![]() Plays well with low action and optimal neck relief. ![]() There are many knicks, dings, and chips all over the neck and body. Controls include volume pots for each pickup and a master tone pot.Īll original including Grover tuners and Babicz bridge Original Gibson pickups in middle and bridge positions. Glossy mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard and pearloid dot inlays The following specs were carefully collected and recorded by a skilled technician.įor a more detailed description and questions regarding sound, feel, or cosmeticĬondition, please visit our Lincoln Avenue showroom or call to speak to one of our Frets are tall and show little sign of play wear. Tech Notes: Plays well with low action and optimal neck relief. Hardware: All original including Grover tuners and Babicz bridgeĬosmetic Condition: The bass has heavy play wear throughout. Pickup Measurements: Reading not available Controls include volume pots for each pickup and a master tone pot. Neck Details: Glossy mahogany neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard and pearloid dot inlaysĮlectronics: Original Gibson pickups in middle and bridge positions. For a more detailed description and questions regarding sound, feel, or cosmetic condition, please call to speak to one of our experts.įingerboard Material: Rosewood Fingerboard Having said this, there are a lot worse guitars out there, and as well as being historically important, the 1820 bass can certainly provide the goods when required.The following specs were carefully collected and recorded by a skilled technician. Over the course of the 70s, the Japanese output improved dramatically, and in many ways these early 70s models are a low point for the brand. These new Epiphones were based on existing Matsumoku guitars, sharing body shapes, and hardware, but the Epiphone line was somewhat upgraded, with inlaid logos and a 2x2 peghead configuration. The Matsumoku factory had been producing guitars for export for some time, but the 1820 bass (alongside a number of guitar models and the 5120 electric acoustic bass) were the first Epiphone models to be made there. Other electric models include: HOFNER ELECTRICS: Committee, Verithin 66, Ambassador, President, Senator, Galaxie, HOFNER BASSES: Violin bass, Verithin bass, Senator bass, Professional bass GIBSON ELECTRICS: Barney Kessel, ES-330TD, ES-335TD, ES-345TD, ES-175D, ES-125CD, SG Standard, SG Junior, SG Special GIBSON BASSES: EB-0, EB-2, EB-3 - plus a LOT of acoustics branded Gibson, Hofner, Selmer and Gianniniīy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price). This catalogue saw the (re-)introduction of the late sixties Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard (see page 69) and the short-lived Hofner Club 70. Selmer were the exclusive United Kingdom distributors of Hofner and Gibson at the time, and this catalogue contains a total of 18 electric guitars, 7 bass guitars, 37 acoustics, and 2 Hawaiian guitars - all produced outside the UK and imported by Selmer, with UK prices included in guineas. ![]() Scan of 1968/1969 Selmer guitar catalogue (printed July 1968), showing the entire range of electric and acoustic guitars distributed by the company: guitars by Hofner, Gibson, Selmer and Giannini. So it is hard to generalise, although some might argue that the darker sound of humbucking pickups in a mahogany body and neck with rosewood fingerboard is the signature sound of a Gibson bass. There are humbuckers and single coil pickups. ![]() There are mahogany, maple and alder bodies. Models with set-necks, bolt-on necks, and through-body necks. There are long scale and short scale basses. As a result, there is significant variation across the range of basses Gibson created, in looks, build, electronics, and ultimately sound. Unlike Fender, who produced just a few bass models, but continuously over 50 years ( Fender Precision, Fender Jazz bass), Gibson was continually creating new bass models, most with relatively short production periods. So the Gibson bass was shaped, and finished like an upright, and with an extendable pole at the bass so it could even be played upright. The fact that they made a solid-body bass at all in this climate is surprising, but Fender solid body sales were sufficiently high to make Gibson take notice. Their view was that guitars should be large jazz boxes, and the bass should be upright and acoustic solid body instruments were for Fender, not Gibson. This was very much in the ethos of Gibson at the time. Gibson have been producing bass guitars since 1953, starting with the violin-shaped EB bass.
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