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Thunderbird Club Pt. II

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#83
As requested from TBird1958....here's my Guitar of the Week #11

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#84
Allright!

Pics = one very good looking Thunderbird #400 of 400, how cool is that!
I've heard the Zebrawood yields a bit differnet tone than the standard, perhaps a bit tighter and darker?






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#85
TBird1958 said:
Allright!

Pics = one very good looking Thunderbird #400 of 400, how cool is that!
I've heard the Zebrawood yields a bit differnet tone than the standard, perhaps a bit tighter and darker?
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Yes sir, very different in tone...if anything i'd say tighter and brighter, and smooth as silk when run through an acoustic amp.
 
#87
My pickup arrived today from Mike Lull. Got it installed with a CTS 500K pot, so my Bluebird is pretty much done for now. I may be upgrading the pickguard and installing a 60's style tail piece behind the 3-Point (like the Grecos) later on - but for now - it's done. Installation was a breeze. The pickup is incredibly thin - and I didn't have to do any routing. The Epi route is narrow enough that the Lull is sitting on the surface of the raised section, with a piece of foam filling the old cavity.

So far I'm very pleased with the sound. Before installing- I rigged the pickup up to a cord and did some A/B comparisons to my Blackbird, IV, and Epi. Of all of them - it's closest to the Blackbird for output and tone. I would describe the Lull as having a broader frequency range than the IV and the Epi. Very open - very clean - and good output. You can tell the pickup is hand made, and the quality is reflected in the price tag.

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#88
stiles72 said:
My pickup arrived today from Mike Lull. Got it installed with a CTS 500K pot, so my Bluebird is pretty much done for now. I may be upgrading the pickguard and installing a 60's style tail piece behind the 3-Point (like the Grecos) later on - but for now - it's done. Installation was a breeze. The pickup is incredibly thin - and I didn't have to do any routing. The Epi route is narrow enough that the Lull is sitting on the surface of the raised section, with a piece of foam filling the old cavity.

So far I'm very pleased with the sound. Before installing- I rigged the pickup up to a cord and did some A/B comparisons to my Blackbird, IV, and Epi. Of all of them - it's closest to the Blackbird for output and tone. I would describe the Lull as having a broader frequency range than the IV and the Epi. Very open - very clean - and good output. You can tell the pickup is hand made, and the quality is reflected in the price tag.

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Beautiful, very nice looking T Bird, I love the retro look!
 
#93
He's made them all along, but Mike swore me to secrecy about that! Lull picked up all the tooling costs for that pup, TV Jones and now, Seymore Duncan hand make them.
 
#94
I am so jealous.
I have always wanted a blue Thunderbird.
I almost resorted to getting one of those bolt-on neck Epis when they made them in blue a few years ago.

If I had only known, that someday, someone would make a vintage replacement T-Bird pup I would have kept my Pelham Blue 1966 Thunderbird II.


Aftrer seeing those pups, I'm now very seriously considering converting my Epi T-Bird Pro to chrome. Except for on white, I've never really liked the black hardware.

 
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BluesBear said:
I am so jealous.
I have always wanted a blue Thunderbird.
I almost resorted to getting one of those bolt-on neck Epis when they made them in blue a few years ago.

If I had only known, that someday, someone would make a vintage replacement T-Bird pup I would have kept my Pelham Blue 1966 Thunderbird II.
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This bass reminds me of a car my Granadma used to have - a '67 Pontiac Executive. It was a boat but it hauled ass! The front end looked like a big bird coming at you, and it had lot's of chrome. The paint was about the same shade of blue as the bass, but the roof was white. She also at one point had a '67 Ford Thunderbird Landau - black on black, with a 428 :cool:

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#97
TBird1958 said:
Chromey goodness calls you!
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Yes it does.

And I also prefer the old style clover tuners. I went ahead and put a Gotoh Hipshot D-Tuner on my Epi but only because I couldn't find a deal on an entire set of black clovers. Now I'm glad I didn't since I'm thinking of chrome.

I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only person left who actually LIKES bridge/pickup covers.

 
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stiles72 said:
This bass reminds me of a car my Granadma used to have - a '67 Pontiac Executive. It was a boat but it hauled ass! The front end looked like a big bird coming at you, and it had lot's of chrome.
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My next door neighbor had one of those Executives too. I used to ride in it to church every Sunday.
I was huge but it rode like a cloud. A big bouncing chrome trimmed cloud.

 
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