What is going on with that SG/EBO?! It looks playable and interesting! An original mudbucker and then what happened?
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Short scale show off time.
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That’s the biggest woman I’ve ever seen. Even holding a short scale she has to be 10 feet tall!
My custom MTD AG430-24 (alder body/purple-heart fb)…love that shorty’s fit perfectly in an EG length gigbag!
So many awesome instruments in this thread! Making me miss my old Rumblekat and Mustang.
Currently the only 30” scale bass I have: Bronco neck on a homemade body with Epi TB pups.
Currently the only 30” scale bass I have: Bronco neck on a homemade body with Epi TB pups.
My Jaguar SS Bass, painted Fiesta Red with a gold pickguard. Oh, yeah.... the EMG GZRs are most awesome with this Shortie. Amazed at the tonal array. Thanks to @hbarcat !!
My shorties hanging out together. The Gretsch is my #1, recently strung with LaBella Low Talkin' Flats.
Just a lowly Glarry (with mods).
My Birdsong is being built right now. Basic, but beautiful.
Here are a few of them
A 70s Hagstrom Swede bass
A Framus from the early 60s
A Fatdog Subway parts bass with a Hagstrom neck
Extremely playable
That's my beloved Gibson EB-0(MG!)... originally a 1962 EB-0 that came to me in pretty rough shape and in need of rescuing. At the time it still had the original neck pickup, but had been assaulted with a hideous, crookedly-mounted "Badass" style bridge and a Japanese minibucker in the bridge position, along with extra holes drilled for a second set of Vol/Tone controls and an old/solid neck repair. I'd been waiting for a good deal on something exactly like this, so that I could transform it into the hi-fi Alembic-esque machine I'd had in mind for a long time, but I didn't want to do that to a stock original specimen. It turned out exactly as I had dreamed it up and is an absolute monster player and hands down the most versatile bass in my stable. Side note, for anyone who hasn't played one of these early EB-0 basses, the necks are amazing. Clearly designed with upright players in mind, as they're super chunky!The neck pickup is a Bartolini "GB" humbucker (coils wired in parallel) along with it's own resonant low-pass filter and volume control. The middle and bridge pickups are Joe Barden pickups with impressively broad frequency response, wired in parallel to a 3 position mini toggle selector, another resonant low-pass filter, and volume. Then everything gets summed up to a semi-parametric mid control stack, where the bottom knob controls freq sweep and the top is boost/cut. The other two mini toggle switches are 3 position resonance switches for the Low Pass Filters (no boost, +5dB, +9dB). Front control stack is the two volume controls and the back stack is the master mid controls. The two big knobs are the filters. The bridge is a Hipshot Supertone which utilizes the 2 threaded inserts from the original 2-post bridge. I also added some Sperzel tuning machines to eliminate the little bit of neck dive the bass had with the original giant clover style tuners.
I'm basically a "same ole-same" ole kind of a guy.
Squier Bronco/ Fender Mustang PJ parts bass, with JMJ neck / Fender JMJ Mustang with a 3TSB Vintera body :
Squier Bronco/ Fender Mustang PJ parts bass, with JMJ neck / Fender JMJ Mustang with a 3TSB Vintera body :
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My 1967 Kappa Continental:
It needed work on the neck when I bought it but I was able to bring it back to life. Body finish is in amazing condition for a nearly 60 year old nitro finish instrument. Originally bought new by a guy named Ken Gorka, (bass player for The Critters, look them up). After getting it back into playing condition, I contacted Mr. Gorka, and offered to send it to him at the nightclub he owned in Greenwich Village, NYC, (The Bitter End), for free. He thought about it for a minute, and then said that since he did not play anymore he would decline my offer. I saw on the national news a little while later a story about his passing. I am glad that he did not accept my offer.
It needed work on the neck when I bought it but I was able to bring it back to life. Body finish is in amazing condition for a nearly 60 year old nitro finish instrument. Originally bought new by a guy named Ken Gorka, (bass player for The Critters, look them up). After getting it back into playing condition, I contacted Mr. Gorka, and offered to send it to him at the nightclub he owned in Greenwich Village, NYC, (The Bitter End), for free. He thought about it for a minute, and then said that since he did not play anymore he would decline my offer. I saw on the national news a little while later a story about his passing. I am glad that he did not accept my offer.
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