Not a Tbird, but I see a local BC Rich Warlock Platinum for $100. It’s the one with twin Ps. Black gloss with a lot of chips on the sharp edges. Any thoughts on that bass?
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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 13, 2008
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my 18 year old saw Top Gun 2 last night…takes a whole lot to impress Thomas but……can’t wait, apparently the Navy charged the film company 11 grand for 1 hour of F-18 flying time, even better, the bogeys are real russian (SU-57s) 5th generation fighters…..170 million to make, grossed 600 million the first weekend!…..
Frank and I saw it, it was quite enjoyable - recalls the first movie nicely.
They look cool but thats it. I have 2. Pickups are garbage, very uncomfortable to play. Did I say it looks cool?
…right there with “She has freckles on her, but she’s pretty”
But for $100 Definitely grab it. Something to play around with and mod.
Did someone say war birds?
My 2013 Anniversary Tbird sounds wonderful, not muddy at all but certainly not as bright as my VP either. Nice and clear with round wounds on, even through my Ampeg SVT-VR or the GK combo amp.
I would assume that is a .047uf tone cap. Pretty standard for humbucker basses.
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I agree - assuming in this case wouldn't make a fool of you and Uma Thurman.
.047 is my cap of choice. I use them on singles also. (my Teiscobird has a vintage Black Beauty .047 cap)BUT... my unaltered, as far as I know, "closet queen" (...) '64 T-bird II bought in '78 has TWO .02 (another common cap) tone caps! I added the center V pot in '86 which accounts for more wiring/solder, but the twin caps are from Gibson sans 1964. It was my second foray at wiring, the first being my '66 Heathkit 2x15 SS amp that my dad & I assembled/soldered.
"I love the smell of
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I believe two caps wired like that will have an additive value, so two .02uf caps will be .04uf, effectively the same as one .047uf tone cap. I’d suspect you’d find a number of 1964 Tbirds with one .047uf cap. I wonder if the two in yours might have been done because they were running low on .047 caps that day, or was this a norm for Gibby at the time.I agree - assuming in this case wouldn't make a fool of you and Uma Thurman.
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BUT... my unaltered, as far as I know, "closet queen" (...) '64 T-bird II bought in '78 has TWO .02 (another common cap) tone caps! I added the center V pot in '86 which accounts for more wiring/solder, but the twin caps are from Gibson sans 1964. It was my second foray at wiring, the first being my '66 Heathkit 2x15 SS amp that my dad & I assembled/soldered.
"I love the smell ofnapalmsolder in the morning..."
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Hey question I’ve had for a long time but I heard the song again today.
In the JCM song CherryBomb what the hell is a cherrybomb in the context of his song? I remember looking it up when the song was new and the answer was something like ‘a small incendiary device’. ????
In the JCM song CherryBomb what the hell is a cherrybomb in the context of his song? I remember looking it up when the song was new and the answer was something like ‘a small incendiary device’. ????
There's a remote chance that this is a set from my PDX days.
I have yet to put them on one of my basses.
Cherry Bombs were fireworks when I was a kid. I believe they were red, round, and looked a bit like a cherry. They were stronger than regular fireworks, but IIRC not as powerful as an M-80.
Ok, not a Molotov Cocktail then
The reason went to airport yesterday
an Squier, parts and active built.
I won this bass in a raffle; carried out to raise funds.
First objective was to donate it to a social project of bass lessons; later it was turned into fundraising for a bassist, forum mate who started showing symptoms of sclerosis.
I know V has said there seem to have been a number of iterations of the modern Thunderbird pickups, but there's no info on what or when.
If they sound anything like the flats, I'm sure they sound good. But my fingers would fall off if I used them!
I'm thinking you like that old bass.Still Thursday...............A nice quiet rainy one, had a nap with my kitty.
Made Copper River salmon and baby potatoes for dinner.
Great pic! And thanks for the cap info.
My '64 cavity. You know what I mean...I agree - assuming in this case wouldn't make a fool of you and Uma Thurman.
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BUT... my unaltered, as far as I know, "closet queen" (...) '64 T-bird II bought in '78 has TWO .02 (another common cap) tone caps! I added the center V pot in '86 which accounts for more wiring/solder, but the twin caps are from Gibson sans 1964. It was my second foray at wiring, the first being my '66 Heathkit 2x15 SS amp that my dad & I assembled/soldered.
"I love the smell ofnapalmsolder in the morning..."
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I agree - assuming in this case wouldn't make a fool of you and Uma Thurman.
View attachment 4716690
BUT... my unaltered, as far as I know, "closet queen" (...) '64 T-bird II bought in '78 has TWO .02 (another common cap) tone caps! I added the center V pot in '86 which accounts for more wiring/solder, but the twin caps are from Gibson sans 1964. It was my second foray at wiring, the first being my '66 Heathkit 2x15 SS amp that my dad & I assembled/soldered.
"I love the smell ofnapalmsolder in the morning..."
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My 21 NR's have .047uf caps
for treble geetars I use a .022-.033uf with humbuckers and .047uf with some 7ender single coils .033uf with P90's.
I think I put a .033uf in my DCBird.... now I have to go check it out tonight....
My tone knob is always all the way up or all the way down, or not in the loop, and I have a pedal that sounds like tone down when I stomp on it.... so I don't know why I put that much thought into it...
They were good sized "firecrackers" (not M80s as Nocturnal said), or certain loud straight through mufflers. Not sure they are even made today since the cool sound is a turbo charged weed-eater sound.
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