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I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« on: May 17, 2009, 02:50:24 PM »
This thing is HOT!






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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2009, 03:04:15 PM »
Oh my, thats my kind of Thunda' Bird! 8)


Epi custom shop though? ???

Didn't even know that existed..............
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2009, 03:16:09 PM »
Me neither.

If this were a true custom shop, why would the bass need to be set up and inspected in the USA?
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2009, 03:52:20 PM »
I was kind of confused about that whole custom shop thing too. IS there (or was there) a custom shop in the Korean plant?
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2009, 04:26:26 PM »
Weren't these part of the limited run they did with the white & red?
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2009, 07:07:43 PM »

 Andy's right, the red, blue and white ones were all limited editions as colors. My red Epi had that same custom shop stamp on the neck too - Alas, it went bye-bye in favor of a lefy J neck to become my F'Bird, Matt (Poomwah) has it now :)
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2009, 09:35:53 AM »
Interesting...
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2009, 10:50:32 AM »
Birds look good in any color unlike grabbers.
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2009, 06:59:42 PM »
Usually I'm not a huge fan of the painted Birds, but the blue really looked good on it. And I think Rippers and Grabbers look awesome in all black.
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2009, 04:25:29 AM »
What's wrong with blue Grabbers, meine Herren! Black and blue ones to be precise ...



Or Kalamazoos ...





Non-Revs ...





or the mighty Mon(k)ey bass

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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2009, 04:46:57 AM »
love that blue Grabber!
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2009, 05:02:38 AM »
I did a bunch of color studies for my Ripper / Blueshawk and could not find something I could fall in love with color wise.







This is the best color I have seen on one, in my opinion-



Black on black is still the best combo for a Ripper to me.


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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2009, 05:06:09 AM »
i could get into that white/tort one.
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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2009, 05:08:47 AM »
British racing green for Chris/ Doug


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Re: I wish I'd bought this Bluebird!
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2009, 06:19:51 AM »
Okay, I'll buy into that blue Grabber: it DOES look good. And the NR as well, but it makes me really wish I'd bought that darn NR Epi I saw on eBay some months ago. Argh!
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