'61 EB-6
Holy Holy Grail Batman!I hope this beauty is wearing flats!
BTW. What's with the hippie haircut head-stock?
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The Short-Scale Six-String Club Part 2- for the original six-string basses!
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Holy Holy Grail Batman!I hope this beauty is wearing flats!
BTW. What's with the hippie haircut head-stock?
I hope this beauty is wearing flats!
BTW. What's with the hippie haircut head-stock?
Cool but kind of missing something...for a guitar that accepts real bass strings they have no excuse.
Also...what's with the goofy bridge? Seems like that would be tricky to intonate.
I wish Epiphone or Gibson would reissue a
slightly upgraded model...er scratch that I don't have $5000 to spend on Gibson.
Just a reminder. We have a petition going on over at the official Fender message board to reissue an affordable Bass VI. Even if it's MIM. It's doing well, but we could use more signatures.
You can find it here:
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You can find it here:
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'Thing is though, a signature is one thing. Money down is another.
If the signatories on that petition were to ante up, then Fender might have a reason to pay heed.
I won't be buying another Fender VI.
If we can't even get people to pony up a measly $400 for an Agile "almost perfect for the price range" then what makes you think anyone's going to spend $1000+ on a low-end Fender? As far as I can tell the Agile hasn't exactly been a runaway success...if people with petitions would speak with their wallets versus words they'd actually get somewhere. For $400 I think the Agile is only a few specs away from being a "great" cheap VI, which is what people are signing the petition for, right? Not completely perfect (neither is the Schecter Hellcat though) but I'm not complaining too much.
I'm really not interested in an Agile. Never was. I purchased an SX Jazz bass a year ago and it wasn't worth it, IMO. Just sits there now. I'd rather be patient and put that $400 toward an actual Fender. I'm sure there are others that share my sentiment. Actually everyone that already signed the petition probably does.
Beggars can't be choosers!
I'm not VP of Marketing at Fender or anything but I don't think that a few signatures is quite enough to convey substantial interest for Fender to respond. Hense why they only do it as a Custom Shop instrument... I put mind up there but my hopes aren't set all that high...SX and Agile are two different brands.., kind of like the difference between Squire and Fender.
If one wants most of the function of a Fender VI, then the Agile Argus LPB's design appears to come very close (the Argus has a flatter fret-board than the Fender: a plus for note bending with light gauge round-wounds, but a minus for chording with heavy gauge flat-wounds) while offering a overall build quality which is better than the MIJ Fender VI (a RWRP center pickup, better shielding, a more practical p/u selector switch, and smoother tuners).
Besides, if Fender does offer an affordable Fender VI in response to that petition, then said 'VI's production would likely be outsourced to Invalid Link Removed.
IIRC Agile makes guitars in Korea, and judging from their designs offered on Rondo Music's web site, they are a much more forward thinking guitar/bass maker than most other MI companies.
At minimum the 'LPB is an affordable and Link Removed 'VI-in-hand/backup/beater instrument which can get one up & playing while one saves for a 'dream 'VI', like say, a custom color, early '70's Fender VI with a bound 'board and block inlays.
Interesting points on the Agile. I guess I would consider it. At the end of the day these instruments are just tools. There are song ideas I have right now that would involve a bass VI. And I'm eager to get started.
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hiya,
a bit of advice needed here,
i really fancy having a play on a bass vi, or perhaps owning one but the odds are against me. i'm a lefty, haven't got loads of cash, and i'm in the uk so getting hold of an aguile (or whatever they're called) will be tricky.
but i've got a plan.
my current gigging and abusing bass is an epi eb-0. would it be feasable to mod this to be a bass vi?
It's 30" scale, and the nut width is around 38mm or 1.5" for you imperialists. i've already changed the bridge to a schaller 3d, so i could simply get the 6 string equivalent, and all i'd need then is a new nut and 2 more tuners on the headstock. i don't really mind butchering the top to get 2 guitar tuners on it as the thing only cost me £30 in the first place.
would this work or be a bit of a waste of time and energy?
i just fell a little bit in love with the original eb-6 thats up ^
a bit of advice needed here,
i really fancy having a play on a bass vi, or perhaps owning one but the odds are against me. i'm a lefty, haven't got loads of cash, and i'm in the uk so getting hold of an aguile (or whatever they're called) will be tricky.
but i've got a plan.
my current gigging and abusing bass is an epi eb-0. would it be feasable to mod this to be a bass vi?
It's 30" scale, and the nut width is around 38mm or 1.5" for you imperialists. i've already changed the bridge to a schaller 3d, so i could simply get the 6 string equivalent, and all i'd need then is a new nut and 2 more tuners on the headstock. i don't really mind butchering the top to get 2 guitar tuners on it as the thing only cost me £30 in the first place.
would this work or be a bit of a waste of time and energy?
i just fell a little bit in love with the original eb-6 thats up ^
Hi harryharold.
The conversion which you are contemplating seems to be doable IF you have another bass to gig with while your EB-O is undergoing elective surgery.
May I suggest that you have a trusted luthier do the work, and that you also consider having him (or her) dowel in the current tuning machine holes in the headstock in order to re-drill six new holes for some light-weight bass mini tuners?
If doing so produces a playable instrument (done properly it should) then perhaps a bridge pickup (a guitar humbucker wound for a bright, clear tone) would be in order.
As for possibly getting a lefty Bass VI later on, Roberto Retana (motel_asimov) is poised to begin work on a left-handed Fender VI copy. Here's the right-handed one he recently completed. Roberto does fine work!
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What's the width of the Schaller 6-string bridge? Most 6-string bass bridges are too wide to be used for a Bass VI-type instrument. You might be able to find a hardtail guitar bridge that would work, but that's probably the hardest part of your proposed modification.
I've posted it before, but here's my 51 conversion. A hardtail guitar bridge will work. The neck I used was a short scale bass neck. I doweled and veneered it. then redrilled for guitar tuners. I used Ernie Ball VI strings. The pickups are a GFS lipstick and a GFS bucker. Both sound great.
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