I'd love a non reverse firebird kit with triple P90's.
Original Gibson ones are so expensive and impossible to get here in Australia. Eastwood made the Stormbird but even they are about $800 if you can find one (yeah good luck with that)
Cheers
I'd love a non reverse firebird kit with triple P90's.
Original Gibson ones are so expensive and impossible to get here in Australia. Eastwood made the Stormbird but even they are about $800 if you can find one (yeah good luck with that)
Cheers
Non-reverse with 3 P90s, are you a Warren Haynes fan?
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wow, that axe is a stunner
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Hi Tim you may be able to order a non reverse headstock FB-1 kit and then route out the body to suit the 3 P90 pickups
Last edited by wokkaboy; 31-08-2015 at 05:48 PM.
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It would need to be a left handed body, and fill in bits and route out more.Originally Posted by wokkaboy
- Sam
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IB-6S - done.
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Sam, do you mean a left handed neck ?
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I mean the body. Notice that on a non-reverse firebird the top horn extends out over the neck. On the original "reverse" firebird it would be the lower horn that stuck out there with the switch on it.
Non-reverse.
"Reverse".
I was at a gig on Saturday where a very nice looking red non-reverse was being played. Sounded great.
Last edited by Tindrrel; 31-08-2015 at 06:15 PM.
- Sam
IB-5 - was finished, considering re-finishing body
IB-6S - done.
JR-1M - dressing frets and electronics build
ST-1 - still wondering how to install a tremelo
Telebass - non-PBG from parts buiild - painting body
The body shape is different as well the "non-reverse" doesn't have the offset waist of the original reverse. Fender sued Gibson saying they had trademarked the offset waist with the Jazzmaster/Jaguar body. I've always thought the non-reverse shape looks weird compared to the slick reverse body. I've never played one, but I understand the non-reverse body also fixes some of the balance issues.
Current:
GTH-1
Completed:
AST-1FB
First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
ES-5V
Scratchie lapsteel
Custom ST-1 12 String
JBA-4
TL-1TB
Scratch Lapsteel
Meinl DIY Cajon
Cigar Box lap steel
Wishing:
Baritone
Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck
I know this is a two year old thread. But a non-reverse firebird is my dream guitar. I'd love a kit version that didn't cost the earth and that I could modify.
I would imagine that there wouldn't be a kit for this and your only real option would be a scratch built body.
Potentially, you could get the standard kit, pattern a body outline template from that and then flip it to achieve what you are after. The routs and neck pocket could be directly replicated in another template and then overlaid on the reversed body shape, the standard neck would then fit to that. The only wrinkle is that the headstock would be the wrong way around.
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