1986 Thunderbird II Custom Shop Edition..

mc2NY · April 29, 2016, 12:16:15 PM

Uwe.....Baz had spoken with an old Gibson Custom Shop guy around six months back, who actually built these 80s TBirds. That is where we got the info about them using leftover 70s TBird wings to build them and that they had PJ Marx make the special pickups.

Bionic-Joe · April 29, 2016, 10:10:19 PM

Yes, Mark Taylor from Bluesman Vintage told me.

Highlander · April 30, 2016, 05:17:44 PM

Quote from: Alanko on April 28, 2016, 08:54:05 AM
Shouldn't that be the forum motto?

It is...

uwe · May 02, 2016, 08:29:08 AM

I don't doubt that story at all. At that point in time PJ Marx was allowed to do anything at Gibson, he was Bill Lawrence's protégé and presented as someone from whose orefices the sun shone day and night (as luthier Phil Jones once put it).

Alanko · May 02, 2016, 12:27:23 PM

Quote from: gearHed289 on April 29, 2016, 10:09:05 AM
I once took apart the cream colored Schaller P pup on my Kramer to stuff it into black covers. I screwed something up, and suddenly it sounded very Ric-like. Which I did not mind. I left it alone.

I did something similar with an OEM Dimarzio Model P pickup I robbed from a Westone Thunder I bass. The coil was broken internally at some point, so it metered out at infinity ohms, but still passed signal. The giveaway was that the tone control worked like a second volume pot.

It sounded wonderfully snarly, with lots of treble content.

OldManC · May 07, 2016, 05:43:53 PM

Such a beautiful bass...

uwe · May 09, 2016, 10:04:09 AM

Herr Carlston, still among the living?!

May I call you colleague yet?

Granny Gremlin · May 09, 2016, 11:17:02 AM

Quote from: TBird1958 on April 28, 2016, 07:05:54 PM

May I take your temperature

I am ready. ... though I should warn you that have had curry 2 days straight.

TBird1958 · May 09, 2016, 01:22:03 PM

Quote from: Granny Gremlin on May 09, 2016, 11:17:02 AM
I am ready. ... though I should warn you that have had curry 2 days straight.

Oh dear! Rectum, hell it killed 'em!

uwe · May 10, 2016, 06:57:03 AM

Quote from: Granny Gremlin on May 09, 2016, 11:17:02 AM
I am ready. ... though I should warn you that have had curry 2 days straight.

All I hear is ... burrrrn!!!

Rob · May 10, 2016, 06:17:21 PM

Quote from: Granny Gremlin on May 09, 2016, 11:17:02 AM
I am ready. ... though I should warn you that have had curry 2 days straight.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

TBird1958 · May 11, 2016, 11:25:42 AM

Upon reflection I think a large rubber stopper and copious amounts of Super Glue would rectumfy the problem.

Granny Gremlin · May 11, 2016, 12:23:10 PM

I like a #2 plug, and prefer lube to super glue - you're into some weird shit, mang.

Which reminds me; our city councellors must be idiots because the new statue they unveiled at the park across the street is rather odd. 4 life-size squirrels in a circle worshipping a very large upside-down acorn on a pedastil (pointy end up). Just picture that for a moment (acorn on a pedastil) and think of what shares the same basic silhouette. I'll take a pic later when I'm home. I hope the artist was local, cause if someone got paid to put an R rated statue in a public park for a subversive joke, then I hope at least they're keeping it in the family, as it were. I am not complaining; I think it's hilarious - all the more so that council didn't catch it; could be seen as political commentary unflattering to them.

... If I had to complain about money wasted on public art it would be about the abstract expressionist Churchill statue behind City Hall.