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Thunderbird Club
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Who do you use for this sort of forwarding thing, kat? Got a web link?
I dig that bass! The price, not so much! I'm on the lookout for a Guild/DeArmond Jetstar. Kind of has that vibe (and short-scale too), but much cheaper.
dieselman
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Just got an Email This Morning from Sweetwater. My Epi Bird is Shipping today! Whoooo Hoooo!!!!
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
A Hawt one of course.
LOL. This is going to be irritating. "Look at my nice new VP......" Groundhog day, again and again and again!
Dawsons have now pushed back their "guesstimate" to the 3rd week of Jan...... No 'Bird on my Christmas table, just a mountain of brussel sprouts! (And much wind to follow!)
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
There's also the Thunderbird Club biker gang that could kick into effect and do trans-shipping stuff somehow. Beats me how. I'm not sure anybody wants to ship anything through me, though.... You were expecting what? Where did it go? I dunno...
I wouldn't recommend my services as well. Especially if my boys got a hold of it.
I’ve offered a helping hand in such events. Only for pedals and strings and such, but a bass or even amp is a bit much.
But no one’s taken me up on that offer yet.
I’ve offered a helping hand in such events. Only for pedals and strings and such, but a bass or even amp is a bit much.
But no one’s taken me up on that offer yet.
Maybe because everyone is on to you, just look at all the un-shipped gear you have.
No one has complained yet. Maybe cause I gave them the wrong contact info, but that’s besides the point.Maybe because everyone is on to you, just look at all the un-shipped gear you have.
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Bird in the case is worth two in the bush...
SWEET!
The paint is stellar!!
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Speak for yourselves - this is what appeared yesterday on the Andertons product page for the ebony that I ordered in July...
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I have a feeler out on another forum regarding European availability, will keep you posted.
This is so not happening for us Brits...... Most of the "well known" USA online dealers won't ship new Gibson/Epi product to the UK. Assume it's against their regional distrib agreements. Probably add £200 quid to the price anyway, with our rip-off import duty. Maybe we need to buy 'em Stateside, get 'em shipped to the Queen, she plays 'em for a day, then ships them to us in the UK, customs declaration "used", "value: $10". That'll deal with the duty!
As a favor to a good friend I have shipped several Gibson and Epi basses to the Continent, cost was about 150.00, if you really want to I'll help you out.
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Here in the Great Lakes State, we call it dating Miss Michigan...
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The Mitten State if ya' didn't know.
I really did laugh out loud, priceless! The Bay City and Flint area is popular with me
I really did laugh out loud, priceless! The Bay City and Flint area is popular with me
Happy to have been a source of laughter. 
Appreciate that! We're getting restless over here! It was bad enough when the flippin' Canadians were given first dibs, but now the Yanks have their greasy hands, (present company excepted), on 'em to. And all I have is a date in January, which will probably be pushed-back again to February!
I was semi-joking, but if this Epi drought in the UK is gonna drag on, getting a hard case shipped to someone in the US along with a VP, and then I think I still have my UPS account, so could arrange a collection from them......
I wonder whether the fact that if you believe the sticker on the back of the headstock, that the VP's are being setup in the USA, so must be shipping from China/Indo (or whether they are being made in the East), to the US for setup before being shipped to distributors..... Perhaps that is contributing to the delays..... Maybe there is one guy in the US doing the setups, sitting there looking at a pile of 1000's of VP's awaiting setup.....
Appreciate that! We're getting restless over here! It was bad enough when the flippin' Canadians were given first dibs, but now the Yanks have their greasy hands, (present company excepted), on 'em to. And all I have is a date in January, which will probably be pushed-back again to February!
I was semi-joking, but if this Epi drought in the UK is gonna drag on, getting a hard case shipped to someone in the US along with a VP, and then I think I still have my UPS account, so could arrange a collection from them......
I wonder whether the fact that if you believe the sticker on the back of the headstock, that the VP's are being setup in the USA, so must be shipping from China/Indo (or whether they are being made in the East), to the US for setup before being shipped to distributors..... Perhaps that is contributing to the delays..... Maybe there is one guy in the US doing the setups, sitting there looking at a pile of 1000's of VP's awaiting setup.....
Our Queen is the only one to be trusted to handle such delicate transactions.
As far as setups on the new VP, i wouldn't count on that. That is left to our own devices.
@TBird1958 Do you have a contact perhaps, where we might be able to get a definitive answer on the fretboard material. ie. to confirm it is Blackwood Tec, not Rosewood..... Need to be 100% sure of not running into any CITES bullsh!t before contemplating shipping from US to UK.
