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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- club thunderbird
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Cool! A left handed amp!
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
- 221,967
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
(can you flip an emoji?)
- Jul 1, 2005
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- CataldoBasses: Designer/Builder ThunderBuckerPickups:Consultant
Even this huge concert bass drum looks small with a VP headstock in front of it:
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Nice! I have been looking at that one on Reverb for a while. I'm looking forward to what you think. It looks like it started out life as a Nikky Sixx bass. It may have come from the factory as-is, with the exception of the paint.I picked up this refin'ed 'Sixx' 90s T-Bird on Reverb for a pitance, can't wait to check it out when it arrives from mother Russia.
I already ordered a few knobs to give it tone and volume controls.
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
- 221,967
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Once again!
It sure won't look brand new, even with new paint. That's just fine with me.
Weird I know, doesn't have any of the Nikki Sixx inlay work or other stuff
TBT. The day it arrived in 2013, before I ever even picked it up.
... and right before he sent it back because they put it together backwards at the factory?
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Maybe it was an ordinary Thunderbird, if there is such a thing, to start with. I'm really looking forward to what you have to say about it. The paint looks great, and as you said, it had a great price. I thought pretty hard about it before deciding enough might be enough. It's great that somebody on TB picked it up. That way, we can find out all about it. I hope you will put up pictures of the control cavity once you get it as well. That will say a lot - are there plugs, or was there just one hole to start with.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
And another picture of the PinkBird, about to fly home:
Different lighting makes it look completely different. Not yet wet sanded or buffed. Andy says that's going to happen tomorrow or Saturday, shipping out next week. I'm getting all wound up all of a sudden.
Different lighting makes it look completely different. Not yet wet sanded or buffed. Andy says that's going to happen tomorrow or Saturday, shipping out next week. I'm getting all wound up all of a sudden.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
TBT my Cataldo siggy! Onstage in Regina Saskatchewan with the Lou Gramm Band.
Buncha comedians....... and right before he sent it back because they put it together backwards at the factory?
Or in my case...
Bored guy.
At work.
Daydreaming of my day off tomorrow and floating in the river.
Gotta entertain myself somehow until 16:00
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
11 years ago, this photoshoot was right out of Spinal Tap.
