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Thunderbird Club

#2,045
Visions said:
Big fan of TBirds and currently looking for a SS Thunderbird.

Do you guys think this one is in good condition?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171393503704
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We were discussing that very bass a few pages back, it's a standard 34" scale 'Bird, the Gibson version has no raised center block and the knobs do not line up straight.
 
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awilkie84 said:
That one was discussed last week. It's not a SS.
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A Gibson short scale Thunderbird bass looks like this:

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#2,052
undead_menace said:
So, I just happened across Jeff Babicz's facebook a while ago and saw this. The new Babicz FCH 3 point drop in replacement bridge for Gibson basses. It looks pretty awesome to me, but I've never used a Babicz bridge on anything before.
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Oh, I like this!!! Much more than the Supertone. :D I wonder if he'll do one with chrome saddles. :P
 
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undead_menace said:
It's that saddle locking system that has me really interested
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Saddle locking is pretty much a gimmick. I mean, really. How often do your saddles move out of position that you need to lock them down?? Given that they have screws going through the back of the bridge with springs on them, the locks are kind of unnecessary. Personally, I'd want the bridge just for the fact that it looks much better for intonation than the 3 point. It also appears to have about 1/4" more play for intonation than he 3 point.
 
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awilkie84 said:
Saddle locking is pretty much a gimmick. I mean, really. How often do your saddles move out of position that you need to lock them down?? Given that they have screws going through the back of the bridge with springs on them, the locks are kind of unnecessary. Personally, I'd want the bridge just for the fact that it looks much better for intonation than the 3 point. It also appears to have about 1/4" more play for intonation than he 3 point.
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It may well be a gimmick, but if you've ever broken a string while playing you'll know that the saddle drops right out of the bridge and isn't very easy to find on a dark stage in the middle of your set. Plus I'd imagine that you wouldn't have to set intonation everytime you change strings, so it seems like a pretty useful gimmick.
 
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TBird1958 said:
I use a Line 6 Bass Pod Live and give each bass it's own setup, it helps take into account the many individual differences basses have and still be manageable onstage when I want to use different 'Birds during a show.
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I use the programmable sansamp bddi with 6 settings for my bass juggling- I went with that because I didn't want to start knob twiddling with all the amp models and stuff- like the raw tone
 
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jaibeau said:
I use the programmable sansamp bddi with 6 settings for my bass juggling- I went with that because I didn't want to start knob twiddling with all the amp models and stuff- like the raw tone
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I'd be the very first to admit that the learning curve on the Line 6 was steep, but I had a lot to learn about my own tone at the same time - It took the help our guitarist and reading a lot of posts here on TB to learn how to shape my tone and get it to travel out into a room as something other than mud. I' ll take a look at that Sansamp, it sounds like a nice piece of gear.

FWIW that 3 point replacement looks way better than a Hipshot, if I needed one I'd go there!
 
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