During a drunken conversation at the Moffat Bass Bash, I proposed a solution to the neckdive of the Thunderbird bass - make it headless. I remember it being a visionary idea at the time, but in the cold, sober light of day it seems like a daft project to take on for a laugh
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This may be the talk of a dead heretic walking here but I would like to butcher a bolt on Thunderbird (Epiphone Goth preferred because of mahogany body) and add a headless neck and bridge. I might alter the body shape a little to address another of what I see as one of the faults of the Thunderbird - high fret access.
I've been pottering around in the GIMP and come up with this:
![](http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/headless_tbird/mockup1.jpg)
Possible moving of the lower horn to allow improved high fret access:
![](http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/headless_tbird/mockup2.jpg)
I think I've managed to source a donor headless so all I need now is a loaded t-bird body, or a t-bird with a broken neck. As I said above, I would prefer an Epiphone Goth for the donor body. Has anyone got anything lying around?