Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

oh my, what do we have here……paid 50 bucks…..NOS tubes alone are worth at least five times that….to think all you needed was the RCA manual and a supply of tubes to build a couple of hundred of these a month and make a decent living…..”Industria Argentina”….long gone days….. these sound exceptionally good (well)…..

 

[JJR58]

WANT!

Want more!!!

IF, that were ever to come on the market.
I bet it would be an extremely limited run.
And way out of my dollar reach.

 

[JJR58]

oh my, what do we have here……paid 50 bucks…..NOS tubes alone are worth at least five times that….to think all you needed was the RCA manual and a supply of tubes to build a couple of hundred of these a month and make a decent living…..”Industria Argentina”….long gone days….. these sound exceptionally good (well)…..
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You score the coolest stuff Chuck.

 

[TBird1958]

Want more!!!

IF, that were ever to come on the market.
I bet it would be an extremely limited run.
And way out of my dollar reach.

It's why you have two kidneys, Jeff - Sell one!

 

[Basvarken]

Wow. What's the pickup?

That was DeCola's reissue of the historic 60's T-Bird Pickup. He made the bridge a little hotter than the neck pickup so they would balance better. David Kiswiney's bass has the hotter bridge position pickup.

 

[JJR58]

It's why you have two kidneys, Jeff - Sell one!

Decisions, decisions............. But i could probably get that bass and a first class ticket to Cali/Seattle.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

You score the coolest stuff Chuck.

thank you my Brother……one of the reasons I like to come here is, they haven’t been bit by the “American Pickers” type mania of gathering cool old stuff so antique shops are ripe with goodies…..
that old Norton again, schmoe literally uses it as his daily….

 

[JIO]

thank you my Brother……one of the reasons I like to come here is, they haven’t been bit by the “American Pickers” type mania of gathering cool old stuff so antique shops are ripe with goodies…..
that old Norton again, schmoe literally uses it as his daily….
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That recent/newer Citroen is visually similar to the old Deux Chevaux - I knew a guy who had one exactly like this one, same colour and everything.

 

[Nocturnal]

David Kiswiney shared these pics with me.
Gibson's master builder Jim De Cola built this beautiful Thunderbird II for him.

The neck is not a nine ply laminate. But three piece mahogany.
The machine heads are Hipshot Ultra-lites.
It also has the Rex Brown Active boost via a push/pull switch on the tone control.
At the request of David the lower strap button was placed off-center, for better balance

Gibson should be taking these into production! They'd have a real winner in their hands.

That is fantastic!!! Why won't they sell this model???

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That is fantastic!!! Why won't they sell this model???

ironic us “Gibsonites” have to hear about that bass from someone in Europe (no disrespect intended Basvarken)….

 

[Miles_ONeal]

according to a fellow student at UM who worked at Dania Jai Alai, some schmoe used to snip parts of his fingers off to collect insurance to be able to keep going back…WT7?!..

Addiction's a b14ch.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

oh my, what do we have here……paid 50 bucks…..NOS tubes alone are worth at least five times that….to think all you needed was the RCA manual and a supply of tubes to build a couple of hundred of these a month and make a decent living…..”Industria Argentina”….long gone days….. these sound exceptionally good (well)…..
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You can still make a living off those if you can tap into the audiophile market.

 

[PhR75]

Are there any distinctive things to look on the TB+ pickups to see which one is for bridge position? Or should I just measure them? Don't have a meter at home so...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Are there any distinctive things to look on the TB+ pickups to see which one is for bridge position? Or should I just measure them? Don't have a meter at home so...

just play the darn thing…

 

[PhR75]

just play the darn thing…

I'm not that good at soldering so I'd rather put them in right places the first time. Unless someone tells that they both have the same ohms.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm not that good at soldering so I'd rather put them in right places the first time. Unless someone tells that they both have the same ohms.

gotcha..

 

[GBassNorth]

That was DeCola's reissue of the historic 60's T-Bird Pickup. He made the bridge a little hotter than the neck pickup so they would balance better. David Kiswiney's bass has the hotter bridge position pickup.

Is that the same pickup the new Gibson NR has? Or did they just use the Epiphone VP/Embassy bass pickup in the new Gibson NR?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

just b/c…..

 

[PillO]

It's really well done, you cannot help but wonder at the courage of the young men that willingly flew, especially in '43

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting despite fear.

 

[PillO]

Even for a IV person like myself, that looks great and would be a good seller. Which almost certainly means Gibson won't do it.

I don't know... Gibson did an awful lot right with the NR Thunderbird and those sold so well, they did several runs of them (probably many more than expected). It is almost like they are learning (slowly).