Here's mine. I am really, really glad I changed my order to the tobacco burst! Mine seems darker than Bill's: my photos were taken in crappy light since it was already dark when I got home. And it SOUNDS phenomenal!
Magnolia couldn't wait to sit on the box.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC00374a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC00379a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC00380a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/DSC00381a.jpg)
Looks sweet Denis! I may have to order a 'burst.
Beautiful Dennis, glad you like her!
WOW! Love it!
Quote from: godofthunder on November 14, 2012, 06:22:30 PM
Beautiful Dennis, glad you like her!
I do, very much! Thanks for all your efforts toward these, Scott!
Looks real nice! Interesting to see that volute on the neck. Has Gibson been doing that again?
I'm waiting for Mark to provide his inventory of chrome "upgrades".....
But it looks really nice!
A beauty, and it does look slightly darker than Bill's.
I do have 2 chrome Mike Lull Thunderbird Pickups that I would let go for a steal!!!
Ooh, lovely. I looked at the photos on my phone and didn't see the cat until I fire them up on my PC!
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Denis...could you do shots of the whole bass front and back?
Cheers
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These are the first maho necks with a volute Gibson has ever done (on basses, don't know about guitars). Strangely, in the seventies and later, all the volutes were on maple necks which have a higher stability than maho in that area. I never understood why. Even if it breaks all the same, a voluted neck will at least give you more glue surface for a repair so it would have been logical to equip the maho necks and especially the sleek TBird maho necks with volutes.
Quote from: planetgaffnet on November 15, 2012, 01:32:02 AM
Denis...could you do shots of the whole bass front and back?
Cheers
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Sure, I will be glad to do this tonight when I get home. I'll have to rig up some lighting since it's already dark when I get home.
That gives even me gas.
Quote from: uwe on November 15, 2012, 04:48:12 AM
These are the first maho necks with a volute Gibson has ever done (on basses, don't know about guitars). Strangely, in the seventies and later, all the volutes were on maple necks which have a higher stability than maho in that area. I never understood why. Even if it breaks all the same, a voluted neck will at least give you more glue surface for a repair so it would have been logical to equip the maho necks and especially the sleek TBird maho necks with volutes.
Didn't some years of the LP Bass have a volute?
The maho guitars did.
That looks really nice Denis!
Thanks! Here's a couple more pics.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/2013%20Gibson%20Non%20Reverse%20Thunderbird/DSC00384a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/2013%20Gibson%20Non%20Reverse%20Thunderbird/DSC00385a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/2013%20Gibson%20Non%20Reverse%20Thunderbird/DSC00387a.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l111/bigtreebluesea/2013%20Gibson%20Non%20Reverse%20Thunderbird/DSC00389a.jpg)
Really sharp Denis!
Denis
Cheers for doing these for me/us. Right, I'm off...I have a gig in <checks watch> two hours!
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Congrats Denis. Nice colour. Beautiful grain!
Quote from: Dave W on November 15, 2012, 08:42:27 AM
Didn't some years of the LP Bass have a volute?
Absolutely! The Triumph that I owned has a volute.
But not nearly as huge as this new Studio NR Tbird.
You know, that lingered in my mind so much that I even looked at mine (which has no volute) and then shrugged ("must have misremembered something then ....") and posted. So the Hobbit is the exception then, no TBird had it and the EBs of the volute years already had maple necks.
Good looking T-bird there, but did they run out of walnut stain for the back of the neck or something??
Quote from: Dave W on November 15, 2012, 08:42:27 AM
Didn't some years of the LP Bass have a volute?
The maho guitars did.
The Les Paul Signature bass did also...........................
Quote from: Grog on November 16, 2012, 05:27:25 PM
The Les Paul Signature bass did also...........................
That crossed my mind too but I couldn't remember if it had a mahogany or maple neck
Looks like it's maple.........
http://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/catalogues/1975_Les_Paul_5.php
Maple - I had thought of that. I believe the only non-maho body basses with Gibson who had maho necks were the EB-2 and the EB-750 - not a great combo in either of them. It kind of dulls the maple sound, but not in a good way.