Is it a Line 6 Variax bass, with custom paint job and transducers under the bridge? They have a 7enderish shape, like this.
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Thunderbird Club
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Couldnt tell ya anout the bass but the hawk is something that really should be in my garage. Look whats happened to it in your garage, the tank got bashed in. I could protect it from that sort of thing. 
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Godin Zeta Z-1. Piezo bridge with excellent preamp, no 'quack'. Great blues bass, I keep flats on it. Canada, eh?
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...And this is why some people can't have nice things!
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What the Hell is wrong with people???
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if you've complained about the thunderbird's neck dive, this will surely hit the rocks before you even strap it on.
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The damage done is a tragedy but the real laugh is the price he's asking for the darn thing. As best I can tell the tuners are the only functioning original part of this Bird. Everything else has either been destroyed, replaced with crap or worn to the point of needing repair.
Kinda makes you wonder if he's any relation to Sid (the evil little boy living next door in the movie Toy Story). I wish him GLWTS!
Looks like it's already hit the rocks several times, hard!
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My eyes! Make it stop!
What a Donkey, let's take a bass worth at least 2K and wreck it. You can't fix that kind of stupid.
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It could be fixed but it would be a huge job, I think the best way would be to remove the wings back to the Vee groove neck/wing joints and replace them, fill in the hole for that abomination of a pickup but it would have to be painted as that would always be a scar
Put it on a pyre in a rowboat and push it out to sea. A Viking funeral is the only way to restore its dignity.
Haji
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That was probably done in the mid to late 80's when a 77 was worth about $500 and wasn't vintage yet, just old.
I'd like to think that she was in a tragic accident. And the only way to save the poor victim was through multiple amputations.
However, this only made her stronger and she has since lived an amazing life, inspiring other disabled instruments.
Yeah, that's it. I feel better.
However, this only made her stronger and she has since lived an amazing life, inspiring other disabled instruments.
Yeah, that's it. I feel better.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I tell you what, if that was in the UK and went for under say £75 I'd buy it as a project and paint it candy apple red.
The back of the wings/neck is intact, the front of the wings where they joins the neck are intact, replace those wings and fix that pick up mess and there's a nice bass for painting, a bad Bird bridgesome new pots. thunderbuckers and PG and it could live again
The back of the wings/neck is intact, the front of the wings where they joins the neck are intact, replace those wings and fix that pick up mess and there's a nice bass for painting, a bad Bird bridgesome new pots. thunderbuckers and PG and it could live again
