Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

Dano "short-horn" DC reissues are long-scale. (34") Originals were ss.
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My '68 Dano made Silvertone 1443 Hornets & Corral Deluxe Bass are 34" scale.

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The Freebass, a Coral something or another, was a short scale. It had an insanely small double octave neck with no truss rod.

 

[Gaolee]

Exactly. Love a pickup right against the neck. I play a peavey T-40 a lot and an EB-0. But with this thunderbird I’m going to remove the bridge pickup and plug the cavity and refinish in blue, so it would be amazing to have just “middle” t bird pickup, and gold foil in the neck. But the gold foil is surface mount, and it’s too tall to put in the neck. Would have to counter sink a route and drill through for the wire, not sure it’s worth all the effort.

"Worth it" is all relative.

 

[Gaolee]

This Guy! He's everywhere!

And always sounds good.

 

[JIO]

There's a huge difference between Formica and Masonite. Formica is plastic laminate, and Masonite is pressboard. Making anything out of Masonite is a challenge because it fuzzes up so easily.

If addressed, it's cheep and useful in many applications.

used as an inboard leveling platform (raw & contained)

...and sealed with paint if exposed - outboard platform. I used an old plaster-textured paint sample board so that's why it's textured. Looks a bit like slate, which is another Decorative Arts 'look' I've used.

 

[JIO]

The Freebass, a Coral something or another, was a short scale. It had an insanely small double octave neck with no truss rod.

yep - the Wasp ... this one is pretty rough

There must have been a couple different versions, because the one above has a 22 fret neck -

This (very nice) one ('67) has a 24 fret neck -

 

[GBassNorth]

New tuner Thursday!
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Nice to see the rack case put to good use. It sat in my garage for 10 years gathering dust, almost threw it out a couple of times. Nice looking rig!

 

[TBird1958]

Put a Curtis Novak H22 gold foil in a old peavey bass recently View attachment 5275784
But sat it up on my epi T bird first for some possible future mods View attachment 5275785 View attachment 5275786

Cool! Be welcome here with us!

 

[GBassNorth]

By gosh, it’s Thunderbird Thursday, post em if ya got em!

…I need to update my photos. The Bach on the left isn’t mine anymore and there’s about another 10 birds in the house that aren’t even in the photo.

 

[Stealth57]

By gosh, it’s Thunderbird Thursday, post em if ya got em!
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…I need to update my photos. The Bach on the left isn’t mine anymore and there’s about another 10 birds in the house that aren’t even in the photo.

Whip out the Bling!

 

[GBassNorth]

Whip out the Bling!

She’s still here! Along with the Dingwall, a white Greco, a White CP, a couple of Goths, an Eppi NR, a Gibby NR, an Acasia NR 5 string, a Spector Rex 5 Pro, a ThunderCaster, and a ‘68 tribute Eppi NR.

 

[WillyW]

My DC is 34” and I wouldn’t have gotten it if it was a 30”.

I really do like longhorns, except for the scale length.

 

[JIO]

A cool T-bSO from Spain I stumbled across on Reverb. I like a lot of its details. Vila Guitars - Austral Bass - 2 Tone Sunburst | Reverb Canada

 

[TBird1958]

7enderbird phun!
Happy Thursday

 

[RedVee]

In the last band I was in, the singer told me that I was the "eye candy" in the band. That should give you an idea of how attractive our band was.

I didn’t know you were in AC/DC ?

 

[Thumper]

Finally getting there. I may need to swap out the 3 point bridge for something a little wider/adjustable width. Yes, it's going to have black trim rings, VT/VT, and a dark Telecaster neck.

 

[JIO]

Oh my!

Was especially happy to find this recent performance in Močvara Zageb Croatia by my favorite Croatian Surf/Lounge band the Bambie Molesters who I thought dis-banded. (maybe a special performance?) It appears they have a new guitarist (stage left playing the Gretsch) Love Lada (Lada Furlan Zaborac) on bass! There was a short period where there was a male bass-player, maternity leave? She's married to their drummer. Hrvoje Zaborac

Anyway - also on that stage, Messer Chups!

 

[dagrev]

New tuner Thursday!
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That looks great.

Why when I see cool amps I long for them?

 

[dagrev]

Masonite and Formica

both are tone woods

Please post that in the GP forum. That will be a hoot!

 

[dagrev]

A cool T-bSO from Spain I stumbled across on Reverb. I like a lot of its details. Vila Guitars - Austral Bass - 2 Tone Sunburst | Reverb Canada

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That's really nice looking.

 

[MCF]

Exactly. Love a pickup right against the neck. I play a peavey T-40 a lot and an EB-0. But with this thunderbird I’m going to remove the bridge pickup and plug the cavity and refinish in blue, so it would be amazing to have just “middle” t bird pickup, and gold foil in the neck. But the gold foil is surface mount, and it’s too tall to put in the neck. Would have to counter sink a route and drill through for the wire, not sure it’s worth all the effort.

Blue!