Aaaah, ya beat me to it.Yes, but do you have TWO ebony VP's??
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Thunderbird Club
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Yes, but do you have TWO ebony VP's??
Not yet, he doesn't.
If he could fly, maybe. But the bigger highways are not a pretty zig zag route. The more direct routes are on smaller highways with more slowdowns and stops in towns and cities. And there be mountains.
Listening to you guys I think there is nowhere in the US that I could live.
Snow ! Earthquakes ! Tornados ! Hurricanes!
Pollen clouds over Texas !
plus all those dangerous critters.
it is safer in Oz!
Snow ! Earthquakes ! Tornados ! Hurricanes!
Pollen clouds over Texas !
plus all those dangerous critters.
it is safer in Oz!
I already have an Ebony VP. But at that price one could afford to bling bling it up with a gold bridge, gold cans and trim rings, gold lollipop tuners, gold strings and a gold pickguard. Yum!
LOL - Oz is beautiful and on my short list of best places to live, but it seems like every living creature on land is deadly poisonous and the ones in the ocean are even deadlier. The good news is you don't get many droughts or wildfires there. The bad news is, when you get em they're big.
Since it's not Thunderbird Thursday I'll post a pic of my non Thunderbird...
Spector Rex5 Pro with Holoflash finish (both pics of the same bass just different light angles which changes the colors).
Spector Rex5 Pro with Holoflash finish (both pics of the same bass just different light angles which changes the colors).
we don’t have Bears or wolves or wolverines etc though
Is it safe to assume bits of paint stir sticks ain't supposed to be under the pickups? Or is that the sort of thing Epiphone/China did on the Thunderbird Pro? 
That is pretty funny! Is this a new instrument? I have trouble imagining that's how it came from the factory particularly on an instrument costing over half a K; looks like something an owner would do. But then again, who knows?
And if it does the job of raising the pickups...would it be better if it were pieces of wenge hand-shaped by a master craftsman instead? I'm reminded of the bit from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in which his friend with the BMW is struggling with some loose handlebars and is horrified by Pirsig's suggestion to fix his expensive European motorcycle with a piece of old beer can, which prompts Pirsig to muse that the BMW shop would also use an aluminum strip as a shim, they just wouldn't call it a piece of old beer can.
And if it does the job of raising the pickups...would it be better if it were pieces of wenge hand-shaped by a master craftsman instead? I'm reminded of the bit from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in which his friend with the BMW is struggling with some loose handlebars and is horrified by Pirsig's suggestion to fix his expensive European motorcycle with a piece of old beer can, which prompts Pirsig to muse that the BMW shop would also use an aluminum strip as a shim, they just wouldn't call it a piece of old beer can.
What do you think the band leader thinks of the hat?
BL: Excuse me, Mike... could you maybe take the hat off? I mean, ahh, we're doing big band tunes and all.
MS: My bass doesn't "work" if I'm not wearing the hat.
BL: Carry on, then.
BL: Excuse me, Mike... could you maybe take the hat off? I mean, ahh, we're doing big band tunes and all.
MS: My bass doesn't "work" if I'm not wearing the hat.
BL: Carry on, then.
Definitely not new, it's an '09. Guess it helps explain why there's so much string wear on the pickups, considering how little it looks to have been actually played...
@PillO , a news item custom made for you, pal!
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Someone ought to snap that up. Even if it's got some wear, that really decent. Almost worth cannibalizing the parts at that price.
But you don't have two Ebony VPs! One with rounds and one with flats!
EDIT: Just noticed Nocturnal just brought this up.
No, believe it not, South is by a very few miles. Seems odd, I know. I'd rather go South anyway, the beaches are really pretty in that part (Eastern) of the Gulf. East Cost has that grey brown sand mostly. I am not an earth tones person.
I'm thinking you have a valid point!
