beautiful basses G, did you add the bucker to that Stang or was it already configured like that when you acquired? what pup? Bet that thing sounds awesome..
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Thunderbird Club
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All this talk of maple is making me hungry.
On another positive note:
Sold off some cabs, and the Trace Elliott head yesterday.
Came out with some cash, and an Ampeg Venture series VB-212 (floor demo, Tolex damage on bottom edge no other issues)
Really impressive for a 40lb cab .
500 W, 101dB sensitivity, and 124DB max output, Frequency range (-3 dB): 39 - 17,400 Hz
Good fit with My Mesa TT-800 (400 W @8 ohms)
50th Anniversary SVT on top of a LabSeries 215: with Kappalite looms behind.
Being an 8ohm cab, I cannot use it with its YAmpeg sibling. Can’t rewire it to 2/4 ohms as it employs 2x16 ohm LaVoce drivers
The VB weighs less than the PJB C8 (55lbs)
And FAR less than the Ampeg BXT 115hl4
(100 lbs)
Although now when the SVT goes out on the Town I can’t use the BXT for a cart :-(
The Ebony VP is now sporting gold pickup trim rings.
Sold off some cabs, and the Trace Elliott head yesterday.
Came out with some cash, and an Ampeg Venture series VB-212 (floor demo, Tolex damage on bottom edge no other issues)
Really impressive for a 40lb cab .
500 W, 101dB sensitivity, and 124DB max output, Frequency range (-3 dB): 39 - 17,400 Hz
Good fit with My Mesa TT-800 (400 W @8 ohms)
50th Anniversary SVT on top of a LabSeries 215: with Kappalite looms behind.
Being an 8ohm cab, I cannot use it with its YAmpeg sibling. Can’t rewire it to 2/4 ohms as it employs 2x16 ohm LaVoce drivers
The VB weighs less than the PJB C8 (55lbs)
And FAR less than the Ampeg BXT 115hl4
(100 lbs)
Although now when the SVT goes out on the Town I can’t use the BXT for a cart :-(
The Ebony VP is now sporting gold pickup trim rings.
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If one slaps you, you'll never forget it-after you regain consciousness.
Bought it new about 15 years ago, bone stock with mustang split coils, played the heck out of it while my rotator cuff was messed up, nice and light and short reach. Then I parked it about 5 years ago and pretty much forgot about it. Last year I decided to add a short scale Tbird to the line up but couldn’t find any for sale (pretty rare), so I said the heck with it and dropped a ChinaBucker bridge pup in place of the stock split coil. Sounds and plays wonderful and looks darn good to boot. If I were a gigging bassist on a tight stage it would be my axe of choice.
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Control cover recess route success.
One minor rout gouge on the south screw ear where the router tipped a bit, but nothing visible or crucial once complete.
Next up will be bridge post holes, ground wire tunnel, new jack hole, and deciding if the pickup screws get inserts or not.
Then a ton of sanding.
One minor rout gouge on the south screw ear where the router tipped a bit, but nothing visible or crucial once complete.
Next up will be bridge post holes, ground wire tunnel, new jack hole, and deciding if the pickup screws get inserts or not.
Then a ton of sanding.
No, but the player can slap on a bird just fine. I’ve yet to find a musical style a Thunderbird can’t do.
Now that is what maple is for!
Did someone here recently say they have decided that they are definitely getting a bicentennial?
Seems like a good one right here:
https://reverb.com/item/92300728-gi...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=92300728
Seems like a good one right here:
https://reverb.com/item/92300728-gi...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=92300728
That was me. And it’s in the color I was looking for. Was being the operative word. I bought a black 1979 (pretty rare, one of 7 made that year) a few days ago for significantly less money. We’ll see if it’s a keeper, if not I might return it and go for this one if it’s still available. Should know in a couple of days.
If I were doing a lot better money-wise, this would be the Bi-cen I would like, nice genuine wear, black, mostly original, and what seems like a fair price. But these days it’s all I can do to not start selling off what I have…
- Mar 13, 2008
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This one gets to leave the house and go to a show on Saturday, we're on the big stage at 7 Cedars casino in beautiful Sequim, WA. 3 one hour sets, not sure what's going along as a second just yet, I want to use the '64 most of the night but may switch to something else for the last set. Raw oysters will be had!
If you’re hittin the casino ya gotta take a glitter bass!This one gets to leave the house and go to a show on Saturday, we're on the big stage at 7 Cedars casino in beautiful Sequim, WA. 3 one hour sets, not sure what's going along as a second just yet, I want to use the '64 most of the night but may switch to something else for the last set. Raw oysters will be had!
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Give the guys there my regards. They may not be the same guys who were there when it was built, though.This one gets to leave the house and go to a show on Saturday, we're on the big stage at 7 Cedars casino in beautiful Sequim, WA. 3 one hour sets, not sure what's going along as a second just yet, I want to use the '64 most of the night but may switch to something else for the last set. Raw oysters will be had!
Before or after? Heres hoping you make it to the third set!This one gets to leave the house and go to a show on Saturday, we're on the big stage at 7 Cedars casino in beautiful Sequim, WA. 3 one hour sets, not sure what's going along as a second just yet, I want to use the '64 most of the night but may switch to something else for the last set. Raw oysters will be had!
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,895
- 142,212
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
The oysters, those are for dinner Friday evening in Pt Angeles, I'll take a pic, I know you love 'em
Hope everyone has been well- been distracted these past six months or so- may talk about it later-
So a couple weeks of ago I woke up at 2 am unable to sleep and I beheld this-
So a couple weeks of ago I woke up at 2 am unable to sleep and I beheld this-
