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Thunderbird Club

#195,201
Chucky Stiletti said:
extreme bursts….cannot stand cherry on basses but it does look good on that L-5 imho…
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I like the 'spot-light' bursts like the Haggy in the middle - they did it a lot on '60s guitars/basses like that one. I've never been a fan of cherry-bursts either, but they look nice with the book-end flamed maple top.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I’d pay it, but can’t figure out how to order off their website. No selectable links to the item, no cart, no phone number (sometimes that can be an iPad formatting thing so I’ll try again from my desktop computer). Days ago I did use their “help assistant” in the lower right corner and told them what I wanted, gave them my email address and text number but haven’t heard squat from them. Novack responded back the next day. I’ll try Thunderbucker one last time before I write them off as a place of business that I’ll never do business with.
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Holiday weekend(s)?
 
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#195,206
JIO said:
I have a few sunburst basses - like any finish, there are :meh: versions and there are :thumbsup: versions. 3TSB (3 Tone Sun Burst) is the most descriptive 'label' to describe a finish with a yellow or amber ('sun') center transitioning to a red into tobacco 'halo'. Otherwise many finishes fall under a more universal "burst" umbrella; tobacco-burst, green-burst, red-burst, blue-burst etc. My '66 P has a very pronounced 3TSB because at that point (start of the CBS years) they first shot an off-white base-coat to homogenize the wood, so the amber resulted in being more yellow. The other two finishes are translucent amber over wood so less high chroma.

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The red has softened to a very subtle transition on this Coral/Dano body from the late '60s.
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This burst is pretty cool - (not mine - not familiar with this brand)
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...blast from the past (10yrs ago!) - my "Abalone Daze" etched silver-leaf w/mint burst finish I did on Alan Whitman's (Mermen/Joe Satriani) P-bass. It looked great under stage lights! (shot at Real Guitars/SF where Alan manned the front counter for SF master guitar tech Gary Brawer)
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Pat Wilkins did the final finish (burst and clear-coat) in a colour matching the 'mint' pg, including the hs face. A very pretty bass in any light.
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One of my earliest Gildaxe finishes was this 3TSB over variegated gold-leaf "shatter-burst" over spalted maple. My first finish by Pat.
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TBird player as well...looks like this (like yours) started life as a II?...
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GBassNorth said:
I’d pay it, but can’t figure out how to order off their website. No selectable links to the item, no cart, no phone number (sometimes that can be an iPad formatting thing so I’ll try again from my desktop computer). Days ago I did use their “help assistant” in the lower right corner and told them what I wanted, gave them my email address and text number but haven’t heard squat from them. Novack responded back the next day. I’ll try Thunderbucker one last time before I write them off as a place of business that I’ll never do business with.
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WillyW said:
not much excuse for that in the modern age...
floating cars and jetpacks and all that stuffs
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Guess I don’t need to wright TB Ranch off. Just got an email from Steve at TB Ranch. Yes, he will sell them at $15 each plus shipping. As long as they are the right dimensions I’ll likely order 6 but may only use 2 or 4.
 
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#195,208
GBassNorth said:
It doesn’t matter how many you have, it’s always one less than you want!:thumbsup:
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For sure - I regularly have to maintain self-control. There are a few I'd really like, but either they are very rare or very out of my responsible price range. Out of the basses I own, a number are for sale so more than what I would consider my 'personal collection'.
 
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#195,211
Chucky Stiletti said:
TBird player as well...looks like this (like yours) started life as a II?...
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Judging by this fuzzy pic, it looks like a IV with a plugged bridge cavity, replaced neck pu and two lower knobs with an empty hole where the N V pot would be and not sure what's going on with the hs face...
 
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JIO said:
Judging by this fuzzy pic, it looks like a IV with a plugged bridge cavity, replaced neck pu and two lower knobs with an empty hole where the N V pot would be and not sure what's going on with the hs face...
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But it's still an authentic 'Bird 'cos the PG is f---ed* up by 2 screws.

*oul
 
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GBassNorth said:
It doesn’t matter how many you have, it’s always one less than you want!:thumbsup:
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JIO said:
For sure - I regularly have to maintain self-control. There are a few I'd really like, but either they are very rare or very out of my responsible price range. Out of the basses I own, a number are for sale so more than what I would consider my 'personal collection'.
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I don’t feel like I need 20+, but I can’t say no to the ones that need rescuing!
 
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WillyW said:
Do you get notifications for these, or just stalk the website?

The mini in my SG was the biggest reason I didn't like it, but I wonder how they would do in the neck position?
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I just look at the website from time to time. (And the reverb store) I’m still a bit mad I held off and lost out on the white sparkle NR. They also had an SG with a firebird PU in the mini position- I wondered how that would have sounded.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Still looking for a supplier for black plastic trim ring spacers. Thunderbucker Ranch has been a non response, I’ll try them one last time before writing them off. And Curtis Novak does have them but won’t sell separately from the pups and rings (at least they promptly responded). If I have to I’ll make my own but would rather just buy some finished ones for now.

@godofthunder59 any leads on trim ring spacers? I’d like to buy about six of them.
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Sorry I got nothing.
 
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