Three pickup bird..

[mc2NY]

I think I remember Uwe with a 3 pup gold hardware 'Bird that was an original and a one-off, iirc, but for the age of this one those pups should be three screw fixings to be original...? Also the mix-and-match parts are a questionable feature...?

Yeah, I sold my 3PUP TBird stamped Prototype to Uwe....actually a Thunderbird VII, named after the Firebird 3 PUP model. The prototype was black with black PUPs and black hardware...and a Firebird stamped Pearl pickguard.  The actual run of six of them were white ones and red ones, with gold two screw PUPs. Originally done in 1990-91.

The one on EBAY HAD BEEN MODDED BTW.

Pic of my/Uwe black one FYI

[Psycho Bass Guy]

The one on EBAY HAD BEEN MODDED BTW.

No kidding! Gibson may have lax QC, but they do at least line up control knob holes and space pickups parallel and evenly. I can't believe that someone dropped that kind of money on something that is OBVIOUSLY not what it claims to be.

I'd like a three pickup TBird, but I'd want the third pickup much closer to the neck like on Uwe's BFG Les Paul.