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Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: Denis on August 25, 2012, 02:22:12 AM
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Straight from Mojo Hobo to me. :) I hope no one accuses it of being Carolina Blue, especially since I went to NC State..
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/BaCH-TH1%20Sonic%20Blue/SonicBlue.jpg)
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Very nice. Every time I see a BaCH, I want one.
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Nice score Denis! How many Bach's do you have now?
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That is certianly a good looking bass. Thanks and enjoy. I just sent your tracking number.
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Straight from Mojo Hobo to me. :) I hope no one accuses it of being Carolina Blue, especially since I went to NC State..
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/BaCH-TH1%20Sonic%20Blue/SonicBlue.jpg)
I understand. SOME colors are simply verboten for graduates of specific schools.
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That is certianly a good looking bass. Thanks and enjoy. I just sent your tracking number.
Thanks, John! Looking forward to getting it though it will arrive while I'm out of town next week.
Nice score Denis! How many Bach's do you have now?
Three total. This will be my second TH-1 Series II and the third is a Series III TH-2. I really love that shape!
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Whatever you call the color, she's a beauty.
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I wouldn't have been disappointed to open the package from Bach and find a blue Bird inside. I am happy with my skinny black one tho.
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Very nice Denis! When I lived in N.C. back in the late 70's/early 80's you wore Nike sneakers with either a red or blue swoosh.
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Congrats Denis. As far as I can see it is still 100% original. With knurled knobs. And the jack input and tone pot switched.
By the way, BaCH is going to end the production of the TH basses. :-[
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Very nice Denis! When I lived in N.C. back in the late 70's/early 80's you wore Nike sneakers with either a red or blue swoosh.
Haha, yeah, I remember that! In those days, no one I knew gave a flip about Duke; it was all NC State or Carolina.
Congrats Denis. As far as I can see it is still 100% original. With knurled knobs. And the jack input and tone pot switched.
By the way, BaCH is going to end the production of the TH basses. :-[
Thanks! The only things I think I'm going to do to it are switch the jack input and tone pot, replace the pots with CTS pots and put on LaBella flats.
I was on BaCH's site the other day and notice they list now a lot of flavors of the TH basses. Some even have belly cuts and arm cuts. I suppose they never sold as many as they thought they would?
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Congrats Denis. As far as I can see it is still 100% original. With knurled knobs. And the jack input and tone pot switched.
By the way, BaCH is going to end the production of the TH basses. :-[
Yes, it is 100% original, probably the only one that is.
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Is this a clever attempt to talk me into keeping it 100% original? ;D
Other than strings, pots and switching location of the tone and input jack, my black one is totally as it came. My TH-2 is original except for the pots and strings.
That one has a small ding in the headstock where I hit the glass globe on the kitchen ceiling light. :P It had the strap on it and I picked it up off the stand to put onto the kitchen island when it hit the globe. Dinged the headstock but that old glass globe was unaffected. Lucky me! Did not relish a shower of glass raining down.
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That blue one sure is purty! I always wanted one of the white ones.
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That blue one sure is purty! I always wanted one of the white ones.
You could have had my white one at one point. I replaced the pickup with a '60s Gibson, and a CTS volume pot. Carlo grabbed it.
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This was Gary's, now mine. Correct control locations, vintage style reflector knobs, Filled horn strap button hole, repainted headstock, Gibson decal TRC, 'Bird decal and repro finger rest on stock P/G
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/BaCH%20TH1/P1010835.jpg)
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This was Gary's, now mine. Correct control locations, vintage style reflector knobs, Filled horn strap button hole, repainted headstock, Gibson decal TRC, 'Bird decal and repro finger rest on stock P/G
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/BaCH%20TH1/P1010835.jpg)
That's one of the most beautiful basses I've ever seen.
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The only reason I sold it was because I got the Embassy back. It was a beautiful bass, and it played and sounded great.
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I was on BaCH's site the other day and notice they list now a lot of flavors of the TH basses. Some even have belly cuts and arm cuts. I suppose they never sold as many as they thought they would?
The arm cut is one of the reasons why that series doesn't get sold. Non Reverse Thunderbirds are mostly sought after by Gibson freaks. And they know perfectly well that Gibson Thunderbirds did not feature an arm cut.
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Finally home from my trip to Iowa and opened the package up. The blue looks better to me in person, not SO bright. Looks fantastic! Thanks, John!
The invoice from BaCH was still in the case (which is very cool and very huge) and I'd forgotten how inexpensive those basses were! Just after I joined LBO I bought the last black one and by then they were a little more expensive. It makes me wonder just how much money BaCH made on each one.
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Yea, I thought you might appreciate the original invoice. The shipping cost on that one was about half of what everyone else paid. Roman at BaCH held to the quoted shipping cost even after he discovered that carrier he had been using wouldn't ship that large of an item to America. When I bought the TH-2 in the case the shipping cost alone was $186.
And I would keep it 100% original, it probably is the only one that still is.
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I've decided to put off making any changes of any kind to this bass. That wasn't my intention when I bought it but it might be worth leaving it as is. Sure is pretty and that case is a knockout. I can believe it cost $186 to ship that sucker to the US from the Czech Republic...
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I've decided to put off making any changes of any kind to this bass. That wasn't my intention when I bought it but it might be worth leaving it as is. Sure is pretty and that case is a knockout. I can believe it cost $186 to ship that sucker to the US from the Czech Republic...
When I got mine, the shipping was about $110. The kicker was the $45 wire transfer cost, since Roman wasn't able to accept payment from the USA in any other form at the time.