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SG & EB Bass Club

#2,941
I don't have the bass photography chops of most of you guys (looking at you, mrjp), but here's my SG bass:
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plus one with the new tuners I had put on about two weeks ago:
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Nebula24 said:
Just realized I never asked for a number but have posted a while back...

Here is my 2001 epi eb0. Got me back into playing bass after showing me I love shorties. And has become my mod machine.

Just swapped out 3 way switch (had removed tone knob awhile ago) to put in a varitone (kellingsound solderless kit). Havent had time to add back switch. Cant fully hear difference in all 12 settings but get 4ish that sound better than my old tone knob.

So for now just have guild reissue bisonic set up. Waiting for novak bass gold foil to replace the victory gold foil assuming it has wider string spacing (victory stills good pickup).

Previously had tapewounds but now trying low labella low tension flats after loving them on my eastwood airlines jetsons jr. So far so good once e string settled in.

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That's quite a bit of modding!

The Eye of Horus volume knob is a nice touch :thumbsup:
 
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aproud1 said:
I guess I'll need to buy an EB/SG since I still do the numbers and haven't had one for more than a year. Thinking about the single pickup Epiphone? Yay or nay?

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I absolutely love mine. I had a new 1970 Gibson EB-0 back then. A choice between that, or my current Epi EB-0, the Epi EB-0. Strung with D'Addario ETB92S Nylons.

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dmt said:
Why do you prefer the Epi to your old Gibson? The mellower pickup, or are there other factors?
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The tone, and the power in the Humbucking. Also, the nut is a Jazz size @ 1.50", that is smaller in size than the usually larger 1.62", to 1.65" nut size, closer to a Precision sized nut.

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dmt said:
Re: EB-0 has a Jazz-size nut

Ok, I learned something new
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The nut sizes are confusing as hell on SG/EB models.

Epiphone EB-0 sports a 1.5" but their EB-3 is supposedly 1.65"

On the Gibson side: anything from 1961 through late '67 is 1.62" or so - pretty much P-Bass nut - and from '67 on it went to 1.5" on both EB-0 and EB-3, including the long-scale versions. Earlier necks also tend to be on the chunky side when compared to the later ones.
 
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ajkula66 said:
The nut sizes are confusing as hell on SG/EB models.

Epiphone EB-0 sports a 1.5" but their EB-3 is supposedly 1.65"

On the Gibson side: anything from 1961 through late '67 is 1.62" or so - pretty much P-Bass nut - and from '67 on it went to 1.5" on both EB-0 and EB-3, including the long-scale versions. Earlier necks also tend to be on the chunky side when compared to the later ones.
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Okay, and I see from Gibson's website that the SG bass is 1.6" (40.64 mm).

Meanwhile, the American Standard Precision (my personal reference for a P), is 1.625" (41.3 mm). I'd never really thought of my SG bass as having a P-like (P-lite?) width, but I guess it does.

It's funny, I'm totally comfortable with the necks on my two Ps (American Standard and Mexican Standard, both thin from front to back). But whenever I play my Jazz, I like the neck even better!

Now, the wider and/or fatter front to back vintage style Ps necks are of no interest to me, but a "regular" (for me) thin 1.625" P neck is good. Kinda a weird shape though, with that thin front-to-back aspect.

I really like the SG bass neck - more normally rounded in the back than a P, but with P-like width, but just a bit narrower which is nice. Add in the shorter stretch between frets than a P and I'm very happy. I'm a bit curious to try an Epi EB-0 now though
 
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I'm funny when it comes to neck shapes.

Back in the days when I still played FSOs the bass I gigged the most was a modded '71 Tele Bass which had a *huge* neck. I don't think that I would enjoy that one today, at all. Great instrument nevertheless.

It was only when I bought a '64 Jazz Bass in '88 that I realized how much I actually preferred a small neck. I think that it was the first time I actually sat down and started consciously debating various neck shapes with myself, after about a decade of playing bass and probably having owned something like 200 basses at that point in the game.

Nowadays, the Gibby in my avatar wins. Tiny, tiny neck with a 1.5" nut. Of course I play other basses as well, but that particular neck seems to fit my aging hands the best right now. Had someone told me that 30 years ago they would've gotten a really weird "are you high today or something" look from me...:woot:
 
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dmt said:
Okay, and I see from Gibson's website that the SG bass is 1.6" (40.64 mm).

Meanwhile, the American Standard Precision (my personal reference for a P), is 1.625" (41.3 mm). I'd never really thought of my SG bass as having a P-like (P-lite?) width, but I guess it does.

It's funny, I'm totally comfortable with the necks on my two Ps (American Standard and Mexican Standard, both thin from front to back). But whenever I play my Jazz, I like the neck even better!

Now, the wider and/or fatter front to back vintage style Ps necks are of no interest to me, but a "regular" (for me) thin 1.625" P neck is good. Kinda a weird shape though, with that thin front-to-back aspect.

I really like the SG bass neck - more normally rounded in the back than a P, but with P-like width, but just a bit narrower which is nice. Add in the shorter stretch between frets than a P and I'm very happy. I'm a bit curious to try an Epi EB-0 now though
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The Epi EB-0 fretboard is a 12" radius, as compared to the Fender's 9.5" radius fretboard. I like the flatter 12" fretboard more, with my shorter fingers. I don't have to wrap around the the more curved board to get to the E, and A strings. For me the flatter, the better. The flatter the board, the easier intonation, and setups usually are also.
 
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west al said:
The Epi EB-0 fretboard is a 12" radius, as compared to the Fender's 9.5" radius fretboard. I like the flatter 12" fretboard more, with my shorter fingers. I don't have to wrap around the the more curved board to get to the E, and A strings. For me the flatter, the better. The flatter the board, the easier intonation, and setups usually are also.
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I'm with you on that - I definitely prefer a flatter board, preferably 12", although 9.5" is actually fine.

For the same reasons as you, I'm not at all a fan of the 7.25" vintage Fender radius. Oh yeah, plus strain on my wrist/forearm from curving my wrist around a little more to get a better angle at the E string contributes to my neverending battle with wrist/forearm issues. Funnily enough, two of my favorite instruments, a '58 AVRI Telecaster guitar and my MIJ Mustang bass, have 7.25" radii, but I do have to compromise my style (avoid playing certain things or playing them in a different way) to avoid health issues with them. If I could change one thing about either, it would definitely be to re-radius the fretboard to at least 9.5" (12"s my favorite, but I think 9.5" might help keep them feeling Fendery)
 
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