Hello everyone,
I've been snooping around here for a little bit looking at some of the projects, all of which look fantastic. I thought I'd join up and share the one I'm having made at the moment, it's Thunderbird inspired to some degree! It's a mix of the Telecaster and Jazzmaster, routed for a standard 4 string soapbar in the Jazz neck/Thunderbird position.
It's in the finishing process at the moment (going to be white) and this is the most recent picture I have of it at the moment from the luthier. I've asked for some of the painting process but not had any reply yet.
I've been struggling to find a fairly decent pickup for it that's within my budget. I sortof overshot it because I didn't originally intend to have it finished, I was going to paint it myself, but time limitations and lack of equipment made me decide to have it done properly. If anyone has any suggestions on a pickup I could use please share - it's the size of a Seymour Duncan SSB-4 or an EMG 35. I'm really not a fan of the modern ringy metallic tone of EMG though. I emailed BaCH to see if they sold the chrome soapbars from their Thunderbird copies - Roman replied and said yes but that they were waiting for a restock so I doubt it's going to happen to be honest. I think a chrome Thunderbird pup would look/sound great in it
But I'm not sure about dimensions and they're not very readily available...
Anyways if anybody has any ideas do share!
Cheers
