Thunderbird Club

[hillerup]

I'm in no way connected to either, just aimlessly surfing Reverb and thought I'd pass 'em along

NYC area Dealer has a Used Heritage Cherry bolt-neck

Upstate NY Dealer has a Used 5-String Epiphone Pro

GAS is like beer, best when shared with friends.

...And that's another regular Epi bolt-on neck in Vintage Sunburst (most likely a Korean one).

According to EpiphoneWiki (which is currently down) there is no such thing as a Heritage Cherry Epi Thunderbird - Neither bolt-on, fixed neck nor neckthrough...

I've never encountered one, and the only cherry birds I've ever seen have been Gibsons...

 

[hillerup]

Neck-thru! NICE!!!

Have you ever seen a 4 string conversion done like that before?

Nope...

 

[hillerup]

Time to start looking & learning. I'mma look around & see if I can find someone that has performed this operation before...

I doubt you will find one...

 

[theFixer]

I doubt you will find one...

OOOHHH... so I'd be a pioneer??? I don't think I've done that a whole lot in my life! Makes me wanna give it a go

One thing that's been on my mind, is string spacing. Do you have a Thunderbird V?

 

[RedVee]

Interesting. I'm just wondering if there would be an excess of real estate between the G string and its edge ?

 

[theFixer]

Something else ya don't see everyday...

1970 Gibson EBS-1250 Custom

 

[theFixer]

Interesting. I'm just wondering if there would be an excess of real estate between the G string and its edge ?

My thought too

 

[kat888]

OOOHHH... so I'd be a pioneer??? I don't think I've done that a whole lot in my life! Makes me wanna give it a go

One thing that's been on my mind, is string spacing. Do you have a Thunderbird V?

Would need to remove one tuner, cut a new nut and a new bridge with the correct string spacing:
4 string A style Bass Bridge > Store > Hipshot Products.

 

[BklynKen]

Would need to remove one tuner, cut a new nut and a new bridge with the correct string spacing:
4 string A style Bass Bridge > Store > Hipshot Products.

I have that bridge on my Carvin. It's great.

 

[BklynKen]

Interesting trivia about that Carvin. It used to be my friend Greta Brinkman’s. She used it on tour with Moby.

 

[RedVee]

^ not the Pro IV Babiscz ?

 

[Korladis]

Something else ya don't see everyday...

1970 Gibson EBS-1250 Custom

Shipping not included? Jeez.

 

[Haji]

Now, hownaheck is it, that every pic you post shows us a bright beautiful sunny day, when the rest of the world is convinced it grey & rainy there all the time??? Is this some kind of cover up to keep the "imports" away???

They're on the hard drive for decades hoping to get used some day.

 

[Haji]

Catapult?

Trebuchet.

 

[Korladis]

Trebuchet.

Oh, I was hoping it was a reference to my band.

 

[BklynKen]

Oh, I was hoping it was a reference to my band.

Nah, I was going with the 'cat' theme.

 

[Korladis]

Nah, I was going with the 'cat' theme.

 

[hillerup]

...There should be a lot imports regardless. Seattle seems like a city suitable for euros.

I believe so... I found it really nice and cool when I was visiting back in '97...

 

[theFixer]

Would need to remove one tuner, cut a new nut and a new bridge with the correct string spacing:
4 string A style Bass Bridge > Store > Hipshot Products.

Yeah... it's not really a big undertaking. I just wanna try to get a sense of what that would be like on a neck that's just a hair away from being 2 inches wide at the nut

 

[kat888]

Yeah... it's not really a big undertaking. I just wanna try to get a sense of what that would be like on a neck that's just a hair away from being 2 inches wide at the nut

So now it's TOO big? Man there's no pleasing some people....