Thunderbird Club

[RedVee]

Beautiful! So I want to build a teardrop. Did you build yours from scratch or a kit? Perfect for a fishing trip rig.

 

[JIO]

I think these will last many years - she'll only be using them part of the time.
I only paid $1K for the bass!

What kind/brand/how old is the double bass?

1976 SX-70 pic of young Geo playing my '50s 1/2-scale King Mortone on my Kansas City apt back porch. It's plywood but sounded really nice. I paid $500 at the time and another $200 for a nice butler/German bow.

Stairs to the right were a mock-up I used in a film I made at the Kansas City Art Institute, where I graduated a year earlier. I sold the King after I moved to CA as I didn't have the space for it. It was a sweet bass and I don't really regret selling it, but it would be fun to have now.

 

[JJR58]

You obviously did the right thing

If we only went by what we needed, we'd all be playing '51 p-basses

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Well, i'm probably the outlier here.....
Wouldn't be a '51 though.

 

[MCF]

There was a set of sober looks from Joe, Don and Tim...

Meisner belonged there. JMO.

 

[JIO]

You obviously did the right thing

If we only went by what we needed, we'd all be playing '51 p-basses

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I had a RI of one - I liked it but I "needed" to modify it...

 

[MCF]

I plan on buying one as well. I don't need another bass, but it seems too good to pass up.

I realized today I have 21 basses. So what’s another bass. I think I’d really like one.

 

[JJR58]

Yes! (Pumps fist in questionable manner)
"Need" is not what rock n roll is about... That's survival.

As long as we rock.
Who cares how we roll.
Within reason, of course.

 

[JJR58]

I realized today I have 21 basses. So what’s another bass. I think I’d really like one.

I've got 4, and that's too many.

I'm on a mission to do something crazy, in time.

 

[Stealth57]

I've got 4, and that's too many.

I'm on a mission to do something crazy, in time.

 

[MCF]

I've got 4, and that's too many.

I'm on a mission to do something crazy, in time.

I didn’t really know since they’re spread out and I pretty much just play the Thunderbirds these days. Kind of disturbing actually. My wife will have a fit when they’re all in one place.

 

[JJR58]

I'd love this Lull.

 

[dagrev]

I'd love this Lull.

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That's just straight up hard core bass porn. Quadruple X type stuff.

 

[BklynKen]

I'd love this Lull.

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Don't let Dave seen those ball ends. He'll have OCD overload.

 

[Count Bassie]

Meisner belonged there. JMO.

Yeah.

 

[KaraQ]

WiP.........

 

[Stealth57]

I'd love this Lull.

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Can you say cha ching

 

[Stealth57]

Don't let Dave seen those ball ends. He'll have OCD overload.

I stopped looking after he wrote Lull…

 

[Engle]

What kind/brand/how old is the double bass?

1976 SX-70 pic of young Geo playing my '50s 1/2-scale King Mortone on my Kansas City apt back porch. It's plywood but sounded really nice. I paid $500 at the time and another $200 for a nice butler/German bow.

Stairs to the right were a mock-up I used in a film I made at the Kansas City Art Institute, where I graduated a year earlier. I sold the King after I moved to CA as I didn't have the space for it. It was a sweet bass and I don't really regret selling it, but it would be fun to have now.
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It’s an Englehardt ES-1. Basically a modern Kay.

 

[Engle]

I realized today I have 21 basses. So what’s another bass. I think I’d really like one.

I think I have 22. Are we counting uprights?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Home sweet home. Down at the house in the burbs.

I decided to go ahead and change strings on the BaCH. I parked my intended SIT order in the shopping cart, waiting for a discount offer, and forgot about it. So I ended up going to my local (which just became a Reverend dealer!) and picked up a set of stainless steel Superbrights in my customary 45-105 gauge. Put them on and uh oh, the nut slot for the G string is cut too deep and wide for a 45. So it’ll need a new nut. I ended up going to GC yesterday to see if by chance they had a black nut blank. Nope. So I bought a set of Power Slinky 55-110 suspension bridge cables. Problem solved until I can get a new nut. The nickel rounds are a huge improvement over the Chromes that were on the bass. I got the neck dialed in pretty well, it’s intonated, and the action is low. I had to lower the pickup some to eliminate a bit of chorus.

I don’t mind the Artec pickup as much now. It is a bit too clear and polite for my taste though and it will get swapped out eventually. Dreaming of a Lull. But I could be happy with a Gibson NR neck pickup if they make them available in their pickup shop. I was able to get the Mesa to add some grind to the tone. But the tone comes nowhere close to being as pleasing as what I get from the ‘21 NR pickups, tBird Plus or the Epi VP pickups.

I’m really liking the BaCH. The neck is wonderful. The headstock is huge though, so the standard long scale G string is barely long enough.

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don’t really much care for the original BaCH nut…..it’s really just a piece of hollow black plastic extrusion with four grooves….one of the firs things I replaced on my IV and boy what a diff….