Show Your EUB's!!!

[paintandsk8]

I'll get the party started

This is my humble homebuilt EUB.

-3/4 scale
-One piece body/neck from curly maple
-Rosewood Fingerboard
-K&K pickups/fishman onboard pre
-Strung w/spirocores.

[cecile]

My Ergo (sorry for the big picture)

[paintandsk8]

woohoo, somebody finally replied to my thread. I know there's some more of you that have pictures of your eub's. Let's see em!

[Mudfuzz]

Here's mine.
#1 is full sized, and here is a thread about it.
#2 Is a travel EUB I made this last august: 30" scale, 32" overall length, maple and padauk. Took around 7-8 hour to build it.

[Mudfuzz]

Also the fingerboards and necks on both basses are made from the same two pieces of wood.

[bassteban]

My long-running 5 string EUB project(2 of them actually)has a similar body to #1 above, but much less symetrical- kind of a singlecut. That travel bass is cool!

[paintandsk8]

Originally Posted by Aaron Noguer

#2 Is a travel EUB I made this last august: 30" scale, 32" overall length, maple and padauk. Took around 7-8 hour to build it.

I've been thinking of doing something like this. What kind of tuning setup and strings are you using on it?

Originally Posted by bassteban

My long-running 5 string EUB project

Bassteban, your a stay at home dad w/ a fresh $500 in your pocket. Your running out of excuses for not finishing these EUB's!

And let's see some more EUB's!

[bassteban]

Quote:Bassteban, your a stay at home dad w/ a fresh $500 in your pocket. Your running out of excuses for not finishing these EUB's!

True, but the $500 paid back bank-of-old-lady-a(almost rhymes w/Bank-of-America)for Natrab's old D-180. I found some used strings(4- thanx, Basschair), but a matching new low B is gonna whack me for 70 bones! Then there's tuners, preamp, pickups... I just had to go 5 string...

BTW, how's the bike?

[mikjans]

Here´s the link to (one of) mine:

Got myself a new EUB!

I also have a ca 1960 Grazioso Arco in need of restoration and a 90s custom built EUB by Swedish luthier Bent Jensen. But the one shown is the workhorse.

Mikael

[Mudfuzz]

Originally Posted by paintandsk8

I've been thinking of doing something like this. What kind of tuning setup and strings are you using on it?

Quick & dirty goes the tuning setup, but it works, so hey. Right now I have a real old set of cheap factory strings that came with my DB on it, they actually sound ok on this bass where as on my DB and other EUB they sounded like crap.

I still haven't found a pickup that I am happy with for this bass though, so far they all pickup to much playing noise. So I will probably have to either make a bridge with a built in pickup or go magnetic.

[boogiebass]

My recent commission from Pete Hanewinckel is depicted here:

Hanewinckel EUB4, Midi

[toonman]

here are some pictures of my first project. I love this thing.

Bloodwood, maple, and ebony woods
41.5 inch scale
K&K pure preamp that I had to rewire to fit
K&K double big twin pick-up mounted on the side and bottom of the bridge
GOTOH Machine heads
Pearl tom stand
D'Addario hybrid strings
high gloss tungoil finish
and lots of cutting, gluing, filing, and sanding you can't see.
*NEW* I just got done rearranging the piezo pups, 4 total. I put two on the bottom of the bridge and two on the sides of the bridge with a switch for each set. The ones on the bottom works best for pizz playing and the ones on the sides works best for arco. never sounded better.

[Bob McHenry]

My newer EUB -

[Bob McHenry]

Here are two pictures of my other EUB -

[mikjans]

Bob,
Really great looking basses you have - who made them?!

Mikael

[Francois Blais]

Originally Posted by Bob McHenry

My newer EUB -

Very nice! (the blonde one too!)
Does it use a Fishman Full Circle?
Is it short scale?

The blonde seems 3/4 scale, and uses two Bass Max pickups?

Thanks!

[Mudfuzz]

Digging those basses very much Bob!




This tread should be stickied.

[wneff]

Well, I think everyone has seen that one before.

Still, I'm super happy with my new toy!

Wolfram

[paintandsk8]

no worries - it's always good to see real world shots of basses, instead of perfect lighting, perfect finish, perfect wood, manufacturer photos.

Bob - that second one is one of the classiest looking EUB's I have seen to date.

[bassteban]

But hey, I have the necks bolted on(yes, I said bolted on)& bodies & tops nearly complete. We have a new camera coming, too- so soon you'll all be saying, "I could do better..."
-about me this time!