Thunderbird Club

[WillyW]

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

just basses?

34” scale Danelectro DC

2 Epiphone embassy basses with hard cases

2021 NR Thunderbird Inverness green

2018 Gibson EB4 with decolas

any of my 7enderbird bodies loaded you add a neck

loaded 51 pbass body

1995 ric 4003 but I need to complete the 5 string conversion. (Ebony nut, probably tapes)

that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Stealth57]

just basses?

34” scale Danelectro DC

2 Epiphone embassy basses with hard cases

2021 NR Thunderbird Inverness green

2018 Gibson EB4 with decolas

any of my 7enderbird bodies loaded you add a neck

loaded 51 pbass body

that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

What color is the Dano? Korean reissue?

 

[Bent77]

Two days away…

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Are your toes out getting a pedi?

 

[Bent77]

just basses?

34” scale Danelectro DC

2 Epiphone embassy basses with hard cases

2021 NR Thunderbird Inverness green

2018 Gibson EB4 with decolas

any of my 7enderbird bodies loaded you add a neck

loaded 51 pbass body

1995 ric 4003 but I need to complete the 5 string conversion. (Ebony nut, probably tapes)

that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.

Fbird bodies? Pics?

 

[Engle]

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 have the Ultralite drop tuners on my Orville and Jazz Bass Special. Once dialed in, they work pretty well.
I used to drop my E to Eb for Superstition and another tune in Eb. These days it's for low D on Black Velvet and Cuts like a Knife.
IIRC think the drop tuners are only in the US series. LIC tuners don't look identical.

 

[WillyW]

What color is the Dano? Korean reissue?

Are your toes out getting a pedi?

do I need a pedicure?


Yes Korean, I have one Chinese reissue (Wild Thing treble) and it’s not well put together, (pickguard doesn’t fit the body well, but plays well) but fixable.

not sure what they call that colour.. ebcf’s

 

[Engle]

Two days away…

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Nice slab of Bubinga!

 

[WillyW]

Nice slab of Bubinga!

language

 

[Engle]

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.

Wow!

 

[Chrome Dome]

If anyone would be interested I have a Gator hardshell tolex case I was told a Gibson Thunderbird would be a good fit

with all the insert pads to position it in the case. I was looking for a case for one of my basses and it was actually two wide for the body which is 19.5" wide it is in real good condition and clean but has a wood smoke smell. Shipping might be on the high side cause it is real wide. Would be great if someone local was interested PM me if interested. Thanks,CD

 

[dagrev]

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.

We unexpectedly saw one fly over leaving town after the annual airshow before derby. Kind of weird to see one fly. They were not at much altitude yet so it was a great view.

 

[dagrev]

If she starts making special brownies, go slow!

 

[dagrev]

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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Got one on a bass that came with it. Never used it.

 

[BklynKen]

Island of Tinian, at one time the busiest airport in the world. Mostly overgrown now. We drove right down Runway Able.

 

[JJR58]

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

Big fan of the batwings.

 

[BklynKen]

Big fan of the batwings.
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Totally digging the Gotohs.

 

[JJR58]

Totally digging the Gotohs.

 

[Nocturnal]

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

If you are referring to these, you are not alone.

 

[WillyW]

 

[RedVee]

Yes these