It looks like a Les Paul shape, has two open humbuckers that look like bass versions of typical Gibson humbuckers without covers (4 polepieces per coil).
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Another "what IS this bass?" thread
- Thread starter lunarpollen
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uh. I'm not sure how anyone's supposed to figure it out. Looks like it could be a Gibson or Epiphone les paul bass (probably Gibson with the nice binding) with swapped out pickups.
Bet its a Greco, or something similar, odd star on the headstock makes me think its not a Gibson.
i caught the headstock on pause, and it just had a star on in, no words from what i could see. and also from what i could see it looked pretty sick but the way they shot this vid is hella annoying. that damn camera was going everywhere.
I don't know if the headstock star is an inlay done at the factory or just a sticker put on after it was purchased...
I took some screencaps:
I took some screencaps:
Haha same here. The melody was not especially memorable or 'melodic' for me.
But nice bass! Maybe a mod - job?
Yeah it's not my fave song of theirs, I like some of their others a lot more. This one's kind of blah.
Wow that does look like a match... I wonder if it's an actual Eko or a copy/reproduction...
bongomania
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Looking closely, you can make out a faint trace of the Eko logo up on the headstock (3rd pic from top).
Eastwood Guitars has done some Eko reproductions... I thought maybe they might have done this one as a new model... But it looks as if the bass in the video is a genuine Eko...
It is indeed an EKO Kiwi I put the star on myself (had to change the machine heads). I'm obsessed with them to be honest, I own 2 Kiwis and an EKO Barracuda as well as an Eastwood hollow body reproduction here's a quick glimpse of the barracuda but i don't fancy having no sex for a few months till my girlfriend calms down
Actually according to the official Eko site above the silver one is a Kiwi too -i didn't know- i bought it from a German guy on Ebay that told me it was a barracuda
