There's a Tokai version of one of those that I always play in Mike's JCM800 shop. Very nice.
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:41 pm
by cobascis
Sounds decently good. Certainly much different the Bronco bass, they are both in the same price range. I like it.
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:19 pm
by filtercap
I cleaned up what appeared to be a 60's Gibson EB-3 for a friend of mine. I've never heard anything like the deep sound that big pickup makes. Like buttah.
This bass had the 2-point version of the bridge, and I think the 2-pointer is where the bridge complaints come from, and for good reason. The constant string pressure had levered on the bridge until the post holes were worn oval-shaped and the bridge tilted at an alarming angle. I thought it was going to sling-shot off the posts. The three-point bridge in the video is truly the one you neeeeed. I made some brass shims to correct some of the tilt, but recommended a reissue 3-point bridge to my buddy.
The weird thing about his bass was that it had probably started out life as a Gibson EB-0 but then had been rather sloppily routed (obvious once you got it undressed) for an EB-3 bridge pickup. It had 3 or 4 knobs, more than the EB-0 but no EB-3 rotary switch. As I recall, the serial number checked out as a 60's number.
Fun bass. I never tried it with a band tho.
Edit: I think the control cavity on my friend's bass was larger than the EB-0's too. It's like they started out building an EB-0 and then changed their mind mid-build and made it a -3 instead.