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Title: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: Ken on August 03, 2024, 01:16:45 PM
I know that 1991 TB+ had a metal plate covering the underside.  2001 TB+ had just a drilled hole through the epoxy underneath.  Since at least 2013, TB+ have an actual molded cutout in the plastic cover underneath for the mounting screws.  Anyone know when this started?  I'm trying to date a set of TB+ and so far that's all I have to go on, that they just have just drilled holes through the epoxy underneath.

Thanks.
Title: Re: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: gearHed289 on August 03, 2024, 01:23:31 PM
My '94 Les Paul has the molded cutouts FYI.
Title: Re: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: Ken on August 03, 2024, 01:25:55 PM
Quote from: gearHed289 on August 03, 2024, 01:23:31 PM
My '94 Les Paul has the molded cutouts FYI.

Thanks.  You mean these?

Title: Re: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: gearHed289 on August 05, 2024, 08:14:40 AM
Yes, I hope that's what you meant too!
Title: Re: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: Ken on August 05, 2024, 08:20:12 AM
Exactly!  Thanks.  TB+ are so weird.  I really do love the tone of the 2000-era ones that just seem to be drilled there, no molded cutout.  I still have the 1991s with the flat metal plate over the bottom to try out.  No idea what they'll sound like relative to the 2001 and 2013.
Title: Mounting screws and such ...
Post by: uwe on August 05, 2024, 09:46:11 AM
Quote from: gearHed289 on August 05, 2024, 08:14:40 AM
Yes, I hope that's what you meant too!

But Tom!!!  :-X

I resemble the way you think.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6BejeeaGg
Title: Re: What year did TB+ get the mounting screw cutout?
Post by: gearHed289 on August 06, 2024, 08:34:26 AM
Reading between the lines when there's nothing there. Is that a lawyer thing?  ;D ;)