Thunderbird Club

[wolfkeller]

Have some part for sale
For Sale - Pickups, tuners, bridges knobs

 

[kat888]

If you're serious about improving your action the first step is a fret level, especially on an Epi. It wasn't part of the build process. The second step is proper height nut, it's too high. Almost all of them are, especially on mass produced instruments. In short. you need to know *** you're doing. (thanks, TB, for keeping us all PC)

Novel idea: Get a book that tells you stuff you need to know, like all credit cards aren't the same thickness.

Here's the one that I and a lot of other people have used, it's in it's third edition but any will do:

The Guitar Player Repair Guide - 3rd: Dan Erlewine: 9780879309213: Amazon.com: Books

Dan Erlewine's Guitar Repair Guide

Actually the credit card info isn't in it but everything you need to know about setup and repair is.

Thanks Carlo. Ordered.

And yes, it occurred to me that credit cards (or transit cards) vary in thickness. A feeler gauge set is on my list.

 

[veebass]

Was 46C a few years back (115F) which was surreal (went for a walk in it). Overnight it was 30C outside (86F) and the fan only helps so much.

Parts of NSW were 40 C at 8pm last night.
Pretty warm here too, but not that bad.

Re your bass. What @Dadagoboi said.
I haven't followed the whole discussion but I am picking up it is a bolt on Epi.
Could be some heal rise as well. Can you isolate which fret/s is/ are buzzing?

 

[kat888]

Parts of NSW were 40 C at 8pm last night.
Pretty warm here too, but not that bad.

Re your bass. What @Dadagoboi said.
I haven't followed the whole discussion but I am picking up it is a bolt on Epi.
Could be some heal rise as well. Can you isolate which fret/s is/ are buzzing?

It's through neck. There was a headstock/neck crack which was repaired by ABH before I bought it (the reason it was so cheap). The buzz is around 13-15.

The nut:

brass nut

• kat888
• Jan 13, 2017
• thunderbird

 

[Dadagoboi]

Thanks Carlo. Ordered.

And yes, it occurred to me that credit cards (or transit cards) vary in thickness. A feeler gauge set is on my list.

You're welcome.

Feeler gauges are good. Picks also work, either singly or stacked, especially when the thickness is marked on them.

 

[kat888]

You're welcome.

Feeler gauges are good. Picks also work, either singly or stacked, especially when the thickness is marked on them.

The gap at 8/9 is narrower than a 1.17mm Gibson XH.

 

[rumblejunkie]

The temp here in Central Scotland at 1 15 am is around -4 degrees . We had some snow yesterday but mainly just frost and ice . The coldest its got was about two weeks ago when here it was -5 but in places reached -9 . I can wait for some warmer weather .

 

[kat888]

The temp here in Central Scotland at 1 15 am is around -4 degrees . We had some snow yesterday but mainly just frost and ice . The coldest its got was about two weeks ago when here it was -5 but in places reached -9 . I can wait for some warmer weather .

We left Scotland just as the 2010-2011 2 months of snow/ice was beginning to thaw.

 

[hillerup]

An all Ric band. I don't recall seeing a band with both guitar and bass like that.

How about The Jam.... They used to be all Ric's until their bassplayer Bruce Foxton switched to Precisions...

 

[hillerup]

Anybody heard about the Montreux vintage Thunderbird pickups!? It's a japanese guitar manufacturing company.
All sound source i found is here, mounted on an Orville Thunderbird. One set is around 300$.
Idk, doesn't sound bad.

They also make extremely pricey pickguards too...

 

[Bent77]

The temp here in Central Scotland at 1 15 am is around -4 degrees . We had some snow yesterday but mainly just frost and ice . The coldest its got was about two weeks ago when here it was -5 but in places reached -9 . I can wait for some warmer weather .

We hit -12 last week, but that was a different temp scale!

-25C. I'm gonna take that over 46C

 

[hillerup]

The Jam (at least before All Mod Cons) were all Ric. Foxton wanted a P sound but tried to keep the Ric aesthetic, leading to this abomination (apologies in advance to @Sartori), before finally giving up and using a P:

FrankenRick

• kat888
• Aug 17, 2016
• rickenbacker 4001

The horror!

Later on he used an Epi Rivoli and there are videos of him with an Aria Pro II (?). Foxton was one of the main reasons for my early Ric enthusiasm.

The Jam

• kat888
• Jan 13, 2017
• 1
• jam

Beat me to it...

 

[Klondike]

There is a pup manufacturer we talked abiut as a possibility for Katt bu

How about The Jam.... They used to be all Ric's until their bassplayer Bruce Foxton switched to Precisions...

kinda remind me of the Cars

 

[hillerup]

There is a pup manufacturer we talked abiut as a possibility for Katt bu

kinda remind me of the Cars

The Jam was a British mod band - in a league by themselves and nowhere like The Cars...

 

[Drestakil]

This is so tempting but I wish they would have posted more pics. I'm one of those that believe, "If it sounds too good to be true..."

Any opinions on this?
Amazon.com: Gibson USA Thunderbird Bass Vintage Sunburst: Musical Instruments

 

[kat888]

Michael is correct. We'll have to accept our differences there @Klondike and move on.

The Jam were up there with the Fabs in the UK, until Weller got sick of it and walked away.

They never did well in the US - probably a combination of their Englishness and their in your face socialism.

 

[Bent77]

This is so tempting but I wish they would have posted more pics. I'm one of those that believe, "If it sounds too good to be true..."

Any opinions on this?
Amazon.com: Gibson USA Thunderbird Bass Vintage Sunburst: Musical Instruments

If you buy it, we will all know!

 

[rumblejunkie]

Theres a Gibson Thunderbird in pretty good condition , with only a couple of small marks on a selling page for £800 cased . That seems very reasonable but Im skint .

 

[hillerup]

Michael is correct. We'll have to accept our differences there @Klondike and move on.

The Jam were up there with the Fabs in the UK, until Weller got sick of it and walked away.

They never did well in the US - probably a combination of their Englishness and their in your face socialism.

Amazing live band... Saw them 3 or 4 times...

 

[Drestakil]

If you buy it, we will all know!

If it would have been black I would have jumped on it already. With this, I'll give it the 3 day rule.