Thunderbird Club

[kat888]

I love haggis especially with bread and butter (OK so I'm Welsh!!) I try not to think what's in it but what the hell it's delish.

I feel I should know where that photo is, the only place that springs to mind is down towards Holyrood?

Aye, on the Mile. We were over the Canongate kirkyard (at least the neighbours were quiet - no ghostly manifestations or what have you. That's Betty's church when she's in town, so it wasn't unknown to stagger out for bread and milk on a Sunday morning and encounter a diminutive RAF Regiment gunner with fixed bayonet blocking the front door.

 

[kat888]

I had an exceptionally strong beaker of Builders tea and a couple of Mr. Kiplings mince meat pies.

Very nice. I don't do anything in the morning until I've had half a litre of tea.

 

[Christine]

Aye, on the Mile. We were over the Canongate kirkyard (at least the neighbours were quiet - no ghostly manufestations or what have you. That's Betty's church when she's in town, so it wasn't unknown to stagger out for bread and milk on a Sunday morning and encounter a diminutive RAF Regiment gunner with fixed bayonet blocking the front door.

Funnily enough just looking through some photo's from a trip up there in 2014

 

[kat888]

Funnily enough just looking through some photo's from a trip up there in 2014
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There's the Christmas Shoppe just to the right - we lived above that. Used to be walking up the Mile in the evening and a fox would walk past, calm as you like.

 

[Korladis]

Those Ricky's definitely have a distinct corner there, at least the ones I've played

Well, one has binding, one doesn't (4001 and 4003S).

 

[GBassNorth]

I do like a cup of tea, especially with a couple of digestives to dunk

I'm a big time dunker but find Digestives too thin, I go for the Walkers shortbread or in a pinch Keebler Pecan Sandies.

 

[Christine]

I'm a big time dunker but find Digestives too thin, I go for the Walkers shortbread or in a pinch Keebler Pecan Sandies.

Dunking shortbread? You can't do that, it's like ordering a caviar vindaloo or a pork scratching yoghurt!

Edit: As in big time posh, the height of sophistication, the nosh of kings

 

[kat888]

Dunking shortbread? You can't do that, it's like ordering a caviar vindaloo or a pork scratching yoghurt!

Pork scratching yoghurt sounds alright actually...

 

[kat888]

Okays, back to the subject at hand ... been thinking a bit of setup work needs doing on the Bird and it's time I learn.

12th fret and above gets a bit of fret buzz and as far as I can see there's more than a credit card sized gap between the strings and the 8th/9th fret. When the capo arrives (you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a plain elastic capo around here) I'll be able to check properly.

 

[hillerup]

Look on the brightside, at least you got the real thing not a copy

My sentiment exactly... And it isn't even neckthrough...

 

[hillerup]

Well, one has binding, one doesn't (4001 and 4003S).

So how do they compare feel and soundwise - Other than the obvious differences: binding vs no binding/triangle inlays vs dot inlays and stereo vs mono ouput?

Used to have a 4001 when I was young, but find myself liking the visuals of a 4003s more and more thse days...

 

[Christine]

Okays, back to the subject at hand ... been thinking a bit of setup work needs doing on the Bird and it's time I learn.

12th fret and above gets a bit of fret buzz and as far as I can see there's more than a credit card sized gap between the strings and the 8th/9th fret. When the capo arrives (you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a plain elastic capo around here) I'll be able to check properly.

High fret? Or tighten the truss rod and raise the bridge and pups slightly?

 

[kat888]

High fret? Or tighten the truss rod and raise the bridge and pups slightly?

I reckon there's a small but distinct bow when you fret at 1 and 20, ie 2 or 3 times the 'credit card' gap there's supposed to be.

 

[Korladis]

Dunking shortbread? You can't do that, it's like ordering a caviar vindaloo or a pork scratching yoghurt!

Edit: As in big time posh, the height of sophistication, the nosh of kings

I prefer chicken eggs to fish eggs, personally.

So how do they compare feel and soundwise - Other than the obvious differences: binding vs no binding/triangle inlays vs dot inlays and stereo vs mono ouput?

Used to have a 4001 when I was young, but find myself liking the visuals of a 4003s more and more thse days...

The way I play them, bridge pickup only, they sound extremely similar (but then, the 4001 is a restoration with 4003 electronics). The feel is similar, slightly different necks. The 4001 is a lot heavier.

The neck pickup there's a bit more difference, as the 4003S still has the high-gain pickup, while the 4001 I have a toaster in (I'm going to have a toaster put in the 4003S). The 4001's neck pickup is a bit more "tame" I suppose. Not as mid forward or high output. Does a better upright emulation.

I don't really use the stereo on the 4001 really. In a mix, I doubt anyone could tell the difference between the two, especially since I usually only play the bridge pickup.

 

[rumblejunkie]

That's pure British that is. Just keeping people on their toes...

That's pure British that is. Just keeping people on their toes...

I'm a haddock person too, mostly with curry sauce but often with peas, they have that old fashioned taste that reminds me of being a kid. Battered haggis was one I liked too, you have to give it to the Scotts, they have brought some unlikely but wonderful dishes to the world. We need an up to date run down on what's being served from @rumblejunkie

Never done the Deep fried Marrs Bar . Haggis is lovely but it would surprise you , how many folk dont like it . Its probably because they are too lazy to try and catch one . Chips n cheese is a favourite of my wifes but if its the chippy that's involved then its gotta be either black pudding or just sausage .

 

[sigmundklaus]

back to the club after several years, with this fenderbird baby

forty-something years old Japanese neck. Ash body. SD pickups. Volume + rotary switch.

 

[Christine]

I prefer chicken eggs to fish eggs, personally.

You'll never qualify as posh you serf!

 

[Christine]

Never done the Deep fried Marrs Bar . Haggis is lovely but it would surprise you , how many folk dont like it . Its probably because they are too lazy to try and catch one . Chips n cheese is a favourite of my wifes but if its the chippy that's involved then its gotta be either black pudding or just sausage .

I really have to put what the contents of a haggis is to some dark place when I'm eating one, now is OK no problem but the thought of eating lung etc. at the time is risking losing my lunch. It's a very variable thing haggis, to a non scott it seems well worth while getting a more expensive one but even that comes nowhere near getting one from a butcher in Alba

 

[Korladis]

back to the club after several years, with this fenderbird baby

forty-something years old Japanese neck. Ash body. SD pickups. Volume + rotary switch.

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Love the pickup position on the humbucker.

You'll never qualify as posh you serf!

Good! I'm a peasant and proud of it! Someone has to operate the guillotine, after all.

 

[Count Bassie]

Well, one has binding, one doesn't (4001 and 4003S).

I hope to come into another 4003s some fine day, love that model. Low-key, elegant. Burgundy-Glo...