Brooks - GRABBIRD
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- Neck through with figured mahogany body wings
- Nine ply mahogany/maple neck - Ebony faceplate on headstock - Cherry gloss transparent acrylic finish - Rosewood fretboard - Jumbo frets - 34" scale - Handcut bone nut - Three ply white-black-white pickguard |
- Wide travel Thunderbird bridge plus tailstop
- Spokewheel trussrod - Sliding Thunderbird pickup nickel. 9.2 K Ohm - Hipshot ultralite nickel plated tuners - Volume pot Bourns 500 kOhms logarithmic SRT - Tone pot Bourns 500 kOhms logarithmic SRT - Kemet capacitor 47 nF paper insulation - D'Addario Nickel plated Roundwound 45-105 - 4.5 kilograms Serialnumber: 2020001 Want to buy this bass? Send me an email
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BASS OF THE WEEK @ NO TREBLE
Best of 2020: No 5 in the Reader top 10
The concept
This bass combines the 1964 Gibson Thunderbird II with the 1973 Gibson Grabber. A nine ply neck through construction just like the Thunderbird. But with maple strips veneer in between the mahogany, instead of walnut. The nickel covered humbucker resembles the pickup of the sixties Thunderbird. But the sliding mechanism in the raised middle section refers to the Grabber of course. The shape of the headstock echoes the Grabber headstock, but the ebony veneer on top is a nod to the Thunderbird headstock.
The shorter headstock and the Ultra-lite tuners make sure this fantastic bass doesn't suffer any neckdive!
This is a new classic.
The shorter headstock and the Ultra-lite tuners make sure this fantastic bass doesn't suffer any neckdive!
This is a new classic.