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Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« on: May 27, 2015, 05:54:19 AM »
Anybody tried one?  I like the look ... (yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup)

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2015, 06:15:12 AM »
Dangit, you are only feeding G.A.S. on my part!!   :-\
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2015, 07:33:14 AM »
Dangit, you are only feeding G.A.S. on my part!!   :-\

Don't worry, Al, it will soon pass.  We all know how cheap you profess to be. ;D

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2015, 07:37:16 AM »
That was mentioned in the Dub King thread. Good looking bass! Needs Thunderbuckers or something.  8)

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2015, 02:09:39 PM »
Don't worry, Al, it will soon pass.  We all know how cheap you profess to be. ;D

Alas, I am a teller of truth. Cheapness r'me.
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2015, 06:27:36 PM »
Nice colour; nice neck (I love blocks); not feeling the rest of it.  The Dub King is a bit appealing, but this is not speaking to me at all. IMHO having the raised middle TBird thing just seems asinine if it's not actually a neck thru.

The lean towards G detailing on this vs F on their bolt on series (all the same shape) is better, obviously. :vader:
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2015, 07:39:35 PM »
I don't hate the look of the pickup. Not at all. Whatever this one sounds like, I'd rather see a rectangular P-style pickup housing than yet another split coil.  :bored:

Not every soap bar is MM shape. And even the ones that look like a MM aren't necessarily anything like it tonally.

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2015, 03:43:27 PM »
I've seen some pictures with reverse headstock and some without.  I wonder if they do it both ways, or if they switched at some point.

I really like the EB-ish contour on the upper edge.  Wish more designs did that, actually.
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2015, 06:09:45 AM »
yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup

I have no MM hate, excepting all the low end import ones that were all the rage in the early 2000's that sound like crap, though I'd still prefer a big chrome boom 'bucker.

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2015, 03:28:03 PM »
Me neither, I kind of want to get a Stingray some day ... all bass acquisitions are on hold however until / unless I ever figure out what the hell my custom job is going to be.
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2015, 06:12:07 PM »
Stingray is the punchiest bass I know of...I would love to have a fiver.

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #11 on: May 30, 2015, 01:45:43 PM »
I'm suprised no one has mentioned the Meshell Ndegeocello signature model.

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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2015, 01:50:28 PM »
There's a primary Reverend subject one or two down that caused this one to be raised where Jake mentioned this beastie...
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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2015, 05:12:22 AM »
Anybody tried one?  I like the look ... (yes I know, everybody hates the black-plastic-MM-shape-P-pickup)

I love that Gibsonesque color theme. Transparent cherry with b/w/b pickguard, bound fretboard with block inlays and black headstock overlay. Kinda like a Lakland Decade.


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Re: Speaking of Reverend... Thundergun anyone?
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2015, 06:37:20 AM »
^^^That's a most tasteful trio!
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