MIM 50's reissue P bass or Epiphone Thunderbird Pro

Well, only you know how much you value the P. If it’s just sitting as you use the Ibanez for those sounds,well, no big loss if you move it on (after all, you can always re-buy a P if you end up missing it). Also, only you know the value of that money to you.

Still, I personally think 5 is a good number (that’s what I have, lol), so that would have me keeping the P and adding the ’bird.

However, I don’t like red basses, so in the end I voted for selling the [red] P and adding the Thunderbird!

(In other words, any of your options are pretty dang good; have a good think on what would make you happiest and then go for it!)

 

Go for it. T-birds are great. If you can afford it, have enought space at home, and like all of your other 4 basses, just add it up to your collection.
You will allways be in time for selling one if you think you should at any point.

 

I'd trade the Ibanez for the Thunderbird.

The Fender is worth more than the Epiphone so unless you'd have some cash coming your way, that is a bad deal anyway.

I say keep the Fender!

 

If you can pay cash up front (not credit card or financing) and are financially stable, just buy the T-Bird. If you would have to pay with a credit card or get financing, trade in the Ibanez and get a lower model T-Bird. Or, trade in the Fender and get a T-Bird Pro IV or whatever the one they're always raving about on this site

 

Because you'd be paying with money you don't physically possess, which means you can't guarantee really anything. You can assume that you'll have the money, and maybe you'll be right. But catastrophes do happen, and you really don't know for sure where you'll be in six months. No one really does.

If you're saying that you can pay for the whole 'Bird right now, why wouldn't you?

 

Why 0% financing from retailers can be a bad deal

“Each one should come with this warning: ‘If you don’t meet all our purposely complicated terms for this offer, you’ll be sorry and will end up owing lots of interest,'” says Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for the Public Interest Research Group.

 

You’re talking about an Epiphone Thunderbird Classic Pro with the Gibson pickups or their new Vintage Thunderbird, right?
I was going to buy one until I stumbled upon this Reverend Thundergun.
Forgot all about the Thunderbirds in the shop, including the one I had a down payment on, and I’ve since sold my P bass.
These guys aren’t joking when they say thunder!
Other than that, a nice white Thunderbird would look good, no doubt about it.

 

Yeah, especially if you showed up wearing the same clothes!

 

I had the Pro on layaway. In natural. Owned one way back when I first started playing.
Very ominous tone with flatwounds or tapewounds. Some people don’t like the preamp...big deal, some don’t like Fender preamps...but I really liked it.
The only thing is, I’m a big fan of the X-Vive wireless system and it doesn’t work with all preamps.

 

I actually managed to find a gig bag big enough for mine...and the Pro IV is about 2" longer than the Classic IV.
Sold the bass back in 2013, I think, but still have the gig bag!