Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

I was thinking if someone gave it to me I’d do s basic repair, quick paint job, throw on cheap/old hardware, barely tension the strings, and get it on a restaurant wall or use it as a smashing stage prop.

A club for the club.

 

[KaraQ]

The entire bass is a bit of a puzzle. Why are all the frets removed, why does it only have two bridge studs and no hole for the front stud, why did it have a hard tail, why are there three screw holes for the hardtail but what looks like a couple of additional holes filled in, why does it have one pot but none of the others, is the lower body wing cracked....?

I mentioned it to you in jest because of your current focus on mending broken birds.
Personally, I wouldn't mess with it even if someone gave it to me for free.

About the only good use for it that I can think of is as a learning tool for a Luthier apprentice or some musical vocational technology class. I can picture an instructor handing it to a student as a class assignment with instructions to return it to a fully functional bass for under $500. Cut the neck off, route the body for a bolt on fender neck, stabilize the crack in the lower body, install the necessary electronics and hardware and do a reranch paint job on the body. Might make a nice player.

My assumption re: the bridge, taking into consideration the claimed year, and the apparent size of the tuner holes, is that it started out as a Vintage Pro, not a "classic".

I mentioned it to you in jest because of your current focus on mending broken birds.

I know

...but I have rolled around the idea of a Thunderbird with a custom neck of some sort. Doubt this is the right candidate for that, and now's probably not the best time...

.... or use it as a smashing stage prop.

I suspect that may be how it came to be in its current state...

 

[Instagator]

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i Recognise your sticker you’ve cut it out of a warning sticker I used to do the same and put them on pretty much any flat surface lol bikes bedroom petrol scooters school books all over the place, tell me if I’m wrong but I’m not am I

You are absolutely correct!!

 

[KaraQ]

Happy Thunderbird Thursday!!

Since all I had for last week was Box:

I figured for this week, I'd give a bit more

Family photo?

 

[dagrev]

That's Good news! We sold our Home in May. 1st People through for 8k over list. Felt pretty good about that for sure.

Yes indeed. Nice score on your sale!

 

[dagrev]

Thats great!! We hit the market Friday morning, had a full price offer Saturday morning along with a couple other less competitive offers. Home inspection is scheduled for Monday. Hoping they don't find any surprises we aren't aware of. We take care of the place but you just never know whats behind the walls. Hoping everything goes great with your deal as well!!

That's great on your sale! It's such a relief. You never know if people will be interested or jack you around. We set our price very reasonable to move it. Not sure when our inspection will happen. I can't imagine them finding anything of significance--but you never know. Our inspector on our buy was great and very through. We found a couple thousand in repairs we were able to get the seller to make. Other things are minor/normal and can be addressed in the future. Our nephew had an inspector on the house he was selling and he found so much wrong by insane nitpicking that he scared of the buyer off. It was a nice house. It had some age on it, yet the inspector acted like it should've been brand new. This was even after it had been remodeled two years ago. Some are just nuts.

 

[dagrev]

Great news about the sale!
When we sold our house in KY seven years ago the same thing happened to us, three offers in the first 24 hours, one at the asking price, two over the asking price one of which was in cash (no loan approval needed). All the other homes in the neighborhood had taken months or years to sell. We were caught completely unprepared and had to do a double move with the house contents (once to a warehouse, then from there to the new home). PITA

Thanks! We even had a couple others who intended to put in an offer but when they found we had a strong offer they declined to make one.

 

[dagrev]

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Thanks...for not posting that other thing!

 

[dagrev]

Happy Thunderbird Thursday!!

Since all I had for last week was Box:

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I figured for this week, I'd give a bit more

Family photo?

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[BklynKen]

The entire bass is a bit of a puzzle. Why are all the frets removed, why does it only have two bridge studs and no hole for the front stud, why did it have a hard tail, why are there three screw holes for the hardtail but what looks like a couple of additional holes filled in, why does it have one pot but none of the others, is the lower body wing cracked....?

I theorized that they tried all sorts of mods on it, got frustrated, and Hulk-smashed it in the end.

 

[BklynKen]

My assumption re: the bridge, taking into consideration the claimed year, and the apparent size of the tuner holes, is that it started out as a Vintage Pro, not a "classic".

That sounds right. For some reason I just assumed it was a CP.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

TT..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

parts came in for another one of these!

 

[Instagator]

I hope that photo is from 2016. That Celebration IPA would be awful now.

2020 is out now..yea for me!

 

[BklynKen]

2020 is out now..yea for me!View attachment 4026906

Cheers! I love Sierra Nevada.

 

[Old_Noob]

This club gives me motivation to hack away at my gsr200 every night in hopes of one day being good enough to justify a t-bird.

 

[Engle]

That's great on your sale! It's such a relief. You never know if people will be interested or jack you around. We set our price very reasonable to move it. Not sure when our inspection will happen. I can't imagine them finding anything of significance--but you never know. Our inspector on our buy was great and very through. We found a couple thousand in repairs we were able to get the seller to make. Other things are minor/normal and can be addressed in the future. Our nephew had an inspector on the house he was selling and he found so much wrong by insane nitpicking that he scared of the buyer off. It was a nice house. It had some age on it, yet the inspector acted like it should've been brand new. This was even after it had been remodeled two years ago. Some are just nuts.

We were selling a 1930’s house when I got a call from the inspector. The wire feeding the oven was 12 gauge and he could see the insulation had melted at the panel!
I had installed an outlet at the oven within the last year (previously it was hard wired), and knew it was 8 gauge. I got home and found we were both right. Someone had done a splice in the crawl space.
I rewired it properly the next day and the sale went through.
If you ever buy a “lovely heritage home” be prepared for anything. You never know what some doofus has done.

 

[BklynKen]

This club gives me motivation to hack away at my gsr200 every night in hopes of one day being good enough to justify a t-bird.

I say just jump right in. It will make you better.

 

[TBird1958]

This club gives me motivation to hack away at my gsr200 every night in hopes of one day being good enough to justify a t-bird.

Maybe we could just help (read enable) you along towards the purchase of a Thunderbird, trust me here, I'm a low talent hack bassist when it comes right down to it - I just happen to really enjoy myself when I get to play, so I say life is too short to not own several Thunderbirds.

Just give in to the shapely Sirens calling your name.....

 

[MCF]

Cheers! I love Sierra Nevada.

They do a nice Porter too.