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Thunderbird Club
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Number one and number two. They get the most play during the week.
S'posed to go to a wildlife park(Wild Florida)next Friday. IDK about sloths, but they have lemurs you can interact with.
George is the man! And DiCola pickups with taps are the best humbuckers for all over great tone shaping.
You'd make a good pet?Me too.
Everyone hears and wants to hear different things, but I suspect you will like the Power Wounds. Really great string. So much so the '64 Thunderbird wears them. They also "fixed" my '62 Jazz. I'm not good at getting good to me J tone, and the SITs were a great option. To me the sound a little brighter than the typical NPS, but in a good way. They have great mids and lows. Just a full, well balanced string IMO.String related debacle: Since perhaps Summer 2023, i've had Dr Hi Beams stainless steel on a Pbass of mine, 45-100 gauge. Have played that bass the most it just sounded good. The strings were rough under the fingers when new, but broke in nice after a month of solid playing. Cleaned after each play, but perhaps from constant playing, yesterday it was just dead sounding/feeling. I tried my hand at boiling them today (a first for me ever), & while it got some zing back in them & the bass overall. But, i've decided to get some SIT PowerWound Nickels, The PowerSteels on the bird don't feel as rough under my fingers the first few plays as did the DRs, & while i dig the tone, i'm very much used to nickel wound strings. Less irritation so to speak, & a nice clean break-in time, & i do enjoy the mellowness of Nickels.
Such is my "rant"
After reading your follow up. I find them similar to GHS territory, which I like on some things. They were my, "I can live with Boomers on just about anything if I had to" string. SITs seem to be that way as well.
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Trials and tribulations- the new MJS double-barred single coils arrived for my black 1985 Aria Pro II yesterday but a bit late and with too nasty weather for me to brave the trip into Houston to get my luthier bro to make the swap- I usually beg SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) for him not to get annoyed with me for asking him to do stuff I could do myself, but my guitar bro Evan said, “Bring it on over”
He helped me get the original ones out - they glued themselves to the rubber backing after nearly 40 years together, but my bro, who has bigger hands than I managed to break them loose after I cracked one of them with a screwdriver-
So we made the solder changes, plugged it in, and it’s a beast- Smitty told me these single pickups (Alnico 5 magnets requiring 500k pots) were of a double bar design like old school Rickenbackers and would give an appropriately aggressive sound.
Pretty cool but the new screws were too long and I got some wiggle because I can only go a little less than 1/2 inch max into the cavity wood without drilling through the back-
So, I need to measure the screws and maybe get 1 inch ones instead of the 1 1/2 that came with the pickups-
And you know I’ll be heading for the store, because as my guitar bud said, I won’t sleep tonight otherwise -
Before with the original ‘meh’ sounding pickups-
In progress with the new MJS soapbars-
He helped me get the original ones out - they glued themselves to the rubber backing after nearly 40 years together, but my bro, who has bigger hands than I managed to break them loose after I cracked one of them with a screwdriver-
So we made the solder changes, plugged it in, and it’s a beast- Smitty told me these single pickups (Alnico 5 magnets requiring 500k pots) were of a double bar design like old school Rickenbackers and would give an appropriately aggressive sound.
Pretty cool but the new screws were too long and I got some wiggle because I can only go a little less than 1/2 inch max into the cavity wood without drilling through the back-
So, I need to measure the screws and maybe get 1 inch ones instead of the 1 1/2 that came with the pickups-
And you know I’ll be heading for the store, because as my guitar bud said, I won’t sleep tonight otherwise -
Before with the original ‘meh’ sounding pickups-
In progress with the new MJS soapbars-
Where you live you can interact with the Gators as well. Kind of a oneway interaction though. I'd go with the lemurs instead.
They prolly have some small ones there you can mess with.
Dunno, but I am really slow.
I’ve had three company issued Galaxies over the last ten years. They all sucked. The last one, a ‘22, couldn’t come anywhere close to the picture quality I get from my old ‘17 iPhone 8.
House trained? That's kind of important.
I don't mess with anything that just might think of me as a decent lunch option, small or not.
I don't figger on being around long enuff for them to get that big.Sorry I mis-replied, partly to beer consumption- I meant Italian sci-fi film Mission Stardust. The one with the hilarious special effects and the platinum blonde-
