"Jack Bruce" - With Gold Hardware

1964 Gibson EB-3D Custom.

This ultra thin (1 3/8 inches) SG-style bass guitar weighs just 8.10 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of slightly over 1 11/16 inches and a short scale length of 30 1/2 inches. Solid mahogany body, one-piece mahogany neck, and unbound rosewood fretboard with 20 frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. One large metal-cover four-polepiece humbucking pickup in the neck position with an output of 12.22k and one smaller metal-cover four-polepiece mini-humbucker pickup with black plastic surround in the bridge position with an output of 7.53k. All hardware gold-plated. This guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition, with a minimal amount of wear. Housed in a modern black hardshell case. This is one of 277 EB-3s made in 1964, out of a total of 2,898 between 1961 and 1968 (in 1969, the model was changed completely). This custom guitar with gold parts must have been a special factory order -- and is the only one we have seen or heard of. According to the Gibson factory records this guitar was shipped on June 20th, 1964.