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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Thunderbuckers and SixxBuckers on the 'Bay
« on: January 07, 2014, 02:47:25 PM »
I am bidding on the Blackbird and a set of TB+, just need one pair for my Fenderbird. I would love to get the Thunderbuckers but just can`t afford $249 right now. The Epiphone pickups make a otherwise great bass useless, just no treble at all. I think the pickups are all TB+, the Epi Sixx`s had different pickups but the Gibsons where just TB+ from what I found on the Gibson site.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: View of Mars
« on: January 07, 2014, 01:24:05 AM »
But she has carefully calculated plan for keeping her name in the media, as the old saying goes "better bad press than no press at all". She just had to play "ugly slutty girl". Most untalented celebrities have to have a "leaked" sex tape to get attention.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Opinions on scale length for 8 string bass?
« on: January 06, 2014, 08:57:01 PM »
I have had 8 & 12ers in long, medium & short scale and medium is way more playable if you have human hands. I get hand cramps after an hour or so of playing a long scale coursed string bass. I just do not like the low end sound of any short scale basses, all my 4 strings are long scale. I like the 32" scale best for 8 & 12 strings, you still get a nice low end and much easier for chords.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Any one tried the SGD Sidewinder pups for Epiphone Tbirds ?
« on: January 02, 2014, 05:04:57 PM »
Thanks for the heads up, they sound like great PUPS but I just can`t gamble on never getting them. I`m bidding on a set of Gibson T bird PUPS on e bay and I will just have to route a bit to make em fit the Epi bird if I win the auction.

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Gibson Basses / Any one tried the SGD Sidewinder pups for Epiphone Tbirds ?
« on: January 02, 2014, 04:03:40 PM »
Has any one here tried these? http://www.sgd-lutherie.com/pages/SW4-TB.html they are a drop in fit for the horrible sounding one in most bolt on Epi TBirds.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Happy New Year!
« on: January 01, 2014, 10:15:57 PM »
Happy New Years to all!

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Gibson Basses / Re: Epi Thunderbird Classic-IV Pro now on their site ...
« on: December 31, 2013, 05:48:43 PM »
I just worked a trade for a brand new sunburst Epi T bird classic, great bass !

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Dialect Quiz
« on: December 25, 2013, 01:16:45 PM »
Interesting, it says I`m from 6 places I have never lived, I took it twice and got Alaska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, 2 California and Utah. I have been in Colorado all my life. I have visited California a couple times but that is it.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: LBO Annual Christmas Greetings Thread
« on: December 24, 2013, 02:56:12 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=scqPtonqnH8
Merry Holidays!

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The Bass Zone / Re: show your multiple bass pictures!
« on: December 23, 2013, 06:21:33 PM »
I have the white Warmoth/Charvel pointybird so this got the maple neck. I routed the body so I can swap necks with just a couple minutes setup work.
The one George posted is nice also, never seen Thunderbird headstock with maple board.

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The Bass Zone / Re: show your multiple bass pictures!
« on: December 23, 2013, 05:25:43 PM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on December 19, 2013, 10:34:44 PM

 It reminds me of my Fenderbird.
I just got done turning it into a Fenderbird today,

 I like the look better and it did make the bass much brighter with a one piece maple neck.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Rosewood fretboard oil?
« on: December 22, 2013, 07:59:35 PM »
Pilgrim thats a big "yep" on the brews, it is Colorado the home of micro brews and some great local distilleries also, you ever try Leopold Brothers whisky? I think I may have met you once, did you trade me a badass bridge for a vintage fender bridge cover a year or so ago?

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Fender Basses / Re: Something is all wrong with this Paisley Telecaster Bass...
« on: December 22, 2013, 07:32:17 PM »
Fender put the contact paper on and then sprayed the poly sanding sealer, gold paint on the sides of the body and over the straight cut edges of the paisley wallpaper, then cleared. This has had the clear & color coats striped but when they got to the poly sanding sealer they stopped. That poly sanding sealer has to be sanded off. The cracks in the poly go through the paisley and around to the sides so it seems like a legit paisley body. The lack of the gloss clear coat could explain the color difference also. The neck looks like a refinish, just no wear at all and if you have had climatic changes drastic enough to cause the cracks/checking on the body it sure should have had some effect on the neck finish. 

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The Bass Zone / Re: Rosewood fretboard oil?
« on: December 22, 2013, 06:18:28 PM »
I buy and sell allot of guitars and this is just what I have run into here over 40 years. I just sold a 63 P bass from Colorado Springs that the fretboard was starting to crack on due to being so dry. It had been sitting in a case under a bed unused for 20 years after a bad refinish on the body, I cleaned it and oiled it and it came back to life, really nice slab o rosewood. There are many variables, is the bass kept in a case or leaning up against the wall, humidifier on the heating, the KFC or Canadian Bacon fingerfactor and the relative barometric pressure in Equatorial Guiana etc.... but rosewood needs oiled when it starts turning light colored and the grain opens in my opinion. I am not trying to start a Pilgrim fight!!

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The Bass Zone / Re: show your multiple bass pictures!
« on: December 21, 2013, 01:35:46 PM »
Here are my Explorers, a Arbor neck through, one made by a mystery luthier in Utah and a Hamer Blitz.

I bought the mystery bass for $80 off ebay for the parts and turned out the death sticker was a nicely done  inlay, had a bound body and it just needed a setup & strings.

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