I'm looking to get a new Epiphone Thunderbird Classic pro IV bass. I play an Ibanez now and I have a Cort from when I was younger. Any thoughts on the Thunderbird?
But, the bass is rather awkward to play. Personally, it was not very comfortable and I felt like at times I was working far too hard to play. Strap buttons location probably have a major impact why I did not feel comfortable with the bass.
A friend of mine has a Gibson thunderbird bass and while it looks and sounds cool, it had a very fragile neck at the nut. It has broken in the same place a few times, although I would attribute the subsequent breaks to an improper repair job. But that long skinny neck with such a narrow width at the nut isn't the most stable design.