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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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Up close and personal my main stage NR
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
And something a bit nicer, my '69 one of seven shipped that year.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
I'm new to T-Birds - what has changed? Or is that somewhere in the 670+ pages in this thread?
Regardless of neck dive, I prefer the beefier tuning pegs, I guese those stopped in the 70s
P/U's, bridge and electronics.
Well that and a ton of sidebars that go off into wide ranging topics.
Well, those are easy to solve... you can move the strap button or get a wider strap or get a grippier strap or any combination of those things. As for the tuning pegs like the ones you remember from the 70's... that should be just a matter of swapping them out with what makes you happy. Someone has to make what you're looking for I'd think.
Thanks for asking. Busy breaking in a new UltraBook/Win10 upgrade. Password BS with stuff all over the place...and this.
That is beautiful!!!!
Come now, speak not your heresy or you shall be administered 435,678 lashings with a wet noodle!Well that and a ton of sidebars that go off into wide ranging topics.
As much as I love mine with the black hardware/pups, I have to admit that silver/nickel(?) hardware/pups looks damned great too!
Is that one of the 2 bridges that you ordered from my link back a bunch of pages ago, Scott?
THAT bass looks amazing now! Great mods!
That '69 is truly the unicorn of the TBird world! I want that bass! drool
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Sweet! Did you check to see if it'll work on a Gibson model as well? There was some discussion about it not fitting the posts right. Just curious.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
These days both Gibson and Epiphone use M8 metric thread. I am not sure what year after 1989 they switched to metric.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Now that just looks right! Are you going to add a bridge pup ring?
Same here! So far, with the bumps in the road, it's going good at solving how to get by them, & i'm hoping to be done with it today. & if i am, well painting can start monday!!!
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
I am debating drilling holes in the bass and fighting off the urge to ebay the black pups and hardware.......just in case these jump in value.
Shoot... if I had the opportunity to buy an all original or your modded NR, I'd go for your modded one! The tail piece already takes it out of the "original" market space for reselling, right?
edit: Nevermind... I see that it's not actually attached. My bad.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
- Mar 13, 2008
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- 142,212
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Keep it and make it yours Scott!
I've never regretted modifying any of my Birds, they're supposed to be a little different.
