Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

Yes, I'm this anal. How about this? I've already ordered this bridge, but I have another project for it to go on (an EB3L) if it won't work for this one. View attachment 4171300

That’s why we have multiple basses

 

[RedVee]

Another Goth owner

 

[69'Vette]

Since it seems to be Goth day I want to play... I bought this body for a build that never happened, and it's been sitting under my bedroom dresser for 13ish years. My almost 14 year old son (who began playing bass last year) started asking me about it the other day. Long story short, we ordered a Goth neck and a bridge on eBay and he'll be the proud new owner of a Goth Epi Thunderbird once those arrive and I put it all together. He's already gone through and thoroughly cleaned and polished the body (after I took this photo), so he may be just a bit excited about adding it to his collection (fretless Squier Jazz, Kentucky mandolin, a trumpet, and a trombone). I've realized I'm raising one just like me!

 

[KaraQ]

...Maybe even a plain place one with the logo would look better....

If you decide to try a plain no-logo p/g, they have some here:

Pickguards for Epiphone Basses | Pickguard Planet
(scroll down the page a bit)

That's where I got my new not-goth pickguard

 

[GonePlaid]

If you decide to try a plain no-logo p/g, they have some here:

Pickguards for Epiphone Basses | Pickguard Planet
(scroll down the page a bit)

That's where I got my new not-goth pickguard

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I got mine from Pickguardian.com. They'll all say(US companies anyway)they can't put the logos on as Gibson and Epiphone own those but one can get Thunderbird decals on the interweb. Prolly get the Goth crosses too(I never looked).

 

[godofthunder59]

2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird update. pickups are humbucking alnico five 60's spec. This information comes directly from high up at Gibson. Delivery eta April.

 

[Gaolee]

2921 Nonreverse Thunderbird update. pickups are humbucking alnico five 60's spec. This information comes directly from high up at Gibson. Delivery eta April.

We have to wait 900 years! I wonder if they will make the pickups available on their own. The spec sounds interesting.

 

[godofthunder59]

We have to wait 900 years! I wonder if they will make the pickups available on their own. The spec sounds interesting.

Well we waited this long what another 900 years?

 

[dagrev]

Another Goth owner

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Nice amps and nice Eminence speakers from right here in Eminence, KY!

 

[KaraQ]

I got mine from Pickguardian.com. They'll all say(US companies anyway)they can't put the logos on as Gibson and Epiphone own those but one can get Thunderbird decals on the interweb. Prolly get the Goth crosses too(I never looked).
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Thanks for the link! I hadn't seen them before, always good to have more options

 

[dagrev]

2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird update. pickups are humbucking alnico five 60's spec. This information comes directly from high up at Gibson. Delivery eta April.

Now I really, really want one that they actually thought through the PUs this time.

 

[PillO]

2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird update. pickups are humbucking alnico five 60's spec. This information comes directly from high up at Gibson. Delivery eta April.

Woo Hoo! I guess PillO needs another bass (or two?). Green, blue, or red? Tough choice. I am leaning greenish. But Burgundy would be cool and I do like red basses. And I have a fondness for blue, especially pelham blue.

Curse you Gibson for your production of irresistible basses.

 

[69'Vette]

2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird update. pickups are humbucking alnico five 60's spec. This information comes directly from high up at Gibson. Delivery eta April.

Now you've made me go and want one! Seriously, that's great news.

 

[PillO]

Now you've made me go and want one! Seriously, that's great news.

Yeah, I'll say that was the deciding factor. It wasn't, but it is what I'll say.

 

[RedVee]

Nice amps and nice Eminence speakers from right here in Eminence, KY!

So that’s where the name comes from.

The 410 cab was built in Melbourne Australia (not Florida) tho. Elfa (Electr Factory I think) another company that has gone.

The two heads are Eminar from Melbourne. In the Australian era AC/DC Mark Evans rumbled his Ripper (and others) through a 300w valve Eminar, mine is only 100w but sounds so sweet...
The name? Comes from the company owners. One’s name started with an M and the other an R. Em & Ar see.

 

[dagrev]

Woo Hoo! I guess PillO needs another bass (or two?). Green, blue, or red? Tough choice. I am leaning greenish. But Burgundy would be cool and I do like red basses. And I have a fondness for blue, especially pelham blue.

Curse you Gibson for your production of irresistible basses.

Sounds like Gibson can put you down for 3 to 4 then.

 

[dagrev]

So that’s where the name comes from.

The 410 cab was built in Melbourne Australia (not Florida) tho. Elfa (Electr Factory I think) another company that has gone.

The two heads are Eminar from Melbourne. In the Australian era AC/DC Mark Evans rumbled his Ripper (and others) through a 300w valve Eminar, mine is only 100w but sounds so sweet...
The name? Comes from the company owners. One’s name started with an M and the other an R. Em & Ar see.

My Ampeg Heritage 410 has Eminence drivers as does a Fender 115 I have. Both sound great, but very different.

 

[PillO]

I don't know what the flats are, actually - they were put on by the previous owner, and I didn't think to ask him which ones. So far what I am feeling is that they are good for this kind of tone: Bachman Turner Overdrive, "Not Fragile", less good for this kind of tone: Guns 'n' Roses, "Rocket Queen"

Oh, and one other thing I forgot to mention in the original post: this VP has Thunderbucker 66 pickups in it too. They definitely sound like the clips on the Thunderbucker sounds page + flats!

Thanks. It has been a while since I had listened to Not Fragile. But it is such a great bit of riff rock, I spent a little time and learned it.

Thanks!

 

[KaraQ]

Woo Hoo! I guess PillO needs another bass (or two?). Green, blue, or red? Tough choice. I am leaning greenish. But Burgundy would be cool and I do like red basses. And I have a fondness for blue, especially pelham blue.

Curse you Gibson for your production of irresistible basses.

Kinda sounds like you need (at least) one of each

 

[RedVee]

My Ampeg Heritage 410 has Eminence drivers as does a Fender 115 I have. Both sound great, but very different.

The GK 115 has an Eminar 250w amp on top. Not as nice as the valve version, I tend to put the zoom before it and run an Ampeg, Marshall or Bassman amp sim. I change as the whim takes me. I haven’t really got to love the cab yet either. It was to be my portable unit. Now nuthin goes anywhere.