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Gibson Les Paul Junior Bass
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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That bass has the pickup at the end of the fingerboard. The Les Paul Jr. I played has a pickup in the P-bass position. The bass I played also has a coil splitter.
The guy in the video you posted had his hands much too close to the bridge to get a good tone.
funny...I'm the one in the video...was just trying different positions...
Ok, no harm meant.
Ok, no harm meant.
No argument there. While I'm definitely not a fan of The Oil Rig bridge, I lived with it for more than a decade on my RD Standard and it needed zero adjustment after the initial setup. Then again, back in those dim, dead days, there were no aftermarket replacement options available.
I'm with you on the warehouse aspect of the picture. I doubt that anyone is seriously nostalgic about the three point bridge.
Definitely. But that was a different era. Gibson can't be ordering high-end hardware from third parties nowadays. That ship has sailed, thank you Henry J.
It's a shame Gibson has never cared about player ergonomics. Slabs just don't work for me. Fender nailed it with the body contouring way back in 1954, but Gibson still hasn't seen the memo.
The only short scale Fenders are slab bodies too. You would think with the million versions of the Mustang they have done, they would have made at least ONE with body contours.
Agreed. That's why I build my own short/medium scales with Warmoth.
I don’t consider that a bass. Its a downtuned guitar.
how convenient for you incorrect observation. the word bass is in its freaking name.
anyway...
they also made a BASS called the rascal.
and a jaguar ss.
just off the top of my head.
Yea, it’s a downtuned guitar. The Jaguar is not a short scale bass, Epiphone made a SS version but Fender never has. I forgot about the short run Rascal.
makes sense, thx! you should be making good money at that lol
I'm studying Spanish right now and had to learn to really learn to listen when people are speaking, it's becoming automatic.
That bass has a nice punchy E string, to me that's the mark of a good bass. Good review, Dr.
I tend to agree although Jack Bruce got a good sound out of one on the first Cream album.
I drop the E to D and wonder how these handle that, or what string would be best?
I have a couple of short scale Gibsons and put big strings on them to tighten them up, I have a 106 on my EB-3.
Small but important correction: Gibson did design a functional bridge (and patented it). It is the bridge on your Victory. It was made by Schaller, but designed by Gibson.
The reason for using the 3-point bridge...? Don't know.
