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#201,301
Something special for this Thunderbird Thursday -

  • Hot off the press... one of 4 newly recorded TSC's songs. This one is an original by our Paul. I'll post one a day for the next four days - enjoy



    (bass used on this recording)
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#201,304
JIO said:
Something special for this Thunderbird Thursday -

  • Hot off the press... one of 4 newly recorded TSC's songs. This one is an original by our Paul. I'll post one a day for the next four days - enjoy



    (bass used on this recording)
    upload_2022-3-23_16-42-33-jpeg.4632629
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Can't get past the buffering for some reason. Too many wanting to hear this at once I guess.
 
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#201,310
PhR75 said:
Took a break from trying to make the dog laugh (the rest of the family is already a lost game...) and played around with the custom-made NR with that Schaller bridge. I haven't used it that much for live work but it records very well. The pickups are custom made too in 2010ish. I had the NOS Bicentennial covers lying around and a friend built me the pickups with whatever information we could gather from any source (The Last Bass Outpost was a big help). The pickups are apparently a bit taller than the regular 60's T-Bird pickups since the Bicentennial covers are taller too. There's also not a metal plate at the bottom (I've been thinking about adding those just to see if it makes any difference).
I recorded something with it with my home setup, first it's both pickups on w/fingers, then it cunningly crossfades into a picked 'n' overdriven (Bad Monkey) neck pickup dash around the neck.
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There's a cool sound. Groovy feel there.
 
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#201,311
dagrev said:
Is it just me or is your G string almost touching your bridge pickup? Just the pic I guess.
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good catch…haven’t cyanoed that pup screw (bottom) yet….it’ll just unscrew slowly when played….you can tell by a gradual loss of volume….ironic because one would think it would become louder as it nears the strings….kinda like when the queen says the pup on her 64 is flush and the bass is very loud….sweet spots don’t only happen laterally…..when playing i just fix it by turning the screw (by no means optimal, I just forget) until it happens again…
 
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#201,316
Bent77 said:
@GBassNorth has been peer pressuring me to post, even though they’re not Thunderbirds. I finished 2 basses for the winter build off in the luthiers corner


WBO 2022 ReReRebuilt little mule

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Winter Build off 2022 - ThunderJag
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Love, love, love the grain on that ThunderJag!

PhR75 said:
Did you model the pickup placements after a particular model?
I have found that the T-Bird pickup seems to work with any kind of bass. Especially the octave-stringed kind.
BTW, has anyone tried the singlecoil/humbucker switch with the T-Bird pickup? Especially with the old style version.
Just thinking about an excuse for that fretless Thunderjazz...
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2015 does the coil split but those pups aren’t anything like any other Tbird pup. I don’t know about all Tbird pups out there, but all the ones I’ve pulled were a simple hot and ground wire config, so coil splitting won’t work unless you open the pup up and rewire it (prolly not gonna happen with the epoxy fill pups). Chinabuckers are a two wire type as well.

Stealth57 said:
Want to see a long neck beauty wearing black nylons? Hubba hubba.
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dagrev said:
:thumbsup:
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Chucky Stiletti said:
yessir….
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Jumping in with the Sexy Bird in Black Nylons gang…
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PhR75 said:
Took a break from trying to make the dog laugh (the rest of the family is already a lost game...) and played around with the custom-made NR with that Schaller bridge. I haven't used it that much for live work but it records very well. The pickups are custom made too in 2010ish. I had the NOS Bicentennial covers lying around and a friend built me the pickups with whatever information we could gather from any source (The Last Bass Outpost was a big help). The pickups are apparently a bit taller than the regular 60's T-Bird pickups since the Bicentennial covers are taller too. There's also not a metal plate at the bottom (I've been thinking about adding those just to see if it makes any difference).
I recorded something with it with my home setup, first it's both pickups on w/fingers, then it cunningly crossfades into a picked 'n' overdriven (Bad Monkey) neck pickup dash around the neck.
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Can’t get the clip to play. :(
 
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