NancyJohnson

There's one at Ishibashi!

[quote name='Buzzardist' timestamp='1399542801' post='2445117']
Stunning.....
Do you like the Status Buzzard 2 bass?
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Not my thing I'm afraid! I play in a four piece punky band!

Cheers
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OK, well here's the skinny and I'm going to be brutally honest.

I bought this new last year and I will be honest, I was fairly smitten; it was my first fresh out of the box bass in some years and I'd been waiting many moons for it to arrive. Forum members who share an interest in these basses will be aware my purchase wasn't without issues and the net result was that it required a rewire as the original Gibson pots were well under the recommendation for the pickups, so got changed to 500K units. (And before you ask, no I don't...I donated these to Neephid for his pant-wettingly exciting Ripper rescue project.)

Moving swiftly along, I've tried to ingratiate this bass into my band, but put simply, tonally it just doesn't fit. Despite the bass sharing pretty much the same guts as my other Thunderbirds, tonally it's a waaaay phatter than my desired hybrid Geddy Lee/Jean Jacques Burnel poop. It's never been, or will be, my go to bass and as a consequence it's only been out of the house about five times. It plays lovely, sounds great, balances great and has plenty of boom.

To the specifics, the bass has the original hard shell case and is fitted with a Hipshot Supertone bridge and Dunlop Straplocks. I will provide the original bridge should the buyer wish to revert it back to stock visually. There's an off white replacement guard fitted (the 'bird logo is a vinyl sticker) and I'll provide the original pickguard too. New set of D'Addarios fitted at the weekend. It's pretty minty, small amount of buckle rash behind the top horn. No dings or chips. For the record, Gibson are rumoured to have made around 200 of these before discontinuing production (the Pelham Blue ones double that), so it is a classic in the making, but I'm sure I'll be long dead before collectors are hunting these down and saying, '[i]Woo, it's a 2013. How many thousand do you want?[/i]'.

I'm looking for a bargain £750.00 or part trades (we can haggle over trade values); all in all, I guess it owes me about £950 including the mods. I'm in no rush to sell and have other basses to use, so it'll just sit in the case until someone comes knocking.

From a trade perspective, I'd only really be looking at a cherry-finish Gibson Thunderbird (no studio versions please), a Musicman Stingray (black/rosewood), a nice Euro/US Spector or a R*ck*nb*ck*r Blackstar or an original spec 400* series in Jetglo. To make any deals sweeter, I could also (but would be reluctant to) chuck in my 2008 reverse Thunderbird as well, so you'd have a mirrored pair!

Thanks for reading
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Best of luck with the procedure once it happens...I took a look at the [i]not gory[/i] You Tube thing and then a quick peak at the actual op. I still find it remarkable that surgery - irrespective of how brutal it looks - can resolve major issues that the patient would historically have just put up with.
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Fresh out of the pack...used the remaining set (.95-.40) on another bass.

Someone shoot me an address and it'll go in the postbox today.
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Cool. How does it sound?
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Looking go so far!
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[quote name='Bassnut62' timestamp='1398767311' post='2437323']
The best advice I got was to hunt down a Korean Dot made in the Peerless factory, which if I remember right means that the serial number will start with an R or a P.
Everyone says get a Korean one, not a Chinese one; but within the Korean ones, quality is not always consistent either and that the factory with highest quality and consistency of work was the Peerless factory.
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Mines an EE serial, which Wikipedia tells me mine was born out of China/QingDao. I know there's a lot of conjecture over far-eastern factories, but to be honest, I don't really buy into it. Decide what you want, play a few of them and haggle if possible. These aren't luthier built products, they're made on a production line like fridges. You're bound to get the odd hooky one, maybe I've just been fortunate.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1398797551' post='2437741']
Very nice, it looks like a Gibson non-reverse Thunderbird.
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Frank Deimel's workshop was (unbeknownst to me) a couple of hundred meters from where we were staying in Berlin last year and really wish I'd known this. Pricewise, I'd have to shift at least two of my Thunderbirds to cover the cost. I suppose that's what you get for a handmade product.
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[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1398776864' post='2437482']
Isn't that just a 3 pickup jazz master?
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Go and stand in the corner.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1398771055' post='2437369']
"[i]The Joe Osborn 4 is defined by a pair of single coil D. Lakin pickups with a 1.5″ nut width, while the Bob Glaub 4 sports a single humbucked split coil pickup and a 1.75″ nut width[/i]."

I would say so.
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I just wish manufacturers/makers would just try and come up with something new. It's always Jazz or Precision bass derivatives and it's not just about shape or pickup configurations. The last truly original bass I've seen was the Deimel Firestar (below) and to be honest most comments were directed at the makers choice of haircut rather than what the bass actually delivered.
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[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1398591277' post='2435482']
Interesting to hear - but a little lacking in imagination to just recreate a couple of Lakland models ...
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**Cough** Fender models. **Cough**

The Broadmoor Sirens.

Despite my optimism when I stared this thread, I would draw your attention to one of my threads about my woes with this bass. Stock, it sounded nothing like any of my reverse models, despite - allegedly - sharing the same pickups and pots...I was very disappointed with it to be honest and to a degree, I still am. Although the tonal issues have pretty much been rectified, it's never going to be my go to bass, back up at best. I hardly use it.
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I've put a shot up of mine on the guitar porn page and reproduced below. It was stupid cheap at the time - from memory, including a hard case it was under £250.00.

Word(s) of warning though, while for the money you get a fairly solid guitar/piece of wood, the stock machines are awful and the pickups lack a bit of clarity.

I installed Sperzel locking machines (these just dropped in with minimum fuss) and it also needed a long throw bridge as the original had been set a few mm off, so it never properly intonated. By way of experimentation, I tried a Wilkinson humbucker in the bridge position, which was a definite improvement. I rarely use the neck pickup, so that's still stock (at some stage I may well just remove it completely, which will effectively transform the pickup selector switch into a kill switch).
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Another Epiphone. Dirt cheap Dot Studio (aka #5). I've done a handful of mods...new long(er) throw bridge as it never intonated properly, a Wilkinson humbucker in the bridge position, Sperzel locking machines and Dunlop Straploks. It's a nice guitar, but since the arrival of the Phant-o-matic, it rarely sees daylight.

Apologies for the image size...can't edit it at the moment. This is my Epiphone Frank Iero Phant-o-Matic. I installed a pair of Warman humbucker sized P90s about a month ago; the old pickups were lively, but tonally a tad mushy by comparison. Dunlop Straploks as well.

Shouldn't there also be commas after the closing bracket in paragraph two and after each 'or' in paragraph one (...then get in touch" or[color=#ff0000][b],[/b][/color] "metallica cover band...)?

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1397675082' post='2426412']
This is the mistake most people make. The really clever customers try stuff in the shop and ask the shop to match/beat an Internet price. 9 times out of 10, they get a better deal.
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Last bass I bought in a shop? Warwick Streamer, Bass Centre, Wapping (yes, [i]that[/i] long ago). Last amp? I think it was an Ashdown Mag combo, also a looooong time ago. Everything else has been blind purchases; I kind of know what I wanted and I've shopped around. I have a ton of gear. Maybe I've just been fortunate.

I know the internet is killing the High Street etc, but truthfully, try stuff out in stores and get it cheaper online. In this day and age, I'd never buy anything from Denmark Street.
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Some Speakon out sockets have the facility to take a regular 1/4 inch jack plug in the centre, so check this first. You can get Speakon to 1/4 inch jack cables. Try OBBM...he does mine.

You should just be about to take an output from your head into one of the jack sockets in cabinet #1 then take a jack out (from the second socket) into cabinet #2.

Pedaltrain Nano here. I have a biggish gig in a couple of months where the backline is provided, but I know it's gonna be sh*te. Time to dust off the BDDI and the TU3.
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[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1397039735' post='2419942']
[url="http://www.bulldogpickups.com/"]http://www.bulldogpickups.com/[/url]
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Damn, that website is irritating.

I know that the USA is a big place, but the postal service there is awful. A couple of years back, I bought a book from a dealer in lower Manhattan...it was being delivered to my hotel on 58th St (the hotel were going to keep it for me pending my arrival).

I got proof of dispatch about a week before we left and it didn't reach the hotel until a couple of days after we were back in the UK. Well over two weeks to travel a mile or two.

Staggering.

I forgot something in that deal. There was also a Park practice amp as well. So I got the Aria bass, an Encore and [i]Nevada[/i] (not Jim Deacon) strat and a Park practice amp for £50.00. The Schaller machine heads are probably worth that figure alone.

Anyhow, back on topic...