Oh my. Matching headstock too. Beautiful.
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Thunderbird Club
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Let the drooling-and spending-begin.
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Wow! Looks better than the real one!
there it is!!....,.wonder if it's like the 12/13 as far as neck dimensions, price etc......pickguard, bridge and knob placement sure look familiar...
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..I love it!!! Assuming the pickups aren't modern Gibsons with chrome cans. If only Epi did one (which would be more affordable).
Yep.there it is!!....,.wonder if it's like the 12/13 as far as neck dimensions, price etc......pickguard, bridge and knob placement sure look familiar...
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beautiful weathering, Revell kits rule, great work!
Yeah. It would have been a home run with the vintage two-piece. I’ll take it though; triples are fun too. And the Babicz comes in chrome...
Mamma mia!!After having "Cuban" night a coupla nights ago(and sufficient chicken and black beans for one more go-just gotta make rice), tonight was gourmet Italian night. Some very good Semolina pasta with a red sauce consisting of tomato paste, ground beef, rosemary, marjoram, basil, savory, thyme, onion, and, of course, garlic, topped with grated Parmesan and Romano cheese. In other words, Chef Boiardi Beefaroni.
Agreed. My only question is the neck profile>>>>
Will need to wait for Scott to give us the skinny. But Chucky is right; looks very much like the ‘13s. The necks aren’t as thin, but very playable.
To think back in the day Hollywood movie stars used to buy Ferraris....today they buy WWII fighters...there’s a couple (51s) flying locally (Watsonville)...met an old timer at an airport about 5 years ago and his wife told me he had just sold his F4F Wildcat that he flew during the war (and purchased from the Navy for 3500 bucks afterwards!) for 650000.00!!
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Not to glorify the conflict, but can you image being in your early '20s flying a real P-51, what an incredible experience that must have been.
Very true. I don't know why Gibson is so stuck on that bridge. Of course people/groups think their ideas and concepts are best and are reluctant to give them up, even in the face of contrary evidence. Would have been the perfect time to make a change. Of course there is some retooling if the third hole is abolished.
and when you got shot down, survived and didn’t end up in a Luftstalag..."here kid, keys to your new one"...
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With CNC retooling is a breeze. Why they didn't put a vintage style bridge on it I don't get.
Strange to see them using the same "errors" compared to the vintage ones, like the relocated tone-knob & output jack, the 3-point bridge (one would expect them to use the proper T-bird bridge as found on the Epiphones for these, especially if they are going in the "original-series", which draws heavily on the original models).
I suspect this is just a "palette swap & hardware swap" from the previous series, using up old stock of bodies they already had laying around from the first series, which sold rather poorly.
I suspect this is just a "palette swap & hardware swap" from the previous series, using up old stock of bodies they already had laying around from the first series, which sold rather poorly.
