« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 5   Go Down

Author Topic: '78 Tele bass  (Read 9955 times)

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2011, 08:51:48 AM »
Anxiously awaiting the big brown truck.
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2011, 02:25:04 PM »
(Should have gone F*d*x) :mrgreen:
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2011, 03:37:54 PM »
 I found out yesterday it did go Fed ex !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am like a little not happy. They told me it would go out last Thursday and they didn't ship it till Tue. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2011, 03:50:02 PM »
(should have gone UPS)

It's not as if you haven't got enought to be playing (with) as it is...

(ducking) ;D

(I have a FdX pass for working on their sites here)
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2011, 03:59:39 PM »
Funny that's what  the missus says ;)
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

copacetic

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 370
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2011, 04:50:59 PM »
I know how that is. You may have 100 basses in the back room but your imagination and what you think it will sound, feel and be like is almost too much to bear. I have posed this dilemna to my wife more than a few times and usually she said I had my choices and I chose the bass!
Logged

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2011, 05:09:46 PM »
Oh come on... tell me its turned up by now... :o
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2011, 05:27:45 PM »
Shows up tomorrow :)
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

FrankieTbird

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 537
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2011, 11:44:15 PM »
Quote from: godofthunder on July 01, 2011, 05:27:45 PM
Shows up tomorrow :)


You're lucky it went FedEx.  If it was UPS, you'd have to wait til Tues. (UPS doesn't deliver on Sat. and monday's a holiday). ;)
Logged

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2011, 05:47:57 AM »
 :popcorn:
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #25 on: July 03, 2011, 06:39:30 AM »
It arrived Saturday :) I have not had much time with it because of the 4th of July weekend. Overall the bass is in very nice condition, the neck looks almost brand new! There are a few light dings on the body but they are minor. The three tone sunburst is pretty cool, very vibrant colors. The bass has a grounding issue I am going to have to track that down. I gave it a quck clean and set up, the bass plays great, love the neck. The bass suffers from the usual late '70s Fender quality issues, sloppy neck pocket etc. The wood selection isn't that great on the back there are all kinds of marks in the wood that are clearly under the finish not in it. The qc on my Squier is Much Much better. I ordered up a new Fender Humbucker to install and Harry is providing me with a new correct pg. Pics to come.
« Last Edit: July 03, 2011, 02:42:47 PM by godofthunder »
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

godofthunder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 6636
  • Keep On Rock'n !
    • View Profile
    • Johnny Smoke
Re: Prepping body for new Humbucker.
« Reply #26 on: July 10, 2011, 07:17:38 AM »
 The route for the original humbucker has been filled with a big block of oak so I am going to remove that today in anticipation of the pg that Harry is sending me. I used a hand chisel to gently remove the block, took maybe 10 min. Turns out the bass is a '79! I am going to leave all four pickups in the bass and have four vol. controls, no tone.
Logged
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

Highlander

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12542
  • There Ken be only one...
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2011, 03:29:07 PM »
That is just soooooo over the top... neat Bro...!!!
Logged
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

Dave W

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 22237
  • Got time to breathe, got time for music
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2011, 09:14:53 PM »
That could easily be one of the last ones shipped.
Logged

clankenstein

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 992
  • Never Gutless!
    • View Profile
Re: '78 Tele bass
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2011, 03:25:21 AM »
got lots of tones covered there i reckon. 8)
Logged
Louder bass!.
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 5   Go Up
« previous next »