Stambaugh Thundercaster
Made by NH Luthier Chris Stambaugh "I enjoy playing this bass, as Chris is an amazing luthier and did world class work on this, But the real treat for me was just being able to meet Chris, who is now a good friend." SPECS:
DESIGN -
I did the design work and based it heavily off of a Thunderbird. It is what I'd call 1/2 reversed Thunderbird shape, with only the upper bout flipped over.
ELECTRONICS - All passive, featuring a 5-position switch for coil selection. Coil selections are: 1) Bridge, 2) Both parallel 3) Both series 4) Neck 5) Both series, out of phase. PICKUPS - Fred Hammon Dark Star, which are reproductions of the Swedish made pickups that are found on Guild Starfire basses. They are the big bass brothers of Dearmond pickups found on Gretsch and Guild guitars from the 50's and 60's BRIDGE - Hipshot Aluminum A-style bridge TUNERS - Hipshot Ultralight tuners STRINGS - It's strung up with D'Addario Chromes |