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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #30 on: December 24, 2012, 08:16:11 PM »
"bling": n. def - pimpified shit, chrome, nickel
"to bling": def. - to apply chrome or nickel, pimpify
"blinged": v, past tense - an object which has been pimpified, chromed, nickeled, tarted up
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« Reply #31 on: December 24, 2012, 11:55:20 PM »
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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #32 on: December 25, 2012, 10:17:19 AM »



 I guess I can post this here too, why just chrome the pickups?

Anybody else got a chrome plated Opti - Grab?  ;)

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« Reply #33 on: December 25, 2012, 05:34:25 PM »
Mark, I think that's the best example of taking a signature model and making it your own!

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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #34 on: December 26, 2012, 08:58:57 AM »
Mark, I think that's the best example of taking a signature model and making it your own!


  ;D   Nikki who?
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« Reply #35 on: December 26, 2012, 09:55:42 AM »
Mark, I think that's the best example of taking a signature model and making it your own!

And in the process, making it a much prettier bass as well.


  ;D   Nikki who?

Yup!   ;)


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« Reply #36 on: December 26, 2012, 08:31:27 PM »
With all due respect for Herr Hills and his generally excellent taste: nope. Black is beautiful and black and red a much better combo than red and silver. Even the most immaculate one can err once in a while. That is then no cause for celebration, my color-blind brethren.

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« Reply #37 on: December 27, 2012, 05:26:51 AM »
Yeah but ya gotta agree....Chrome on a 1956 Red Corvette is cool......

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« Reply #38 on: December 27, 2012, 07:22:44 AM »
Everything has its place and time. Automatic weapons made sense in the hands of GIs in the Battle of the Bulge and chrome on a '56 Vette.
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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2012, 09:49:54 AM »
With all due respect for Herr Hills and his generally excellent taste: nope. Black is beautiful and black and red a much better combo than red and silver. Even the most immaculate one can err once in a while. That is then no cause for celebration, my color-blind brethren.

"'Cause chromin' ain't allowed in schoo-hool!!!"

 I can freely admit that bass isn't for everyone, but on this bass since it's body is a satin finish a bit of shine really helps give it some life - On that bass the black hardware was just lifeless to me, now I could see a black/white/black PG on it in the fashion of many EB's - Probably would look nice in fact.
IIRC Black and Red were the colors of a certain regime...........  ;)

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« Reply #40 on: December 27, 2012, 02:47:28 PM »
You forgot the white!!!

And Glenn Tipton is no Nazi either.



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« Reply #41 on: December 27, 2012, 04:03:21 PM »
Is being a chromosexual offensive to certain religious sects...?
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #42 on: December 27, 2012, 04:47:16 PM »
Thanks guys. Of the samples on the Thunderbucker Ranch website, I like the sound of the '63 pickups the best.

Which i read elsewhere on here is generally the least liked one from TBR.  :-\


FWIW it is my favorite but i am a fender guy
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« Reply #43 on: December 28, 2012, 07:22:57 AM »
What a way to kill the discussion.  :-\

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Re: Please recommend me Thunderbird replacement pickups
« Reply #44 on: January 01, 2013, 12:08:06 PM »
Jason Lollar Makes a Bad-Ass Thunderbird Pickup as well.

Anyone using these?