Epi Pro Bird5 er on Ebay

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gearHed289

#75
August 18, 2009, 09:02:02 AM
I think I need to get myself a cherry Gibson Thunderbird Studio 5 string if anyone has one to get rid of.  :)

Lightyear

#76
August 18, 2009, 09:14:07 AM
Mark was watching one on Ebay a week or two ago?  It was cherry and cheap at the point I saw it.

Mark hasn't posted a "look at my new toy!" thead or posted a new pic of the flock so I guess he didn't get it?

TBird1958

#77
August 18, 2009, 09:30:23 AM

I'm still trolling for one!
Been watching a couple black ones on Ebay but like Tom would rather have a Cherry...........

I remember when I lost mine  ;)
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Highlander

#78
August 18, 2009, 11:40:05 AM
Still got my cherry (red T'bird), but it's hidden under all that garish paint...  ;D
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uwe

#79
October 16, 2009, 10:41:12 AM Last Edit: October 16, 2009, 10:54:04 AM by uwe
As of today, I'm finally the proud owner of a natural Epi T-Bird Pro V! The B string issue has been eradicated. In comparison, the E string still sounds a little stronger (on the Gibson Studio V, the B string dwarfs all other strings as if it came from another planet), but the difference is marginal and not relevant when playing in a band context.

I opted for the nat V because out of all  the Pros I tried (IVs and Vs in translucent black and sunburst) it sounded the most responsive. Weaker minds might be deluded into saying that the thinner fin of the natural models - the translucent black and sunburst models had fins as thick as a candy apple -  might account for that just a little - is Dave around?  :-[ -, but we all know that is nonsense  :-X and that Fin(n)ish is a language, not a scientifically relevant sound ingredient. (Let go of my arm now, Dave!) Even here I am, however, at liberty to say that the added beef of the nicely D-shaped  5-string neck adds to the sustain noticably.

For 410 Euros, this is a mighty fine bass, we have to watch those Chinks more closely I tell you! Workmanship is up to Gibson (in its more brighter moments). Woods loook great, making the bass a reverse sister of the GoW Zebrabird, i.e. striped where the Zebrabuird is not and vice versa. Wonderfully grown porous maho wings in a nicely dark tone, much darker than what you see on the official pics or how the other natural specimen looked in the shop. Maple stripes of the 7 ply maple/walnut neck are even a little flamed. Intruders of higher regions will be pleased to hear that Scott, the "Flying Tiger Saw", has obviously given woodworking seminars in the People's Republic, the cutaway is deeper than on a Gibson T-Bird and you can even play the last note with your pinky. Velly well done, Comlades, thank you!

Soundwise, this is a real TBird. It has the same basic characteristics as my Studio V or my Sixxnature with more detail over the whole frequency spectrum (the electronics never sound harsh though) at the expense of some raunch, no doubt due to the active nature of the beast.
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Dave W

#80
October 16, 2009, 10:56:40 AM
But does it have lots of chrome?  :P

uwe

#81
October 16, 2009, 11:16:11 AM
No, it's a good-looking, all natural bass. Not tarted up at all.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

OldManC

#82
October 16, 2009, 11:34:39 AM
I'm sitting here gawping in awe at our resident progressive European barrister using the work 'chink' to describe the people who must have made this bass! Wow...   ;)

TBird1958

#83
October 16, 2009, 11:37:00 AM

Hey now!

I'm all tarted up  ;)

I played a 4 banger at GC acouple weeks ago and was quite impressed with it's build quality and tone, further the neck profile at the nut is much more comfy to me than the standard "stock" Epi bird.
I'd like to check a 5er out if anybody around here gets one.
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patman

#84
October 16, 2009, 12:02:13 PM Last Edit: October 16, 2009, 12:49:41 PM by patman
That is a temptation...I've been thinking of buying a 5 string

Is it noisy?

TBird1958

#85
October 16, 2009, 12:59:44 PM
You know the black hardware would have go! ;)
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Hornisse

#86
October 16, 2009, 06:22:06 PM
Quote from: OldManC on October 16, 2009, 11:34:39 AM
I'm sitting here gawping in awe at our resident progressive European barrister using the work 'chink' to describe the people who must have made this bass! Wow...   ;)

I still refer to the snack food "Cheese Nips" as "Cheese Japs."   ;)

godofthunder

#87
October 17, 2009, 06:54:13 AM
Maker of the Badbird Bridge, "intonation without modification" for your vintage Gibson Thunderbird

the mojo hobo

#88
October 17, 2009, 07:08:18 AM
Scott, your excuse is not valid. The auction link is for an IV. Go for it.

godofthunder

#89
October 17, 2009, 08:59:00 AM
Doh how could I have not noticed ?
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