Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

Anyone here a fan of Drop D tuners? I’m buying some Hipshot ultra lights for my T-Bird project and I see they have one. I have a P Bass with a Drop tuner and use it occasionally when I need to go real low.
Does the bird like to be dropped? Ha!

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My VP, CP, and two Grecos live in DGCF. They love it. Numerous people here have at least one bird with a DDropper as well.
Just don't drop one on its head. They sometimes fly off the handle.

 

[SubHuman]

I have them on all six of my Gibson ‘birds. They work well. Three set up to drop from E to D, using 105’s, two go from Eb to Db, using 110’s, and one goes from D to C using a 115. Works great.

If you’re putting one on a Gibson ‘bird that uses the Gibson branded tuners with the set screw that is not centered, which are the ones on my ‘99, ‘97 and ‘95, you will need to ream the tuner hole a little bit.

If you want a black Y key one, I have one I’ll sell.

Thanks for that info. I am modifying an Epi from the Black Y's over to chrome clovers but appreciate the offer!

 

[WillyW]

Two days away…

 

[MCF]

I have them on all six of my Gibson ‘birds. They work well. Three set up to drop from E to D, using 105’s, two go from Eb to Db, using 110’s, and one goes from D to C using a 115. Works great.

If you’re putting one on a Gibson ‘bird that uses the Gibson branded tuners with the set screw that is not centered, which are the ones on my ‘99, ‘97 and ‘95, you will need to ream the tuner hole a little bit.

If you want a black Y key one, I have one I’ll sell.

Damn. How do you you remember it all? Well yeah, you are a little younger. But still….

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Two days away…

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I had meant to ask, but now I don't need to! Congrats!

 

[RedVee]

I think I’m the only one in the club…. But I like the Y (batwing?) tuners.
Be kind to me.

I do like the clovers on FSO P’s though

 

[RedVee]

Two days away…

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Congrats! are you going to put some of those spare frets you have into it?

 

[MCF]

My VP, CP, and two Grecos live in DGCF. They love it. Numerous people here have at least one bird with a DDropper as well.
Just don't drop one on its head. They sometimes fly off the handle.

My brain can’t handle that. I blame paraquat.

 

[WillyW]

I had meant to ask, but now I don't need to! Congrats!

1979 4001FL

now I just need a 1964-1967 Thunderbird II…. and my world domination can begin….

 

[WillyW]

Congrats! are you going to put some of those spare frets you have into it?

It kept me from pulling the frets on my 2022 4003AC.

I still have plenty of frets in the parts drawer if anybunny needs some.

 

[MCF]

Went for a drive yesterday to Danville. Good Mexican restaurant there we like, and it's a nice drive. We stopped at a strip mall and went in a Ollie's discount store. Interesting find in that section. She seems overly interested.
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I will never forget the fight when my then gf and I got into a fight in ‘81 when we were at a Neil concert and a buddy passed a heater. I took a hit. We’ve been married since ‘84. I swear I haven’t touched the stuff since.

 

[MCF]

1979 4001FL

now I just need a 1964-1967 Thunderbird II…. and my world domination can begin….

Got 10K plus?

 

[WillyW]

Got 10K plus?

If I sold half the stuff that sits in the closet unplayed…

im considering the Texas refinish, but concerned about the provenance

 

[MCF]

The plan was to possibly all of mine to BEAD, but so far only the bolt-on has gone that route. I'm currently undecided whether to do the others or leave them DGCF. Close, but no Snickers bar.

I’m going to get a fiver. I’d love a Gibson Studio Thunderbird. Too rare. So I am casually looking around. 90% of what I like is standard tuning. So thankfully, I’ll be able to keep GAS down to one.

 

[MCF]

If I sold half the stuff that sits in the closet unplayed…

PM me a list. Only interested in those with frets. I’ll understand if I don’t hear from you Willy.

 

[ac100X]

That is mind blowing that Northrup designed the YB49-2 in the 40's! Some say it was based on the German Horton HO-229 which had a wood air frame!
What doomed the Northrup Flying wing was several fatal crashes during proto testing. It took computer control to make the flying wing design stable to fly which resulted in the B-2 Bomber.

Jack Northrop, the aviation pioneer who founded Northrop Corp., was granted an extraordinary government security clearance just before his death in 1981 to see the company’s design for the B-2 Stealth bomber, which resurrected the “flying wing” concept he had invented in the 1940's.
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B-2 Bomber payload!!!
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I've seen the B-2 fly a few times and it is a beautiful but deadly piece of machinery.

Anyone notice which bomber was used to drop the A bomb on the martins in the 1950's movie War of the Worlds?

 

[Gaolee]

Anyone here a fan of Drop D tuners? I’m buying some Hipshot ultra lights for my T-Bird project and I see they have one. I have a P Bass with a Drop tuner and use it occasionally when I need to go real low.
Does the bird like to be dropped? Ha!

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I love 'em. I use the dropped D more often than I thought I would, and the longer I have those, the more often I use them. Thunderbirds have no problem going down another full step.

 

[MCF]

I think I’m the only one in the club…. But I like the Y (batwing?) tuners.
Be kind to me.

I do like the clovers on FSO P’s though

Frankly Geoff, I can’t imagine my Gibson ‘15 with anything else. The Grovers are great.

 

[MCF]

Anyone notice which bomber was used to drop the A bomb on the martins in the 1950's movie War of the Worlds?

Yes! My Dad (an aerospace engineer, former launch director at Vandenberg) gave me a detailed lesson in the history of it. Coolest plane ever.

 

[MCF]

Anyone notice which bomber was used to drop the A bomb on the martins in the 1950's movie War of the Worlds?

“Future history. If any.”

What a great come on line. Classic.