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Thunderbird Club

#15,401
TBird1958 said:
I has Burny :D


The headstock is a friggin' Boat Paddle!

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It's a thing of beauty! Gratz on that!
 
#15,405
JIO said:
So cool! I just checked them out and they look pretty close to the orig, especially the hs. If I didn't already have a bird I'd be interested. I assembled this Epi bodied T-bird and did string-thru like on the Burny. The Hipshot Supertone bridge allows for it. Leave it to an non-Gibson company to do that cool feature on a bird. :thumbsup:

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If you put this neck on a Burny body you'd have a Burny Saunders!!!
 
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Bill Fatty said:
If you put this neck on a Burny body you'd have a Burny Saunders!!!
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Well played! :) I call this particular bass the Saunderbird. He apparently had a limited production of 2 basses w/1 & 2 pu configurations in the late 80's. Never have seen the complete instruments (Concord I & II/Cougar I & II) but a few of these fine NOS (modern P width) necks have surfaced on ebay. Story has it they were built by the recently initiated FCS for Saunders. Mine has crazy cool grain pattern.

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kirillstokes said:
My 2006 ready to record with ghs ;)

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I also like the Pressurewound strings :thumbsup: I recorded last Sunday and strung my Saunderbird w/GHS Progressives. I could hit chime-y harmonics on every note! Both are good.
 
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#15,410
Haji said:
Not stepping on the cord justifies it!
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But, you can step on the tuner button on the receiver and turn yourself off. The good thing is that you don't trip over it when it wraps around your leg. Granted, stepping on buttons is one of those occupational hazards of jumping around. Stepping on the guitarist's pedal board has bad results, too. There's always some way to foul things up if you really set your mind to it.
 
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Gaolee said:
But, you can step on the tuner button on the receiver and turn yourself off. The good thing is that you don't trip over it when it wraps around your leg. Granted, stepping on buttons is one of those occupational hazards of jumping around. Stepping on the guitarist's pedal board has bad results, too. There's always some way to foul things up if you really set your mind to it.
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Stepping on buttons? I don't understand. ;)
 
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Haji said:
Not stepping on the cord justifies it!
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Just stepping can be the least of your problems.
Once I thought (mistakenly) that it would be a good thing to do a couple of 360s during my solo. So I ended up wrapping the cord around my leg, causing me to stumble then fall. As I fell the cord pulled over my amp stack which then fell on me. Not impressive really. Although some people cheered, thinking it was part of the act, which it wasn't. At least that wasn't one of the times that the T-Bird headstock broke. I held it up in the air as I fell and it was fine.
And now, thinking back, I realise that the T-Bird had its revenge on me - another time I had thought it would be appropriate for the song if I leaped into the air, which I did, and as I came down, the T-Bird was still going up, and it caught me a mighty blow on my left eyebrow, which split open and bled profusely, spraying the cymbals with blood, at which the drummer stopped the song and the set. Either to see abut my wound or clean his cymbals I'm not sure which. Anyway I still have the scar to this day.
Unfortunately I don't have the T-Bird any more, which I deeply regret.
I did eventually get a wireless transmitter but it was a battery-greedy device, eating a 9-volt battery PER SET and rechargeables didn't have enough juice. 3 or 4 Duracell 9 volts a night gets expensive! I'm sure the newer ones are better - that was in the 80s.
 
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Bill Fatty said:
Just stepping can be the least of your problems.
Once I thought (mistakenly) that it would be a good thing to do a couple of 360s during my solo. So I ended up wrapping the cord around my leg, causing me to stumble then fall. As I fell the cord pulled over my amp stack which then fell on me. Not impressive really. Although some people cheered, thinking it was part of the act, which it wasn't. At least that wasn't one of the times that the T-Bird headstock broke. I held it up in the air as I fell and it was fine.
And now, thinking back, I realise that the T-Bird had its revenge on me - another time I had thought it would be appropriate for the song if I leaped into the air, which I did, and as I came down, the T-Bird was still going up, and it caught me a mighty blow on my left eyebrow, which split open and bled profusely, spraying the cymbals with blood, at which the drummer stopped the song and the set. Either to see abut my wound or clean his cymbals I'm not sure which. Anyway I still have the scar to this day.
Unfortunately I don't have the T-Bird any more, which I deeply regret.
I did eventually get a wireless transmitter but it was a battery-greedy device, eating a 9-volt battery PER SET and rechargeables didn't have enough juice. 3 or 4 Duracell 9 volts a night gets expensive! I'm sure the newer ones are better - that was in the 80s.
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Great anecdotes - Thanks for sharing! :)
 
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Bill Fatty said:
Just stepping can be the least of your problems.
Once I thought (mistakenly) that it would be a good thing to do a couple of 360s during my solo. So I ended up wrapping the cord around my leg, causing me to stumble then fall. As I fell the cord pulled over my amp stack which then fell on me. Not impressive really. Although some people cheered, thinking it was part of the act, which it wasn't. At least that wasn't one of the times that the T-Bird headstock broke. I held it up in the air as I fell and it was fine.
And now, thinking back, I realise that the T-Bird had its revenge on me - another time I had thought it would be appropriate for the song if I leaped into the air, which I did, and as I came down, the T-Bird was still going up, and it caught me a mighty blow on my left eyebrow, which split open and bled profusely, spraying the cymbals with blood, at which the drummer stopped the song and the set. Either to see abut my wound or clean his cymbals I'm not sure which. Anyway I still have the scar to this day.
Unfortunately I don't have the T-Bird any more, which I deeply regret.
I did eventually get a wireless transmitter but it was a battery-greedy device, eating a 9-volt battery PER SET and rechargeables didn't have enough juice. 3 or 4 Duracell 9 volts a night gets expensive! I'm sure the newer ones are better - that was in the 80s.
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I like your style! I have done the cable wrapped around legs routine, but no stack crashes or bleeding head wounds. You are clearly a master!
 
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Speaking of cables, I'm having a problem with the output jack on my 1991. It doesn't appear to be the garden variety Switchcraft jack. I'm thinking it's a threaded barrel jack. Can anybody confirm what that thing is so I don't end up with a drawer full of jacks that don't fit?
 

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