Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

Only if you use the correct tone cap on the screws. A flat screw cap, especially if it's countersunk, cuts the tone and chokes it. A dome top screw allows the tone to reform on the other side and enhances the sound.

The wealth of knowledge in this group is astounding.

 

[MCF]

Cool idea, I haven’t tried that yet.
I think I found the article about the impact of screws on a trim ring, here’s a quote…

“Adding flux from an auxiliary screw will break the symmetry of the magnetisation cycle within the string so the results will depend on the local recoil permeability of the string at the various magnetisations produced by the magnet. I am sure that there would be a flattening of the measured peak but it wouldn't really represent the true flux density.
Surely the best result would come from simply increasing the magnitude of the alternating flux. Getting enough Ampere-turns shouldn't be a problem but the trim ring screw would probably have to be replaced by something with a higher saturation flux density. Losses in the core probably wouldn't matter as long as a reasonably sinusoidal flux could be produced. Mechanical vibration of the string might need to be suppressed.”

My head hurts.

Wait until you read the section on flux capacitors.

 

[D.M.N.]

So I gave them the ‘Bird at a recent jam with a guitarist and drummer friend last week - Elsie passed with a flying colors but I must admit that after a couple of hundred bars of the I-IV-V my ADD started to kick in. Mind you we also improv’d some bits of my originals but by the end of it- speaking of the bird- my right hand’s middle finger was sporting a blister. Which brings me to the learning of a new product that the guitarist painted on the fingers of my right hand- he really wanted to keep on jamming!

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One cool thing that came out of it was the noticeable void in the soundscape when I took a finger and Coke (Coca Cola) break-

Isn't that just...super glue?

 

[RedVee]

The white ones were discontinued in about 2019? So don’t have regrets. But get a green one.

Someone here has a white Greco reverse that I like the look of. All white, with black pickups, bridge, tuners and I think pickguard.
I love the high contrast look.

 

[ectoflanger]

Isn't that just...super glue?

Wouldn’t be surprised but the guitarist was a retired surgeon who told me that this formula was used to help seal certain incisions in the skin-

Similar stuff that an Army paratrooper friend used to seal a tear in my right index fingertip incurred by a boat maintenance project we were working on together. He told me that it was what medics used in the field- I can still feel the padding in there-

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have a very minimal start on a Wiki page to cover Tbird mfrs and models: https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/thunderbird-manufacturers-and-models/ . I wanted to capture the Bach info before it escaped again. But there's plenty more to do. Feel free to add to this or compile more info and post it here where someone can add it.

 

[D.M.N.]

I'd also like to note that on the new custom color Epi's, the headstock is solid. On the earlier white it was white and black. On 60s ones it seems like it was a mix. Wonder what determined the difference back then, if there was any rhyme or reason to it. I do think on the Green and Red I'd have liked to see the black to contrast, maybe the silver too, but there's also a charm in the massive colored headstock, suppose it's easier for band members to see on stage right before it hits them in the face.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I’m no electrical engineer, and I don’t know about amp design, but changing the tubes and noise floor will do little to nothing in amp tone from my knowledge:

Nonsense. Tubes can make a huge difference, from frequency response to distortion to dynamics.

 

[TBird1958]

The wealth of knowledge in this group is astounding.

Just keep your Hip Waders nearby

 

[Gaolee]

Isn't that just...super glue?

With a fancy label and a whole lot higher price, no doubt.

 

[D.M.N.]

I have a very minimal start on a Wiki page to cover Tbird mfrs and models: https://www.talkbass.com/wiki/thunderbird-manufacturers-and-models/ . I wanted to capture the Bach info before it escaped again. But there's plenty more to do. Feel free to add to this or compile more info and post it here where someone can add it.

I'll add, it would seem there were some IVs made in batch Series II, exemplified a few (a bunch?) of pages back on that eBay listing for the baby blue IV with a stomach cut.

Maybe it'd be better to note series I and II as 1 and 1.5? Since they seem the same, but with different body construction? Hard to pin all the information down well

 

[Miles_ONeal]

don’t mind wet suits but…..
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I fell hard for the Caribbean. Virgin Islands, ABC islands, sigh...

 

[MCF]

Can you brush up on FL law, international law, anything...and find some way to stop Mike from doing this? He has to be breaking some kind of law somewhere.

He’s from Florida. It’s best to just ignore him when he gets like this.

 

[ectoflanger]

Just keep your Hip Waders nearby

Must admit it’s been a while since I’ve done any hip wading-

 

[BklynKen]

Must admit it’s been a while since I’ve done any hip wading-

I recommend vulcanized rubber for this one.

 

[Engle]

Could they at least get the pup cover on it right?

I know! I would have put the bridge cover a bit further South as well.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Just keep your Hip Waders nearby

I just think there’s a lot of uber smart people in this group….kinda like a kindred spirit club…..we should have a Pimm’s evening at the GTG…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'll add, it would seem there were some IVs made in batch Series II, exemplified a few (a bunch?) of pages back on that eBay listing for the baby blue IV with a stomach cut.

Maybe it'd be better to note series I and II as 1 and 1.5? Since they seem the same, but with different body construction? Hard to pin all the information down well

yeah and wonder if “clear wine red” is the same as “clear red”…

 

[MCF]

Isn't that just...super glue?

It would appear to be. 4ml or .135256 ounces. All for only $14.95.

You know, we haven’t seen @PillO for awhile. And wasn’t he starting a new business?

 

[MCF]

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I only read about a cease and desist somewhere, I don’t recall where. But I think it was the same place I got the 90 figure from. So maybe edit it to put a disclaimer of some type. I don’t want to be credited with something that sounds like a fact based on hearsay.

And Tokai made a fair number of Thunderbirds….