1958 Gibson EB-2 bass

• Maple top, backs and sides • One-piece set Honduras mahogany neck • 20-fret rosewood fretboard • Gibson single coil EB pickup • 30 1/2 inch scale

1958 Gibson catalog

The EB2 bass was announced in February 1958, making it's print debut a month later in the 1958 Gibson catalog. Basses didn't ship from the Kalamazoo plant for several more months; the year's total was just 96 instruments - 90 in Sunburst (as shown here) and 6 in Natural. The 1958 US list price for this bass was $267.50, compared to $282.50 for the Natural examples.

The EB2 was effectively a bass companion model to the ES-335, but had several features of Gibson's existing bass model, the EB bass. Both were 30 1/2" scale (and therefore require short scale strings), with a one-piece mahogany neck and were fitted with the reverse-facing Sealfast banjo tuners. Like the fore-mentioned 335, the EB2 was a hollowbody bass, but with a feedback-reducing maple center block running the length of the instrument.

Most EB2 basses were equipped with the powerful Gibson EB humbucker, but only the earliest, from 1958 and early 1959 have the original EB bass single coil pickup and no baritone switch. The pickup has it's pole pieces along one edge (rather than down the center), the plastic (Royalite) cover is black rather than the brown of the EB. Controls are very simple, just a single volume and tone, topped with gold bell knobs.

Images courtesy of frettedamericana.com

The vast majority of 1958 EB2s had Gibson's Sunburst finish; 90 out of 96. It was was fitted with the same hardware as the EB: single coil pickup and bar bridge without mute.

The reverse side of the EB2 body is also bound, and has the same three-tone sunburst as the front. As can be seen the black extends into the guitars neck, though this soon fades into natural mahogany.

Headstock detail with inlaid Gibson logo and above-center crown motif. Like the bridge and pickup, the banjo-style tuning keys are also as-fitted to the EB bass.

Reverse headstock detail. The EB2 had a one-piece Honduras mahogany neck. The serial number is on the label within the bass' sound hole rather than on the reverse of the headstock

The controls on the 1958 EB2 are in a tidy row with the output jack: volume, tone, jack.

The body is bound front and back, though there is no binding on the neck.

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