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Thunderbird Club

#47,003
I think it's time for a beer. There have been a lot of close calls. And a few that would have done the trick. This ones for you Ken.
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Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
I only have 3 things that are my age or older...... so far. My Acoustic 301 is early 70's, P-bass is 1962, and I have a 50th anniversary Strat (that's a double whammy, a 7ender AND a g*****) that's my birth year 96.
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Wow, and I thought I was on the young side for TB and this thread. Got me beat by almost ten years.

kat888 said:
It's a good thing we're not all legally constrained to birth year gear. Some of us would be completely fvcked.
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If I was putting together a birth year rig, I would actually be okay.

It would be 4003S/4003, and/or T-bird if they made them in '87 (if Gibson didn't, maybe Greco did?), through a Mesa/Boogie 400, into a Mesa Diesel 215.
 
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#47,005
Off-Beat said:
Does a pot fit into the switch-hole of the Epiphone Blackbird?

I put new strings on it and it became unplayable. any high frequency gets through. Want to add a cap and either a stacked pot or a 3 way switch: Off, cap, no cap. Of course the switch would be preferred.
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I'm struggling with push pull pots in my Goth right now. The TBird control cavities are quite a bit more shallow than normal basses. Consequently I've had to use a forsner bit to hog out the spots where the stacked push/pull pots will go and I've also had to modify the solder lugs on the bottom of the pot to just barely clear the control cover plate, not ideal. Now I see why the 2015 bird used toggles vs the push pull pots used in the EB bass. Not sure what your cap value is right now but if it's way too bright you might want to try a .1 uF first. And then go up or down from there as needed.
 
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Does this qualify? I found it a few days ago online listed as a Savannah SBT-700 Lightning 23" scale mini travel bass, but it's built like the Rondo Hadean bass ukes I've been buying. It's obviously designed after the Gibson non-reverse Thunderbird. I added the white knobs and truss rod cover, black Road Toad Pahoehoe strings and made the Thunderlele decal (reversed).

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Count Bassie said:
I totally get that. It's not about saving the day so much, but it's just fun and somewhat relaxing to have something going on that you dig. I love getting stuff to mod my bass with! Right?? Well, only as long as it's meaningful. But when it is, I'm enhancing my musical experience, and it's inspiring to play with a sound you really like. The EB-3 is a lot of good mojo for me right now, at a time when the music is requiring a lot of work, patience, and hopefulness. It's a lively yet dark, bouncy, funky tone, pretty aggressive but kind of buttery. It's killin' it for me! And the Blackbird is getting that 66s that @kat888 is browbeating me into getting, and I'm psyched for it. Gonna be a minute getting it realized, but gosh-darn-it-to-heck, yes!

So yeah, I get it.
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Glad you are digging your sound. Such a wonderful feeling to play music, and when the gear is doing you right it energizes the feeling exponentially.
 
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KohanMike said:
Does this qualify? I found it a few days ago online listed as a Savannah SBT-700 Lightning 23" scale mini travel bass, but it's built like :the Rondo Hadean bass ukes I've been buying. It's obviously designed after the Gibson non-reverse Thunderbird. I added the white knobs and truss rod cover, black Road Toad Pahoehoe strings and made the Thunderlele decal (reversed).

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Hmm. Might earn you "Mascot Status"! Lol! Sorry... but that's a cute little booger you got there!
 
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#47,014
GBassNorth said:
But why go to ESP I wonder. Spector and Warwick have great Artist programs. Never really tried an ESP bass, always kind of thought of them as cheap beginner student level basses, kind of like LTD and OPM. Guess I need to get out more and try some new stuff.
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LTD is the less expensive entry model to ESP. The "real" ESP stuff from Japan is way high end stuff. Really impressive instruments.
 
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KohanMike said:
Does this qualify? I found it a few days ago online listed as a Savannah SBT-700 Lightning 23" scale mini travel bass, but it's built like the Rondo Hadean bass ukes I've been buying. It's obviously designed after the Gibson non-reverse Thunderbird. I added the white knobs and truss rod cover, black Road Toad Pahoehoe strings and made the Thunderlele decal (reversed).

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What do you all think?

Uke makes me think he needs to wear a grass skirt and coconut bra as initiation rite. :D
 
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