Identifying a SG Bass Body

That pickup positions leads me to believe it may have started life as a Raven, or one of the Matsumoku SG copies that were sold in catalogues. Some were set-neck, some were actually bolt-on. They had a two-pickup model that looked like that. Most that I've seen though had the mini/mudbucker configuration.

 

That's a legit Gibson bass. I had the guitar equivalent in high school. The guitar model is SGII. Had the slide switches and top mount jack like yours. Badass bridges were stock, on the guitar, at least.

 

Looks a lot like a Gibson SB series too. I had a SB-450 once that was dark like that one in OP.

1973 Gibson SB-450:


Also: Gibson SB-450

 

Here's the SG 2 guitar. Mine and every other one I've seen besides this one had a Badass on it, though.

 

I think you nailed it!

 

I think you have a Gibson SB-350. Also see:

Gibson SB Series of Bass Guitars >> FlyGuitars

 

The Badass was never installed at the Gibson factory. It was a very common mod however because it was pretty inexpensive, easy to do, didn't make irreversible changes, and solved a very real problem- pretty much everything the BA-IIbass bridge isn't.

 

Good to know. Like I said, every SG II I've encountered have all had the badass bridge on it. Not the bass. Hey, I knew it was a real Gibson bass, though.

 

SB-350 is 30" scale. My SB-450 was 34" scale, and as such suffered from enough neck dive that I had a boot-lace sized leather thong on the endpin/strap that I'd tie around my thigh like a old-West six-shooter when standing to play. That fixed it.

I sold mine a long time ago to a female bassist named Holly Harper. I'd buy it back.

 

All Gibson, changed bridge like others have said. I had the 6-string guitar version for a while.

 

Hmmmm…why not ask the man who wrote the Gibson Bass Book? @Basvarken
https://www.thegibsonbassbook.com/

 

I had the SG-II guitar back in the 70s, and just wanted to say that those black plastic molded mini-hb pickups are AWESOME...

 

They sure are, I also had them on a '73 SG Special - the edition just after the P90 version. One of those instruments I really regret selling.

 

If it's short-scale it's SB-350, if it's long scale then SB-450.

An early example (late '72 or very early '73) given the 2-point bridge which has nothing to do with Bada$$.

The knobs are not stock, the rest looks completely correct.