Incoming 1964 TBird II Unbroken

Highlander · January 20, 2011, 11:52:51 AM

Nice one...!

dadagoboi · January 20, 2011, 12:06:31 PM

That's good to hear, Scott! Must be all those new reliced Thunderbirds Gibson is sneaking out the back door

dadagoboi · January 30, 2011, 08:10:28 AM

Arrive Thursday AM smelling like a wino on a 2 week drunk. Case is from an RI, missing handle, seller is sending one, really nice guy in Glendale CA. There was a chrome football shaped plate covering the bad jack hole I cut a pice of plastic to replace it, crude but effective. The plate said Freedom Guitars on it, Sunset Strip shop, so I guess it's lived most of its life in CA. Friday PM, I changed out the chrome tuners for nickel off my Embassy, ditto the bridge. Cleaned the bird with ScratchX, replaced rusted screws, polished the pup with Mother's metal polish. The neck is straight as an arrow, plays great...I knew I bought those gold knobs two weeks ago for a reason.

There was 2" tape residue over the logo and wrapping around the back...wtf? Came off the paint with ScratchX but is fused to the pickguard.

TBird1958 · January 30, 2011, 09:28:02 AM

That's so frickken' cool!

It has a somewhat reddish color in the pics (which I like!) is that true? or from the sunlight?

dadagoboi · January 30, 2011, 10:01:33 AM

Looks like it started life a a Cherry Sunburst, there IS a lot of red in it. First noticed it as I was removing the nicotine coating from the finish (adds new meaning to 'Tobacco Sunburst'). Unusual that it hasn't totally faded by now. I'm digging it.

rockinrayduke · January 30, 2011, 11:46:38 AM

Good score, sir. Very mojo-ey.

Bionic-Joe · January 30, 2011, 12:05:47 PM

MAN, Carlo!!! That reddish colour is amazing!!! Nice score!!!!

godofthunder · January 30, 2011, 12:11:45 PM

Nice bass ! On the color I think the top has been refinished, just my gut feeling. I have never seen one like that. The shading looks very un Gibson to me. Regardless beautiful bass.....................your lucky I didn't see it first.

Highlander · January 30, 2011, 12:18:10 PM

Your mentioning nicotine removal reminded me of my apprentice days - we used to get the 747 outlet valves to clean up - 1/4" of tar build up in places...

Regarding the bass... lost for words...

Dave W · January 30, 2011, 12:35:25 PM

Looks good to me.

From the pics, I think the finish is original. It's possible the top has been oversprayed, but I've seen finishes change colors in unpredictable ways depending on what they've been exposed to.

jumbodbassman · January 30, 2011, 01:23:07 PM

very nice indeed.....

dadagoboi · January 30, 2011, 01:43:59 PM

I consider myself fairly competent when judging refins and this is all original IMO.

In Entwistles book he shows a pair of Firebirds with the caption, "this ones cherry...this one isn't". I'm thinking whoever was painting that day was doing cherry sunbursts or cherry SGs or whatever. I'm just happy with it however it ended up this way.

drbassman · January 30, 2011, 03:36:34 PM

I love it. I'm envious! Enjoy the heck out of it!

Bionic-Joe · January 30, 2011, 04:04:45 PM

I've seen several slightly Cherry looking sunbursts. It's real.

godofthunder · January 30, 2011, 05:11:51 PM

Whats going on in the control cavity ? Is that some kind of shielding paint ? As for Entwistle on things being original or fake even he has been fooled.