DESCRIPTION:
Built from 1958 to 1972, the Gibson EB-2 Bass guitar was derived from the ground-breaking semi-hollow ES-335 family instruments, and itself was modified to become the Epiphone Rivoli bass.
This 1965 Gibson EB-2 uses a double-cutaway Maple laminate body with a Maple center block, Mahogany liners and body blocks, and a Mahogany neck with a Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. This specific example has a '2' stamped directly above the serial number on the back of the head and under the finish, indicating that it was identified by either Gibson as a factory second based on some kind of finish flaw. The finish as it is is in good condition for the era with a few expected chips from wear, and natural, expected checking.
For hardware, there is a set of Kluson open gear tuners at the head and an EB type bridge with integrated mute, rubber missing, at the body. While the EB-2 is a single pickup instrument, there is a mounted cover over where the bridge pickup would go on an EB-2D (double pickup) model, perhaps used as a finger rest. The installed pickguard, and the original pickguard in the case, are both cut out for that cover.
The electronics are based on a single 'Sidewinder' hum-cancelling pickup. The 'Sidewinder' design differs from most other Gibson humbuckers in that the coils are laid on their sides, with the adjustable polepieces pointing up in a steel block in the center between the coils, and the magnets on the outside of the assembly. This resulting appearance suggests it is a single-coil, like a P-90, but it is in fact hum bucking. This is followed by a single volume and tone control, and a 'Baritone' circuit using a pushbutton, resistor, capacitors and a choke, essentially a single-setting 'Varitone' control that drops high end and emphasises bass. On this bass, the pushbutton has been removed and is in the case.
This bass plays well and has the very deep, full tone of a 60's Gibson bass. The 30.25 inch scale length is very comfortable to play.
Sold with a Gibson EB case from the early 1970's - the case has a Gibson logo printed on the top; to that time the Gibson logo was on a metal plate fixed to the side of the case either under the handle or near the neck area latch. The case contains the Baritone switch, original pickguard, case keys and a string pack.
Gibson and Epiphone basses were key to the 1960's sound, and were used by players and bands like Jack Bruce in Cream, Felix Pappilardi in Mountain, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jimmy Page in the Yardbirds, Glenn Cornick in Jethro Tull, Andy Fraser in Free and many more. Later, Glen Matlock used an EB-0 in the early days of the Sex Pistols before that bass went to Johnny Marr for use with The Smiths. Ultimately these basses were supplanted by Fender and Rickenbacker models, partly because those had brighter, punchier sounds and were more feedback resistant in front of stacks of 100-watt amps.
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DETAILS:
- Instrument Model: EB-2 Bass
- Instrument Manufacturer: Gibson
- Instrument year: 1965
- Instrument Finish: Cherry Red Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Instrument Class: Used
- Instrument serial number: 320057, built during 1965 at Kalamazoo Michigan
- Country of Origin: USA
- Instrument Condition: Good
- Playing Condition: Good
- Right-handed
- CITIES Documentation Required: Yes
- Instrument Weight Imperial: 9.24 lbs
- Instrument Weight Metric: 4.20 kgs
- Scale Length Imperial: 30.25 in
- Scale Length Metric: 768 mm
- Nut Width Imperial: 1.503 in
- Nut Width Metric: 38.13 mm
- Case included: Yes
- Case original: No
- Case Type: Hard
- Consignment: Yes
- Product ID: 190347
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