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Thunderbird Club

#2,342
Nocturnal said:
...My wife is starting to make comments about too many basses and not enough space.

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Somehow that comment seem very familiar to me... ;)
 
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TBird1958 said:
Looks Great Andy!
I'll have you know your landscaping served as inspiration for a lot of work in my back yard this summer, lots of Lava Rock.........
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Thanks! You need to show me pics of your yard Mark. It's nice to be an influence of some kind on people.....even tho I prefer to be a bad influence :angel:

Haji said:
Did Fernandez also make a reverse of that model? I don't remember ever seeing one, ever, so seeing an NR seems especially rare. That's a neat lookin' Bird! Nocturnal has the great collection and the cool yard, too.
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Not sure if they made a reverse model. If so I don't recall ever seeing one. These don't turn up often so I jumped on this one. My collection is not as nice as Marks, but I'm working on it!!

hillerup said:
Somehow that comment seem very familiar to me... ;)
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Yeah, our wives must think alike. But she did buy me the gold Bird so I can't complain :)

wolfkeller said:
That's awsome I looked forever for one cuz it would be perfect lefty flipped over!
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I thought of that today when I was taking the picture. It would probably be the easiest righty to lefty conversion ever of a bass.

Finally had a chance to plug it into my Ampeg SVT100 today and it sounded much better than thru my Crate combo. Picked up some new strings today as well so that will help too I'm sure.
 
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Nocturnal said:
Finally had a chance to plug it into my Ampeg SVT100 today and it sounded much better than thru my Crate combo. Picked up some new strings today as well so that will help too I'm sure.
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I remember thinking the exact same thing with my epi goth. Tried it out in store through an svt, loved it. At home through a marshall combo, no justice at all. Going back through friends huge combo amp, and remembered why i fell in love with a bird. You pretty much get the full potential and crisp clear tone through bigger rigs opposed to small combos.
 
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Here is a little "art project" I threw together with a beat up Epi TBird body and some old strings and bridge. The body would have cost too much to get back to useable condition (routes to fill on the back) and I didn't feel like pursuing it. I stripped the aqua paint that was on it and this is what it looked like. Thought it would look cool hanging in my office. Looks better in person and on my phone, but I can't seem to get my phone to work with Talkbass right now.

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mr.mow said:
So, has anyone tried jamming some jazz bass pickups under some chrome covers? It looks to me like diagonally they would fit and, well I like single coils..

Just sayin'..
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If you can take the covers off the jazz pickups----they actually should fit under the thunderbird covers, without having to tilt them diagonally (a vintage thunderbird cover is near exactly the same length as a 4 string jazz bridge pickup cover). the problem from there is that they would be in the way of the screw holes. You'd have to drill some new holes off to the sides.
 
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'51 P Bass fit nicely, I wonder how the poles on J pups would line up with the strings?
I had a DiMarzio J pup in my old Rick for awhile :bassist:
 
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TBird1958 said:
'51 P Bass fit nicely, I wonder how the poles on J pups would line up with the strings?
I had a DiMarzio J pup in my old Rick for awhile :bassist:
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Not too far off by the looks of it..
My reasoning is.. I have the TBird and a Les Paul bass, they both sound very similar seeing they both have the TBird+ pickups, twin single coils in the TBird may absolutely kill.. And give me a variation.
 
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mr.mow said:
Not too far off by the looks of it..
My reasoning is.. I have the TBird and a Les Paul bass, they both sound very similar seeing they both have the TBird+ pickups, twin single coils in the TBird may absolutely kill.. And give me a variation.
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You should talk to ctmullins he just fitted two jazz pickups under a chrome T-bird cover on his T-bird build.

You can see pictures of this on the ThunderTwins! thread of his, on the last page...
 
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Nocturnal said:
Here is a little "art project" I threw together with a beat up Epi TBird body and some old strings and bridge. The body would have cost too much to get back to useable condition (routes to fill on the back) and I didn't feel like pursuing it. I stripped the aqua paint that was on it and this is what it looked like. Thought it would look cool hanging in my office. Looks better in person and on my phone, but I can't seem to get my phone to work with Talkbass right now.

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Keep it that color. Clear coat and done.
 
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I did my first gig with the Epi T-bird Pro Saturday , first gig with any kind of bird for that matter. I must admit I was very skeptical when I first got it ,but I am happy to say I am now a fan of this bird . My son made the comment " cant believe you have all these nice basses and your gonna play an epi" . Everything on the bass was set on the detent ,flat , pickups set center also , dime the volume . My rig is two BRX10.2 cabs and a Genz gbe 750 ,also everything at 12.00 except the gain and master . Great tone for classic rock, if I needed lows and punch I played over the neck pup, if I need more articulation I played over the bridge pup. The best move was trashing the Hartke strings and putting on a set of D'addario XL's . Big improvement in sound and playability. Well there it is from a first time T-Birder. I like it !! These things are long tho , I think I hit everything on stage with it , both ends.
 
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Reservoir Dog said:
I did my first gig with the Epi T-bird Pro Saturday , first gig with any kind of bird for that matter. I must admit I was very skeptical when I first got it ,but I am happy to say I am now a fan of this bird . My son made the comment " cant believe you have all these nice basses and your gonna play an epi" . Everything on the bass was set on the detent ,flat , pickups set center also , dime the volume . My rig is two BRX10.2 cabs and a Genz gbe 750 ,also everything at 12.00 except the gain and master . Great tone for classic rock, if I needed lows and punch I played over the neck pup, if I need more articulation I played over the bridge pup. The best move was trashing the Hartke strings and putting on a set of D'addario XL's . Big improvement in sound and playability. Well there it is from a first time T-Birder. I like it !! These things are long tho , I think I hit everything on stage with it , both ends.
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That's great. I still haven't used mine to play out yet, but then again, my first time was only two weeks ago and it was an acoustic setting so I used my Dean Exotica. Now, after thinking about it I realize I could've used my Pro IV so I'm definitely using it next time.
 
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Reservoir Dog said:
I did my first gig with the Epi T-bird Pro Saturday , first gig with any kind of bird for that matter. I must admit I was very skeptical when I first got it ,but I am happy to say I am now a fan of this bird . My son made the comment " cant believe you have all these nice basses and your gonna play an epi" . Everything on the bass was set on the detent ,flat , pickups set center also , dime the volume . My rig is two BRX10.2 cabs and a Genz gbe 750 ,also everything at 12.00 except the gain and master . Great tone for classic rock, if I needed lows and punch I played over the neck pup, if I need more articulation I played over the bridge pup. The best move was trashing the Hartke strings and putting on a set of D'addario XL's . Big improvement in sound and playability. Well there it is from a first time T-Birder. I like it !! These things are long tho , I think I hit everything on stage with it , both ends.
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