It is, in fact, a fiver. 2006 Gibson Thunderbird Studio V with a 4+1 headstock
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The Acoustic Club
- Thread starter The Owl
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Truly awesome. I've never seen one of those before.
Thanks!
They are set necks, as opposed to neck-thru's, headstock shape is a bit different than the standards, even on the Studio IV's. Overall, same idea as a Les Paul Standard vs a Les Paul Studio, made to be more affordable. But they weigh a ton.
They do pop up from time to time, but the current market price is higher than a standard Thunderbird. Probably due to being the only 5 string TBird Gibson put out.
What happened to the old Acoustic homeunix website? Is it backuped somewhere? Im looking for more info on the history of some models
Anyway, i just bought an Acoustic Model 125 in very nice condition, including the footswitch. Can't find good info on it, but it does sound killer on bass and guitar.
What kind of info are you looking for? Someone here might be able to help ya out.
More info on the 12 inch speakers for example. I assume they are original, but want to find out whether it would be best to recone them or just buy new and better ones. Same for my 201 cab i recently bought. The Altecs were replaced by two aweful bass speakers, and want see how i can restore it back to the original. Cheers
If they have white dust caps and a acoustic number like 130065 than they are original.
Ok so I have the originals in the 125. Still, I have the idea that they have had their best time, as they start rattling at volume 2. Are they the same as other 12 inch Acoustic speakers? I dunno if I should let them recone, or just buy new decent 12 inchers.
It's hard to respond from a distance. "Rattling" could be any number of things. If you can isolate it to either a rubbing voice coil or a cracked cone or surround, then yes, it's time to rebuild or replace. If you have a facility to re-cone/re-build speakers professionally and reliably, I'd always recommend that vs. replacement as I've had good experience with reconing. But that service is getting harder to find, and recone kits aren't always easy to find for vintage speakers. Replacing speakers might be easier, but you'll want to work with a box design program that allows you to match your choice of replacement speaker to your cabinet as closely as possible. It's been too long since I've done that to make any software or speaker recommendations, but there are lots of up-to-speed folks here on TB to ask if you go that route.
My speaker in my otherwise pristine 126 combo (avatar) rattled when it arrived a few months ago. I found my rattle to be caused by a loose mounting system. I removed, reseated and tightened it as securely as I could muster w/o damaging anything. That fixed my rattle completely...so far.
The (in my opinion) floating four clamp system seems unintuitive but Acoustic did so many things right I hesitate to question it.
If you haven't remounted the speakers, try that. This shows the same floating speaker clamp system in my 406 Wide cab.
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