Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

They look like they are camera shy.

They're em-bare-assed.

 

[JJR58]

They look like they are camera shy.

 

[dagrev]

They're em-bare-assed.

You're right. They just mooned us. Or are taking a leak.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

thumping Chromes….TT..

 

[avi]

Hey Peeps. Just posted some Preamps in classifieds. One I bought for my Tbird and forgot I already had one in it! I'm a genius! It would replace the tone pot with Bass and treble stacked. Seymour Duncan made.
Here is the link!
For Sale - Preamp clean out

 

[icefly]

My Gold Gibson........

Bassist who sold to me an used Epiphone Eb3, offered one of theses Epi LP style, but 5 strings (if were 4 strings, possibly I´d bought).

 

[Gaolee]

A few years ago Sydney was claiming to have the most cranes working. No clue if it was true but the pollies were spruiking it and the news kept repeating it. As they do.



Yeah, the shades get me. I can tell the traffic lights apart but if a car drives by I may say ‘that’s a nice blue car’ and the fam will correct me to ‘no that’s purple’ or ‘no that’s turquoise’ or something like that.
A test picked me out as red/green colourblind. Coincidentally or not, one of my NRL teams biggest rivals wears red & green hoops*, I used to see the jerseys but not really distinguish the hoops they sort of just blended together.

(* officially Cardinal & Myrtle hoops)
(Owned by Russell Crowe, James Packer & the bloke that started Atlassian now, and more successful than my team. Worst luck.)

I see colors really well usually. That doesn't mean I see them exactly like anybody else does. Same with sounds. I'm not synesthetic in the classic sense, but sounds have lots of colors.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

from what I understand, BaCH built the NRs from requests from folks in the club……I swapped the claw for a more vintage looking
one from Scott but always wondered about the saddle section….does anyone know if that design was specifically designed for this effort or, was it repurposed from another bass (can’t think of one)?….great bridge…

 

[TBird1958]

It looks like your PUP is even lower than my neck PUP. One day I may try some adjusting on mine (counting each turn very carefully). I hate messing with perfection, but am curious. I like the finish cracks. They are needed to let that monstrous tone out. . Can't really say "Tone is in the cracks." That just sounds a bit off!

That bass just sounds SO GOOD the way it is - I'm not going to mess with it, I'm reasonably certain the strings are Nickel Rounds, they have a nice "warm" tone about them that I like. There's enough clank for my taste when I play with a pick and changing where you place your fingers obviously gives different tone as well. I firmly think Gibson was way ahead of times with these basses - I just don't think the world was ready for them and Gibson didn't understand what they'd actually accomplished.

 

[PhR75]

My babies got back for a Thursday.
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Plus Broughton LPF+HPF on the floor. Great tool.

 

[dagrev]

That bass just sounds SO GOOD the way it is - I'm not going to mess with it, I'm reasonably certain the strings are Nickel Rounds, they have a nice "warm" tone about them that I like. There's enough clank for my taste when I play with a pick and changing where you place your fingers obviously gives different tone as well. I firmly think Gibson was way ahead of times with these basses - I just don't think the world was ready for them and Gibson didn't understand what they'd actually accomplished.

I know. I believe the shape was simply way ahead of it's time and was a turn off for most. Not that there was no shortage of odd body shapes in the early 60s! But that one simply didn't catch on. Fender was exploding and it couldn’t look less like a Fender. Now, if they would just dig out the old prints and specs from back then and start making them like that, I expect they would have a difficult time keeping up with demand. Can you imagine buying Thunderbird that felt and sounded nearly identical to your '64 for around $2k!!! I realize as wood and magnets age sound most certainly does as well, but most of that can be accounted for, especially the pickup aspect.

Then again, since age does change things to some degree, maybe Thunderbirds sucked when new.


Naw. They were fantastic.

 

[JJR58]

Plus Broughton LPF+HPF on the floor. Great tool.

Really is a handy little box.

 

[WillyW]

I don't think I have mentioned this before, but I really like firebird bases.

 

[dagrev]

I don't think I have mentioned this before, but I really like firebird bases.

No, what you never mentioned is that you like shoes and frets.

 

[GBassNorth]

Pic for TT may or may not show up. (It's the NR if you can't tell.)

If NR stands for Not Revealed then your post makes sense. Still no pic in the post.

from what I understand, BaCH built the NRs from requests from folks in the club……I swapped the claw for a more vintage looking
one from Scott but always wondered about the saddle section….does anyone know if that design was specifically designed for this effort or, was it repurposed from another bass (can’t think of one)?….great bridge…
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The bridge on my BaCH seems to work fine, I prefer the captive nut design they use on the intonation screws, but I still think it would be better if the saddles had been cut for the strings. Apparently there’s more than a few BaCHs out there that weren’t circumcised. Would be a bit problematic to cut them now that they’ve been chrome plated (exposed brass and base metal along with chipped plating is likely).

Here she is in what I assume is @godofthunder59 bed…

This is the bridge I put on the BlingBird, purchased from Philadelphia Luthier, works nicely but I wish they had used a captive nut design vs tension springs. Those springs take up half the potential intonation travel of the saddle. An easy work around if you run out of room on this type of bridge is to flip the spring and screw head to the other side of the bridge. With the strings I used I had adequate travel so didn’t need to do that.

 

[GBassNorth]

Bassist who sold to me an used Epiphone Eb3, offered one of theses Epi LP style, but 5 strings (if were 4 strings, possibly I´d bought).

I do love the look of those LP single cut basses. I’ve only briefly played one a few years ago, i think it was a 34” scale and a bit neck divey. Consequently, I’ve been keeping an eye open for a Greco single cut, which is a short scale.

 

[GBassNorth]

My Gold Gibson........

Yum, nothing says Gibson more than a Gold Top!

 

[bobyoung53]

I see colors really well usually. That doesn't mean I see them exactly like anybody else does. Same with sounds. I'm not synesthetic in the classic sense, but sounds have lots of colors.

 

[GBassNorth]

Thunderbird Thursday,
In the wild…

 

[godofthunder59]

I wish someone would make an older '70s Freightliner Conventional in HO!

Have you seen this nice Kenworth and the Peterblit 359 from Brekina?

Sorry, model train dork here.

It's early Thursday.

Huba huba.