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All Thunderbird Series ukuleles are built to order! Your instrument will ship 14 days after your order.
The Thunderbird Series is our upper echelon "built to order" ukulele line. This tier offers exotic woods, ornate craftsmanship, expanded electronics, and more advanced features. These are USA made, professional quality steel string ukuleles built with premium quality materials. Experience the highest level of ukulele quality with the Sparrow Thunderbird series!
Built to order, ships in 14 days!
This tenor is solid! Purpleheart is an awesome tone wood to work with and sports an unmistakable color and grain pattern. This 3-piece body has a Walnut strip running down the center adding a classy detail to the build.
You will love the sound and feel of this solid body steel string electric tenor ukulele! The action is smooth and low and the intonation is spot on. Thanks to our 21:1 ratio low backlash tuning gears, this uke is easy to dial in and stays in tune wonderfully.
The striking Canarywood fingerboard on this ukulele sports a comfy 12″ radius to provide easy, ergonomic playability for those long gigs. The fret markers are purple acrylic to add some flare to this unique instrument.
The pickup is hand built and wound in-house to our specs! The Alnico V magnets yield a rich and touch sensitive tone and exceptional clarity. This model sports a “humbucker” which provides noise free operation and thick tone. Pulling out on the tone knob engages “single coil split” mode which yields crystalline single coil tones and bell-like chime. The “resistance dropping” circuit lowers the 500k potentiometer value (typically perfect for humbucking pickups) to about 290K, which is much more suitable for a single coil pickup. This provides an even more accurate approximation of single coil tone!
The Walnut neck is easily adjusted with a modern, 2-way truss rod ensuring proper setup in any season or climate. This model has a cool bass star inlay in the headstock! This detail is matched by the gold mirror pickguard and ebony pickup bobbin creating a fun and flashy aesthetic.
The body is designed for ergonomics and comfort. The cutaway allows for easy access to the highest frets and the arm lean on the top ensures maximum comfort. The belly cut on the back makes this electric ukulele perfectly suited for standing or seated performance.
All Sparrow ukuleles are strung with our custom selected set of GHS strings to ensure the perfect balance of feel, playability, ergonomics, tone and intonation. This uke comes standard with Low G tuning, but if you would prefer high G, just let us know and we will set it up for that.
The action is low and light and this uke will come out of the box set up and ready to shred!
Woods: Purpleheart Body, Canarywood fingerboard, Walnut neck, Ebony pickup bobbins. Brass star headstock inlay and Gold mirror pickguard.
Strings: Gcea (low G) GHS flat wound custom set: .032, .024, .016, .012. Want high G tuning? Just let us know, no problem.
Electronics: The controls are standard volume and tone. The Alnico 5 magnet hand wound, custom designed pickup has 6500 turns (per coil) of 42 gauge copper wire and has a resistance of about 7 ohms. This gives the pickup a warm, organic tone that reacts nicely to picking nuance. All the bridge saddles are properly grounded to provide the quietest operation possible.
This pickup is wired for “coil splitting”. To access this feature, simply pull out on the tone knob and it will engage a switch that deactivates half of the pickup providing a much more “single coil” tone.
Truss Rod: Two way adjustable truss rod.
Tuning: GCEA
Fretboard Radius: 12″ with purple acrylic dot fret markers.
Bridge: We use individual string saddles to allow for optimum string spacing for the best feel and performance. The bridge saddles have individually adjustable intonation screws as well as standard height adjustment.
Nut: The nut is hand carved out of bone. The nut width is 1.5″.
Tuners: 21:1ratio geared tuners.
This model comes with 2 strap buttons installed and is ready to rock!