The Gibson EB-3 is a bass guitar introduced in 1961 and discontinued in
1979. It was produced at Gibson's plant in Kalamazoo, MI.It features a slim SG-style body, a short 30.5" scale, and two pick up's (a large humbucking pickup in the neck position and a mini humbucker pickup in the bridge position). The electronics include a four-way
rotary pickup selector switch (for Series 1 basses: neck pickup with
midrange notch, bridge, bridge and neck with low end rolled off neck
pickup, neck pickup with choke,
and volume and tone knobs for each pickup. The standard finish was
cherry red (like the SG guitar models), though EB-3s were also produced
in other finishes such as Polaris White, Pelham Blue, Walnut, and Ebony.
By the time production ceased in 1979, a total of 14,167 instruments
had been built. The guitar comes with a non original hard shell case.
Weight; 3.7 KG