Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

Funny. I'd been thinking just that! Closeup with the olld phone camera made the chassis look curved.
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What a sight.

 

[semiprohooker]

That's close. The Mono is listed at 48" and that one is listed at 50". I'm gonna keep looking and see if I can find a 52 somewhere.

Coffin Case Chimera is listed at 52". Might have to try that out sometime soon.

 

[semiprohooker]

I had no idea the Lull oversize was that much bigger! Wow.

Maybe I'll take two basses to the gig Saturday. If my wife grabs pics I'll give you a better idea of it strapped on.

 

[dagrev]

I've had this listed on craiglist and facebook market and had near zero interest on them. I figured it would be gone already. I actually love this bass, but I stumbled across a bass that was mine almost 20 years ago and trying to move it quickly to secure it.

I would of sold it here, but I cant seem to find a box big enough.

Thank goodness you're not any closer! Hate that you have to sell it.

 

[MCF]

Forgive me me for I have sinned. A new FSO has entered my home. Back in the 80s I was in a guitar shop in Yokohama and spotted a Seymour Duncan "51 Tele". I was already familiar with Mr. Duncan's pickups, but I didn't know he was making guitars. I bought it and it was my favorite Tele. I loved the v neck profile, the 3 saddle bridge, the sound. Decades later I found out that these were made by ESP as more or less replica platforms for the Seymour Duncan 50s and 60s style Fender pickups for the Japanese market. I figured there had to be bass models as well, but I never saw any on any site. Then I saw it, a Seymour Duncan Jazz bass. I bought it. I had to. Alcohol was not involved. It's great. Needs some low weight tuners and a previous owner replaced the original bridge with a badass bridge. But the neck is fantastic and the pickups sound fabulous. I have hurry up and sell a bunch stuff that's just sitting in cases.

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Definitely love the LPB. Very nice looking bass.

 

[dagrev]

Forgive me me for I have sinned. A new FSO has entered my home. Back in the 80s I was in a guitar shop in Yokohama and spotted a Seymour Duncan "51 Tele". I was already familiar with Mr. Duncan's pickups, but I didn't know he was making guitars. I bought it and it was my favorite Tele. I loved the v neck profile, the 3 saddle bridge, the sound. Decades later I found out that these were made by ESP as more or less replica platforms for the Seymour Duncan 50s and 60s style Fender pickups for the Japanese market. I figured there had to be bass models as well, but I never saw any on any site. Then I saw it, a Seymour Duncan Jazz bass. I bought it. I had to. Alcohol was not involved. It's great. Needs some low weight tuners and a previous owner replaced the original bridge with a badass bridge. But the neck is fantastic and the pickups sound fabulous. I have hurry up and sell a bunch stuff that's just sitting in cases.

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We all have our times of weakness. Love the color!

 

[dagrev]

I once touched a crescent wrench across the terminals on an alternator. Fortunately, wacked my elbow on the radiator causing my hand to open. Wrench flew across the garage leaving a couple of melted weld marks on the wrench handle.

Another interesting move was dropping a cookoo clock chain across a wall plug that had come loose. Another unintentional welding job.

You people are scaring me. I'm glad I always had good sense.

 

[Stealth57]

@Miles_ONeal Volume 1 consumed.

 

[dagrev]

As mentioned earlier it was New Bass Day at the GBass house today (x2)! I'm always on the hunt for Tbird shaped objects that deliver a sound that I don't already have covered.

To that end I found a great deal on a pristine 1995 Eppi NR with the P/J pups. Very Fender sounding, very Gibson looking. Plays great albeit a bit neck heavy, she wants to hang at 3:00 with a slick strap but stays put with a grippy strap. I'll do a formal review once I've completed with the setup and have a few days playing time logged in. So far looks like a keeper, and of all things to make note of on the bass, its the tuners. I'll need to look into them a bit, some of the best feeling smoothest action pinpoint accurate tuners I've ever used.
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And since it's white Wednesday, its appropriate that this bird found a new home. A 2012 Eppi CP in pristine condition with the rare pup spacing that makes these Gibson TB+ pickups sing loud and clear. It was a Craigslisting that sparked the sale but coincidentally I found out later it was also listed in the TB classifieds by one of our non frequent Tbird club members (great guy BTW). He still has his VP so I assume he'll stay in the club. I got it home this afternoon and did a quick inspection and set up and she plays even better than she looks. I'll do an in-depth review of the CP and a comparison with my Gibby Anniversary bird that has the same pickups in standard Gibby locations and my VP that has ProBuckers in pretty much the same locations as the CP. Stay tuned…
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Congrats! Both look great.

 

[GonePlaid]

Oversized body and headstock both.



Yes and yes. I have several off the regular diamondlife, but when I needed more they were on backorder.



Hmmm. Rock bag...

Meant to post these earlier. Got distracted.
Rockbag(from Dean):

And w/ 67NR:

 

[GonePlaid]

View attachment 5174142 Well, this is my Fender Stage 112SE amp. Solid state, Nineties tech which is indestructible. It's also pretty much the sound I have in my head. There's one problem, though: when turned up to two, it blows down the walls of my room. This thing can give a Marshall stack a run for its money, it's that FULL ON.

And every time during rehearsals my fellow band members go "You're too loud, turn it down!" and I'm going "Can't, it simply won't go quieter than this." Still, I LOVE this amp, there's nothing like it.

So today I decided to start looking for something less loud. And among other things tried out the PRS MT-15 Head (Which sounds amazing), a DV Mark tube head (Didn't like it at all) and a Hughes and Kettner Nano head (Blown away by the sound, but it's not very versatile)

So the guy at the shop asked me what the problem was, and I told him about my Fender being too loud for its own good. And then he said "Have you tried putting a Volume pedal in the send and return circuit?" And a light bulb went on in my head.

I had one of these switch boxes gathering dust in my room, which I originally used to hook up a scanner and printer to a PC. (Ah the nineties...) Before a scanner/printer combination device rendered it obsolete.

So I gutted that thing, put in a linear volume pot, wired up an input and output jack and took the thing to rehearsal. I hooked it up to my amp and son of a gun, IT WORKS.

Now, my bandmates actually told me to turn up since I wasn't loud enough.

Ya can't ever make them happy.

 

[semiprohooker]

Meant to post these earlier. Got distracted.
Rockbag(from Dean):
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And w/ 67NR:
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I see what you were talking about with the sliding around. Still an interesting option to try to find though.

 

[GonePlaid]

Coffin Case Chimera is listed at 52". Might have to try that out sometime soon.

Someone say CoffinTM Case?

 

[semiprohooker]

Someone say CoffinTM Case?
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Nice. I'm looking for the gig bag Chimera sleeve though

 

[Miles_ONeal]

@Miles_ONeal Volume 1 consumed.

I hope you found it tasty!

 

[Engle]

View attachment 5174142 Well, this is my Fender Stage 112SE amp. Solid state, Nineties tech which is indestructible. It's also pretty much the sound I have in my head. There's one problem, though: when turned up to two, it blows down the walls of my room. This thing can give a Marshall stack a run for its money, it's that FULL ON.

And every time during rehearsals my fellow band members go "You're too loud, turn it down!" and I'm going "Can't, it simply won't go quieter than this." Still, I LOVE this amp, there's nothing like it.

So today I decided to start looking for something less loud. And among other things tried out the PRS MT-15 Head (Which sounds amazing), a DV Mark tube head (Didn't like it at all) and a Hughes and Kettner Nano head (Blown away by the sound, but it's not very versatile)

So the guy at the shop asked me what the problem was, and I told him about my Fender being too loud for its own good. And then he said "Have you tried putting a Volume pedal in the send and return circuit?" And a light bulb went on in my head.

I had one of these switch boxes gathering dust in my room, which I originally used to hook up a scanner and printer to a PC. (Ah the nineties...) Before a scanner/printer combination device rendered it obsolete.

So I gutted that thing, put in a linear volume pot, wired up an input and output jack and took the thing to rehearsal. I hooked it up to my amp and son of a gun, IT WORKS.

Now, my bandmates actually told me to turn up since I wasn't loud enough.

I like nothing better than repurposing an old piece of tech.

 

[Nocturnal]

As mentioned earlier it was New Bass Day at the GBass house today (x2)! I'm always on the hunt for Tbird shaped objects that deliver a sound that I don't already have covered.

To that end I found a great deal on a pristine 1995 Eppi NR with the P/J pups. Very Fender sounding, very Gibson looking. Plays great albeit a bit neck heavy, she wants to hang at 3:00 with a slick strap but stays put with a grippy strap. I'll do a formal review once I've completed with the setup and have a few days playing time logged in. So far looks like a keeper, and of all things to make note of on the bass, its the tuners. I'll need to look into them a bit, some of the best feeling smoothest action pinpoint accurate tuners I've ever used.
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And since it's white Wednesday, its appropriate that this bird found a new home. A 2012 Eppi CP in pristine condition with the rare pup spacing that makes these Gibson TB+ pickups sing loud and clear. It was a Craigslisting that sparked the sale but coincidentally I found out later it was also listed in the TB classifieds by one of our non frequent Tbird club members (great guy BTW). He still has his VP so I assume he'll stay in the club. I got it home this afternoon and did a quick inspection and set up and she plays even better than she looks. I'll do an in-depth review of the CP and a comparison with my Gibby Anniversary bird that has the same pickups in standard Gibby locations and my VP that has ProBuckers in pretty much the same locations as the CP. Stay tuned…
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Congrats on your new basses! The Epi NR is a thicker bass than most Birds, but I like mine. I've thought about swapping the neck for a 7ender type, but I know I will never get around to do it.

 

[Stealth57]

I hope you found it tasty!

Easy read that draws you into wanting to know what's next.

 

[JIO]

20% bigger body and headstock, but much thinner.View attachment 5174375 View attachment 5174376

Thinner (like the '63-'65) is good.

 

[GBassNorth]

Looks to be in mint condition! I still think that bass would be a perfect candidate for a Guild RI Darkstar pu in the N-position and strung-up BEAD. I'd do a black pg also and replace the B-pu with a beefy/overwound Lindy Fraylin or some such J B-pu. At least it has a decent Fender-style bridge.

That's certainly a good list of mods if I decide to go down the mod route on the 95 NR. An idea I was toying with on the pickup end of the bass is installing a single coil GFS lipstick pickup in place of the split P and a GFS dual coil lipstick humbucker with a triple shot trim ring in place of the bridge pickup. If all the associated wiring is done right (requires some unique but easily doable wiring methods) it would be a Tbird with a bit of a Dano vibe going on. I do love the Dano sound, could be a very interesting player.