This week’s BotW takes a classic design and reimagines it into something much more exotic and with more features.
Kirill writes:
I had a Japanese short scale copy of EB-3 for a long time and always wanted to add a bit of flavour to the classics, so after a few hours of brainstorming the idea with the luthier we came up with the idea of making a neck-thru version of Gibson SG bass.
The neck is 5 piece made of wenge and bubinga, fretboard is also wenge.
The body is made of two massive ash wings and covered with a beautiful quartersawn top.
The circuit is all passive with two different mudbucker-like pickups, the neck one is more closer to classic with Alnico 5 magnets and the bridge one is a personal take on the mudbucker design with even more winding and ceramic magnet for more bridge-punch. Each pickup is equipped with additional coil tap and passive frequency filter.
The hardware is Gotoh Japan made Gibson 3 stud bridge and Gibson-like tuners also made by Gotoh.
The bass weighs a bit more than a Peavey T-40 and has insane amounts of sustain and punch on bridge position, but on the other hand it can be subtle when switched to neck position.
All in all, I’m really happy with this build.
You see Made in Russia because yes, this instrument was built there. The submitter noted that the luthier is “A local luthier Anton Kurochkin. Russia, Chelyabinsk. mastergitaraster@mail.ru“, so if you’d like to contact him, that’s how to get in touch.
Well done!
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God that’s beautiful. That has to be the best EB/SG style bass I’ve ever seen.
Nicew bass but the top sure doesn’t look quartersawn to me
Didn’t mean to sound critical,it’s really a beautiful instrument!!! I’m wondering if maybe the body is quartersawn rather than the top?
Bodies really don’t need to be quartersawn, as long as it’s well seasoned and not crap. Necks and fingerboards are the parts that need quartersawn stability
That is one gorgeous piece of work!
That is absolutely freaking gorgeous! Well designed, well executed. Not many basses depicted here are basses I would really want to own, or make me feel envious, but this one is and does.
Anton, great looking bass! My first bass, and workhorse for over thirty years is a 68 Gibson EB3, ( although it has morphed with custom parametric preamp, Wilkerson bridge, Shaller tuners, Guild neck pup), I’m wondering how the one yiu had built sounds?
neck dive?
It’s heavier than a T-40 with the pin at the 17th fret. This thing doesn’t neck dive, it neck crashes.
Anton, well done! I hope some “wizard” at Gibson sees what can be done with the “SG” style bass, string through is an awesome idea!!!
Gorgeous and beautiful! Gibson, Alembic and Wal rolled together in harmony.
What looks Wal about it? I get the Alembic comparison with the electronics, but I don’t see much Wal about this bass. It’s just a much nicer take on the EB3
love it. all the uses for wenge is great. please tell about the pickup covers, and the fingerboard inlays. love the look of this thing, great execution.
Pickup covers are made of bubinga and wenge. And inlays are also bubinga with polished aluminum lines.
well done !!! and how it sounds?
the first EB-3 that i`ve ever seen that i`d own. beautiful build.
fantastic. What more can be siad!
Very nice. EBs are great basses but definitely need improvements. You did a nice job here. I had my guitar guy build me an EB style bass, too. Hoping to see it here along with yours.
I had the exact same idea – a neck thru Gibson, but we used the Les Paul Junior style body of the original EBO. I submitted it for Bass of the Week. Maybe, you’ll see it.