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Thunderbird Club

@Bent77
I can’t help it, I keep coming back to those pics of the ThunderJag you built and marveling at the way you made that wood grain pop! I might like to try something like that in a matte finish on a future build.
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Is that mahogany? Can you elaborate on the finish process you used? As a side note, does she sport a convincing Tbird vibe with those pups?

BTW - you have my vote for best build. For club members that haven’t checked out the build contest yet here’s a link to one of the categories, some interesting stuff made by fellow TalkBassters. Vote for your favorite!
Winter Build Off 2022 Voting - Assembly Build
 
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@Bent77
I can’t help it, I keep coming back to those pics of the ThunderJag you built and marveling at the way you made that wood grain pop! I might like to try something like that in a matte finish on a future build.
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Is that mahogany? Can you elaborate on the finish process you used? As a side note, does she sport a convincing Tbird vibe with those pups?

BTW - you have my vote for best build. For club members that haven’t checked out the build contest yet here’s a link to one of the categories, some interesting stuff made by fellow TalkBassters. Vote for your favorite!
Winter Build Off 2022 Voting - Assembly Build
Thanks G!

I do like the Chinabuckers, but was wondering about Lollars already :woot:
I have to say thanks for all the pick up spacing measurements. It's very aggressive on either pickup soloed, but smoothes right out with both. I love this bass, simple to coax serious grind out of

As for the finish, I actually messed it up and stripped it. That was a blessing, it made the stain get down in the grain better the second time. It isn't as blue as I thought, but it has some trippy color change thing going.
 
...another Paul (McCue) original concept/composition/lyrics - oddly enough, on a "Cub Scout" outing at the circus I witnessed a high-pole performer fall to her death in Omaha Nebraska in the '60s. Etched the gravity (pun intended) of the term "death defying" in my young mind...


bass used on this recording - Factobird fretless
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I dunno. The CP is supposed to sound like the modern Gibbys, and it's prefect for a different sound.

Ford Prefect. Or maybe perfect. One of those.
The T-bird + pickups in my ‘13 NR and my short scale sound great to me, especially through the Boogie Channel on my Mesa TT 800 with the bright switch on. Sweet humbucker goodness.
 
Eat them. Problem solved.
I'd rather have bologna. Never been a fan of it. I always figured if you have to acquire a taste for something its just a mind trick revealing you don't like it but have talked yourself into it, likely for peer pressure reasons. Back in the day never had to do the mind trick thing with beer, bourbon or even Limburger, so I give up after a few tries. I've had some that's "not bad," but I don't see out things that just register to the "not bad" level when there are plenty of other options. The not bad deer was in a stew my bro-in-law fixed. Didn't really taste like deer so it wasn't bad.
 

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