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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Headless Thunderbird
« on: March 07, 2011, 03:19:40 PM »
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on March 07, 2011, 03:04:00 PM
I'd be tempted to strip that down and get it anodised in black - will it need to inset...? my own idea when I thought it through would have been to cut away a section of the body to allow access to the tuners...

What is that one from...?

I should be able to obtain a black unit at a later date, but a mate gave me the unit for nothing so I'll use it for now.  It does require a recess.  I will recess further back if needs be rather than cutting away a section of the body as I want to retain the Thunderbird shape.

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Headless Thunderbird
« on: March 07, 2011, 02:59:38 PM »
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on March 07, 2011, 02:47:29 PM
Whoah... what on earth happened to that neck pocket - that's some termite hole... ;D

It was a rather rough hole about 10mm in diameter which was probably used to hang the body while it was being sprayed.  It's covered by the neck plate normally.  Unfortunately, I only had 6mm and 22mm mahogany dowel so I had to enlarge it a bit first ;)

You can see the original problem here:



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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Headless Thunderbird
« on: March 07, 2011, 02:34:32 PM »
A quick update, I've filled all the spurious holes in the body which were left by various bridges and the neck.








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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Headless Thunderbird
« on: February 21, 2011, 07:58:24 AM »
The donor headless turned out to be a bit of a loss, but I've had some good fortune lately - a friend has given me some headless hardware, and I've managed to win a donor Epiphone Goth T-bird on eBay for < £100 - had a lifting bridge which the previous owner had tried to fix by A) packing the post holes with an unknown substance/material and B) tried to fit a regular Fender style bridge, leaving screwholes.  This is the perfect donor bass for me - I'm going to obliterate the one issue that it has.

In keeping with the delicious 80s feel of the headless, I think I'll refinish the body/neck in white with a black "headless T-bird" pickguard.

godofthunder: I'm not suggesting that it's an endemic problem to all T-birds, and I apologise if I didn't make myself clear.  It helps to remember that this idea stemmed from a drunken conversation ;)

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Andreas Demetriou Bass resurection...
« on: February 18, 2011, 03:24:25 AM »
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on February 17, 2011, 01:05:17 PM
Ahh, you never did come back and let me know if you were a sasenach or a teuchter...  ;)

iirc it was Rob (Basvarken) that pointed me in the direction of the former you mentioned but thanks for dropping by - the one shown is from my RD (also presently lurking in my shed stripped to the wood and waiting for a good, clear weekend to start the respray) purely to show scale - I'm watching out for some...

You should post the pics on your Victory refin...

Teuchter, min.  Aberdeenshire :)

I could put up a copy of the potted history of the refin here, I just wonder if I'm boring people because it's on several fora in various degrees of detail...

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Andreas Demetriou Bass resurection...
« on: February 15, 2011, 01:09:41 PM »
Quote from: Kenny's 51st State on December 07, 2010, 02:33:55 PM
I've also posted this in other-brands re replacement machine-heads...

I offered up one of the RD's machines as an example of what I'm looking for... The holes in the head are exactly 17mm - very marginally smaller than 11/16"... I could fit this style of machine but they would be offset...



With the lug-points and no screw fixings I believe they are an old Gibson style (?) - is there a easily available replacement out there...?

Apologies if this has already been answered and I missed it but Schaller M4S tuners ought to fit directly in there - they have the two locating pins instead of screws to prevent rotation at the back.  Techy drawing here: http://bass-machine-heads.com/hp135297/Artikel-Liste.htm?ITServ=CY339047d7X12e2ae39946X1cea#tz

My Gibson Victory Artist has Gibson branded M4S tuners and the holes looked like this:


Fitted, they look like this:



An alternative could be the Grover Titan, but it uses 2 screws approximately where those holes are.  Slightly destructive, but a lot less than Schaller BM like in the picture you posted.

Hope that helps

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: New...but not Green.
« on: February 15, 2011, 04:51:38 AM »
Indeed, welcome :)

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Headless Thunderbird
« on: February 11, 2011, 03:21:47 AM »
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 :)

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:



Possible moving of the lower horn to allow improved high fret access:



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?

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Gibson Basses / Re: Need pix of the brothers!
« on: February 10, 2011, 12:12:09 PM »
Quote from: uwe on February 10, 2011, 11:23:40 AM
Ein Schotte!!! Willkommen, you direct descendant of Mary Stuart!



Do you tend to write longish, stream of consciousness posts? Or short ones that are still difficult to understand? Some of your countrymen do, but I'm not giving away names, that I kennot do.  :-X :-X :-X

It's a pleasure to have someone here who - unlike most of us, see the pictorial evidence in the above post -has not served in the American Civil War and/or breathes like Darth Vader.

No pic of the Vic, Matt, how come? G-3 is a good choice, a very snappy member of the family with quite some versatility. And what didn't you like about the original Epi pups in your Epi LP?

Uwe


Hi Uwe (and thanks folks for the other welcome messages)

I've got no "action" pics of the Victory yet as I've only had it (back) for a couple of weeks!  It has been an ongoing restoration project since last year, but the weather got in the way of refinishing.  The full story can be seen here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732644 but here is a quick pic of Excalibur:



As for the Epi, I bought it purely on looks but I found the sound rather thick and ill-defined, a bit mushy and uninspiring.  I decided to make a thoroughly modern sounding bass in a classic body.  So I fitted EMG-HB active pickups (like in a Steinberger) and fed that through an EMG-BQC 3-band EQ system.  I also fitted a pickup selector switch, because I found fiddling with volumes to manipulate pickups rather annoying.  The Epi had routing in the body up to the switch position, but no switch!  Long story short, I have now a Les Paul bass which I believe is superior to the "grown up" Gibson variety in terms of both looks (love that flowerpot headstock) and functionality (22 frets).  This is it as it is now (live pic had no selector switch)




Good to be here.  I am always on the lookout for interesting Gibson basses, I love their quirkiness, and frankly I love the fact that they're not Fenders ;)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Need pix of the brothers!
« on: February 10, 2011, 09:57:51 AM »
There doesn't seem to be a specific place to say hello here, so I thought I'd do a thread resurrection :)

I'm Matt, from Scotland.  At the moment my Gibson family consists of a 1978 G-3, a 1981 Victory Artist and an Epiphone Les Paul Standard (EMG-ified)

This thread's for pics:




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