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Thunderbird Club
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Sounds kinky.I will have a gig bag designed to fit a '64 Epi and some nice wooden bass shaped salad tongs.
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
I have an old live pic like those!
Same gig, in focus sans hat - late '90s playing my J-Factor, FCS/Kubicki body w/redefined hs AllParts Fender Authorized neck w/Hipshot Drop-D/Seymour Duncan soap-bars & passive preamp and custom removable insert platform for a standard bridge. There's a pic of it on The Kubicki Factor fb page.
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FWIW, my daughter and her Jet Blue roommate and coworkers are not old. They’re very pleasant young women and men. Unless you’re on the Florida/Boston flights. They get really grumpy with the clientele on those runs. And deservedly so. They have horrible stories about the Karens and (sorry Ken) Kens they have to babysit.
It’s a wonderful bass. I would like to have it. But I’ll take my ‘15 over it. And pretty much most anything else for that matter.I might get banned for saying this, but I think my 2013EB 5 string sounds better than my 2015 Tbird.
And that’s in spite of the tone being sucked out by the tort pickguard.
I will have a gig bag designed to fit a '64 Epi and some nice wooden bass shaped salad tongs.
I want the salad tongs!
You’re rockin’ The Beach Boys look! Cool!
Fine. So long as he brings his homebrew.
To me, the DeCola in humbucking mode sounds close in tone to the Reissues in the ‘21 NR. YMMV.
Teak would be cool..
I think George asked about documenting the VP to 64 changes.
Step 1 was routing the bridge pickup cavity 3/8” closer to be the neck pickup.
Step 2 will be begging Irv to make a spacer that is 1/2” wider top and 1/2” wider at the bottom.
Step 3 will be cutting a block to fill the extra 3/8” space at the lower end of the bridge pickup cavity. I just need to work around the wiring hole that’s at the bottom corner.
Step 1 was routing the bridge pickup cavity 3/8” closer to be the neck pickup.
Step 2 will be begging Irv to make a spacer that is 1/2” wider top and 1/2” wider at the bottom.
Step 3 will be cutting a block to fill the extra 3/8” space at the lower end of the bridge pickup cavity. I just need to work around the wiring hole that’s at the bottom corner.
I believe Geo suggested for the best cosmetics, take out and replace the whole mid section from where the slice won’t be seen all the way down to the bottom. Otherwise the block will likely eventually show through.
It won’t show if Irv builds a spacer bigger than the hole.
aww crap I’ll just throw em the trash then….
- Jun 30, 2010
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If the center piece is an actual neck-thru - the best way to seamlessly address changes there is to rout the raised section top-to-bottom to the same level as the wings, glue down a piece of mahogany of the same dimensions to replace it, and do pu rout's to Gen 1 specs. Same with the two piece bridge/tail-piece/string-stop. As you say, a filled/patched rout no matter how good a job will eventually ghost through.
With a bolt-on Epi - the raised section is added from the factory, and could be lifted off using heat (cloths iron to soften the glue) and a thin spackling knife.
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There is that.OK, but remember: they're 99 proof.
After a few, I reckon you don't really care what it tastes like.
After many, you don't..... Well, likely several things are possibilities at that point and beyond.
What did you do with Willy? There's no feet. What have you done to him besides stealing his hat, shirt and Corvette?
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