Plexi Thunderbird

[Rob]

Is it just my rapidly approaching geriatric eyes, or is that body about an inch think?

[Dave W]

Is it just my rapidly approaching geriatric eyes, or is that body about an inch think?

Judging by the top strap button compared to the body, you may be right.

[Pilgrim]

Would it have any magnifying qualities...?

Now THERE's an answer to the whohaw issue!!

[TBird1958]

Every little bit helps 

[Bionic-Joe]

OK, how about if they trace a 60's T Bird instead of a 70's or 90's??? And it needs a better bridge, pickups, tuners...Oh what's the use...

[uwe]

I think it's cool. And basses made with artificial material bodies do not so much sound worse than wooden instruments, but completely different. I would expect this thing to have sublow thud to beat any wooden TBird, but less mids. Never thought the Armstrong basses sounded bad, just in a class of their own.

Doubleplusgood for the three point, the mother of all bridges.

[Dave W]

They must have figured that using a good bridge would be too high class.

[uwe]

It amazes me how someone always up in defense for the abysmally misengineered two-point ("only has a stringholder missing") can pour so much derision of the much improved three-point!!! The three-point is the iconic, idiosyncratic Gibson bass bridge, as much a part of the design for the last 40 years as the Ric bridge is on a 4001/4003.

And since adding a stringholder to a bridge that never had one seems to be allowed to argue its (then) practicability: If someone came up with saddles for a 3-point that could be individually raised and lowered by, say, two allen screws in the saddle, the thing would be darn near perfect even for today's standards. 

Death to all false bridges!!!

[Dave W]

I wasn't defending the two-point, just attacking the three-point. 

[dadagoboi]

If someone came up with saddles for a 3-point that could be individually raised and lowered by, say, two allen screws in the saddle, the thing would be darn near perfect even for today's standards.  

Maybe the best someone to do that would be Gibson.  Will we be seeing that on their "All New" bass?  

[Pilgrim]

I gotcha classic bridge right heeeere.....

[uwe]

For all its qualities (on the right type of bass) that thing is butt-ugly and spiky as a handrest to boot. It looks pretty much horrible on anything but a P or a J.

[dadagoboi]

For all its qualities (on the right type of bass) that thing is butt-ugly and spiky as a handrest to boot. It looks pretty much horrible on anything but a P or a J.

Still works great at 55 and and a prime example of "Form follows Function".

[Pilgrim]

For all its qualities (on the right type of bass) that thing is butt-ugly and spiky as a handrest to boot. It looks pretty much horrible on anything but a P or a J.

Oh, I tend to agree, but how could I resist the opportunity?

Besides, with a bridge cover over it, the Fender bent-metal bridge is right purty.   

[Dave W]

For all its qualities (on the right type of bass) that thing is butt-ugly and spiky as a handrest to boot. It looks pretty much horrible on anything but a P or a J.

In one form or other, the Fender bridge design is used on a lot more basses than Fenders. I would have chosen the MusicMan bridge as an improvement in looks and function.