ThunderGLird

[Aussie Mark]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gibson-Thunderbird-G-L-Pickups-and-Preamp-W-OHSC_W0QQitemZ180470719139QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item2a04e4a2a3

[Dave W]

Looks professionally done. I don't think anyone's going to want to pay above new T-Bird price for it, though.

[SKATE RAT]

an interesting idea? i wonder how it sounds?

[Aussie Mark]

an interesting idea? i wonder how it sounds?

Very middy with a hard to tame trebley bite, just like an L2000 I'd imagine.

[SKATE RAT]

but L2000's aren't 'hog. or neck thru. that should make some difference.

[Deathshead]

for some reason I think that if he worked at the gibson factory he would come home with something cooler...

[bassvirtuoso]

I had a custom '06 Hog bodied L2K with a maple neck, then I bought a '01 Natural Thunderbird with Ebony board. Needless to say, I sold the G&L this month.

Gibson just does it better and that includes the TB+ pickups, and I love MFDs.

[Aussie Mark]

but L2000's aren't 'hog

'Hog was definitely an option at some point, even if it isn't now.  I owned a fretless hog L2K for a while.

[bassvirtuoso]

'Hog was definitely an option at some point, even if it isn't now.  I owned a fretless hog L2K for a while.

Yep, available in early G&L L2KE's. Then every once and a while if you were lucky. I ordered mine through a dealer who had good connections with G&L. They won't build 'hog bodied basses if their mahogany stash is "too heavy" to them. I happened to get lucky in '06 and I think they made three or four in all.

[SKATE RAT]

'Hog was definitely an option at some point, even if it isn't now.  I owned a fretless hog L2K for a while.

i stand corrected.

[Chris P.]

I like that T-bird. Those pick ups look good and natural in it and it'll be very versatile with those two mini-switches. I guess they're for parallel, series and single coil?

But what about the neck? The black sunburst part looks very strange..