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Thunderbird Club

#156,102
GBassNorth said:
No routing under the Goth guard either.
Going by memory, which is usually a huge mistake for me, but I don't recall seeing any routing under the 2015 TBird guard either. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
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My 2013 definitely has one like Kara's Pro V.


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#156,103
PillO said:
That sounds like the type of job I am happy to pay someone else to do. Someone who strips (ahem) finishes regularly will be much quicker, more efficient, and will not swear nearly as much as me.
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I guess you could pay to watch them strip...........the bass, if you ever wanted to get into that. If they can strip....the bass quickly, don't pay so much.
 
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#156,104
KaraQ said:
My bolt-on Epi IV has no routing under the pick guard...

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...but my Epi Pro V has a small routed area for the wiring to the neck pickup...

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I may be mis-remembering what was under the pickguard on my Pro IV. I know I swapped the pickups, so if there is a rout like that, I probably did have the guard off at some point.
 
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....update from Europe.... ordered a BaCH NR case from instrumentsonline.nl .....

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....had to remove the bridge cover (and the cat) for closing....

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...band restart on Friday minus 2 former members and a new drummer .... people are strange

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...it‘s time for midscale or shortscale basses now ....
 
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#156,106
MCF said:
Although I changed mine on the ‘15, I can’t recall one way or the other if there was routing. Sorry....I usually pay more attention to that stuff...
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I don't remember either, now that you mention it. If there was no rout, it's a surprise because every other Gibson seems to have one.
 
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#156,107
D.M.N. said:
Well I decided if the fretboard side dots melt, so be it, easy to replace, so I went at the neck with the heat gun this morning. Talk about a WAY bigger PITA than the body. Finally got most of it done, but it's going to require a fair bit of sanding to remove the base coat, it didn't want to come off nearly as uniformly as the paint on the body. Still, much easier than sanding through the poly. It also seems the finish on the neck was noticeably thicker than on the body. All that's left now is the headstock and sides.
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Good to know about all this. It's only a matter of time before I go after the bolt-on with a refinish in mind.
 
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#156,111
Patrick J said:
It was handed to him blindfolded. But he said it’s out of tune and reached up to tune it. That’s when he should have known exactly which one it was. (It was the Gibson.)
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Yeah, that's garbage. In a blind test, you hand it to the tester already tuned and plugged in. And they'd been playing it; there's no way it should have been so out of tune he couldn't play it, anyway.
 
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#156,113
Miles_ONeal said:
Yeah, that's garbage. In a blind test, you hand it to the tester already tuned and plugged in. And they'd been playing it; there's no way it should have been so out of tune he couldn't play it, anyway.
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LOL - probably the worst job I've seen at being blindfolded and faking not knowing what's in your hand. As others noted Y tuners on the Gibby and cloverleafs on the VP (which he messed with) then plugging in the bass Gibby top jack vs Eppi side (which he did), then playing with his hand on the pups so he can feel the trim rings on the VP vs none on the Gibby (which he did). All in all, not much of a genuine blind test.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Yeah, that's garbage. In a blind test, you hand it to the tester already tuned and plugged in. And they'd been playing it; there's no way it should have been so out of tune he couldn't play it, anyway.
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What? My thunderbirds can go badly out of tune like that during normal playing. When the headstock flies off. But then it's generally more than one string.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
Yeah, that's garbage. In a blind test, you hand it to the tester already tuned and plugged in. And they'd been playing it; there's no way it should have been so out of tune he couldn't play it, anyway.
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GBassNorth said:
LOL - probably the worst job I've seen at being blindfolded and faking not knowing what's in your hand. As others noted Y tuners on the Gibby and cloverleafs on the VP (which he messed with) then plugging in the bass Gibby top jack vs Eppi side (which he did), then playing with his hand on the pups so he can feel the trim rings on the VP vs none on the Gibby (which he did). All in all, not much of a genuine blind test.
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Since I have both (and a lot of playing time on each) I can always tell by the size of the neck, current production Gibson is easily smaller than the Epiphone.
 
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