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Epiphone Club

#821
GEAnderson said:
I suppose I should finally join this club since I've been enjoying my Rumblekat for almost a year.

I also have a question. Could someone with a newish EB-0 please tell me how long it is (from strap button to tip of head stock)? Thanks!

I have searched high and low and cannot find what should be a fairly common piece of information.
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I just checked my Made In China version and it is roughly 42 1/4" from top of the headstock to the end of the strap button. Hope this help.
 
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#823
Epiphone (left to right) Zenith; Jack Casady; EB-3!
Number please?
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#824
In high school, circa 2001, I bought an Epiphone Power Bass II at MARS for I think $140. Looks like the last ones were made in 1998, so I guess it was on final ultra-clearance. P-bass body, active(?) PJ pickups, all black everything, no pickguard. Pretty sweet bat wing on the headstock. Looked something like this:

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It buzzed like hell but what did I care? METAL! The stock pickups were crappy and cut out all the time, so I replaced them with active EMGs. All the better for METAL! I took it to a Tower Records where Tom Araya and Kerry King of Slayer signed it in gold paint pen, and also drew the band logo and a pentagram on it. METAL! Those are partially rubbed off now, since I kept right on playing it. It wasn't like I had another bass I could play while I put this one in a museum case.

Recently got back into playing and took the thing out after it pretty much sat derelict for a decade plus. Come to find, after a decent setup it doesn't buzz horribly and it's pretty nice to play. It'd look slick without all the gold scribbling on it, but I don't think I could bring myself to try and take that off. Unfortunately I'm not so METAL these days, and the active pickups sound harsh and unpleasant to me now. Also something's wrong with the electronics to where it gets staticky, especially when more than one string is ringing.

I'm 99.5% sure I'm going to buy a secondhand 2015-16 MIM Fender P-Bass I've been test-driving, but a little part of me thinks I should bail on that and just put a set of passive PJ pickups in this thing. Wouldn't cost as much as the newer bass, but I think it would be 100% sunk cost. The Fender I could probably turn around and sell for about what I pay at any time, assuming I don't do anything to uglify it. I think the 20 year-old scribbled-on Epiphone with a brand new set of $150 pickups in it would be worth about $75 on the open market, plus I'd probably have to pay someone to install them.
 
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#825
Funny story, in the same METAL phase I bought one these:

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The Epiphone Demon FX. Only 200 were made, and I don't know if they even managed to sell that many. Very weird. Those little switches below the bridge controlled built-in chorus and overdrive effects units.
 
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#826
ThumpBump said:
In high school, circa 2001, I bought an already discontinued Epiphone Power Bass II at MARS for I think about $150. P-bass body, active(?) PJ pickups, all black everything, no pickguard. Pretty sweet bat wing on the headstock. Looked something like this:

17629097.jpg


It buzzed like hell but what did I care? METAL! The stock pickups were crappy and cut out all the time, so I replaced them with active EMGs. All the better for METAL! I took it to a Tower Records where Tom Araya and Kerry King of Slayer signed it in gold paint pen, and also drew the band logo and a pentagram on it. METAL! Those are partially rubbed off now, since I kept right on playing it. It wasn't like I had another bass I could play while I put this one in a museum case.

Recently got back into playing and took the thing out after it pretty much sat derelict for a decade plus. Come to find, after a decent setup it doesn't buzz horribly and it's pretty nice to play. It'd look slick without all the gold scribbling on it, but I don't think I could bring myself to try and take that off. Unfortunately I'm not so METAL these days, and the active pickups sound harsh and unpleasant to me now. Also something's wrong with the electronics to where it gets staticky, especially when more than one string is ringing.

I'm 99.5% sure I'm going to buy a secondhand 2015-16 MIM Fender P-Bass I've been test-driving, but a little part of me thinks I should bail on that and just put a set of passive PJ pickups in this thing. Wouldn't cost as much as the newer bass, but I think it would be 100% sunk cost. The Fender I could probably turn around and sell for about what I pay at any time, assuming I don't do anything to uglify it. I think the 20 year-old scribbled-on Epiphone with a brand new set of $150 pickups in it would be worth about $75 on the open market, plus I'd probably have to pay someone to install them.
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Sounds to me like your issues have more to do with dirty pots/loose wires/lack of maintenance. I doubt the pickups are the problem and replacing them may well not address the other issues. Take it somewhere and have someone who knows what they're doing go through it and fix the minor issues and you might find you've got a pretty nice bass there.
 
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#831
LennyJ said:
kanhT

Hey looks like the Cassidy has a hipshot bridge and the EB has a Babicz bridge - which do you prefer if I am correct.
Thanks
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You are correct, and I really have no preference; I probably would have put a Babicz on the JC, if it hadn't already had the Hipshot mounted! Either way, both bridges are by far better than the OEM POS they came with! You can see I prefer the Hipshot a little as I put one on my new 20th Anniversary JC (mostly because I had a spare one on hand!)
 

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