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Thunderbird Club

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Current view from our cabin
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Chucky Stiletti said:
@TBird1958 the ohsc on the 64 leaves a lot to be desired as does the one for the late 60's which I solve by using the 2013 NR case where the fit is perfect...

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what year is the case of yours? I want to get one but wanted to make sure the fit is snug...
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Mine is just a recent Gibson, notable from older in that it is all black outside and white plush inside, no cover blanket and a large "Made in Canada" sticker
on it. The seller provided it and I am very glad he did, the original cases for "63-"65 are garbage and are thought to have contributed to head stock breaks.
Really any post '89 case will work though, there are lots of the older brown cases that have hot pink plush plus the cover blanket and I've used a Nikki Sixx Blackbird case as well, black plush and Thunderbird/Iron cross on the blanket. The one thing I would strongly suggest if the bass is going to travel a bit is to fold a clean dish towel into 3 lengthways ( leave it long) and lay it across the lower bout.
 
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TBird1958 said:
Mine is just a recent Gibson, notable from older in that it is all black outside and white plush inside, no cover blanket and a large "Made in Canada" sticker
on it. The seller provided it and I am very glad he did, the original cases for "63-"65 are garbage and are thought to have contributed to head stock breaks.
Really any post '89 case will work though, there are lots of the older brown cases that have hot pink plush plus the cover blanket and I've used a Nikki Sixx Blackbird case as well, black plush and Thunderbird/Iron cross on the blanket. The one thing I would strongly suggest if the bass is going to travel a bit is to fold a clean dish towel into 3 lengthways ( leave it long) and lay it across the lower bout.
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Why the towel?
 
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Ringhammer said:
Not using the spacer. And had the same issue with a 105 round set (currently a 105 EBCF). I could try a 100 round but I never go that light with rounds, as I’d think they’d be to floppy and even allow more buzz?
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I don’t know Rich. I use the Babicz on the ‘13 NR and one came stock on the ‘15. I got them low how I like it. And love the bridges. My other Gibsons have the stock three points. Those are pretty much on the deck with the middle bolt about a half turn up.
 
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dagrev said:
Wow! Looks even better than I thought. Very impressive! Congrats!
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It took a bit of sorting out (the pickups are pretty hot and were set too high for my tastes). Plays quite nice now. Coincidentally, the neck pickup is within a quarter inch of the location I used for the BlingBird neck pup, it’s actually a very useful location. The Lull Petersson bridge pickup location is quite a bit closer to the neck than the center pickup on the BlingBird, actually not far from the current neck location on a new NR. I’m thinking this bass would benefit greatly from a discrete volume/tone stack for each pickup, I’ll give it a couple of months playing time and a couple of string changes to see if it really warrants a rewire job.

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Can I join the club?View attachment 7073286
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Actually, would be way cool to go down the surfboard builder route for a bass body (assuming it’s structurally sound enough).
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Woah woah woah lol it’s just a mock up I’ll have it completed soon maybe this winter.. it will be a one piece mahogany body at some point View attachment 7073288
I do actually have one I’ve been playing around on for the last 10yrs or so
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Beautiful bird! Would be interested in knowing what the control layout is and hearing more about the pickup selections.
 
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GBassNorth said:
It took a bit of sorting out (the pickups are pretty hot and were set too high for my tastes). Plays quite nice now. Coincidentally, the neck pickup is within a quarter inch of the location I used for the BlingBird neck pup, it’s actually a very useful location. The Lull Petersson bridge pickup location is quite a bit closer to the neck than the center pickup on the BlingBird, actually not far from the current neck location on a new NR. I’m thinking this bass would benefit greatly from a discrete volume/tone stack for each pickup, I’ll give it a couple of months playing time and a couple of string changes to see if it really warrants a rewire job.


Actually, would be way cool to go down the surfboard builder route for a bass body (assuming it’s structurally sound enough).

Beautiful bird! Would be interested in knowing what the control layout is and hearing more about the pickup selections.
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Careful with surfboard builds, The fin/s would lead to discomfort
 
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GBassNorth said:
BTW - the UPS guy just dropped off a care package…
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…a beautifully custom built 2009 Tom Petersson Tbird finished in Mary Kaye White over Swamp Ash with a very unique pickup placement dictated by Tom. Sounds wonderful, plays very nicely and is well under 8 pounds. Still getting it all lined out but so far looks like a keeper.
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That must sound fantastic. I really like the sound of pickups closer to the neck like that. It is probably from having played an EB-2 forever.
 
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GBassNorth said:
It took a bit of sorting out (the pickups are pretty hot and were set too high for my tastes). Plays quite nice now. Coincidentally, the neck pickup is within a quarter inch of the location I used for the BlingBird neck pup, it’s actually a very useful location. The Lull Petersson bridge pickup location is quite a bit closer to the neck than the center pickup on the BlingBird, actually not far from the current neck location on a new NR. I’m thinking this bass would benefit greatly from a discrete volume/tone stack for each pickup, I’ll give it a couple of months playing time and a couple of string changes to see if it really warrants a rewire job.


Actually, would be way cool to go down the surfboard builder route for a bass body (assuming it’s structurally sound enough).

Beautiful bird! Would be interested in knowing what the control layout is and hearing more about the pickup selections.
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It’s a tone tone master volume and the switches are neck dual/single coil selector then a pickup combo selector and a bridge dual/single selector
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The top is obviously a music man style it’s got a alnico magnet but i don’t remember which one the bottom pickup as a SD NYC pickup which I really like.. the pickup choice was relatively mindless at the time if I’m being honest.. I was bored.. I liked the sound of a Friends MM and I used to have a jazz bass that I like the sound of but wanted to use two humbuckers with the goal of wiring a simpler version of my T40.. so that’s what I did
I will probably do a little differently when I recreate it
Became one of my most versatile basses and I love it I think it sounds incredible but I never used the single coil setting due to noise so I think I’m gonna do series/parallel next time
 
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