Whaddayall think? Dingwall Thunderbird

Psycho Bass Guy · March 07, 2016, 05:34:06 PM

This is the FB link. There's nothing on the website which looks to have been last updated last July. The design seems a natural fit but that headstock has gotta go!

Dave W · March 07, 2016, 08:52:22 PM

Very nice body lines. Shame about that headstock.

Alanko · March 08, 2016, 05:08:43 AM

A t-bird with the headstock of an Ibanez Soundgear?!?!

66Atlas · March 08, 2016, 05:28:50 AM

Bolt on Thunderbirds just look natural to me.

I like the color though.

Psycho Bass Guy · March 08, 2016, 06:02:15 AM

The fanned frets go well with the body angles. I normally like Dingwall's headstock, but for anything T-Bird-ish, there needs to be a headstock with four tuners on a side, fivers included. I wonder if anyone failed to notice the fret cant because it matches the body so well?

Granny Gremlin · March 08, 2016, 06:15:40 AM

Quote from: Dave W on March 07, 2016, 08:52:22 PM

I don't think the headstock is that bad though; we've seen some real uggos. This one is at least a nod to the TBird headstock; smaller with 2 tuners moved to the other side (as cool as the Tbird headstock is, in line + swept back is a recipe for disaster). What does bother me is heel adjusted truss rods (but not enough to be a significant factor in a buy decision). ... and for the price of admission on this one it's still a bolt on.

nofi · March 08, 2016, 07:54:26 AM

the june taylor dancers on rails.

gearHed289 · March 08, 2016, 08:31:37 AM

Surprisingly, the headstock doesn't bother me. I don't know if I'd bother with fanned frets on anything less than a 6 string. MAYBE on a 5er...

drbassman · March 08, 2016, 09:18:07 AM

No Facebook, I can't see it.

nofi · March 08, 2016, 09:37:41 AM

https://www.facebook.com/dingwallguitars/photos/pcb.1149363878420747/1149362445087557/?type=3&theater

there you go, doc.

drbassman · March 08, 2016, 10:01:57 AM

Thanks! Well, it's a beauty for sure. I like the headstock. I don't like it enough to say I'd want to own it. One of Carlo's or mine would be more to my tastes.

Also, what's the point of the fan frets? That really means adjusting your playing routine and I'm happy with linear fret alignment!

Psycho Bass Guy · March 08, 2016, 10:38:53 AM

Quote from: drbassman on March 08, 2016, 10:01:57 AM
Also, what's the point of the fan frets?

It's Dingwall's "thing." The neck has equivalent harmonic scale lengths for all the strings, meaning every note on the neck is theoretically in tune and the whole bass sounds much more piano-like. The common 34" "long" scale only provides for a true harmonic series on the G on a four string bass.

nofi · March 08, 2016, 11:05:03 AM

every time i see ' piano like bass' i think wtf. how about a bass like bass. but i guess some folks like that aberrant tone.

Granny Gremlin · March 08, 2016, 01:12:14 PM

I am with you on that except herev in this specific case they don't mean tone wise so much as intonation/temperment wise

patman · March 08, 2016, 03:53:10 PM

isn't that what you accomplish with the slant in the bridge saddles?