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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1109824' date='Jan 31 2011, 06:35 PM']I liked the look of the red and particularly the white Epi JC Sigs in the pics. Only made for Jack, I presume.[/quote] Yes, as far as I know. I've also seen him with a sunburst one, but he does seem to play goldtops most. Epiphone just send them to him.

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Thats my Hagstrom 8 string! Well one of them. I've also got a darker sunburst all mahogany one (the one featured in Tony Bacons book) I was playing it through my Ampeg B15 yesterday, and it sounded utterly superb. It does change your playing style a little - upstrokes are bassier than downstrokes (due to the order of the strings). I play fingerstyle, so my fingers generally go up. You may need to play with your amp settings to get the right tone you want for your playing style. There are several tracks where Hendrix plays the Hag; on some of the Curtis Knight stuff particularly, and Noel plays it in a couple places during the BBC sessions too (another great CD) And yes, they did a four string version but with a Fender style headstock. Hagstrom did some great basses and pickups. Remember the Bisonics on all them Guild Starfires are made by Hagstrom. My Hagstrom Concord is also another great little bass, and you won't find many people who have played a Hagstrom Swede who doesn't like it.

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Email this ebay seller [url="http://stores.ebay.com/Greatdealz1967"]http://stores.ebay.com/Greatdealz1967[/url] For the last few years they have been selling NOS Gibson parts - from when the Kalamazoo factory closed. For at least a year they had loaded RD Standard scratchplates (2 pickups) for not too much money. They may still have some left. They don't list all of what they have got usually. I bought one (for a rainy day), as did many others - so it might be worth asking around a few other (american) forums in case anybody bought one and now doesn't need it. I've seen at least one custom made RD using these pups.

Thats a fantastic price. Just goes to show you an get real bargains when people need to sell quickly.

[quote name='lozbass' post='1079944' date='Jan 6 2011, 03:02 PM']I managed to pop into Dawsons in Manchester today and they have two of the shortscale Limited Edition 1960s EB3s (black and cherry) on display. There's also a blue (Pelham?) and a cherry EBO and a couple of long-scale EB3s[/quote] If only they had the shortscale Epiphone EB3 in Pelham Blue. I'd snap that up in a second. £209 is a great price. A good starting point to maybe play with the pickups/electronics. Does anyone know if these have mahogany body and neck?

I don't know too much about other brands, but just talking Gibson/Epiphone, there is, or has been just about every variant of this bass you can imagine. There have been short and long scales, with single coils and humbuckers. Set necks and bolt-ons. And there have been various woods used for body and neck. You can not generalise, and there is almost certainly a variant to suit you. The classic design is the [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/EB3.php"]Gibson EB3[/url]: short scale, mahogany throughout, set neck and humbuckers. Thats the 1961-1971 models. The Jack Bruce/Andy Fraser sound. I absolutely love these, but they are not to everyones taste. From 1969 they were available long scale, and from about 72 with a maple neck. The EB0 was the one pickup version, without the bright bridge pickup. Most people want the bridge pickup. Gibson were also making the [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/KalamazooKBbass.php"]Kalamazoo KB bass[/url] - which had all the same hardware as the Gibson EB0, but with a pressed board body and a bolt-on maple neck. In the early seventies the [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/SB.php"]Gibson SB basses[/url] came out... these were quite different from the EB range, different woods/pickups/electronics - making a much punchier bass than the EB0. The [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/EB4L.php"]Gibson EB4L[/url] was the last SG bass design from Gibson under Norlin, with all models being phased out by 1979. When Gibson became the 'Gibson Guitar Corporation' a couple reissues came out: The [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/2000gibsonSGZ.php"]Gibson SG-Z[/url], Epiphone EB0 and EB3 and later the Gibson SG reissue we know know. If you are not looking for a vintage guitar: The Epiphone EB0 looks very much like a Gibson EB0, but bears almost now comparison sound-wise. It is different in almost every other way. These cost next to nothing, so theres going to be a difference to a £1000 Gibson. The [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/epiphone/bass/2002epiphoneEB3.php"]Epiphone EB3[/url] is closer to the 60s Gibsons, but the long scale versions have the worst neck dive of any SG bass i've played. The pickups don't have the fatness of the originals, but this is just as likely to be a good thing as a bad thing? You can't argue with the price either. The [url="http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/2006gibsonSGreissue.php"]Gibson SG reissue bass[/url] looks quite like a Gibson EB3, and has some similar sounds. I love mine. Guild made some terrific SG shaped basses in the very late 60s/early 70s, and as you say, there were a lot of Japanese versions too. Few capture the classic Gibson tone though - once again, whether that is good or bad is highly subjective!

[quote name='fryer' post='1025035' date='Nov 15 2010, 07:08 PM']Well Strings Direct are trying to get a set from Picato - I'll let you know. But what you've done sounds ok ? Why do you prefer flats ? Could you send a photo of your 60's Hagstrom, or is there one on here somewhere ?[/quote] Well I only use flats on all my basses. I prefer the rounded mellow tone over the clank of roundwounds. Rounds are necessary if you have too many guitarists using too many effects, and your bass can't cut through. I don't join those kind of bands if I can help it, and so the flats sit nicely in the overall sound giving a lovely vintage tone. And I'm guessing the 60s Hagstroms came with flats from the factory, although I may be wrong on that. The bass on this page is mine: [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/hag8.php"]hagstrom 8 string bass[/url], but i've also got the darker sunburst one pictured in Tony Bacons book, which may even be made of different body wood. Haven't decided for sure. The guitar string method works ok, I just wish the D string was a couple inches longer. It works, but i'd be happier with more wrap.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1023172' date='Nov 14 2010, 09:20 AM']So who makes flats for an 8-string bass?[/quote] Yes, who does? I have a couple 1960s Hagstrom 8 strings, and i've had to mix a set of flatwound bass strings with the bottom 4 strings of a flatwound guitar set (rotosound tapewounds)

[quote name='basshead56' post='1003361' date='Oct 28 2010, 09:06 AM']The Studio's are neck through.[/quote] No, they have a set neck (glued in) - as did the non reverse Thunderbirds of the late sixties. The first issue ('63-'65), bicentennial ('76-'79) and current issue (since 1987) are all neck through (one piece of wood going though neck and body).

[quote name='JMT3781' post='993362' date='Oct 19 2010, 12:00 PM']Does the value of vintage instruments vary form country to country does anyone know? Or is just down to the varying value of different currency?[/quote] I guess it's a supply and demand thing. Fenders and Gibsons are certainly cheaper in the US than over here, but a lot of British stuff (UK Vox's, Hayman, Shergold etc - and Marshall amps etc) are more over there. Maybe old Ibanez's are cheaper in Japan too

[quote name='bassaussie' post='993250' date='Oct 19 2010, 10:31 AM']It makes me wonder why Gibson didn't make a bass with similar electronics and construction, but in a more accessible shape. I think they would've had a winner on their hands if they had.[/quote] ah well, you perhaps are thinking of the Gibson IV of the late 80s..... Not exactly the same (set neck rather than neck through - but then not all Tbirds were neck through) but more or less the same ... same pickups, body wood etc... but a different shape, and often seen for sale at less than $500.

A repaired headstock does not halve the value of a Gibson EB bass (because headstock repairs are so common, and do not affect playability at all) Who is selling this please - i'll certainly offer them more than £600!

[quote name='simon1964' post='987796' date='Oct 14 2010, 10:23 AM']I would also want to know where the battery for the active EMG is - possibly some routing under the pick guard?[/quote] Yeah good point. There was a tone choke in a cavity under the bridge. I suspect that has gone, and so that's where the battery is. Not a great place if you need to change the battery in a hurry, but at least it wouldn't involve making holes. This isn't a great price when you consider how much is missing/damaged, and even worse if theres a hole.

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[quote name='Muthawhat' post='956547' date='Sep 14 2010, 09:03 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220669501282"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=220669501282[/url] had it for sale on here before... needs to go now... bid away![/quote] "It was found, in a undesirable location by a friend of mine" what does this mean please?

[quote name='tino' post='949735' date='Sep 8 2010, 06:42 PM']Gibson SG/EB3 re issue bass guitar and an Ampeg B2 bass combo amp with 15" speaker along with an Ampeg 2 x 10" ext cab. Any idea of the value of this lot Thanks[/quote] what SG is it? The faded ones without case are worth least - then the SG reissue bass with normal finish, then the SG Standard reissue with block inlays and inlaid headstock. Value for the bass alone could be anywhere between £500 and £1000 depending on which model, case and condition. Some colours are rare and might add a little to the value too.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='925719' date='Aug 15 2010, 05:52 PM']that's a mid-60's Hofner 500/5 This one is mine: [url="http://tinypic.com/a/qvy1/3"]http://tinypic.com/a/qvy1/3[/url][/quote] That's in such nice condition. Really beautiful bass too. Have you got a battered one too for gigging?

In the fifties and early sixties Gibson had a very different view of guitars than Fender. They were essentially aiming at two different markets. As already stated, Gibson employed craftsmen, making very fine jazz guitars. The Les Paul trio bassist played an upright, and Gibson bought Epiphone partially to get the tooling to make upright basses. Because that's what jazz bassists played. Gibson did make some lesser instruments, but the main focus was on [u]very[/u] fine instruments for very good musicians. Tal Farlow, Trini Lopez etc etc didn't throw their guitars about, so fragility was not an issue. Gibson's 50s and 60s carved top hollowbodies are a million miles above anything that Fender could make, or have ever made. Gibson spent most of the next twenty years trying to make guitars that were cleaner than clean sounding, and basses that sounded like uprights. Fender designed instruments to be assembled by largely untrained staff and played by less accomplished musicians. Or at least not the same elder jazz musicians that Gibson was aiming at. Today, Gibsons old catalogues do look very staid, but would Gibson have sold all those incredibly expensive Byrdlands etc if they advertised to teenagers? Gibson clearly didn't predict the number of teenagers who would be buying guitars over the next few years, but they were having so much trouble keeping up with orders that I don't think it would have made any difference anyway. Check these two links for a bunch of old Fender and Gibson adverts [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/advertisements/Gibson"]http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/advertisements/Gibson[/url] [url="http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/advertisements/Fender"]http://www.vintageguitars.org.uk/advertisements/Fender[/url]