BradHK
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The Thunderbird/Polara (aka Polarbird) is complete! Essentially, other than the body, truss rod cover, tremar, bridge height adjustment post, and the strap buttons I had to replace all of the other the non-correct parts with vintage correct components. A new pickguard was made (long story short but I sent off a tracing and the end result required rerouting the pickup routes and some fine tuning. Not a good experience. Next time I will just do this myself), reproduction kickstand arm, and new wiring and pots but all else is vintage correct parts. I also had a local luthier that I have used in the past and does great work do a refret as the originals were almost gone. It plays great and is a perfect blend between my Polara and Thunderbird! Body and anti-hum pickups from the Thunderbird and dot markers, no fretboard binding and the simple control layout of the Polara.
The finished trio:
The finished trio: