Ya gonna chrome it all out over time, or rock the mixed bag?
Good question Fix, we'll see................But i'm usually a mixed bag sort of guy.
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Thunderbird Club
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Good question Fix, we'll see................But i'm usually a mixed bag sort of guy.
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The Badbird is in Nickel, not chrome. BTW it kicks @55.
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Sonics coming back?
Sonics coming back?
The Jackson has a cool 80s vibe with the pointy headstock and sharktooth inlays. And as I think about it a little more, he has a Floyd Rose on it, so he shouldn't need to tune on stage.
I plan on calling/emailing. But the bad thing about living in the middle of nowhere is my home phone is run off my internet (and it drops every call within a couple minutes) and my internet is a wireless signal coming into the house, so bad weather means bad internet, windy weather could mean my receiver gets knocked out of position so no internet or phone. Which is what happened on the weekend and hasn't been fixed yet. On top of that I have bad cell reception too.
Talk about first world problems.
I might just start a fire and get my carpet out, and send smoke signals to Hipshot.
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Personally, I hope not. The NBA could fall off the planet and I wouldn't care at this point - As an organization they treated Seattle very badly, not that I'm a big fan, but that was a seriously douchie move and I'll never, ever support the NBA in anything it's involved in.
I love basketball and NBA basketball, but the organization itself seems shady and very much wrestling like. There were high hopes when Stern stepped down that the culture might change, but it seems like Silver is just more of the same. Nonetheless. The Sonics were an iconic team, when I started watching and them coming back would still be great.
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Wow - nice bird! It looks like a 60's II but has the 70's 3-point bridge. I also notice the T-bird on the pg is riding higher than on a Gibson. And is the nut wider than 1.5"?
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Yeah, we've been over this. I like the idea of it, but the aesthetics of it just don't work for me with how far up it has to go for the third bolt, plus it doesn't come in black. I like the black hardware.There's always Scott's 3-point BadBird replacement bridge with the tailbar, which looks the part.
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It's a Greco Thunderbird II, I replaced the three point with a BadBird and one of Scott's bridge covers. It's a bit wider at the nut, I'll measure it later, it's probably as close to an original '60s Thunderbird II as I'll ever get, great RAWR tone!
Once you start there's no going back.
...From another mother. Larry and I (his name is Larry) have played in bands together for a total of at least 20 years minimum. Really easy to work with, no ego, and he can kill it. He's recently modded that Jackson with a coil splittable humbucker of some sort, the thing can sound like anything from a Strat on steroids to very Les Paul-ish and anything in between, very versatile instrument. And yeah, I love the look of it. Makes me want a Jackson bird just for the headstock.Yeah man! Those are great shots! Nice to see the 'bird front & center
The guy with the blue Jackson... he looks like he could be your brother...
JJR58, are you planning on keeping the Classic when the Vintage arrives?
I love the look of that bridge and the cover... Seriously drool-inducing!
I tried a Kelly Bird at L&M. The body felt thick and it just didn't feel right for me. Jackson does make a nice 7ender shaped neck thru. Very comfortable to play.
