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Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« on: February 29, 2024, 09:58:07 AM »
The Epiphone 64 Thunderbird has landed!

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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #1 on: February 29, 2024, 10:03:53 AM »
So it went from Vintage Pro to '60s Thunderbird to '64 Thunderbird?

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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2024, 11:54:09 AM »
Very nice!

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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2024, 01:07:35 PM »
So it went from Vintage Pro to '60s Thunderbird to '64 Thunderbird ?
Correct.
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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #4 on: February 29, 2024, 01:24:25 PM »

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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #5 on: February 29, 2024, 02:37:43 PM »
I'm a little jealous that the epiphone firebird guitars will have options for Frost blue and Heather. Any chance Gibson will follow suit with custom color Thunderbirds too?
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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #6 on: February 29, 2024, 02:43:19 PM »
I'm a little jealous that the epiphone firebird guitars will have options for Frost blue and Heather. Any chance Gibson will follow suit with custom color Thunderbirds too?

Gibson's site shows the Thunderbird as discontinued.  Or do you mean the Epiphones?

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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #7 on: February 29, 2024, 02:52:01 PM »
That's news to me. All the more reason to bring them back with some custom colors and hopefully chrome pickups and the option for a single pickup version. The NRs are still out there but they don't look as good with a 3 point bridge in my opinion.
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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #8 on: February 29, 2024, 03:51:31 PM »
I wonder what name is next.

If the nickel+gold Rex Brown model is any indication, it will be the yin-yang coloring of the '69 Thunderbird
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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2024, 08:17:50 AM »
I'm a little jealous that the epiphone firebird guitars will have options for Frost blue and Heather. Any chance Gibson will follow suit with custom color Thunderbirds too?
  Definitely a identity crisis.
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Re: Epiphone 64 Thunderbird
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2024, 09:20:53 AM »
Yes, when it comes to Thunderbirds, Epiphone is more Gibson than Gibson. Unless you mean I have guitar envy just because I like purple and blue.  :-\
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