Waterstone Thunderbird 8 string

TBird1958 · January 27, 2012, 05:06:04 PM

Not my pics.......Someone posted these on TB just thought I's share.

I don't know anything about the quality or construction so I'll limit my comments to the color.
I like it!

hieronymous · January 27, 2012, 05:22:53 PM

You beat me to it! These were posted on the Waterstone facebook page. I don't really like the colors (there's one in "violet burst" too) but the basses look interesting. Not sure about the banjo tuners for the octave strings though.

TBird1958 · January 27, 2012, 05:43:15 PM

I'm a big fan of Purple, Harry!

godofthunder · January 27, 2012, 05:56:02 PM

Those look pretty cool! I'd like boring white please.

TBird1958 · January 27, 2012, 06:11:47 PM

Ok....... And a single Lull pup in the sweet spot, please!

godofthunder · January 27, 2012, 06:13:38 PM

Mark I just noticed the neck pup position

me no like. Still if the price was right I'd buy one

hieronymous · January 27, 2012, 07:21:14 PM

Quote from: TBird1958 on January 27, 2012, 05:43:15 PM
I'm a big fan of Purple, Harry!

I love purple, but the purpleburst is a little too much for me, in the pictures at least...

godofthunder · January 27, 2012, 08:17:53 PM

They are going for $789.00

TBird1958 · January 27, 2012, 08:37:06 PM

Quote from: godofthunder on January 27, 2012, 08:17:53 PM
They are going for 798.00

Wow! Hmmmmmm........BassNW is a dealer, I may have to go visit my Thunderbird brother Evan Sheely next Friday!

chromium · January 27, 2012, 09:35:28 PM

Neat!

Some of these might look slick in place of the banjo tuners:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guitar,_solid_peghead_tuners/Steinberger_Gearless_Tuners.html?tab=Pictures#details

Pekka · January 27, 2012, 10:55:26 PM

Please tell me they didn't use the 4 -saddle bridge, the same that is one those new Hagström HB-8 basses.

Reminds me of a John Birch T-bird. This is a medium scale?

mc2NY · January 28, 2012, 02:50:45 AM

Apparently my conversations about banjo tuners for the octaves have been well recieved....although I suggested Steinbergers and have a few sets stashed for a custom order of a different brand I'd been working on.

I'm afraid of Waterstones after I bought a MOT 12ver and sent it back after ONE day because I hated it....felt cheap/Asian (yes, there IS some good Asian-made stuff.) The hardware, especially, was lacking but overall it felt closer to a Galveston than a Hamer USA. The one I bought came from a name player and his bass tech had gone over it and set it up/tweaked it, so I would assume it was supposed to even be one of the better ones....still hated it. The only thing I liked was the MOT finish. After playing the thing and considering Petersson had been endorsing them for a few years, all I could think was "WTF?!?!" The ones he plays HAVE to be completely different, custom or totally modded/reworked.

If someone tries out one of these new TBirds that are half the price of the 12vers, I'd love to hear a review.
That green one looks to have a FOUR-saddle bridge, so it is impossible to intonate correctly...and the three pot knobs are crooked to the body bevel by a hair, so look wrong. I also don't think mounting all 8-tuners on one side is such a good idea...gonna need a really long G octave string too. Guess they must make those in some special hut in China

Basvarken · January 28, 2012, 04:40:54 AM

They look very cool!

godofthunder · January 28, 2012, 05:14:55 AM

Ryan from Waterstone tells me they have four of these two in each color, when these are gone they are ordering more I asked for a white one lets see what he says

Basvarken · January 28, 2012, 06:02:19 AM

Bridge pickup looks too narrow...