Thunderbird Club

[icefly]

Remembered our sherrif GonePlaid

 

[MCF]

That's OK, nor is Neil...

Oh come on.

 

[TBird1958]

sauerbraten mit pommes frittes….
hmmm…..wonder why you can find that here……
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I have a great reciepe for that, it's a lot of work over several days to make it.......You have people serving it to you - Not jealous at all

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I have a great reciepe for that, it's a lot of work over several days to make it.......You have people serving it to you - Not jealous at all

told you to come south!……

 

[JIO]

hadn’t had a driving ticket in over 40 years and just got two in six months….. not happy at all….. first one was at night….. the CHP SOB revved his Charger behind me on an on ramp (should have guessed he was a cop from the headlights) and I took off hard in my Camaro thinking he wanted to race…..WRONG!…was so pissed…second time on the highway during the day doing 82 in a 65 he was right there off the side of the road using LIDAR that muy escort detector failed to pickup…..
wrote me up for 75 instead of 82….apparently there have more highway deaths in CA since before COVID so the troopers are on a mission…..heck, I barely remember seeing a a cruiser on the highway during all of COVID…..now they’re everywhere…the iPhone GPS actually warns you but I had it off that day….…..​

That sux - I witnessed high-speeding/blatantly blowing red lights during the high Covid period so there's that - but more tickets is primarily motivated by $ for the dept. Parking tickets also and no-right-turn-on-red traps. (and bicycle related tickets ~ lame) This is especially true in smaller communities, like Pacifica or affluent Woodside on the Peninsula. In big cities, cops have bigger fish to fry.

 

[dagrev]

I have a great reciepe for that, it's a lot of work over several days to make it.......You have people serving it to you - Not jealous at all

This great German food is getting to be too much. You don't deliver to Kentucky by any chance do you?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

hadn’t had a driving ticket in over 40 years and just got two in six months….. not happy at all….. first one was at night….. the CHP SOB revved his Charger behind me on an on ramp (should have guessed he was a cop from the headlights) and I took off hard in my Camaro thinking he wanted to race…..WRONG!…was so pissed…second time on the highway during the day doing 82 in a 65 he was right there off the side of the road using LIDAR that muy escort detector failed to pickup…..
wrote me up for 75 instead of 82….apparently there have more highway deaths in CA since before COVID so the troopers are on a mission…..heck, I barely remember seeing a a cruiser on the highway during all of COVID…..now they’re everywhere…the iPhone GPS actually warns you but I had it off that day….…..​

Sorry to hear that. Gotta bring your A game in a hot car. My new car is red so I'm more conscious about things.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Heyyy... what I found on Youtube shorts.

Posted mine yesterday: Squier Jaguar with DiMarzio Split P

awesome…..nice Jag….totally agree that part must be played with the THUMB…..

 

[dagrev]

Sorry to hear that. Gotta bring your A game in a hot car. My new car is red so I'm more conscious about things.

Accessorize it to look like this. That should do it. Police would be too busy laughing to notice your speed.

 

[icefly]

awesome…..nice Jag….totally agree that part must be played with the THUMB…..

Yes.
And funny to note: strings were taken from my Thunderbird IV.
Also added some drive (guitar pedal)

 

[JJR58]

Talking amps, right?

Not sure i get the question, what am i missing?

 

[BklynKen]

Accessorize it to look like this. That should do it. Police would be too busy laughing to notice your speed.
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Even better, the four-door version. The Wego.

 

[Stealth57]

Not sure i get the question, what am i missing?

Something about needing more? Don’t ask me to remember 10 pages ago when I’m on India Standard Time.

 

[JJR58]

Something about needing more? Don’t ask me to remember 10 pages ago when I’m on India Standard Time.

Ha!!!, i'm good in the amp department.
I usually replace, not add.

 

[Stealth57]

Ha!!!, i'm good in the amp department.
I usually replace, not add.

Now I remember. You said 4 was enough and my snide remark was you were talking about amps, not birds. Too late now from various perspectives.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Ha!!!, i'm good in the amp department.
I usually replace, not add.

same, unfortunately the old stuff seems to be worth less and less these days…

 

[GBassNorth]

Bought the Vintage Pro today, thanks for all the advice everyone.

Going to get it to the Luthier tomorrow to flip it.

Only issue I've noticed after tuning it up is that the E tuner is a little loose, so it rattles on an open string. Would have called it up in the shop but it only became apparent when I got it home and tuned it. Is this something I can ask the luthier to tighten up, or should take it back to the shop? Not sure if it requires a new tuner or if it can be fixed

Should be an easy fix or even replacement.

Got my Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups in today and a quick setup done.

I did look at some of the more "boutique" options, but after converting to AUD and shipping here this was the most economical method by a long shot and I've had three other sets of regular Duncan's and been happy with all of them.

I have never played any Tbird apart from my own which had the standard 2009 pickups in it since I bought it new, so it was perhaps silly to spec something different from stock, but I figured if I was going Custom Shop I was going to get custom, so I asked for "Bright, vintage wind on the neck while bridge to be hotter and more gnarly - but not to the point that they don’t work in tandem as a set."

Standard DC resistance according to the website is 12.3k, 12.5k while these are marked as 7.89k, 9.49k and wound by MJ. I don't really know what that means or how they differ from stock, but they sound great through my Ampeg. For the first time ever I am rolling between bridge and neck and messing with the blend and tone pot, just like I do on my (also SD loaded - Pearly Gates) Les Paul.

Still the honeymoon phase but really, really happy so far.

I’d love to hear that! Duncan has some really cool upgrade parts. Always been pleased with their products but never tried their full custom pickups. If you can post a sound clip it would be cool.

I had to look it up. It was ‘75. And 511 were arrested over five nights. “Seventy-five officers were deployed during each of the Pink Floyd performances, according to police. Of the arrests made, 209 were inside the Sports Arena and 302 were outside.”

If the police had tried that at the Dead Head concerts I attended they’d need a bigger jail. I have no doubt that at least 50% of the crowd was on something and the other 50% was either selling or trying to score.

 

[Gaolee]

Well, I'm pretty sure a Mark III through a pair of 15s would be enough for all of my neighbors, and probably all of their neighbors, to hear easily, but I have this for backup......just in case


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And, just in case in case, there's always this running off my pf350.....

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Pretty sure all the neighbors will be equally annoyed

Not annoyed. Invigorated.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

What were they asking for that nasty Sixty Five if it was a Sixty Five?

dunno, should have asked…may go back…

 

[GonePlaid]

You're saying that like it's bad thing! (right Mike?)

I don't even text.
OK, not entirely true. I text my daughter-rarely-'cos she can't answer her phone at work. My msg reads "Call me". It's understood that means after work or on a break.