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Thunderbird club

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200 bucks used...i love staring at it...hehehe
 
'76 Gibson Thunderbird, I'm the original owner:

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My other '76, I rescued it two years ago. Found it on Ebay, completely stripped of all hardware, pickguards, etc. They even removed the truss rod nut. I was fortunate enough to find all original parts for it:

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I also have a Brice FB-1 Thunderbird copy, but no pictures.
 
1979 T-Bird.

I've had it since 92 or 93- it was my main bass for around 5 years. Since then it was kind of in "retirement" until last year.

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Odd thing about the 1979 'Birds, I've read that Gibson's shipping records state there were only 8 Thunderbirds sent out in 1979. Between mine and others I've seen on the intArwebs I've seen all 8 of them plus another 10 or so...
 
nice! where did you get the EPI non-reverses from?

Heres mine: Epi T-bird before I installed the killswitch and active pickups. Got this for christmas last year also. yay.:hyper:


I picked them up from Ebay & Craigslist. It took me a long time to find them. Now I'm thinking of selling them so I can fund a Gibson LP Standard bass that I have on lay-away. GAS is an evil thing!!:crying:
 
My 76' Tbird.....seen a lot of miles and I don't take her out of the studio much these days, but still got that amazing tone.

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Anybody own one of the new Gibson Tbird 5 strings? Saw one at GC the other day, doesn't look like it's neck thru, but still caught my eye.
 
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