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Thunderbird Club
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Weren't Rat Bones wheels? I used to skate back in the "old days" when Dog Town, Powell, and Alva were new. Damn I feel old now
I had Rat Bones sweat pants. If I got on a skateboard today, I'd probably break a hip! Glad to know I'm in good company here.
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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
Our guitar player, who plays bass in another band, has a '60's Fender Jazz pickup in the bridge of his Ric. Sounds amazing. I think you're right about the jazz pickups fitting into the T-bird covers without their covers on. Could they be epoxied in place under the cover? That would make it easier to line them up with the string spacing. I wonder about the pole locations, too.
I'll just stick to the massive sound of the humbuckers in my Bird, That's why I have a jazz and Bird.
Hows it going guys. I have been following this club for about 2 months now and I just wanna say. Thanks, You all have been lots of help to my new project that I have just completed. I bought my '06 Thunderbird Sunburst Epiphone back in high school as my first bass. I love this bass but i grew tired of the Color. So I decided to re-do the TBird to a natural Black Stain Semi-Gloss Finish. The Projects Took me 6 Long Weeks to complete. Now that its finished, I want to share with you all and also like to be member of this Awesome "Thunderbird Club". Also for the near future Mods to this TBird. I will be adding a 3 switch Toggle and a TBX tone pot then some Seymour Duncan SSB4. But as for now, here is the Black Stain ThunderBird.
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Yep, my RayBird is something of an experimentation platform.
I put a single Duncan Quarter Pounder at the bridge a while ago, but it couldn't compete with the T40, and looked kinda dumb too. So I bought a neck QP, wired 'em in series, and stuck 'em under a chrome Tbird cover:
I did have to do some filing on the bridge QP, since it's longer than the neck version, and is a tiny bit too long to fit under the Tbird cover without modification. Minimal filing needed, though.
Now I'm contemplating a third pickup by the neck, because you can't have too many chrome pickups, right?
Just got my Thunderbird decal for this!
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
It's a sticker, but a pretty good one. I guess the best thing to do after applying would be to protect it with clear coat. Less than $8 including s&h seemed ok to me.
Photo is much clearer in my pics gallery but after I used the pic sharing site to post the shot it got a bit blurry.
Check out this item I found on eBay: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]web
They have red or silver but can do other colors.
Yep, my RayBird is something of an experimentation platform.
I put a single Duncan Quarter Pounder at the bridge a while ago, but it couldn't compete with the T40, and looked kinda dumb too. So I bought a neck QP, wired 'em in series, and stuck 'em under a chrome Tbird cover:
I did have to do some filing on the bridge QP, since it's longer than the neck version, and is a tiny bit too long to fit under the Tbird cover without modification. Minimal filing needed, though.
Now I'm contemplating a third pickup by the neck, because you can't have too many chrome pickups, right?
That looks like a bridge AND a neck SDQP under there. Had you considered two bridge pickups or two neck pickups wired in series? To keep the string spacing the same? It looks like the bridge pickup is just slightly longer.
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I used one of each so that together they would be RWRP. Those poles are big enough and numerous enough to make string spacing a non-issue.
I used one of each so that together they would be RWRP. Those poles are big enough and numerous enough to make string spacing a non-issue.
Fair point (about the pole size)! I'm very curious to hear how it sounds. Thanks for posting that!
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hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I used one of each so that together they would be RWRP. Those poles are big enough and numerous enough to make string spacing a non-issue.
Pardon my ignorance, but what does RWRP mean?
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Yep, it's what makes a humbucker buck the hum.
It's positioned pretty close to the bridge, so it has lots of treble content, but the series winding adds both output volume and low mids. Really, it was just a cheap way for me to improve the tone...
