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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Jun 30, 2010
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Teisco was one of the major guitar/bass producers from Japan in the 'guitar-boom' '60s. Mostly short scale basses to appeal to new young players. Many people (including me!) started out on basses from Japan then. Their designs were based on top brand makers like Fender, Gibson, Guild, Burns and Vox, but not clones like the later '70s models were. The Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar body was the most referenced.
After getting the EB-200 6yrs ago, it inspired me to make a few bass's referencing it in 34" and 32" scale.
L to R : '65 Teisco EB-200 / Teiscobird I - with mid '60's vintage EB-200 mahogany body, Epi Goth neck and Guild RI Darkstar pu / T-45bird - with '80s Peavey T-45 pu & Epi Goth neck/basswood body / "XD" - 32" scale with '60s vintage Teisco pu's/basswood body / Teisco Bluebird - T-bird pu's, roasted-ash body & Epi Custom Shop neck / and Teisco Redbird II.
...and a couple years ago I traded a bass for this mid '60s Teisco Del Rey NR-1 with pro-modded lined ebony fb. I added the Guild RI Darkstar bridge pu.
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- Mar 13, 2008
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The black on black looks great!
See if you have a resolution setting on your Samsung, or see if there is a goofy resolution limit on google (i.e. maybe free downloads are less resolution than a paid subscription). Interestingly, when I click on just about anybody else’s posted pics the image pops up in full size on my screen. Yours doesn’t do that, it’s no change, so I suspect either your phone or google is limiting the pixel count.
Very sweet! And a nice clear picture as well.Forgot to post yesterday, late night.
So postin' now as "have a nice week"
Hadn’t heard that before. I’m actually more likely to have WD40 in my car at the beach than baking soda, so good to know.
Looks like a good one man!
It's an old trick in Mexico. Theory is that the fish oil in WD40 acts like a solvent extracting the poison. I know it works as my youngest was asking us to take her to the hospital after a bad sting, but about 10 minutes after applying the WD40, she was out of pain.
No doubt that wasn't ideal, but all my pics seem to turn out somewhat unclear when posted. Maybe I need to look into them being saved as high quality (which I thought they were).
Maybe it's the configuration of the camera?
When we used to go to Gulf Shores people would say steak sauce worked really well. Something odd like that.
Thanks! I'll look around on the phone and google.
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
They are very good sounding pu's and appeared on many Teisco related brands. My EB-200 w/old flats (on it when I bought it - med blue threaded ends) can nail that pillowy '60s bass tone as good or better than any P-bass.
Google settings are set to original quality and the phone seems normal as well. Nothing odd. I downloaded this from google and uploaded it to TB. Can it be expanded? Thanks.
This seems some better. Lighting? But no flash. But is not really clear like some others here.
Yes, expands nicely when clicked on.
The pic looks sharper as well. Now let’s talk about that glue joint on the chair back, it needs some work.
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- Jun 30, 2010
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This and the other pics look great. Black-on-black looks great on Fenders I think. I had a Jazz like that. I'm also a sucker for Antigua.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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My sons band played a outdoor festival outside of Skaneateles NY yesterday and I was invited up to play a song. It was a great family day and father son bonding. Hot as hell I'm glad I only had to play one song! Despite the heat my no shorts rule held.
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