Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

Yah, it's a cool asymmetric shape for a 2x2 - Sean Lennon's bass player played one.

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Isn't she a painting.

 

[Engle]

These are the guys. No where near $100.

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That's about 10 Kilometers from my house. AFAIK they make great products, and I have a few TUSQ nuts that came on bass necks that I bought.
But I can't say I've ever had a tuning problem on a bass with strings hanging up in the nut slots due to the nut material. Guitars are another story.

 

[GBassNorth]

Went to the luthier today and got a pretty firm 'no' about flipping the Epi Vintage Pro, due to
- String length (he claimed the E string wouldn't reach the tuner as strings aren't uniform length - when I checked it with a set of Ernie Ball flats I realised he was mistaken on this, the strings are the same length so it reaches fine)
- The nut (needs a replacement rather than swapping it around, he didn't have one that would fit and didn't seem to have the tools to cut one from a blank)
- The loose clover on the machine head that rattles (he didn't think it could be fixed)

That’s not a luthier or even a tech. Sounds more like a poser. RUN AWAY!!!

 

[GBassNorth]

Understood. I'm with you in that minority in that I really like the TB+ (and black hardware). I'm just open to trying a different sound in a Thunderbird that's not my #1. But I'm not open to spending money on what's described as, "Great!"

I find very few pickups that I don’t like. It seems to me there’s always something to like with just about any pickup. I’ve used $25 GFS lipstick pickups with great success as well as $80 ChinaBuckers and Gibson TB+ pickups. Do they all sound the same, nope, and that’s a good thing, otherwise I’d only ever need one bass. Same goes for hardware - black, chrome, gold, nickel, whatever, it all has a place in creating the aesthetic look I want for a given bass. And yep, that applies to pickguard material (or even the lack thereof) as well - dare I say tort - it all has a place in building variety in my bass line up.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

interesting…thx!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That's about 10 Kilometers from my house. AFAIK they make great products, and I have a few TUSQ nuts that came on bass necks that I bought.
But I can't say I've ever had a tuning problem on a bass with strings hanging up in the nut slots due to the nut material. Guitars are another story.

seems so strange listening to a north American talk in clicks….

 

[JIO]

interesting…thx!

I was a big GP fan - saw them live visiting SF in the late '80s before I moved here. They were a cool NYC concept band where they had a core nucleus of members (including Bill Laswell) and each LP had different heavy-hitter guest players like Sonny Sharrock, Richard Thompson, Jack Bruce, Micheal Stipe, and Ornette Colman, so each LP was somewhat similar but different with their guests influences.

 

[JIO]

Isn't she a painting.

You mean she looks like she could be a painting?

 

[bobyoung53]

They were being made up to '02. Started around '72 because they would be taxed as a motorcycle rather than a car. Sold well in the north of England I think.

Edit to add:
Is this the bit you remember?

Mototaxis are common in parts of Peru, more in the towns though and certain less populated parts of Lima.

 

[Engle]

seems so strange listening to a north American talk in clicks….

This is pretty much true:

 

[Miles_ONeal]

This is pretty much true:
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That makes perfect sense to me.

 

[JIO]

Corian seems to be about the same hardness/density as bone (and doesn't smell quite as nasty when you cut it).
The factory nut on my 68 EBO was plastic. What did Gibson use on the 60's Tbirds?

It was bone -

I replaced mine on my '64 II with brass. The factory cut bone nut was 'off'.

 

[JJR58]

Reminds me, I need to renew my passport.

Me too!

 

[Count Bassie]

You mean she looks like she could be a painting?

Both.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Reminds me, I need to renew my passport.

it’s Santa Cruz CA, not Santa Cruz Tenerife….

 

[RedVee]

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Nice bottle, very nice ‘table’

 

[PillO]

These are the guys. No where near $100.

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But the labour! The precious time of the highly educated and extraordinarily skilled technician!

 

[PillO]

You didn’t mention Dano’s aluminum nuts

I don't recall that ever being a plot point on the show...

 

[BklynKen]

I don't recall that ever being a plot point on the show...

That's the version you find behind the beaded curtain at the video store.

 

[GBassNorth]

But the labour! The precious time of the highly educated and extraordinarily skilled technician!

…and the tools, don’t forget the tools. Those files cost a fortune, at least ten bucks each. And apparently this tech constantly looses his files, so a new set must be needed with each nut job (which coincidentally is exactly what this tech sounds like).