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scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« on: May 20, 2015, 09:18:14 PM »
Anybody got a tracing or measurements of an ampeg (or Johnson) Scroll bass body?  I'm pondering a project based on that body shape.  Thanks.
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2015, 03:46:07 AM »
Check with Jim (Jumbodbassman), he owns at least one.
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2015, 08:04:42 AM »
got original ampegs as well as 2 bruce basses.   tell me what you need

ampeg - first scroll AUB and AEB
ampeg early 90's   - from this site...

Bruce Joihnson  -  aub2  lastest version
Bruce Johnson -   amb 2 (magnetic pickup second generation)..
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2015, 07:23:23 PM »
Errmm... I don't know the differences  :mrgreen:
Thanks for the offer!  I guess I better do some research before I ask for anything specific.
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2015, 10:16:32 AM »
i will make it easier for you.   

the original AUB and AMB is the ampeg with the bridge off the body and mystery pickup.  i believe it is 34 1/2 scale.

Johnson replica AUB-2 -4 is 35 scale

AMPEG with magbnetic pickup is AMB bass.

Johnson replica is AMB -2 34 inch scale. 


all bruce stuff.  AUB -2,  AQMB-2  SSB




1990's ampeg reissue japoanese aeb



66 AMPEG AUB AND AEB - NBTH MYSTERY PICKUP

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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2015, 10:20:23 AM »
ONE ON FAR LEFT IS A KOREAN MADE SERIES TEN SCROLL.  BOLT ON AND MORE MAINSTREAM BODY .  DEEPER ETC.   SPORTING AND EMG J WITH LABELLA FLATS.  ACTUALLY SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD...,.,

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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2015, 10:21:31 AM »
NEED MY GLASSES TO TYPE......   OOUCH
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2015, 01:40:15 PM »
Words kinda fail, seeing all those beauties in one place... only time I've seen one in the flesh is Boz playing one... 8)
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2015, 03:26:24 PM »
Wowie thanks Jim!!

Okay - so NOT the SSB, that one looks really different and not appealing to me.

Is there much difference in body shape between the others?  I can't honestly tell the difference.  They all look similar, and pretty.

I'm not so concerned about pickguard, pickups, bridge type/ placement, or even the scrolls, as I wouldn't be trying to replicate any of that - just the outer shape of the body.
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2015, 12:51:52 AM »
Has anyone attempted a Fender-Peg...?
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #10 on: May 30, 2015, 03:19:02 PM »
That's sort of where I'm going with this idea. With at least one thunderbucker in it :)
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2015, 04:35:58 PM »
I quite like that idea... :popcorn:
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2015, 05:17:22 PM »
Quote from: Highlander on May 30, 2015, 12:51:52 AM
Has anyone attempted a Fender-Peg...?

The Italians did ...

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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2015, 05:29:37 PM »
Yeah I've been wanting to get my hands on one of those.  I'm not generally wild about J pickups though, and certainly not with the bridge pup way back there.
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Re: scroll bass blueprint / measurements?
« Reply #14 on: June 08, 2015, 10:11:52 AM »
i will draw up a few and you can go from there....
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