Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

great choice….bark for days…

 

[GonePlaid]

Seconded.

 

[TBird1958]

The Southeast is a big allergy farm.

Humid......No, nope, not happening.

 

[GonePlaid]

From another thread:

 

[kyral210]

Alright ya'll... I placed an order for a 2014 and joined the club...

I intend to use the thunderbird with a pick and I like that the darker pickups interact with pick in a really cool way. But it seems like a lot of folks have other pickup preferences... Are the original T Birds brighter than current birds? I heard something about a thunder bucker?

Gemini pickups in the UK make very cool Thunderbird sized pickups. They are true humbuckers so not the side winder of the original. However, I can vouch for their customer service and product quality. I brought a set of Devastators a few months back and adore them, but the dominators give a more authentic original tone. Highly recommend. Thunderbird Bass Pickups

 

[MCF]

Gemini pickups in the UK make very cool Thunderbird sized pickups. They are true humbuckers so not the side winder of the original. However, I can vouch for their customer service and product quality. I brought a set of Devastators a few months back and adore them, but the dominators give a more authentic original tone. Highly recommend. Thunderbird Bass Pickups

I do not know where you got the idea that the original sixties Thunderbird pickups are sidewinders. They aren’t. The pickups in the ‘76 - ‘79 Bicentennial Thunderbirds are sidewinders. They are different. Some here really like them. Others not so much. YMMV.

 

[Gaolee]

the 2017ish EB4 has these sumbichs,

splitting coils on any humburgler sounds like a compromise at best, until these pickups, they are thunderous in humbucking or split. I wish I had a dozen sets of these…

too bad the bass is extremely 7enderish ergonomically…. Also too bad Gibson didn’t promote it and it’s earlier variants, this could have been a great seller and well regarded

Those pickups fit Thunderbirds and are original to 2015 Thunderbirds. Finding a 2015 is a challenge. If you see one for less than a zillion dollars, snagging it is a good move.

 

[Gaolee]

And allergies. You forgot allergies....

I don't miss that part of spring, summer, and fall in Ohio and on the East Coast. My head was happier in the western Carolina hills for some reason. My head really likes the West Coast.

 

[TBird1958]

I don't miss that part of spring, summer, and fall in Ohio and on the East Coast. My head was happier in the western Carolina hills for some reason. My head really likes the West Coast.

All of me likes the West Coast

 

[Gaolee]

All of me likes the West Coast

Well, yes, that too.

 

[dagrev]

It’s been a thing around here for a decade or two.

Often our fireworks at night aren't fireworks.

 

[RedVee]

Happy Boxing Day to our friends in the various Commonwealths!

Thank you! I’m back in the office in the 27th now.
Hope you all got to box on merrily as well.

Dumbasses around here will shoot off fireworks for any reason at anytime.

Same!
Illegal here but unless you actively explode one at / near a copper (police person) nothing happens.

 

[dagrev]

for $3,000 it doesn’t come with a case?

No kidding.

 

[dagrev]

think she won, as good as the rib was, she had a trick up her sleeve and threw this in with eggs for breakfast….
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A giant heart?


Seriously, it looks fantastic! I can almost smell it.

 

[dagrev]

It does now.

Did you buy something we will need to see pics of???

 

[RedVee]

The road back home awaits.....
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Nice driveway Donnie, you keep it nice!

 

[ThaCoast]

I do not know where you got the idea that the original sixties Thunderbird pickups are sidewinders. They aren’t. The pickups in the ‘76 - ‘79 Bicentennial Thunderbirds are sidewinders. They are different. Some here really like them. Others not so much. YMMV.

& correct me if i'm wrong, but 76-79 birds were also wired in series, as opposed to the parallel of 60s bird VIs & 87-present birds.

CHIBSONS: Does anyone have experience or recommendations for Chibson Thunderbirds?

Not much point when you can get an Epiphone.

+1 on the Epiphone front. & you sometimes get better quality. My only experience with a Chibson is a silverburst LP custom (which i still own & spent 270$ cad). It feels just like most Epiphone LP standards/customs ive played. Only difference is it says gibson & has that box/moustache headstock (which i didn't have control over, but i don't advertise it as a true gibson). I bought it on basis of modifying it anyway (pulled the pickups/electronics & installed an EMG 81 in the bridge. No neck pickup,new tuners & jack plate, & new graphtech nut).

Really, they are inexpensive, & sometimes you get what you pay for considering even the thunderbirds i've seen on those sites are off look wise. Invest in a used Epiphone bird if the model you're seeking is no longer made.

 

[GonePlaid]

Often our fireworks at night aren't fireworks.

Yeah, but I can usually tell the difference in sound.

 

[D.M.N.]

Picked up a minty Acoustic 150b for my brother for Christmas (so I can get my Sunn 200s back that was on loan). And damnit, now I need to find another minty one, because it sounds fantastic! Really great sound from just the treble and bass controls, and especially with the bright switch flicked, really brings the crunch and attack.

 

[WillyW]

Sad casualty this year…. I don’t know if we will ever recover…. Motor bearing gone… but not forgotten….