM

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Basvarken

Quote from: dadagoboi
It IS lopsided. The tiny, out of proportion lower horn makes it look that way.  Your eye tries to balance it out and it can't.

Look at the bass with a towel or something covering the horn half of the body and it's easy to see the bouts are symmetrical.

Quote from: uwe on December 20, 2013, 08:20:21 AM
An M. C. Escher bass!!!
Rob should really be ashamed of himself for falling trap to a Dutch artist's stylistic concept and creating unwarranted mass hysteria here!

No that's not how I meant it.
I know how to look at the body with asymmetrical horns. The Epi JCS for example is no different.
But with the Epi JCS there is no optical delusion. There nothing wrong with the body.

But this new Gibson bass looks lopsided/asymmetrical to me.
The right side (as seen from the front) looks too wide.

I photoshopped to show you what I mean:
Cut the body in half and mirrored the right part to show you what I mean.
You can see the new left half sticks out more than 1 cm over the original left side.

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uwe

Mark, get the ruler out!!!
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

dadagoboi

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Quote from: Basvarken on December 20, 2013, 01:55:02 PM
No that's not how I meant it.
I know how to look at the body with asymmetrical horns. The Epi JCS for example is no different.
But with the Epi JCS there is no optical delusion. There nothing wrong with the body.

But this new Gibson bass looks lopsided/asymmetrical to me.
The right side (as seen from the front) looks too wide.

I photoshopped to show you what I mean:
Cut the body in half and mirrored the right part to show you what I mean.
You can see the new left half sticks out more than 1 cm over the original left side.

My excuse is the damn thing is so ugly I can't bear to look at it for more than 10 seconds at a time.

1 cm is less than 1/2 inch, well within spec for Gibson USA.

TBird1958

Quote from: uwe on December 20, 2013, 02:07:59 PM
Mark, get the ruler out!!!


You don't want me to measure that  :o
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uwe

I meant the bass, Mark, only the bass. The Dutch, you know, they are not called "The Lying Dutchman" for nothing, they make things up. All the time. Next thing you hear is that we invaded them and stole their bikes.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...


uwe

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

TBird1958



Shhhhh.......now!


I'm having my way with it! :o
Resident T Bird playing Drag Queen www.thenastyhabits.com  "Impülsivê", the new lush fragrance as worn by the unbelievable Fräulein Rômmélle! Traces of black patent leather, Panzer grease, mahogany and model train oil mingle and combust to one sheer sensation ...

Basvarken

wait for the Escher effect...
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www.thegibsonbassbook.com

uwe

I could imagine no better place for a glam object such as this one than the experienced hands of Herr Hills!
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Highlander

How close is this to the Epi JC...? did I miss this earlier...?
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

drbassman

Quote from: CAR-54 on December 20, 2013, 06:12:26 PM
How close is this to the Epi JC...? did I miss this earlier...?

Not a lot.  Built on Midtown carved out body, flat top, similar shape, don't know if the dimensions are exactly the same. 
I'm fixin' a hole where the rain gets in..........cuz I'm built for a kilt!

fur85



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I thought for a minute that was an Epiphone Genesis.

Highlander

Tried an overlay with the JC
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

drbassman

I'm fixin' a hole where the rain gets in..........cuz I'm built for a kilt!