AndyTravis

Positions as far is I can remember

Good Lord, looking good @Andyjr1515

Ah, ok - imagine a short scale neck shoved into a Les Paul body with a generic set of pickups off an Epiphone viola bass and an Ibanez stop tail. Hardly worth the picture to be fair mate - I’ve saved you a job 😉

Gryphon is top - actually not as bad as I recall. but that SG was stunning.

Meh. This is their latest offering they also made a Gryphon and other SG’s in conjunction with Drew when he ran the GBBL. The Gryphon was silly ugly (in my opinion) but they did a Pelham SG which was stunning...

I haven’t - I played an SG bass in black satin in about 2015/16 at the GBBL. I wasn’t bowled over - but it was nice to see. I often think they could do something really special along the lines of a Gibson esque bass - and have massive orders... But they seem to be happy enough in their current guise. I spotted a Gypsy semi hollow bass announcement recently? But it fell short of the mark for my wallet to start tingling...

A “producer” switch and a “DFA” switch.

Will wait until payday...but think I’ve found replacement

Today’s task. Sort the 2 point series/parallel switch which has been intermittent. Cleaner...nowt. Open up the back. Loose (off) wire. Easy peasy - look - an empty prong with a blob of solder, magic - that’s it. Yep, signal...good. Solder. Not an ounce of difference, well...no, just nothing. de-solder. touch test, signal from a couple...took a faff of hold/strum etc. Solder. Magic. Works and deffo series/parallel. still intermittent. FFS. Switch is goosed/on its way out.

Looks ace that

Are the spaces at the bottom “just in case” 😂

The only genuine “lawsuit” was Gibson vs Ibanez on a headstock copy. Possibly Tokai too on the fenders...but fender just had that factory make some guitars for them (I think I read somewhere) The “lawsuit era” is a bit of a misnomer really. And people shove it on listings to add some sort of magic... Copying tried and tested designs saved on expensive r&d I guess.

Probably adds value

If I wasn’t skint, I’d give it a go

Ah yeah. That.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363275709866 whats the betting it turns up absolutely unusable

I sit down with a bass, get comfy, then adjust strap to suit that seated position. For pretty much everything that works. For Thunderbirds...not so much. My back is terribly fragile though.

Or sell it 😂

Bought my Sadowsky and Casady from them. Lovely.

Mild neck dive but better than the other thunderbird I had (reverse/classic) think the gibbo will be different again, set neck, mahogany etc.

Hence I shall never buy another as my spine can’t do it. Hant stopped me owning 2 Thunderbirds though 😂

Hahah. No

I actually said “take a picture, so I can see how it looks on me” - next day, was up for sale. Shame, sounded bloody great.