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Denis

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NR Tbird in the house!
« on: November 14, 2012, 05:46:06 PM »
Here's mine. I am really, really glad I changed my order to the tobacco burst! Mine seems darker than Bill's: my photos were taken in crappy light since it was already dark when I got home. And it SOUNDS phenomenal!

Magnolia couldn't wait to sit on the box.






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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2012, 05:48:09 PM »
Looks sweet Denis!  I may have to order a 'burst. 
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2012, 06:22:30 PM »
 Beautiful Dennis, glad you like her!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2012, 06:28:09 PM »
WOW! Love it!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2012, 07:14:07 PM »
Quote from: godofthunder on November 14, 2012, 06:22:30 PM
Beautiful Dennis, glad you like her!

I do, very much! Thanks for all your efforts toward these, Scott!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2012, 07:18:31 PM »
Looks real nice!  Interesting to see that volute on the neck.  Has Gibson been doing that again?
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2012, 07:56:29 PM »
I'm waiting for Mark to provide his inventory of chrome "upgrades".....

But it looks really nice!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2012, 10:27:04 PM »
A beauty, and it does look slightly darker than Bill's.
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2012, 12:35:51 AM »
I do have 2 chrome Mike Lull Thunderbird Pickups that I would let go for a steal!!!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2012, 01:30:23 AM »
Ooh, lovely.  I looked at the photos on my phone and didn't see the cat until I fire them up on my PC!
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2012, 01:32:02 AM »
Denis...could you do shots of the whole bass front and back?
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2012, 04:48:12 AM »
These are the first maho necks with a volute Gibson has ever done (on basses, don't know about guitars). Strangely, in the seventies and later, all the volutes were on maple necks which have a higher stability than maho in that area. I never understood why. Even if it breaks all the same, a voluted neck will at least give you more glue surface for a repair so it would have been logical to equip the maho necks and especially the sleek TBird maho necks with volutes.
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2012, 06:00:09 AM »
Quote from: planetgaffnet on November 15, 2012, 01:32:02 AM
Denis...could you do shots of the whole bass front and back?
Cheers
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Sure, I will be glad to do this tonight when I get home. I'll have to rig up some lighting since it's already dark when I get home.
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2012, 06:18:51 AM »
That gives even me gas.
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Re: NR Tbird in the house!
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2012, 08:42:27 AM »
Quote from: uwe on November 15, 2012, 04:48:12 AM
These are the first maho necks with a volute Gibson has ever done (on basses, don't know about guitars). Strangely, in the seventies and later, all the volutes were on maple necks which have a higher stability than maho in that area. I never understood why. Even if it breaks all the same, a voluted neck will at least give you more glue surface for a repair so it would have been logical to equip the maho necks and especially the sleek TBird maho necks with volutes.

Didn't some years of the LP Bass have a volute?

The maho guitars did.
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