Yeah. There’s certainly a place for vintage and modern, like that Simmons version. I’d play ‘em all.
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Thunderbird Club
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If all else is great, it's certainly easy enough to get the logo painted over and a TRC made with the Gibson logo.
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Awesome! Nice to see you here George!
I've known George since the wild and wooly days of The Dudepit, which was a pretty unhinged place! Over the years many Birds have graced his collection including this one that our mutual friend Uwe owns.
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After a day of deliberation......Inverness Green it is, reservation made! An NR will return to the flock sometime around April.
I bet the painted Gibson on the headstock is in direct response to people slapping Gibson TRC's on VP's. Of course I realize that won't stop it from happening with plenty of aftermarket options available but maybe Gibson will be doing the painted Gibson on the R's as well. On second thought, who the hell knows what they're thinking.
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That sounds so....logical. Now who's giving them too much credit?This is true and confused me when I got the '06. Why alter what was not a problem? Not to mention PUs that sound little like what people have come to love and expect. Who intentionally messes up a perfect thing? Oh yeah, those who think they are really clever......but are not (Dunning-Kruger effect at play I suspect).
Maybe it's simply because times have changed. People have gotten much more into the fetishizing of guitars where as at one time they were approached as instruments to be played and mostly professionally. (more akin to tools of the trade) There were less players, less people buying instruments and brands usually produced a standard and deluxe model and that was that. There were a few pro musicians (John Entwistle/Steven Stills to name a couple) who amassed huge collections of rare/vintage guitars but it just wasn't like today where many people own many guitars/basses. I guess what I'm saying is such details have become an obsessive focus today.
Earliest mainstream (comedic) sign of that fetishizing was seen in Spinal Tap.
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I bet the painted Gibson on the headstock is in direct response to people slapping Gibson TRC's on VP's. Of course I realize that won't stop it from happening with plenty of aftermarket options available but maybe Gibson will be doing the painted Gibson on the R's as well. On second thought, who the hell knows what they're thinking.
It would take a brave experimenter but it's possible the hs face could be wet-sanded with emory cloth (using a wood block to keep it flat) to remove the Gibson (stamp?/decal?) w/o breaking through the finish. It could then be buffed back to a gloss sheen and a tr cover w/Gibson installed. But having said that, I'd have to see one in person before I could determine how it is applied.
I’ve been listening to comparison videos of the company and Vp. I think that I prefer the Vp sound but, prefer the looks and smaller headstock of the cp.
right on! has pricing been made public?
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I think Scott said $1800.00 is the advertised MAP, street , who knows.
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prolly could have asked for more had they omitted the bridge pup...
Over cooking is a big factor. That said, an equally big contributor to taste when eating wild meat (especially deer and elk) is where you harvest it from.
Animals that graze on scrub brush, bark, twigs and weeds are going to taste gamey. That's largely what you get when you hunt in the woods. If you hunt near farm land where there's wheat or corn for the deer to eat they will taste completely different.
Some of the worst venison I've ever had was from SoCal where there's an abundance of scrub brush and tumble weeds to feed on. Some of the best was from Nebraska where they consumed a lot of corn.
I don't think I'd ever mess with a headstock decal, just sends to many red flags up on a resale. What I would consider is painting the truss rod cover to match the headstock so it blends in and doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. Then the Gibson name would look like it belonged where they put it.
Thunderbirds....
Interesting how the angle of observation affects perceived headstock size...
Red, white, & chrome:
Interesting how the angle of observation affects perceived headstock size...
Red, white, & chrome:
Actually, their redesigned bridge is now standard on the 4003 and 4003S models I believe.
Thunderbirds....
Interesting how the angle of observation affects perceived headstock size...
Red, white, & chrome:
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That it does. Here's a pic I took a while back with my VP next to my short scale Bronco...
Maybe I'm just a bit thick, but I never really ever look at the VP and think yikes that's a huge headstock. To my eyes it looks about in proportion to the rest of the bass. It's not until I hold it up against a different bird that it's obviously much larger. Spot the VP...
Then there's my FrankenGoth with the headstock that I reshaped to give it the flipped and much smaller look, alongside the much larger VP...
Sooooo true, everyone knows a 13 headstock (center) is about 2/3 the size of the 60’s and that a BaCH hs is bigger than all of them....love every photo angle of TBirds, specially NRs...Thunderbirds....
Interesting how the angle of observation affects perceived headstock size...
Red, white, & chrome:
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Will wonders never cease! It only took them 60 years...
Those look right. I’ll get some too for the west coast stockpile. It’s funny, I searched a long time months back and kept coming up empty on #2 1/4 flatheads.
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Same here. Not sure if it's that we're boneheads or these have just appeared more recently.
