That’s the default meaning, at least around here. Most Thunderbird pickups don’t give you an option for series/parallel internally.
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Thunderbird Club
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And no wooden structure to stretch and contract with the climate.
Exactly, I am trying to sell locally without much luck. Finding an Explorer locally, I'll just have to be patient, maybe stop by some Pawn Shops.I’m passively looking for a destroyer as well.
These days I’m just buying local instead of online. (I should be selling)
While I was looking this one came up.
It will still poke your eye out
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I vibrated a picture off the wall with a Thunderbird and a Rumble 100. Oops.
Yeah, I rattle the plate collection anything above 9(o'clock).
Now I want to do that to a Thunderbird.Very retro contemporary design. Maybe the way the picture is taken, but those frets don’t look fanned to my eye. Is it also a headless bass? If so, you really need to magnetically attach a removable dummy Tbird headstock that can pop off on que just to mess with the Tbird haters out there.
I s'pose I coulda said "plays it" but where's the fun in that?
BTW, I meant looking for an Explorer, not Destroyer
I had one of these briefly and really liked it. Balanced really well and pretty similar neck profile to my 2014 T- Bird.
Only sold it as I needed the cash at the time for an unanticipated home repair.
https://reverb.com/item/93477904-20...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=93477904
Needs a Thunderbird logo and bridge cover.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Interesting how you can see the coils through the potting on both pickups. I have seen TB+ pickups with some kind of extension below the coils and others that look like a shiny epoxy surface with no indication of what's underneath.
I would def prefer the latter. Big Destroyer Energy.
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This is mine, I actually haven't been able to spend much time with since I got it about 4 months ago, it's from a run Epiphone did for AMS and ZZ Sounds a few years back. It its long scale with a stout neck, a bit bigger than a VP, it feels like a big bass and it is! I can't say that I've heard a lot about these specifically, my original intent was to put some different pickups in mine but, as it turns out, the previous owner had installed a Preamp and rewired it, and it sounds quite good as it is now. So, for the time being I'll leave it alone tho I may install some different knobs on it, the current ones don't do much for me.
At one point I owned an '80s Gibson, it was 32" scale, it was "OK" but nothing too inspiring tone wise and I ended up using it as trade fodder for a Thunderbird. Gibson Re-issued them as a long scale bass, essentially a pointy Thunderbird, with a 3 Point and TB Plus pickups, I kinda want one, but I'm hoping some form of common sense will prevail as I'm running out of space for these things.
I always thought the Aria brand explorer was a fun looking bass, lots of neat paint jobs on them. No idea how they sound or feel…I’m passively looking for a destroyer as well.
These days I’m just buying local instead of online. (I should be selling)
While I was looking this one came up.
It will still poke your eye out
Cheers!View attachment 7410873View attachment 7410874
https://reverb.com/item/93629135-aria-pro-ii-bass-zzb-deluxe-tiger-zebra-stripe
If I were in the market for this body style I’d look strongly at the Alembic Exploiter (I think Entwistle played one for a while). Expensive, but hey, its an Alembic…
https://reverb.com/item/85315649-alembic-exploiter-1983-natural
This is mine, I actually haven't been able to spend much time with since I got it about 4 months ago, it's from a run Epiphone did for AMS and ZZ Sounds a few years back. It its long scale with a stout neck, a bit bigger than a VP, it feels like a big bass and it is! I can't say that I've heard a lot about these specifically, my original intent was to put some different pickups in mine but, as it turns out, the previous owner had installed a Preamp and rewired it, and it sounds quite good as it is now. So, for the time being I'll leave it alone tho I may install some different knobs on it, the current ones don't do much for me.
At one point I owned an '80s Gibson, it was 32" scale, it was "OK" but nothing too inspiring tone wise and I ended up using it as trade fodder for a Thunderbird. Gibson Re-issued them as a long scale bass, essentially a pointy Thunderbird, with a 3 Point and TB Plus pickups, I kinda want one, but I'm hoping some form of common sense will prevail as I'm running out of space for these things.
Thanks, that's the input I'm looking for. Kinda pushing me towards the Gibson Reissues.
I've been eyeballing Grecos for a couple of years, but honestly, everytime I pick up my 2014 TB+ Thunderbird, I fall in love all over again and can't think of anything I'd change about it. I really think the TB+ PUPs get a bad rap. Mine is wearing DR Fat-Beams, and goes through a Steel Leather and 2 SushiBox pedals, so that probably really helps. But I can get every tone through this setup using the bass Volume and Tone knobs. It's made my 3 TC Sparks obsolete unless I'm playing another bass.
I've got the newish Epi and that Korina they used feels like balsa wood. I got mine cheap with a snapped headstock and I did a spline repair.
The neck is just too flexible. At some point I'll probably replace it with a maple neck and probably go headless.
