Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
Gluing up the peghead ears on last week's Mousa 003 neck build. I like to do full ears as opposed to just adding corners. The difference is that you can't see the ear joint from the side on full ears where just gluing the extra corners looks sloppy and lazy. The extra effort is a pain but totally worth it.
I've been busy with the daily videos so I'm a little behind on posting photos of projects coming through the shop. This was finished up a few weeks ago.
Final task on the 70s EB-3 is to plug the rotary switch hole in the pick guard since I moved it back where it should be. I've grown a shine to this fella. It's a short scale so a little easier on my guitar player hands and there are so many good tonal variations to be had out of these 3 pickups. This would make a monster studio bass.
Note I will most likely put together a blog post on this project sometime soon, but in the meantime check out #eb3mystery.
Below is video of the neck blank prep from last week's#otb_vlog 050:
A very unique Gibson Custom Shop ES-330 stoptail prototype. 330's are full hollow with P90's, so one with a stoptail mounted directly to the top with no center block to reinforce it is quite amazing (vs a stock trapeze tailpiece). Here I'm chasing down the nut as it may have set up for slide for the previous owner (or the preference was to just leave it high).
Note I was told that this guitar was originally built for Nashville studio legend Brett Mason.
High nut with too much meat on top.
Strings lowered and excess nut removed.
Adjusting the high nut during the setup. Subscribe to these daily videos over on the Chubbuck Guitars Youtube channel.
The first day back from the long weekend rolls on. Jumping head first into the butchered 1970s Gibson EB-3 mess. Doing my best to get this back as close to stock as you can while dealing with an added 3rd P pickup. I also decided to relocate the previously moved rotary switch back home and add back original controls, so some drilling out of plugs was required. A Curtis Novak choke is going in (original missing), along with Emerson Custom CTS pots. What a mess!
Follow along with this #eb3mystery project here.
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