Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

It's a fun drink to have, but the name is considered offensive to the Irish.

The Story Behind The Most Infamous St. Patrick's Day Cocktail—And Why You Should Never Order It

It was one of my hockey team’s celebratory drinks. Our goalie worked at LLNL and he didn’t appreciate it when we’d ask him on his work email if he’s joining us for a car bomb.

 

[MCF]

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)

Going to get a second opinion from another tech. If the tuner can't be fixed trivially I'll bring it back to the shop for a replacement. If it can, then the only real problem seems to be the nut.

Does anyone have any recommendations for nuts that might slot in here? The price for new getting new nuts based on a brief look online for nearby guitar techs seems to be $100+ so if there's a generic one that fits neatly for this model I might consider just doing it myself

Pretty sure I mentioned Tusq to you before. Get one of Their blanks that is the correct size and find a luthier who knows what they’re talking about. Or get a set of nut files and look up some YouTube videos on how to do it. I recall Dave on Dave’s World of fun Stuff has done a vid or two. I think there is also a StewMac video.

 

[GonePlaid]

6 ft is 183 cm (182.88)
170 lbs is 12 stone (12.14)
Or 77kgs (77.1)

I'm shorter.
I'm heavier.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm thinking it is a picture of a garlic field in Gilroy CA.

close, about 10 miles south on 156…

 

[MCF]

anyone do Instagram?

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Nope.

 

[JIO]

I save even more by not using any('cept my Micro POG-rarely).

I've been using my micro POG with Bond Girl on a couple of our new songs. The recording quality (or lack of it) doesn't display it, but I use it to great effect on this song.

 

[MCF]

GTG venue?..
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I do like the SVTs. There’s a Coliseum on the GC used site for $500. What are they asking down there?

 

[MCF]

Indeed...

Classic!

 

[GonePlaid]

I've been using my micro POG with Bond Girl on a couple of our new songs. The recording quality (or lack of it) doesn't display it, but I use it to great effect on this song.

Yup. I used to employ mine 'octave up' when we'd go out as 3(guitar, drums, bass)to fill out a little during guitar solos. It got to be more PITA than it was worth stringing the extra cable and transformer.

 

[MCF]

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Ga Tech, GT) in Atlanta, Georgia had a rugby team in 1973, probably earlier. Definitely guys not to mess with. We had a lacrosse team, too. Almost no one in the South knew what those were at the time. I never saw a game, but then I didn't really watch sports in general. Friends drug me to a couple of football games but that was about it. I'd probably have gone to see lacrosse and rugby just out of curiosity but the players I knew (just acquaintances, not really friends) never mentioned when the games were.

I think most Uni’s have clubs I know UCI had both men’s and women’s. The after game keggers were legendary. And the hooker on the women’s team was really cute.

 

[MCF]

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?

The ‘13 NR’s are Corian.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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

It was right after your Argentina post. What were we supposed to think?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Just one cal I thought.
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[JIO]

This is from 2016 (7 yrs ago! ~yowza!~) - sound-man recorded our pre-set sound-check with only a couple friends in the club, one of whom filmed it. I am playing my highly modified P/J with a Marty Bell sparkle finish.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The downsize for this momentary Monkey hype is that I can't put it in my pedalboard now since some idiot may nick it.

High voltage and a deadman’s switch underneath (normally open). Someone lifts it off the hook and loop and ZAP!

 

[Stealth57]

It was right after your Argentina post. What were we supposed to think?

Think? Your first mistake.

 

[Nocturnal]

It's a fun drink to have, but the name is considered offensive to the Irish.

The Story Behind The Most Infamous St. Patrick's Day Cocktail—And Why You Should Never Order It

I tried one for the first time at a work lunch before Covid sent us all home for good. I really enjoyed it.

 

[bobyoung53]

Opposite in India. They flood the streets of the major cities.

Some small cities here are like that too. The're outlawed in most sections of Lima. I've taken them before. They use really small bikes, 150-200 cc motors.

 

[MCF]

I thought that the weather in California was a bit fluid at the moment...

Too soon?

I’m at the mountain place. They say Sunday snow, Tuesday rain, Wednesday and Thursday snow. I’m outa here Monday.

 

[JIO]

Yup. I used to employ mine 'octave up' when we'd go out as 3(guitar, drums, bass)to fill out a little during guitar solos. It got to be more PITA than it was worth stringing the extra cable and transformer.

Most pedals on my pedal-train are used on only one or two songs each, and for BG I have an additional pedal (the micro POG) outside of my enclosed box. But.., for what they deliver, I don't mind the extra effort to connect them.