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[cheyenne]

Picked up an Epiphone Thunderbird Classic IV in Alpine White last week, really digging the bass. Went ahead and bought the case as well.

[drbassman]

Great bass for the money.  Love the white.

[TBird1958]

I really like the Epi Classic, a great Thunderbird at a working man's price, congratulations on a beauty!

[cheyenne]

This is my first T-bird. Love it.

Question: I like a real low action, I have the neck set almost dead straight, and the bridge almost bottomed out and still no fret buzz. Is this typical? I feel it could go a little lower, 3/16ths from the top of the 12 fret to the bottom of the E string right now, any suggestions to get a little more adjustment? I've already cut the nut as low as I want to go.

Or maybe I just don't know how to setup a Thunderbird?

[chromium]

Congrats!

I owned an Epi Elitist Thunderbird for a while.  On mine I had to rearrange the bridge saddles to get the setup right.  The radius of the fingerboard did not match that of the bridge.  The E&G bridge saddles were low, and the A&D were much taller.

Rather than try and replace the saddles or cut them differently, I just shuffled them around so that the highest ones were under the E&A, and lower ones under the D&G... and then set the bridge action to suit via the studs.  It looked kind of funky because the bridge was tilted  low on the bass side, and higher on the treble side... but I was able to attain a great setup this way.

I have no idea if this same situation applies to your bass, but thought I'd mention in case it does.

[cheyenne]

thanks for the reply, I'll take a look at that. I thought about trying some taper core strings. I think that would allow me to actually raise the bridge a little bit.