Recent content by Thunderbirdfan

Greetings a little new here so let's just get started... Me and a friend are working on making a bass that resembles an older alembic exploiter. (I've been a fan since I saw deaths lack of comprehension) The only problem with this is that alembic pickups are out ragiously expensive and finding...

well this worked out great... My friend went to Japan for Christmas and returned with thunderbird pickups (64 reissue im guessing). I was very skeptical about this cause the thunderbird I had was a soapbar style instead the "rounder" more thunderbird looking pickup.

This may be a repitive question but I have this model of a tbird I plan on upgrading I know the pickups in the model I have are just soapbars but Id like to put real thunderbird pickups in I know lollar pickups make some shims but I want like the chrome ring like bicentinials had

My current bass build I just got these plans off ebay for a bolt on Gibson style explorer bass. I have never set necked a bass at all and I was wondering would I have to do a certain type of joint like a dove tail or can I just do flat surface to surface with it. P.s I be never glued a set...

One of the truss-rod covers on my epiphone classic pro recently broke apart and I was thinking why not just replace it with a gibson truss rod cover i heard about people replacing the epiphone ones with fake gibson ones but theres different measurements due to different epiphones. I cant measure...

Yes definitely i love mine and I'd buy another

now where cam i buy these and did they come with the rings?:)

but would they fit in my TBird?

Yes!!

I use very aggressive finger with daddario pro steels 45-100 standard

A heavy metal tone

are they as good as the gibson modern TBird pickups?

So i want to put a new heavier sounding pickup set in my epiphone bass but i dont think Tbird pickups would work on this (from what i heard they wont unless some sort of shim or ring? Link Removed

Link Removedi might replace the pickups in her any suggestions for hard rocking/metal tone?

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