Ibanez Thunderbird

Started by TBird1958, June 04, 2011, 01:02:28 PM

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To refinish or not?

Leave me alone bitch!
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Touch me up big boy
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Total Members Voted: 17

the mojo hobo


Freuds_Cat

I'd leave it. I've posted pics of Denis Kipridis playing his Ibanez bird here before. I love the tone that these basses (pups) give you. I had a bit of a plunk on Denis' bird after a Streamliners show a while back. I fell in love with it immediately.

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Basvarken

+1
Leave it.
Nothing wrong with a few battle scars.
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ramone57

if you go for the refin, do a gold sparkle or a lemon yellow.  if you decide not to refin, you should move it.  a vintage sunburst seems a bit dreary, given your other birds.

TBird1958

Quote from: ramone57 on June 06, 2011, 04:12:36 AM
if you go for the refin, do a gold sparkle or a lemon yellow.  if you decide not to refin, you should move it.  a vintage sunburst seems a bit dreary, given your other birds.

That's just it, I know it's a little rare, but it's just beat up and not in a cool, rightfully earned mojo kind of way, I like mojo. It needs help. Vintage burst is definately not my thing but my Greco TBII is in much better shape and is almost identical - not so likely a candidate for a refin by comparison. 
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