Martin EB28 at GC. Yes, I like the oddball ones.
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Martin/Vintage-1970s-Eb-28-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc
That has got to be one of the ugliest headstocks I've ever seen.
Nobody else liked them either, which is why the EB line died a very quick, quiet death. It's lineage though, is traced to this; https://vintagemartin.com/stauffer.html
EB-28 is extremely rare. Most, maybe all were active P/J config. Somewhere here there's another thread where I posted a picture of the electronics cavity of one of these.
*here it was; https://reverb.com/item/3428263-martin-eb-28-electric-bass-guitar-w-hard-case-26342
Ouch! You hurt its feelings!!
:D
IMHO it looks like it was originally a semi-cone headstock but someone put it so close to a fire/heat that it melted.
Quote from: hammer on July 04, 2024, 08:50:45 PM
IMHO it looks like it was originally a semi-cone headstock but someone put it so close to a fire/heat that it melted.
🤣 That's perfect. The body was a little bit close to the fire as well.
For sure that whole EB concept was a swing and a miss for Martin. It was just such a radical departure from what was expected of them, I'm surprised C.F. IIIrd ever agreed to it. Still, I'm kinda' on the side of David's original post... I like the odd ones too.
*I think there ain't no way GC is getting 1600 smokes for that bass. Way too rough.
And another one for the folks who appreciate the less than gorgeous but well made (ask me how I know)!
https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/clearance-deals-and-steals/products/martin-eb-18-natural-2027829
I had one. We never got along. I think I gave it away.
A bass with a " Smirff like" appeal perhaps ? OR a bass only a " Smirff" could love ? Poor little bass .
I had a Martin F-50 thin hollow-body electric. Martin made the neck and a luthier in upstate New York built the body. It had a single D'Armond pickup. Not a great guitar. I traded it for a motorcycle and got the best of the deal.
Bill, tgo
Bill. I am curious as to the brand and engine size displacement of the motorcycle :)
IIRC, it was a Yamaha 305 with a 2-stroke engine. Somehow I avoided killing myself on it.
Bill, tgo
Bill,
In the mid 1970s I had a 1966 Honda 305 Scrambler with a 4 Stroke engine. :)