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#20,422
hillerup said:
Completely off-topic:

Am I the only one, who have been having trouble reading/loading the TB pages on a mobile unit the last couple of days???

Sometimes the pages take forever to load, and generally act flaky when loaded: weird zooming of the pages, slow reaction (if any) when pressing the "Like", "Quote" or "Reply" buttons...

I've been having this problem for the last 2-3 days on both my iPhone and iPad, and also one day on my MacBook, where it took forever loading a page, and it kinda stuck halfway through...
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Yeah, all that happened to me yesterday, and every time I tried to reply to a post, TB froze up. This was on my (Android) cell phone. Didn't seem to have any trouble on my iPad though.
 
#20,423
Mosstone said:
Yeah, all that happened to me yesterday, and every time I tried to reply to a post, TB froze up. This was on my (Android) cell phone. Didn't seem to have any trouble on my iPad though.
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The problem seems to be resolved now...

TB is working fine on my MacBook, iPad and iPhone now.
 
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@Count Bassie guilt tripped me into fixin the Disasterbird...
 
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So some background. This epi had a broken neck when I got it. So I Fenderbirded it, later added the 1.71" nut epi neck. Nothing ever fit right.
No pic, but glued some red oak in the bottom of the neck pocket and routered it level. Originally it was 1/8" too deep at the base of the heel, plus the bridge work. 3 hours worth of work today

At this point I can actually lower the pups and reset the action. About 2mm off the frets. A tad too low now for once

I still need to rebuild the side of the neck pocket where I routered it as a Fenderbird. But I'm gaining
 
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Bent77 said:
So some background. This epi had a broken neck when I got it. So I Fenderbirded it, later added the 1.71" nut epi neck. Nothing ever fit right.
No pic, but glued some red oak in the bottom of the neck pocket and routered it level. Originally it was 1/8" too deep at the base of the heel, plus the bridge work. 3 hours worth of work today

At this point I can actually lower the pups and reset the action. About 2mm off the frets. A tad too low now for once

I still need to rebuild the side of the neck pocket where I routered it as a Fenderbird. But I'm gaining
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My work here is done.

:)
 
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Haji said:
Tell me more about the countersinking, if you don't mind.
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The bridge doesn't make contact with the body because the top of the insert meets the bottom of the adjustment screw for the bridge. Now I don't know if they are all like that...
The strings were 3/8" off the frets. Tried some other things, but the bridge just sat way too high
 
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Klondike said:
So the BachNird is in the hands of Players Guitar at the recomendation of Baz Cooper. Gaver the ol flex test and when putting pressure in the back of the headstock the movement was visible!:wideyed: Should have it back in about a month.
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That's a easy fix, don't lose any sleep over it .
 
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Speaking of Tom Petersson, the luthier that bought the Bicentennial PG from me on eBay just gave me a positive review on the PG.

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I hope the delay of three weeks means that he has talked it over with Tom's guitar tech and that means that he's using it on Tom's bass.

@godofthunder59 , are you close enough to Tom to find out if this is the case in the future?
 
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Klondike said:
@godofthunder59 any idea where to procure a case dor said Bach Bird? They seem to be hard to find.
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I have a really long Coffin Case for mine. It was the only option I could find short of reworking the interior of an Epi or Gibson case. There is at least one thread on the Last Bass Outpost where someone posted their reworking of a Gibson or Epi (can't remember which) Tbird case.
 
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Ok. Gonna vent because this is the place. I will be mostly ignored, and later I can post something and still have a community that will act like it never happened, and maybe respond with some kind of welcoming enthusiasm. So here goes:

I'm sick to my half-dead head watching bass players from slack to flashy/groovy post their viddies on facebook. "Why, Rog?", you ask?... Well, because I have no time to play, I work almost perpetually, and my non-work time is taken with all manner of issues from peripheral to (mostly) uber-important (i.e., house, family). My reggae band plays once a month now, and we're going to start to suck on a part-time basis because we don't rehearse or play regularly. Might do a rock band, if they can decide to do it, and if they call (I know them, and it teeters on sketchy- great players though, and decent folks).

I can't afford jack-doodie, am selling off instruments (that's ok, not my Bird), and am in a general slump. And I have a toothache- not a tooth but an inflamed nerve from my lower molar, to my same-side ear, to under my left eye. Can't drink cold liquids or chew on my left side. What...

So I'm done now. On the good side I got a raise at work, and the company's coming up with med insurance benny's and some other good stuff. So it's not all bad.

But I can't stand watching all these fancy kids on their beautiful instruments, actually playing them. I'm hating them all...
 
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