FS: Epiphone EA-260 hollowbody bass

[banditcosmo]

Epiphone EA-260 for sale $300.00 plus shipping
(probably no trades) (Note: one just sold on this forum for $350.00)
Willing to drive a couple of hours from Charlottesville, Va to sell

• made Matsumotu factory, Japan circa 1971 – 1974
• 2 passive humbucking pick-ups with separate tone and volume control and 3 position toggle switch
• Semi-hollow body, 2 F holes with white binding
• Bolt on 3 piece neck
• 20 fret 30” short scale
• Enclosed tuners with black knobs, floating wood/metal bridge
• Floating metal/wood tailpiece
• Really bad cardboard case. May be original.

Good condition for it age but has some wear. Action is pretty good as is. Sounds really good. Selling it as I need the money as I just bought a Starfire.

Couple of small issues.

• Top strap button is not installed. I have the strap button but don’t have the screw for it. Easy fix.
• Also the low E-string intonation screw may need to be replaced. The head of the screw looks to be worn. I have not tried to adjust it so it may work fine but by looking at it may need to be replaced. The intonation does needs to be adjusted.
• Neck has a few shims to lower the action but I hear this is normal for these basses.
• Tone Pot for neck PU is scratchy
• Input jack seems to work fine but a few times I had to re-plug my cable in.
• Missing the string mute

link to more pics

[kai_ski]

Do you have any clips of this? Can you describe its sound?

[banditcosmo]

No don't have any sound clips but I did find this one:

Link to sound clip (not mine)

[kazuhank]

Love bass pix on hardwood floors!

[banditcosmo]

bump

[JoséPedro]

Got one of these myself. Nice full sound and the neck is very fun to play on. I'd pick it up to play for a few minutes and find myself playing it for hours. Good luck with the sale.

[banditcosmo]

bump

[banditcosmo]

Nobody wants a really nice sounding hollowbody ?

[the art guy]

Originally Posted by banditcosmo

Nobody wants a really nice sounding hollowbody ?

I'd love to take this off your hands. I had one just like it for a while - ended up selling it (then regretting it) about a year ago. If I can scheme a way to come up with the dough, I'm seriously interested. Hmm.....

[Rick Blanc]

Bump for a bass everybody should have in their arsenal

[banditcosmo]

bump a couple EA-260's just sold on E-Bay for more what I am asking

[Lalo]

sweeeettt

[TaySte_2000]

Willing to ship to the UK?

[XansNiceSweater]

I have one of these, and I love it. The sound is very versatile and it's very light and easy to play.

[banditcosmo]

I'll thinking about. Not sure what is involved though in shipping to the UK and worried whether it will make it one piece.

Originally Posted by TaySte_2000

Willing to ship to the UK?

[Lalo]

Shipping internationaly involves customs also, in uk its the UK customs or EN customs.. who knows maybe i'll be the one that takes this bass away from you :-p i just got to see maybe in 2-3 more days

[GeneralElectric]

Can I get a picture of the action at the 12th fret?

[banditcosmo]

sure, At work right now and have practice tonight so I'll take a pic later tonight.

[GeneralElectric]

Thanks man. Intonation on this is good? I've never played this model before, and I'm curious.

[Lalo]

hey got any video of you playing this bass? bump!