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December 2002
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Location: Cazenovia, NY | Looking for a Typhoon III, IV, or V storm series bass. |
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December 2001
Posts: 7211
Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | What is a V?
- III is Fretless,
- IV is I think just the newer body with 2 pickups
- V =....... |
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June 2002
Posts: 6194
Location: Phoenix AZ | To the best of my memory the progression was:
Wlliwaw - single pickup
Typhoon - two pickup
Typhoon I - rename of Williwaw
Typhoon II - renane of Typhoon
Typhoon III - fretless version of Typhoon II
All of the above were the smaller and thinner semihollow body with short horns. Then they changed body types and used the same bodies as the Tornado and Thunderhead plus added a huge bridge cover. Also at this time they introduced model numbers
1216 - Typhoon IV - new bodied version of Typhoon II
1217 - Typhoon V - new bodied version of Typhoon III Fretless
I don't think the names Typhoon IV and Typhoon V ever appeared on the body labels (only in the catalogs). The body labels had model numbers, not names.
At the same time they switched the basses to the larger Tornado/Thunderhead was when they changed the 6 strings to the long neck versions. I always wondered of this was to make the bodies interchangable between the 6 strings and basses as far as the neck bock. The bridge placement of course would be different. I've never owned a IV or V, so most of this is from observations that are 30 years old and could be a bit rusty.
Dave |
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Wanted:Typhoon III Bass