Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

From bottom of 12th fret wire?

Middle of 12th fret.

 

[GBassNorth]

97’ Bird. Snagged a few years back for $800View attachment 5154046View attachment 5154057

Very nice! Excellent price for an excellent year bird in excellent condition!
Feel free to join the club and frolic in our thunderbird garden! Just let @TBird1958 know you want a number.

 

[JJR58]

Noir Thursday.
Even though it was last Saturday.

 

[dagrev]

Excellent! As expected the two neck pups are virtually identical (1/16” difference on a neck pup will not make any tone difference). The bridge pickups are about 3/8” difference with the ‘64 being 3/8” closer to the neck pickup. That’s enough to make a noticeable difference in the sound of the bridge pickup.

You might want to outline the exact protocol you used to measure the pickups so Dave can replicate your results on his build.

Sure thing.
@Stealth57 As suggested, I taped and made a line between the pickup screws and measured from the middle of the 12th fret, between the A and D strings, both normally and cutting an inch to verify dimensions. I almost measured from the nut as you can butt up against it and there would be no making sure I was right in the center of the fret, but I figured we're talking a 32nd of an inch difference if not a 64th and that would make no real difference.

Note, both of my pickups on the '64 have some before and aft movement.

 

[Gaolee]

didn’t know folks dove the sound, anything interesting to see?

Nudibranchs, huge octopus, sometimes commuting salmon, kelp beds with things living in them, a few wrecks. Mostly, though, algae in the summer. Below a few feet, every dive is a night dive until fall when it generally clears up. It isn't like diving at a reef, but it is fun anyway. Drysuits are a pretty good idea most of the time, or a really thick wetsuit. You take what you got and make the best of it sometimes. I only started doing this recently. It is another way everything gets delayed.

 

[GBassNorth]

Sure thing.
@Stealth57 As suggested, I taped and made a line between the pickup screws and measured from the middle of the 12th fret, between the A and D strings, both normally and cutting an inch to verify dimensions. I almost measured from the nut as you can butt up against it and there would be no making sure I was right in the center of the fret, but I figured we're talking a 32nd of an inch difference if not a 64th and that would make no real difference.

Note, both of my pickups on the '64 have some before and aft movement.

Just so there’s no chance for confusion, when you say “center of the fret” you mean center of the 12th fret wire, correct?

I only say that because earlier in the thread someone mistook “center of the fret” for the center of the space between the 11th fret and 12th fret where the 12th fret marker is.

 

[Count Bassie]

I love. That. Song.

 

[Stealth57]

For anyone at the GTG that played my VP (not Will’s), did you notice any thing funky with the neck pickup?

I went to play it for the first time since Saturday and no sound from the neck pickup. Exactly what happened to the bridge pickup after I first got it. Turned out to be a flakey pot. What are the odds that both are bad?

 

[GBassNorth]

For anyone at the GTG that played my VP (not Will’s), did you notice any thing funky with the neck pickup?

I went to play it for the first time since Saturday and no sound from the neck pickup. Exactly what happened to the bridge pickup after I first got it. Turned out to be a flakey pot. What are the odds that both are bad?

Didn’t get a chance to play it, but pots do go bad, not frequently but it happens. Two on the same bass might be pretty rare but I suppose it could happen. Sometimes it’s because someone has fried the internals when soldering, sometimes it’s not the pot but a cold joint on one of the leads. In any case it’s an easy fix.

PS - between multiple amps acting up and pots biting the dust, you must live in an electrical twilight zone. Was your house wired by Lucas Electric?

 

[MCF]

For anyone at the GTG that played my VP (not Will’s), did you notice any thing funky with the neck pickup?

I went to play it for the first time since Saturday and no sound from the neck pickup. Exactly what happened to the bridge pickup after I first got it. Turned out to be a flakey pot. What are the odds that both are bad?

Could be. And check the jack.

 

[Stealth57]

Didn’t get a chance to play it, but pots do go bad, not frequently but it happens. Two on the same bass might be pretty rare but I suppose it could happen. Sometimes it’s because someone has fried the internals when soldering, sometimes it’s not the pot but a cold joint on one of the leads. In any case it’s an easy fix.

PS - between multiple amps acting up and pots biting the dust, you must live in an electrical twilight zone. Was your house wired by Lucas Electric?

 

[Stealth57]

Could be. And check the jack.

Bridge pickup and tone work fine.

 

[MCF]

New boot day!

 

[Stealth57]

New boot day!
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Cast off?

 

[Gaolee]

New boot day!
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It's a beauty.

 

[MCF]

Cast off?

Yep. Now this for six weeks. What I’m really bummed about is no fly fishing this fall.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Great score! Would you like for me to add you to the club? We don't bite

Usually

 

[BklynKen]

Nudibranchs, huge octopus, sometimes commuting salmon, kelp beds with things living in them, a few wrecks. Mostly, though, algae in the summer. Below a few feet, every dive is a night dive until fall when it generally clears up. It isn't like diving at a reef, but it is fun anyway. Drysuits are a pretty good idea most of the time, or a really thick wetsuit. You take what you got and make the best of it sometimes. I only started doing this recently. It is another way everything gets delayed.

I'd love to join you sometime. Nudibranchs are one of my absolute favorite things to find.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

It will be an annual "once in a lifetime" event

There’s the name! The Annual Once in a Lifetime TCGTG.

Do NOT use AOL TCGTG. Just don’t.

 

[BklynKen]

Nudibranchs, huge octopus, sometimes commuting salmon, kelp beds with things living in them, a few wrecks. Mostly, though, algae in the summer. Below a few feet, every dive is a night dive until fall when it generally clears up. It isn't like diving at a reef, but it is fun anyway. Drysuits are a pretty good idea most of the time, or a really thick wetsuit. You take what you got and make the best of it sometimes. I only started doing this recently. It is another way everything gets delayed.

And of course there's the fantastic Bowiebranchia.

Bowiebranchia