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Thunderbird Club
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Sammy Davis, Jr., in "Ocean's 11", 1960.
That was it. If I could have justified it, I would have bought in a heartbeat.Are you looking at Austin Vintage? I was just there yesterday and the 64 had already been sold.Wasn't going to buy it, but definitely wanted a look. And that price was a steal for a '64.
Dang, sorry man. I guess AVG is just a bit slow updating their site, but in fairness, it sounded like it had only sold in the past couple of days. They said they were surprised by all the sudden interest, as it had literally been in their inventory for years.
They do have a neat SG bass and an extremely heavy RD bass to play around on. I already have an SG bass, but I've been mulling over how to make the RD happen. Not sure my back would like that, though.
I picked a new RD in a store the other day - unbelievably heavy with a big fat neck and a volute!
Saw one for sale a few months back, only one I’ve ever seen
or covers..Oh, yeah, I looked that up b4 I posted. It seems like they sold about a dozen of them under various names. I wonder if any still exist. I'll bet the owners didn't argue over rounds vs flats!
over the whole thing..Yeah. And it needed one.
Gotta be honest, my 80’s BC Rich is one of my most versatile sounding basses.
Nice to see that I'm not the only one thinking PJ 'Bird 
Not that I'm keeping track or anything...
PK TBird is my current nickname for my upcoming Cataldo build - MFD Pbass pup in the neck and MFD humbucker in the bridge, so it's a Pbass/ Kiloton (PK) mashup instead of a Pbass/ Jazz (PJ)
... at least I keep myself entertained
Not that I'm keeping track or anything...
PK TBird is my current nickname for my upcoming Cataldo build - MFD Pbass pup in the neck and MFD humbucker in the bridge, so it's a Pbass/ Kiloton (PK) mashup instead of a Pbass/ Jazz (PJ)
... at least I keep myself entertained
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
That's because we can't mention those in a family oriented thread like this one.
Is the Goth a bolt-on neck? They are asking a whole lot of money for it if it is.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I work pretty hard at not thinking about any of those kinds of anniversaries. It's a success so far.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I don't remember which nasty solvent dissolves epoxy, but it exists. It might be acetone, which is in fingernail polish remover, crazily enough. It's not the kind of thing you want to spend an extended time in a closed room with. I'm also not sure if the same solvent dissolves all epoxies.
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I was looking at that bass on train into work this AM, I really liked it. Price was not bad for a pretty cool bass - The PJ set up doesn't do much for me, but I'd have dealt with it
Thought I'd jump into the semi hollow body pool. Just got a sweet deal on a Fender Starcaster the other day. First Fender product I've bought in the last 5 years. My last 6 bass purchases were all Gibby/Eppi darlings. It's a sweet looking bass (IMHO) and would fit well with a lot of the stuff I'm doing nowadays.
Had it about a week now and still trying to get on with it. The ergonomics are bizarre - very heavy for a semi hollow body, does not want to stay in your lap while sitting (tries to jump forward), short scale is taking more time to get used to than normal (probably because my left hand is trying to keep the darn thing from hitting the floor while it's trying to jump out of my lap), and the headstock is heavy when strapped on. And to think, the Fender fan club complains about TBird ergos!
It also has something odd going on with the A and E strings on the neck pup - if you turn the tone knob to full bass and solo the neck pup then dig in on either of those two strings it farts out the cab. At first I thought I blew a speaker, plugged it into a different rig and got the same thing. Assumed they were just hot pups so I lowered the gain, helped a little but still not the right solution. Noticed the pups had been lowered all the way down into the body as far as they could go, nearly an inch air gap to the strings. So I raised the pups up to about a 2mm clearance, no change in the fart but sounded much better across the board. Fiddled with the neck tone pot and think it or a cold solider joint might be the problem, if not that it might be a microphonic pup. Typical hollowbody PITA to work on the pots since there's no control cavity access (you have to feed the entire electrical harness back through the ultra narrow sound holes to work on the pots. Fortunately they have a binding on them so less chance of mucking up the finish around the F holes.
I originally bought this bass because I wanted to drop some TBird pups in it. Not sure if that will work since the Fender Humbuckers have a completely different aspect ratio than anything Gibson uses. Might look at Dark Star options if I keep the bass. I'm into it for less than a couple hundred bucks so I have plenty of room to mod without going under on value.
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