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Thunderbird Club

#274,402
Ringhammer said:
+1 Mopar guy here, but I have had my share of GM over the years, including a couple of the Pontiac version of the Camaro. The big rubber nose models, a ‘72 and a ‘73.
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‘69 SS and the ‘71 split bumper Camaros are my favorites but I’m retired so I’ll just enjoy my ‘79. One thing about car people is they’re fun to hang out and talk to at car shows. Just like Bass players…they’re good people!
 
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dagrev said:
This. Wasn't the split bumper in '70-72?
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I’m less knowledgeable about Camaros than Firebirds, but the split bumper could have been on the RS and/or SS option, and available ‘70 through ‘73?

I think US regulations changed and some kind of low speed impact bumpers were required starting ‘74, that’s when the big rubber nose Firebirds changed.
 
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JIO said:
Looks sketch but I haven't had a problem removing silks over the zero-fret on my long-scale Custom Kraft hollow-body. Doesn't affect the sound at all as the bass sounds great. :bassist:

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I suspect there are some in the Princess Fingers Club that would object to playing those strings. Actually a slide up to the nut on that D string looks like it could be painful.
 
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SubHuman said:
‘69 SS and the ‘71 split bumper Camaros are my favorites but I’m retired so I’ll just enjoy my ‘79. One thing about car people is they’re fun to hang out and talk to at car shows. Just like Bass players…they’re good people!
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love that body style….our drummer’s ‘69 Coronet 440…sweet ride, 383 manual…
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#274,412
Matt Kustom said:
Hello Thunderbird players.

Matt here from 916 Pickups.
We are a Custom Shop for guitar and bass pickups. We also do the usual factory style pickups as well.
www.916pickups.com
@916pickups - Instagram

I was sent over here from the Peavey club after doing a lot of custom builds for the SF and Slant pickup players. @58kites said this is a good place to post T Bird stuff.

We are currently working on Thunderbird design. Factory T Bird with A5 bar mags are available with Raw , Nickel or Chrome covers along with 916 designed models. Our designs will be based Alnico blades , Alnico/Neodymium , and Neodymium. Other offering will include T bird in various bass covers like EMG35/45 , Bart covers 5 string T Bird and possibly 6 string.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Matt

916 Pickups
Sacramento California



@XsoGol @ctmullins
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Hi Matt,
Cool! Let us know when the Tbird pickups are on your site.
 
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MCF said:
@GBassNorth can better explain the difference between the late seventies, which from searching the internet seem to have been built by Maxon, and the later in house built FujiGens. Ive played both and really liked the fuller tone of his late seventies Greco.
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I have a 1977 Greco Tbird II and a 1990 Greco Tbird IV. There may very well be a difference in pickups but it’s currently impossible to tell by ear since they are both sporting drastically different strings. The ‘77 has ancient dead flats on it and the ‘90 has new round wound Boomers. That’s about as far apart as you can get in string sounds. The ‘77 nails the Motown sound to a tee and is the only bass I have (out of dozens and dozens of basses) that sounds that way. No way would I consider restringing it or sending the pup out for reverse engineering. The ‘90 has a massively deep bottom end a good a punchy mid range and a warm sweet top end. I have other non Greco birds that I like as much as it but the pickups are certainly some of the best I’ve played. I’d be less hesitant to pull a pup out of this one for reverse engineering but not too keen on the idea right now.
 
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