Thunderbird Club

[TBird1958]

Was able to jump on for a few minutes this morning but did need to jump past a few pages. It went from 3108 to 3120 in 24 hours! I will be 58 pages behind when I get back from the trip.

Just the normal noises from us natives, no worries!

 

[MommyPlaysBass]

As much as I like the other 2 sets of knobs and will keep them for future use, no poll is necessary. I think the abalone look schweeeet! I'm a little disappointed they are not primarily blue/green as was specifically stated in the ad, but I still like ' em.

 

[theFixer]

As much as I like the other 2 sets of knobs and will keep them for future use, no poll is necessary. I think the abalone look schweeeet! I'm a little disappointed they are not primarily blue/green as was specifically stated in the ad, but I still like ' em.
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Aawww YEAH!!! Those look perfect Li'l Momma!

 

[hairypete1138]

As much as I like the other 2 sets of knobs and will keep them for future use, no poll is necessary. I think the abalone look schweeeet! I'm a little disappointed they are not primarily blue/green as was specifically stated in the ad, but I still like ' em.
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They totally finish that bass off. Nice.

 

[JJR58]

As much as I like the other 2 sets of knobs and will keep them for future use, no poll is necessary. I think the abalone look schweeeet! I'm a little disappointed they are not primarily blue/green as was specifically stated in the ad, but I still like ' em.
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Excellent choice!!!!

 

[BklynKen]

Personally would go with this one GS414B I have both, and for no quantitative reason, I prefer the one I linked YMMV

Thunderbirds don't like Hercules racks very much... I speak from experience

But I wouldn't use anything else with Thunderbirds besides Hercules.

Awesome. I have their wall hangers at home and want to put one or two up at the practice space, but this is a really good alternative to know about. Thunderbirds are definitely finicky like that.

My GS412B is put away most of the time, to prevent it being used as a cat activity centre.

Oh come on, your entire house is a cat activity center.

 

[BklynKen]

As much as I like the other 2 sets of knobs and will keep them for future use, no poll is necessary. I think the abalone look schweeeet! I'm a little disappointed they are not primarily blue/green as was specifically stated in the ad, but I still like ' em.
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That looks really great.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Awesome. I have their wall hangers at home and want to put one or two up at the practice space, but this is a really good alternative to know about. Thunderbirds are definitely finicky like that.


Oh come on, your entire house is a cat activity center.

I have no experience with these, but this might work for you
GS432B

 

[Basshappi]

That makes sense. You keep your eye out for used 2013s, then?

Not this year, too many other financial issues I must attend to. But next year I'll start looking in earnest. If I can't find a Gibson at a reasonable price I'll probably just see if Carlo will build me one (might just do that anyway).

 

[BklynKen]

I have no experience with these, but this might work for you
GS432B

Now that’s overkill.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Now that’s overkill.

They make 2 instrument stand too. Which is cheaper than buying two single stands. Just an idea.

 

[Gaolee]

Agreed. Don’t know the technical ins and outs, but they gotta be measuring the watts at a different frequency. I’m more interested in the power at 60hz than 1k. My ‘200 watt’ Traynor gets as loud or louder then my ‘800 watt’ class D amps. Not knocking class D. My Mesa sounds awesome, but the power rating thing is a head scratcher and that’s even assuming every manufacturer is being honest with their specs. TC Electronics very famously took a lot of flack over their
‘450 watt’ amp. It bench tests at 236 watts, if memory serves. Their response was that due to their clever digital processing, the amp ‘feels’ like a 450 watt amp. I’ve played em and they don’t.




Not sure what it would take for me to spend $3,600 on a T Bird that doesn’t sound like a T Bird, though having owned a Dingwall in the past, I have no doubt the build quality is beyond amazing. Fanned frets feel awesome and require pretty much zero learning curve unless you play way up high a lot (I don’t). They can also be a bit fussy if you do a lot of vibrato or especially heavy bending. Had to adjust to that.

How did you like the way it balanced? Knowing Dingwall, I’m guessing the ergonomics are stellar

The original 360 was rated at 200 watts. Those were Cro Magnon watts, not effete little latte sipping modern watts. They drank cheap beer and then ate the steel can.

 

[Gaolee]

Right now i'm using a 2006 US 810. I swapped out the top 2 chambers with Heritage speaks.
I do need to downsize my cab though. Just to much for my purposes. But hard to let go of. These cabs are meant to be pushed.
It's (cough), my practice amp. Haven't gigged in a long while.

I was using an Acoustic 320 with a 408 cabinet (4 15s) as my practice rig for a while. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe that situation.

 

[Gaolee]

Anybody here in the Seattle area been out to Thunder Road Guitars in West Seattle and checked out that 77 Gibson Bicentennial Thunderbird they have for sale? Its a beaut! They're asking $3200 I have no connections to them, just played it today and wish I could afford it.

I have not, but Emerald City Guitars in Pioneer Square have a '70s Bird that's strung lefty. It's a right handed Bird that somebody turned upside down. I don't know if it is for sale, or what price they are asking if it is. It has a strap on it, which is not their usual habit. I wanted to ask about it while I was there last week, but got distracted and didn't. There's a lot of distracting stuff in there.

 

[Gaolee]

Also... I'm unfamiliar with "skeg" but thanks for doing it!

You will get used to being unfamiliar with things Kat says. She's an education in language skills all her own. We would love her for that, even if she hadn't been chosen by a 'Bird. She's also our resident electronics guru, up to a point. She won't admit it, but she knows a whole lot more about that stuff than most of us.

 

[Gaolee]

A T Bird in a honky tonk. So far so good
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Lots of foam under that upright's bridge to go with the plugged F-holes. I'm guessing it's going to be loud! I usually just stuff a tennis ball in under the bridge. The tighter the tennis ball gets stuffed in there, the louder I can get. It's not foolproof, but so it goes.

 

[JJR58]

I was using an Acoustic 320 with a 408 cabinet (4 15s) as my practice rig for a while. Overkill doesn't even begin to describe that situation.

Now that's a rig!

 

[Gaolee]

Like the carpenters say - measure once, cut twice.

Nah, measure once, cut three or four times, and the #$@%!! thing is still too short!

 

[bylar13]

Thunderbird in action at last nights gig. There were people there that I did not know personally, so it was a success!

 

[Gaolee]

Now that's a rig!

Indeed it was. I traded it for some kind of special edition Ric 4003 that I sold. That became the 2015 'Bird, with some cash left over. No complaints from me about that at all. When I start missing that rig, I think about how little it was getting truly used, and what it turned into. It was a nice one, though. Decent tolex, fitted covers, and the factory footswitch. It could hang with anything you threw at it in just about any sized venue. I don't play in arenas, so it wasn't entirely necessary ever, but it sure was fun. I thought about keeping it instead of the 360, but the 360 is an early one (serial number less than 10), so it won. No regrets.