This would be a nice chrome project for someone.
Mark, this might be a nice bass for you- a tbird in another package.
The cream looks very Dr Bassman. Add chrome and this bass would look killer!
They are great basses that usually do not go for a lot of $$$- To me I love the simple three in a row controls & Tbird pups. The I cream cup headstock is to die for. Cover this vanilla sunday in hot chrome and drive it home today!
http://cgi.ebay.com/1992-Gibson-Les-Paul-Special-Bass-LPB-1_W0QQitemZ260235853753QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
You don't see a lot of these early flat tops, yet alone in cream!
Bassilisk's Iconic bass chrome conversion of a later Bart equipped flame top
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/CHROMELP_CUJPG.jpg)
This bass looks mint!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/DSC04815.jpg)
i have the same bass in "cherry". i love it. sounds great and very comfortable to play.hangs just right.
Oh my, there's a tempting critter! I'm gonna have to think about it.....
A couple of years ago I could buy one in Holland for almost nothing, but I didn't have any spare cash. Yes, this would be a great project for chroming!
That is pretty.......It does need some chromey goodness tho. It's body is kinda small for me...... ;)
Maybe but at least they balance well.
Don't start about the bad balancing of Birds again! We already discussed this: Evil people at F****r spread this rumour!
Quote from: Chris P on May 03, 2008, 10:48:41 AM
Don't start about the bad balancing of Birds again! We already discussed this: Evil people at F****r spread this rumour!
Amen!
And I'll repeat: I've personally played a couple of seventies TBirds that had bad neck dive. That's why I didn't buy either of them. Doesn't mean it's common, but it does exist.
Quote from: Dave W on May 03, 2008, 03:51:34 PM
And I'll repeat: I've personally played a couple of seventies TBirds that had bad neck dive. That's why I didn't buy either of them. Doesn't mean it's common, but it does exist.
You can remember the 70's? Wow. :o
Well, you have a valid point Dave. 70'S era birds will be a bit on the neck divey side, locating the strap button to the neck heel solves this easily tho........that and a decent strap.
The Epi Embassy had less of a neck dive problem, but it was still there. After I sold mine to fur85 (on the old DudePit), he solved it by hanging a little weight in a Crown Royal bag off the end of the lower strap button. Problem solved, and it looked cool, too.
Quote from: drbassman on May 03, 2008, 05:59:15 PM
You can remember the 70's? Wow. :o
Yep. And way before that. But I played both of these in the 90s. ;D
Quote from: Dave W on May 03, 2008, 11:55:51 PM
Yep. And way before that. But I played both of these in the 90s. ;D
Oh, I thought you were boasting about your long term memory! To be honest, the first TB I ever played was my white one a few years ago. I was a diehard j-bass player and I fell in love with the neck and the tone, wow, I loved the tone. I always liked the styling but I stayed away from them because I had always believed the "coventional wisdon" that they had bad neck dive. None of mine do, so I guess it depends on the particular balance of some of the older ones. Either way, it was a happy conversion for me. I haven't missed my j bass since! :)
Quote from: Dave W on May 03, 2008, 03:51:34 PM
And I'll repeat: I've personally played a couple of seventies TBirds that had bad neck dive. That's why I didn't buy either of them. Doesn't mean it's common, but it does exist.
Dave's opinion doesn't count. He owns Fenders. And Musicmans. ;)
Seriously, the seventies and sixties Birds have a larger headstock and larger tuners and are therefore more volatile to - IMHO: mild - neck dive. The post 87 ones have a smaller headstock and initially had small closed Gibson tuners that around the time of the intoduction of the Blackbird were replaced by even smaller Grovers. So the newer Birds balance (even) better. The (already deleted) Studio TBs had an even smaller headstock and a thicker body - they balanced as well as any P Bass does. The Shavo Bird with its larger headstock and open elephant ear tuners is insofar a step backwards, but I guess the ash wings will be heavy enough to balance it still.
I find long scale seventies EB-0s, -3s and -4s with their heavy maple necks a lot more unbalanced than any Bird I've played.
Uwe