New Short Scale Non Reverse Thunderbird

[Dave W]

It's a non-reverse non-Bird. Wrong scale, bad tone, incorrect body, awful sunburst.

Ergo, I expect someone will tell us how many Talkbassers have bought one and raved about how it's better than a real Gibson.

[Alanko]

I don't trust modern basses with those additional screws at the front of the bridge. To me it suggests they are using crap wood, and need all the reinforcement they can get.

[dadagoboi]

I don't trust modern basses with those additional screws at the front of the bridge. To me it suggests they are using crap wood, and need all the reinforcement they can get.

The front screws in a bass bridge are basically ornamental.  That part's in compression, there's no stress on the screws.  The back screws are in tension, they're being pulled out of the wood by the strings. 

Your 'not trusting' has nothing to do with that nor does 'crap wood', whatever you consider that to be.    It's basic structural engineering, i.e. physics.

[Alanko]

Your 'not trusting' has nothing to do with that nor does 'crap wood', whatever you consider that to be.    It's basic structural engineering, i.e. physics.

Cool.

Maybe its like the issue many have with zero frets. People associate them with crap budget instruments, so think that a zero fret is automatically a cheap appointment on a cheap instrument. Likewise those Chinese high-mass bridges that screw down at the four corners tend to turn up only on cheap instruments.

[gearHed289]

The front screws in a bass bridge are basically ornamental.  That part's in compression, there's no stress on the screws.  The back screws are in tension, they're being pulled out of the wood by the strings.

Yeah, I had a little chuckle the first time I saw those on a cheapo Ibanez I was setting up for a friend's kid.

[D.M.N.]

As a thunderbird clone, I think it looks dreadful. But as a homage to old Teisco and cheap beginner guitars of the 60s, it kind of nails the look.

[uwe]

Some things just shouldn't be. Vegan steaks and short scale TBirds are two of them.

[Chris P.]

Some things just shouldn't be. Vegan steaks and short scale TBirds are two of them.

Germans trying to be funny is one too.

[exiledarchangel]

Germans trying to be funny is one too.

Nah, I think Germans are funny when they try to be funny!

[Chris P.]

We always say the smallest, thinnest book on earth is The Great Book of German Humour.

But I know a lot of funny Germans 

[Dave W]

Gert Fröbe was funny. 

[Pilgrim]

Gert Fröbe was funny. 

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines...with manual in hand, grunting martial music on his way to the plane...