Thunderbird Club

[Klondike]

Sat related?

Did you see Starship last night? I was kind of jealous, I love going to see bands but we're unable to go with looking after my mum

Related to trying to load a snowmachine into the back of a pick-up when I was 18'ish. Young and dumb!

Yes we did, luckily sat i. Third row right up front in a beautiful theater in St Charles Illinois called Arcada Theater

 

[Count Bassie]

John Entwistle has a pickguard that butts right up to the base of the neck

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Seeing this and yours, now I want to do one...

 

[Count Bassie]

Nice you got to see Starship! Love that Grace Slick.

 

[Christine]

Seeing this and yours, now I want to do one...

I had most of the bits on the shelf left over from pimping the epi bird and the jazz, I doubt I'd have bothered otherwise, it's fun to do, been a long time since I last built a bass, you should have a go

 

[Larry V]

Nice you got to see Starship! Love that Grace Slick.

Grace isn't singing with the band any longer. I just checked, she's 77!

 

[Klondike]

Nice you got to see Starship! Love that Grace Slick.

Grace isn't performing anymore but Mickey Thomas was. Good show, Mickey still has some chops!

 

[Count Bassie]

Grace isn't singing with the band any longer. I just checked, she's 77!

Lol. Well that makes sense.

 

[Count Bassie]

Hey any of you 'Birders ever tried a Schroeder 215BMF cab?

 

[RedVee]

My wife got diagnosed with thyroid cancer 3 weeks ago, we went to see the doctor last Thursday and he said that it is still of a size that won't spread and they are going to remove half of the thyroid; fingers crossed but it sounds positive

Good luck to your wife, @ColinLP

 

[godofthunder59]

Good luck to your wife, @ColinLP

Yes Colin, best wishes for you and your wife.

 

[vdub75]

yes, all the best to your wife!

 

[marko57]

My wife got diagnosed with thyroid cancer 3 weeks ago, we went to see the doctor last Thursday and he said that it is still of a size that won't spread and they are going to remove half of the thyroid; fingers crossed but it sounds positive

Sincere best wishes with this Colin and hope she is well on the mend very soon!

 

[marko57]

I'm back to the Endo tomorrow after my latest ultrasound found new nodules.
Anyway I'm confident they will turn out to be benign. Expecting I'll be having some biopsies down soonish. But I'll let the specialist advise.

Best wishes to you as well RedVee. Stay positive.

 

[marko57]

Thanks all but this is the Thunderbird club so back to business

The neck was fitted this morning (it's an Allparts with a decal from good old Ebay and sprayed with nitro), I tested the relief but it was very high so I decided to put some angle into the neck, I did that by using the same set up that I initially fitted it with but put some packers under the bridge side the same height that I needed to drop the strings and re routed it. It turned out perfect but introducing the angle opened out a gap at the base of the neck body join, well crap! I'm painting it black so I could put a bit of car body filler in there to fill it out, it's only half a millimetre anyway and the pickguard will cover it so I might not bother, what do you think?

I made a jig to rout the pickups the same way as I did the body jig and cut out the pickup recesses. I drilled out the holes for the CTS pots and the jack socket and cut the control cavity free hand as I couldn't be bothered making a jig by then as I was frozen daft. I also routed the edges of the read of the body with a 10mm radius but I left the front as I'm doing that qith a 1/4" radius cutter but it hasn't arrived yet

That's it for this week, fingers crossed I'll get the body ready for spraying next weekend.

Excuse the wet bits on the back, I had some small dents so that's to raise them outView attachment 983410 View attachment 983411 View attachment 983412 View attachment 983413 View attachment 983414View attachment 983415 View attachment 983416 View attachment 983417 View attachment 983418

Wow! Coming along very nicely!

 

[Christine]

Wow! Coming along very nicely!

Yeah, I'm stuck now until the weekend until I can do a bit more, very frustrating. I'm really looking forward to playing it but I think it will be closer to Christmas before that happens with waiting for the nitro to fully harden

 

[Korladis]

I have a metabolism like a formula racecar, can't gain any weight no matter what I do. I'm 6'1", 150 lbs, soaking wet, after lunch, with my belt and steel toes on. It would be kinda nice to have A LITTLE heft...

How I envy you.

 

[DerekW]

How I envy you.

I agree, I've got the metabolism of a formula race cow.

 

[Count Bassie]

How I envy you.

I agree, I've got the metabolism of a formula race cow.

OK, my complaining days here are over. Sorry!

(Hand to forehead, chuckling a little remorsefully...)

I was considering having a numeral "2", in a black rectangular field with rounded ends, tattooed on my upper arm. You know, like a pencil. Still might do it.

 

[Gaolee]

OK, my complaining days here are over. Sorry!

(Hand to forehead, chuckling a little remorsefully...)

I was considering having a numeral "2", in a black rectangular field with rounded ends, tattooed on my upper arm. You know, like a pencil. Still might do it.

It's got to have tooth marks on it.

 

[TBird1958]

A couple of shots from our Halloween show, we had a good crowd!

Yours truly with the Jackson, I used it for the third set.