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Thunderbird Club

#262,464
GBassNorth said:
Come on man! Dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with pistachio - yum.:D
If you wouldn’t mind adopting me I’d gladly help you with all this labor intensive taste testing you need to have done.:)
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Can you handle a 16 hour flight followed by a plane change and another 4 hour flight?

or wait for the next GTG to see if I can smuggle more goodies.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
keep that up and you’ll be sleeping in the Subaru next GTG….
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The old blue one, of course!

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Stealth57 said:
Can you handle a 16 hour flight followed by a plane change and another 4 hour flight?

or wait for the next GTG to see if I can smuggle more goodies.
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My last 10 years of work I was a Global business manager for a major corporation managing R&D Facility construction projects and R&D Engineering Fabrication and Support operations around the world. After three straight years in a row of Delta Dual Diamond frequent flyer status Delta invited me into the very exclusive and not advertised 360 degree club.

A normal week for me was to leave on Saturday morning from Cincinnati to Fly around the globe for business meetings with a layover in Chicago or Minneapolis, then nonstop to Tokyo, for a couple of hours of meetings in Kobe, followed by a flight from there to Beijing for a full day of meetings and construction project field reviews. Then the next morning jumping on a plane to fly into Singapore for construction project reviews. The next day I’d leave for Mumbai for more project reviews followed by a flight to Germany for construction site tours in Schwalbach, Kroenburg and Darmstadt and business meetings in Brussels. Then a quick flight over to London for business meetings in Egham and Reading before jumping on a train to Newcastle and a flight back home. Basically a full week of back to back business meetings, project reviews and travel around the globe two to three weeks out of every month for years.

A 16 hour flight is a cake walk as long as it’s all first class or maybe business class. I won’t fly coach for any duration longer than a few hours, then again, I was never tempted with offers of stuffed dates and baklava. ;)
 
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Bassmike62 said:
Not that I recall, but I'm pretty sure Randy Bachman had one on a white Strat he used with BTO, but I can't locate a pic to prove it...oh darn, might've dreamt that too...
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Seems I recall that as well at some point. But doesn't musician from Canada have "The Leaf" on something. Heck, I even have one on a Gibson Thunderbird case and never even been there!:D

BTO was great live, BTW. Not that there would ever be a doubt about it.
 
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GBassNorth said:
My last 10 years of work I was a Global business manager for a major corporation managing R&D Facility construction projects and R&D Engineering Fabrication and Support operations around the world. After three straight years in a row of Delta Dual Diamond frequent flyer status Delta invited me into the very exclusive and not advertised 360 degree club.

A normal week for me was to leave on Saturday morning from Cincinnati to Fly around the globe for business meetings with a layover in Chicago or Minneapolis, then nonstop to Tokyo, for a couple of hours of meetings in Kobe, followed by a flight from there to Beijing for a full day of meetings and construction project field reviews. Then the next morning jumping on a plane to fly into Singapore for construction project reviews. The next day I’d leave for Mumbai for more project reviews followed by a flight to Germany for construction site tours in Schwalbach, Kroenburg and Darmstadt and business meetings in Brussels. Then a quick flight over to London for business meetings in Egham and Reading before jumping on a train to Newcastle and a flight back home. Basically a full week of back to back business meetings, project reviews and travel around the globe two to three weeks out of every month for years.

A 16 hour flight is a cake walk as long as it’s all first class or maybe business class. I won’t fly coach for any duration longer than a few hours, then again, I was never tempted with offers of stuffed dates and baklava. ;)
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Wow. Delta 360 club... Sure beats the hell out of the Mile High Solo Club.

:)
 
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GBassNorth said:
Update on the two Rosser body Tbird builds…

The Shoreline Gold NR that is now my late wife’s tribute bass is still with the finisher (Caruthers) he’s had it since June 1st but has experienced a number of health related setbacks so it’s been slow going, but the good news is he’s on the mend and will have his paint tech start working on it shortly. I hope to get it back by November. It should be epic sounding with the VP pickups and Wenge neck.
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The Fender Telecaster conversion to a NR body is now also under way. Due to a lack of routing equipment I’ve shopped the pickup routing, neck pocket mod, and belly and forearm contours to fellow TB’er @Freekmagnet in Fillmore, he works closely with Bruce Johnson. If all goes as planned I should have the NR body back from him in a few weeks so I can start on the electronics and final fit test prior to finishing. The original plan was to do the new body in the same Fender Butterscotch blonde finish as the existing Tele, but I’m now leaning more towards a Fender Sea Foam or Surf green finish to keep the bass looking as Fenderish as I can. Not many colors scream Fender as much as those (well, maybe Antigua, but that’s such a love it or hate it color). What ever color I choose, it has to go well with the Fender vintage tint neck that will go on it. Unlike a typical Fenderbird project where the bass is largely a thunderbird with a fender neck, this one will be a Telecaster with a thunderbird body. Should be epic and quite a departure in sound from my other Tbirds.
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Once all the routing work and and fit testing is complete I’ll finalize the pickguard template, material, and logo for @Engle to start working on. Hope to have this one done by Christmas but that might be pushing it a bit on the finishing schedule.
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Wow George!!! Looking good!
 
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Engle said:
First coat of tung oil. You apply with a rag, wait 10 minutes and then buff it with another rag.
Then you have to wait 24 hours, go over it with 0000 steel wool and apply another coat. If you want it shinier, keep adding more coats every 24 hours.
I never do more than 2.
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oh and there’s a danger of SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, so be you need to be careful with the rags. I just drape them over the edge of the garbage can until they are completely dry.
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Well, where's the fun in that?:whistle:
 
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