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Thunderbird Club
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I have ordered it two times over the years. The first was apparently the original, the second sounds like the "new" version, but it was likely 3yrs or more. GHS used to carry a version. It was from Jimmy Johnson, but had their name on it.
I liked it for a quick go over the frets and fretboard separately with the original moist cloth. I couldn't get past feeling like I would be wiping all the black junk off the frets and into the fretboard, so I did them independently. The Nomad fret polish Marshall mentioned is really good, albeit a slightly more involved.
For quick conditioning of the FB, I used Ernie Ball Wonder Wipes. No need to remove the strings as it doesn't hurt them, and its easy enough to move them around. Easy way to condition the FB if you don't need or want to take the strings off. Willy uses mineral oil (baby oil) on FBs, and that's all I want to know about Willy and Baby Oil.....
I finally used up my Dunlop lemon oil bottle I've had for YEARS and just recently bought a bottle of that F1 oil after somebody (probably Marshall) was talking about it on here. I don't think I've ever polished any of my frets. Hmmm, maybe on my next go round.
I'd be down, but not 6500 down
I'm about to pick some if that up next because my Howard's Feed is about out finally.
I could polish all my frets at once in a rock tumbler.
I would go with "FORD" just to mess with people and cause the Corvette aficionados to wet their pants.
At $2500 I’d consider it, but at the asking price of nearly $6500 it’s a hard pass.
That makes sense. Then there is the "don't use anything with citric acid as it actually dries out the wood" group. It makes it confusing because that also makes some sense. Possibly other components in such a mix make up or mitigate the drying. Assuming it's even that much of a problem.
I will say it seems the EB Wonder Wipes do get absorbed, at least to some extent from watching how it dissipates. Some places stay damp longer than others. I don't discount it might just be a perception.
More wisdom there than you may have intended. Or maybe not. You've been on earth a while and experienced many things. Expectations (in a more defined sense) are a major source of disappointment and even depression (and not getting out of depression). It's fine and normal to hope for a thing (knowing it may or may not happen), but if we expect to get, have, etc, a thing, we set ourselves up for real problems because it may or may not happen. Then we are more disappointed than necessary because we were sure (expected) we would get, have a thing. One can even expect a friend to help them and from past experience it seems logical to expect it, but they may not. Thus hoping they will help can lessen some problems, especially if we have high or worse, unrealistic expectations.Have low expectations and you'll rarely be disappointed.
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My experience as well.It is an often mentioned downside to active basses (batteries dying) - but the truth of the matter is I have active basses where the battery lasts for years. The key is unplugging when not playing which disconnects the circuit. At that point it's just battery storage. At a rehearsal, jam session or gig : turn down volume, set the bass down - unplug. Man that was hard!If I use an active bass live - I replace the battery with a fresh one before I leave, and I have a new back-up battery close at hand. Never had one fail mid-gig so far though.
I used to change them every year, but it was pointless. Then I started using the batteries from the smoke detectors which get changed every year. There is likely 75% of life left in them.
G&L bonus: You can play them in passive if the battery dies or even falls out. Genius! Thank you Leo.
I've not tried that F1 that Marshall talks about either, but intend to get some.
Cleaning and polishing frets can make them look fantastic. Depending on the composition. Some will just be a nicer shade of dull. But when they look shiny, it makes me play better.
Not really. I haven't found that secret yet.
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As someone who has removed the TB+ pickups in all of my ‘95-‘03 ‘birds, I can see this being something I’d like to have, at least for the bridge pickup. I currently use P90 pickup screws that I got from Philadelphia Luthier, which also have the advantage of having a small screw head that is smooth, so my fingers don’t get torn up while playing, since I frequently anchor my thumb on the edge f the bridge pickup. However, on a couple of them, the screws at just barely long enough and I feel like one day the screw holes in the wood will not grip the short length of screw that is actually in the wood.
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