Gibson EB-0
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The Gibson EB-0 is a bass guitar by Gibson that was introduced in 1959. It was a short-scale 30½" scale model instead of the regular 34 inches. It was a solid body bass, and was the first Les Paul Junior styling, but later became SG like. It had a mahogany body and neck, a banjo type tuner, and a large black pickguard made of non-laminated plastic covering the lower half of the body. It came only in cherry red. The body was a double cutway with a width of 13", a length of 16½", and a thickness of 1¾". The neck was one-piece mahogany with an adjustable truss rod; width, 1.723" (nut), 2.112" (12th fret), and 0.997" (12th fret). It joined the body at the 17th fret. The fingerboard was made of unbound rosewood; there were 20 frets, with inlaid dots at frets 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, and 19.
The original EB-0 stayed in production from 1959 to 1961. About 500 were made, but in 1961 the body changed rather dramatically. It became more like the SG model, but retained the name.
This model has been used by Frank Allen from The Searchers, Jack Bruce from Cream, Dave Schools and Mike Watt, as well as Gene Simmons.
