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Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« on: August 29, 2021, 06:54:29 AM »
 
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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2021, 09:12:58 PM »
Love it! Sounds great, Scott. I can't wait to hear your college bird next!

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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2021, 10:03:23 PM »
That really sounds great.

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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2021, 06:30:39 AM »
That does sound great.  Frauline was saying that it wasn't that 60s in the body thickness/neck profile side of things (to some degree to be expected because that made things a bit more fragile than they needed to be); what say you bud?  From the side view in yer vid, it doesn't look like they chunked it up too much, but can't really tell much about the neck profile from that.
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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2021, 07:15:55 AM »
Thanks Scott, that sounds freakin awesome! Great color too. Gibson done good.

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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2021, 01:10:23 AM »
And some nice playing!

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Re: Review of the 2021 Nonreverse Thunderbird
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2021, 04:16:03 AM »
   The more I play this bass the more I like it.  Oh of course I pine for the two piece bridge and big headstock but I have come to accept what I can not change.  The thicker body helps with being neck heavy and the wider nut and added thickness to the headstock and it's transition to the neck profile certainly helps give more structural integrity.
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