Bridgehouse

I only have full scale basses. My 64 Precision has, for me, the greatest bass neck ever made. It’s long, really wide, highly radiused and pretty slim front to back. The rolled edges from 50+ years of playing make it a dream to play. The frets are tiny and with flats on its so subtle to play. I guess I want to dip my toes into the Gibson style of bass - I know they do long scale as well so maybe I should stick to that. I may hate it - I know I won’t know unless I try tho

I was thinking more around £1k for my short scale Gibson fetish, and also looked at Rivolis as well - all far too much money! I’ve got two basses that were well North of £2k and I’m not sure Mrs B would tolerate a 3rd

Gaaaaaaah! Yes, I’d have one. Might be too rich for my blood but I’d have one

That looks nice! I’ve not played a Gibson one so I have no frame of reference at the moment

That EB-2 is WOW!

Are they good? I do like the idea of a “real” Gibson, but if too spendy then maybe!

No. No no no no no. No. NO. Nope. No.

That’s quite a slip!

Sorted my recording valve head ordeal out. Phew. Now onto the next one. I have a hankering for a shortscale Gibson ish bass. I think. I keep looking at the early 70s slothead eb-0’s and thinking that dull voluminous thunder would fit in nicely as an oddball option. Then actually I think I just need a Gibson to round out the collection a bit. Or something like it. Or maybe sort of like it. Ish. Oh god, help me out here.

My 64 is def. No1, but I have a '74 for my YOB 😜

Hope so! I shall update when it arrives!

As a cheap build I tried the two spare p guards I had - They are cheap as they are free Agree tho - a single ply black would look good

I’ve been looking for a while and at £500 I couldn’t quite justify it - but £300 is basically the same as a decent Preamp Di so a lot more justifiable!

Well, I got order confirmation - just waiting for delivery confirmation. They are a bricks and mortar place so no real risk - I did PayPal so I can just reverse if it’s a no show as it’s on pay after delivery.

Indeed - but £299 for the 20 was too tempting to resist

I simply can’t think of anything I’d swap it for...

Beautiful. My number 1 is a 64 - also full of character with knocks, dings, dents, worn patches, lacquer checking and flaking, a shrinking pickguard and rusting hardware - but I wouldn’t change a bit of it.

There’s always one

I’m near Spalding... my band is based in Loughborough...

Yeah, me too...

I’ll get me binoculars

Is that one of those lil chillies you got there?

That body colour is nearly swamp ash with a tinted danish oil finish as well..

You got one of those 4’ 6” scale basses then?

Someone had binoculars in the venue?!