Thunderbird Club

[b-bottom]

Note...
Drill your hole a bit less than all the way to the pointy end. Let it dig it just a bit. And don't forget that the diameter of the bit should be a bit less that the screw's threads. They need to be able to bite into the wood.
Obvious to some, but it doesn't hurt to mention.

I appreciate you mentioning that.
A bass builder on another forum said that I should move the pin the where to where the upper left screw would go in a four bolt neck plate instead of the center top, like the old T birds. Thoughts?

 

[JIO]

That was groovy, darkly funky.

From 1994 - the Chrysler building reference penned seven years prior to 9-11.

 

[GBassNorth]

'Tis the season...

 

[b-bottom]

It's been drilled and tested and now it works great!!!!

Thanks for all of your help. Why Gibson just doesn't put the thing there in the first place is just dumb.

I may replace the tuners with the silver ultralites, because the stock black ones don't really match anything else

 

[PillO]

'Tis the season...
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Butt bow season!

 

[Gaolee]

'Tis the season...
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Thunderbird with a butt bow!

 

[PillO]

It's been drilled and tested and now it works great!!!!

Thanks for all of your help. Why Gibson just doesn't put the thing there in the first place is just dumb.

I may replace the tuners with the silver ultralites, because the stock black ones don't really match anything else

I'm sure the new Epiphone NR VPs will have the strap button in the right place.

 

[Larry V]

I'm sure the new Epiphone NR VPs will have the strap button in the right place.

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[Kriegs]

I'm sure the new Epiphone NR VPs will have the strap button in the right place.

 

[PillO]

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Always throw the whole jerry can onto the fire. Never part measures!

 

[PillO]

It's been drilled and tested and now it works great!!!!

Ahem.

 

[Kriegs]

Always throw the whole jerry can onto the fire. Never part measures!

Or, you know, just throw more fire on the fire

 

[Kriegs]

It's been drilled and tested

But has it been weighed and measured?

 

[TBird1958]

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Best not to do this after you've been swigging Thompson's Water Seal.

 

[fasterpussycat]

Why Gibson just doesn't put the thing there in the first place is just dumb.

'Conventional wisdom' has it the strap button should go as close as possible to the point where it would be on an FSO. Then again, if you are an adherent to 'conventional wisdom', you shouldn't be seen within a hundred kilometres of a Thunderbird.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

couldn’t get this song off my mind when walking around here..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

original and after market button locations on the 68...way prefer the horn mounted one..

 

[GBassNorth]

But has it been weighed and measured?
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A Knights Tale... and a Birds Headstock...

...all weighed and measured.

 

[GBassNorth]

Butt bow season!

I can't think of a better season to sport a butt bow.

 

[PillO]

But has it been weighed and measured?
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