NancyJohnson

It's OK...I just see 'neck' and 'dive' in threads and it get's my heckles up a bit! The benefits of playing Thunderbirds (lack of body weight, slender neck, that tone, the uber cool shape, the magical ability of it being able to transform me into a lithe 20-something), by far outweighs any issue with diving of the neck. Most people who talk about neck dive probably haven't even touched a TB. It saddens me. P

I tire somewhat of the whole neckdive argument thing and I play Thunderbirds. Yes, the Waterstone is a tad neck heavy - it's heavy anyway - but when I do play it, I'm playing it, not throwing a JC arms wide-open stance waiting for gravity to take over. It's a very comfortable bass...I use a 3" wide Levys strap and it's fine. Mr Warwickhunt. Shoot me a PM sir and we'll see if we can sort out a deal of some sort. P

I've got a Waterstone Tom Petersson 12-string...it really sounds the dogs if you can control it...the secret seems to be having a pair of rigs - guitar and bass - running it through a crossover highs into the guitar side, lows into the bass side. I get a fairly decent tone running it through a small Rolls crossover, into a Sansamp and then into my amp, but straight into the amp I find the sound too ringy and unusable. I've toyed with selling it several times (there's still an old ad up on the For Sale section)...it spends more time in the spare room than it should, which is a crying shame...it just doesn't fit with anything I'm doing musically. Shame. P

I'm no Fender fan, but are you mental? Get rid of the fretless! P

Supertone on all mine. Hi Wayne. P

Earlier tonight was made aware of this and it made me a little weak at the knees. Quite lovely! P http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hkiLQo1fa30 Ack! How do I post a You Tube link?

You local to me? Reading. I'd really like to see how they play. P

Anyone on here (still) got one of these? They're ticking all the right boxes for me at the moment... P

Gary...hold on to it for now. If I go to a 4U I'll source a short one. P

You have three of the reverse Fernandes now?? Jeepers. How's my rack holding up? P

Doug starts about 16 minutes. Refers to 'some English dude' when talking about his Spector basses. Gary? P [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HqtWkpC6J8&feature=youtu.be[/media]

We went in to Trumpet Voluntary. Interestingly, first dance (I am no dancer), was 'Walk Forever By My Side' by The Alarm. P

Very pretty. P

I had the 300 watt version. Loud, but not quite loud enough. The 600 should be mental. Cetera ran one for a while. Shoot him a PM. It's effectively Sansamp RBI and RPM plus a power amp. What's not to like? P

Aah, Tetrad Eastwood.

Is that a Shuker?

Hi John You can argue this until the cows come home. Sometimes it's not about tone, coolness, the name on your headstock etc. it's about, 'Hey, you muthafunker, look at me, I've got a Gibson and it sounds amaaaaazing.' I know in these politically correct days, where everybody has to win a prize (even if you're the fat kid who comes in last - and believe me, I've come last a few times), a world where it's frowned upon to brag about what you have or where it comes from, but just this once, just this once, I want to give these people the finger and shout, 'Look at me. I've saved damn hard to buy this and it sounds better than great, it sounds awesome, and hey, look it's a Gibson, a real one, not a copy with a Gibson truss rod cover.', rather than standing in the shadows afraid to say anything in case you upset the guy from the support band who is playing an Affinity Precision bass. Is a Gibson five times better for five times the price? No, of course it's not. It's infinitely better for five times the price! P

As a Thunderbird user and the guy who sorted out White Cloud with the Epiphone, I suppose I have some qualification as I had both basses in my possession for a while. Let's start out by saying I'm running three Gibson reverse models along with two other derivatives (a new NR reissue and a Hamer FBIV) and all of these are fitted with Hipshot Supertone bridges. I am, as past posts will support, no fan of the Gibson three-point bridge. All the Gibsons are from different years and even these differ from each other. By way of comparison, the bolt-on Epiphone has a similar look (headstock is slightly different); the neck is a close facsimile of the Gibson (slightly fatter profile), it hangs pretty much the same, feels pretty much the same and with a decent set up will play nicely enough. Tonally though, all my Gibsons are a country mile ahead of the Epiphones, but this is simply a personal preference, what I think sounds great may not be what someone else thinks is nice. I concur with Shylock to a degree, although a decent Gibson can probably be picked up for about 800 notes, if you can afford it, go for it. As I've posted previously, Gibson TBs are like magic. I'm a slightly overweight guy closing in my 40s. Strap on this baby and I turn into a lithe guy in my early 20s. It just makes you feel different about yourself and your playing! P

I was having a clear out in my garage (like you do) and found three mahogany boards...each roughly eight feet long, a foot wide, inch thick. I forgot they were in there. My father in law gave them to me; they were from a university that were breaking down their old science labs and he procured them rather than them going into landfill. I was wondering whether these are enough to consider a build project of some kind. There strikes me as being enough wood to actually make something with, maybe a couple of basses. I haven't considered building anything for a while - too happy with what I've got. So a question. Are these planks worth much? If I did decide to approach a luthier to build something (it would likely be a Thunderbird style bass), would the worth of this wood reduce the price of the project? Opinions? P

I find it reassuring that a 17 year old is quoting Specimen in an advert. That alone deserves a thumbs up. What a band. New CD out too! P