Martin EB28 at GC

[gtrguy]

Martin EB28 at GC. Yes, I like the oddball ones.


https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/Martin/Vintage-1970s-Eb-28-Electric-Bass-Guitar.gc

[hammer]

That has got to be one of the ugliest headstocks I've ever seen.

[edwardofhuncote]

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

[gtrguy]

Ouch! You hurt its feelings!!

[pauldo]

 

[hammer]

IMHO it looks like it was originally a semi-cone headstock but someone put it so close to a fire/heat that it melted.

[edwardofhuncote]

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.

[gtrguy]

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

[dela217]

I had one.    We never got along.     I think I gave it away.

[sonicus]

A bass with a " Smirff like" appeal perhaps ? OR a bass only a " Smirff" could love ? Poor little bass .

[lbpesq]

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

[sonicus]

Bill. I am curious as to the brand and engine size displacement of the motorcycle

[lbpesq]

IIRC, it was a Yamaha 305 with a 2-stroke engine.  Somehow I avoided killing myself on it.

Bill, tgo

[sonicus]

Bill,
In the mid 1970s I had a 1966 Honda 305 Scrambler with a 4 Stroke engine.