That's just crazy good looking. All there is to it. Even if the frets make my eyes hurt.
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Thunderbird Club
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I think I need to adjust the bridge, will have to find out how to do it, but it's light and so confortable to play... I love it so far.
The last two are really great buys. Best price for a NR I've seen.
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The black looks great. It's funny in that is seems half or more of the late 70s run had Bicentennial ('76 feet) guards on them.I have a 77 model with the 76 Bird on the guard.
By the way I noticed some cracks around the imput jack, when touched the imput wobbles a bit. Should I worry? No other flaws that I could see besides this.
It may just need to be tightened. If the cracks are only in the finish, it’s not a problem.
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I have many years of practice
It's not really all that difficult though, and they make your legs look fab!
- Mar 13, 2008
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I have a 77 model with the 76 Bird on the guard.
My apologies, Andy. I totally forgot that you had picked one up not all that long ago!
Thx for the tip on the Indigo Gin too, I'll be off to the local liquor mega mart tomorrow to pick some up.
Congrats on the new bass! Looks nice. Might just be the way the light is hitting the pickups, but they look like dual rails. Are they stock pups?
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As far as I know... The bass is from 2016, what do you mean with dual rails?
Must just be the way the light was hitting the pickups.
These are what dual rails look like…
No, they are the fully covered standard pickups, they don't look like that because of poor lighting and because it wasn't me taking the picture.
I found the nut on my IV didn't have enough threads to catch properly and it would come loose all the time. That made the input wobble. I changed nuts from another jack and that helped a lot, but the nut comes loose in a couple weeks and I have to tighten it again. It's a bit of a nuisance since you have to open the swimming pool to make sure you don't twist things up when tightening the nut. I bought a special 1/2" jack nut wrench that does a good job of holding the jack in place while cinching things up.
https://www.amazon.com/BigRock-Bull...let+guitar+jack+tightener+brass,mi,138&sr=1-2
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Funny you guys are mentioning Whirlwind because I had the same Whirlwind cord for years too, it lasted forever, I think it was a curly Q cord.
I love watching those things start up, prop planes, I took an old DC something or other once years ago from Boston to Cape Cod, it was the coolest thing for me just to sit in that plane while they started up the two props. I love the sound, that's real bass.
This starts at about 4:20
This one also starts about at the four minute mark.
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I love watching those things start up, prop planes, I took an old DC something or other once years ago from Boston to Cape Cod, it was the coolest thing for me just to sit in that plane while they started up the two props. I love the sound, that's real bass.
This starts at about 4:20
This one also starts about at the four minute mark.
I've gotten that experience in a Saab 340. Those things are loud. Pretty cool.
As for the B-29, I think I've mentioned that I visited the atomic bomb pits on Tinian. Crazy stuff.
