Brooks - THunderVee
BUILT FOR PETER TEN HAAFT
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- Neck through with Korina body wings
- Nine ply Korina/mahogany neck - Ebony faceplate on headstock - Red Mahogany stain. Gloss transparent acrylic finish - Rosewood fretboard - 23 Jumbo frets - 34" scale - Handcut Buffalo horn nut - Three ply black-white-black pickguard - Wide travel Thunderbird bridge |
- String through body ferrules
- Hipshot ultralite nickel plated tuners - Spokewheel double action trussrod - 2 x Sixties repro Thunderbird pickups nickel. 9.2 K Ohm - Di Marzio EP111 toggle switch 4PDT for serial mode - 2 x Volume pot Bourns 500 kOhms logarithmic - 1 x Tone pot Bourns 500 kOhms logarithmic - Kemet capacitor 47 nF paper insulation - DR FatBeams 45-105 electronics circuit by BQ Music Serialnumber: 2021001 Price € 2600This bass is sold. Want one too? Send me an email
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The concept
This bass combines the 1964 Gibson Thunderbird II with the 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar. A nine ply neck through construction just like the Thunderbird. But with mahogany veneer strips in between the korina. The body wings are Korina too. The nickel covered humbuckers resemble the pickup of the sixties Thunderbird. The shape of the headstock echoes the Flying V headstock, but the ebony veneer on top is a nod to the Thunderbird headstock.
The shape of the body is slightly altered to make the bridge sit as far back as possible. Making the total length 126 cm.
This is a tribute to two classic instruments. Merged into one.
The shape of the body is slightly altered to make the bridge sit as far back as possible. Making the total length 126 cm.
This is a tribute to two classic instruments. Merged into one.
shortscale version
version 2
