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Title: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: slinkp on May 27, 2015, 05:54:19 AM
Anybody tried one?  I like the look ... (yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup)
(http://www.reverendguitars.com/wp-content/files_mf/1376973460thundergun_WR_main.png)
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Pilgrim on May 27, 2015, 06:15:12 AM
Dangit, you are only feeding G.A.S. on my part!!   :-\
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: dadagoboi on May 27, 2015, 07:33:14 AM
Dangit, you are only feeding G.A.S. on my part!!   :-\

Don't worry, Al, it will soon pass.  We all know how cheap you profess to be. ;D
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: gearHed289 on May 27, 2015, 07:37:16 AM
That was mentioned in the Dub King thread. Good looking bass! Needs Thunderbuckers or something.  8)
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Pilgrim on May 27, 2015, 02:09:39 PM
Don't worry, Al, it will soon pass.  We all know how cheap you profess to be. ;D

Alas, I am a teller of truth. Cheapness r'me.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 27, 2015, 06:27:36 PM
Nice colour; nice neck (I love blocks); not feeling the rest of it.  The Dub King is a bit appealing, but this is not speaking to me at all. IMHO having the raised middle TBird thing just seems asinine if it's not actually a neck thru.

The lean towards G detailing on this vs F on their bolt on series (all the same shape) is better, obviously. :vader:
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Dave W on May 27, 2015, 07:39:35 PM
I don't hate the look of the pickup. Not at all. Whatever this one sounds like, I'd rather see a rectangular P-style pickup housing than yet another split coil.  :bored:

Not every soap bar is MM shape. And even the ones that look like a MM aren't necessarily anything like it tonally.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: slinkp on May 28, 2015, 03:43:27 PM
I've seen some pictures with reverse headstock and some without.  I wonder if they do it both ways, or if they switched at some point.

I really like the EB-ish contour on the upper edge.  Wish more designs did that, actually.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on May 29, 2015, 06:09:45 AM
yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup

I have no MM hate, excepting all the low end import ones that were all the rage in the early 2000's that sound like crap, though I'd still prefer a big chrome boom 'bucker.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: slinkp on May 29, 2015, 03:28:03 PM
Me neither, I kind of want to get a Stingray some day ... all bass acquisitions are on hold however until / unless I ever figure out what the hell my custom job is going to be.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: patman on May 29, 2015, 06:12:07 PM
Stingray is the punchiest bass I know of...I would love to have a fiver.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: planetgaffnet on May 30, 2015, 01:45:43 PM
I'm suprised no one has mentioned the Meshell Ndegeocello signature model.

(http://www.reverendguitars.com/wp-content/files_mf/1389029931fellowship_SBLK_main.png)
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Highlander on May 30, 2015, 01:50:28 PM
There's a primary Reverend subject one or two down that caused this one to be raised where Jake mentioned this beastie...
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: ilan on May 31, 2015, 05:12:22 AM
Anybody tried one?  I like the look ... (yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup)
(http://www.reverendguitars.com/wp-content/files_mf/1376973460thundergun_WR_main.png)
I love that Gibsonesque color theme. Transparent cherry with b/w/b pickguard, bound fretboard with block inlays and black headstock overlay. Kinda like a Lakland Decade.

(http://www.bassfrontiersmag.com/wp-content/uploads/SkylineDecade060408-tn.jpg)
(http://www2.gibson.com/Images/Products/ElectricGuitars/Bass/Gibson-USA/Standard/Heritage-Cherry/BASGHCCH1-Finish-Shot-jpg.aspx)
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Pilgrim on May 31, 2015, 06:37:20 AM
^^^That's a most tasteful trio!
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: ilan on May 31, 2015, 08:52:28 AM
^^^That's a most tasteful trio!
If one collects for fins, yeah.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Droombolus on May 31, 2015, 08:56:34 AM
^^^That's a most tasteful trio!

Yup, I'm with you there brother !

Did sell my Decade with the rest of the long scales but I really liked it. Still have a SG Standard...... and 2 SG Supremes but I don't collect fins  ;D
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: uwe on June 03, 2015, 03:16:10 AM
Anybody tried one?  I like the look ... (yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup)
(http://www.reverendguitars.com/wp-content/files_mf/1376973460thundergun_WR_main.png)

I like the look - especially of the mock split-coil! Très hot!!!
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Dave W on June 03, 2015, 10:50:04 AM
I like the look - especially of the mock split-coil! Très hot!!!

So do I. The look of a regular Fender split coil leaves a lot to be desired (IMHO) no matter how good the sound.

This looks much better to me, although it seems like we're in the minority here.

Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: slinkp on June 03, 2015, 11:01:42 AM
It kind of reminds me of the EB4L pickup actually.
(http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/part20a.jpg)
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Dave W on June 03, 2015, 11:04:44 AM
It kind of reminds me of the EB4L pickup actually.
(http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/part20a.jpg)

Or the wide range humbucker of the second edition Fender Tele Bass.
Title: Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on June 03, 2015, 06:42:35 PM
I like the look - especially of the mock split-coil! Très hot!!!

I'd like to see it with alternating blade polepieces in the "unused space" like they use on the guitar pickups. Bet it would have have a killer tone, too.