Don't blame you. I would take a hefty discount.FedEx had no issues this time, got it hours earlier than projected!
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Now the bad.
LOTS of sharp fret ends :-(
Fretboard has badly sanded sections between frets rounding fretboard edge.
The frets are dressed horribly.
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Finish is VERY orange peeled.
The flakes are very sparse.
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The nut is cut unevenly and messily.
The slot for the G string is too deep and wide.
It going back
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Thunderbird Club
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That look. Clearly you woke the dog.sorted......what would have been a casual drive to the local (now non existent) GC turned into this cannibalizing effort......to think some enjoy doing stuff like this....
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One doesn't disturb the dog.
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Moved mine on the VP. Put a black pickguard screw in the neck heel hole.
Could not get along with the face tilt, especially when performing:
I was fighting it when walking across the stage.
It also FELT awkward: changed the way that it hangs from the strap, pointing the neck away from my body . On the upper bout,
It brings the plane of neck back towards me across my (ample) midsection.
Even though it did exasperate the neck dive:
Light tuners, that required no drilling and 20.00 of Tungsten weights in the cavity countered that effectively.
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Well, that could be I guess. If so, do you recognize the matched pair?
And a new credit line is no bueno. Semi retired and selling home to relocate to Palm Desert within the next year.
Ha. Our GC wouldn’t have them in stock anyway.sorted......what would have been a casual drive to the local (now non existent) GC turned into this cannibalizing effort......to think some enjoy doing stuff like this....
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May hit this show out there.
PRS did 3 (more?) Dragon finish guitars. The first 3 anyway were Dragon & Dragon II Dragon III that were very nice. Had a burst on a flame? Quilt? top but no blue edge to them that I can think of.
But they had a Dragon inlay up the fretboard.
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,230
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I understand, I have my own little Queen Latifa to answer to.......
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,230
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
The original Purple Thunderbird.............
TBH the Bombay Blue Sparkle winds me up.......
TBH the Bombay Blue Sparkle winds me up.......
Whelp;
No purple ‘Bird till Tuesday (Memorial Day delay)
Thank you all service members.
Past present and future.
But :
No purple ‘Bird till Tuesday (Memorial Day delay)
Thank you all service members.
Past present and future.
But :
Afraid of what else “got by” QC on this one.
Discount not an option.
Sloppy edge sanding of the frets and fretboard. Damaging both and left with 220 grit marks visible.
A nut that looks like they used a powered spindle tool to create the slots.
Uneven string heights at the nut, and G and E cut low so even correction not possible.
Neck in SEVERE backbow and strings pitched. TR was at neutral.
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Someone was recommending that Goth’s are a good mod platform:
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Oh... Yeah. No question- send that sucker back.
