Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

I also have an early dot and bound '66J, still haven’t bonded with it after 38 years.
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Which supports the fact that any bass regardless of brand/lineage or vintage can be bonded to ...or not. I'm "Bonded" to mine with Bond Girl.

 

[KaraQ]

I'm thinking it's safe to assume this is why it's a "deep" variant?

 

[GBassNorth]

I also have an early dot and bound '66J, still haven’t bonded with it after 38 years.
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That first one (with the feather) the ThunderJazz looking thing - tell me more about it. Looks like it would sound awesome!

And that last one - is that a Fender Modern Player Tele? I absolutely love mine, best sounding Fender I own. They only made them for a year or two, getting very hard to find. My next Tbird build will be a complete modern player - neck, pickups, and hardware dropped onto a Reverse Tbird body using the Modern player pup locations as well.

 

[GBassNorth]

The before pic, from a couple of days ago .....

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The now pic, from now days ago....

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I love that color on the Jazz! Would make a great finish on a bird as well. Has kind of a pearl shell pink look to it. What does Fender call that color?

 

[JIO]

Friday night Sat morning concert from Stockholm -

 

[KaraQ]

I love that color on the Jazz! Would make a great finish on a bird as well. Has kind of a pearl shell pink look to it. What does Fender call that color?

Burgundy Mist, iirc....

 

[JIO]

I love that color on the Jazz! Would make a great finish on a bird as well. Has kind of a pearl shell pink look to it. What does Fender call that color?

Burgundy Mist Metallic

 

[dagrev]

Friday night Sat morning concert from Stockholm -

Sounds very nice! Maybe they will get a real drummer one day. This guy clearly doesn't know you have to have 38 piece kit and beat them with great ferocity to be the real deal.

 

[Gaolee]

Pickups and jack but I thought what the heck, I may ‘upgrade’ everything. Anyway my luthier recommended to go with Puretone jacks instead of Switchcraft. I had not heard of them before.
Going with Lollars for the pickups.

Lollars are great. That will be a thunderous bass guitar when the work is done. Sounds like the luthier may just build the harness.

 

[JJR58]

I put Rip Tides (chrome) in my '89 Ibanez (black 5-string on left):

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Wired with EMG's BTS system - really love that setup



I've been using puretone jacks (panel & barrel) lately, good quality, I like them so far

I wasn't sure what to expect from the RipTides.
But they have a certain tone i love that i've never heard from any J pick up before.

 

[JJR58]

That is one great looking bass !

Thx Mike!
It's from a Swedish luthier, but this run was MIJ.

 

[JJR58]

Wow! That looks great Jeff! But only one pic? What's up with that?

Ha!!! didn't wanna photobomb the place Donnie.

 

[JJR58]

OK.
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I'm in love!!!!

 

[PaleAngel_90]

Got myself an amp, finally. A Vox Pathfinder 10 Bass Amp. Marshall's and Ampegs were wayy too much expensive. I love that it looks like an AC-30.

 

[sleepingEB0]

Does Marshall sell bass amps?

 

[dagrev]

Ha!!! didn't wanna photobomb the place Donnie.

We can take carpet bombing of bass porn all day any day--and not even feel dirty afterwards.

 

[dagrev]

I'm in love!!!!

It's the little sexy black strap.

 

[PaleAngel_90]

Does Marshall sell bass amps?

Yes, but they're a bit expensive. Not usually as expensive as either Fender or Markbass.

 

[KaraQ]

I wasn't sure what to expect from the RipTides.
But they have a certain tone i love that i've never heard from any J pick up before.

Allegedly, they're standard EMG j-pickups, just with the chrome covers......but I agree with you, they don't sound quite like anything else, ime at least.

 

[JJR58]

Allegedly, they're standard EMG j-pickups, just with the chrome covers......but I agree with you, they don't sound quite like anything else, ime at least.

Interesting, I had standard EMG J’s before. They sounded nothing like these.