Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

My excuse is "busy." I'm playing too much. I clean the frets and fretboard every 2-3 times I change strings. It's the back of the neck that I find requires the most frequent cleaning.

Indeed. More on some basses than others it seems.

 

[Engle]

Cut a new vintage/aged-pearl pg for my Bass IV - took it to BG rehearsal tonight... sounded awesome! Debating whether to bring it on Saturday for the Golden Gate Park Bandshell gig...

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Nice work!

 

[SubHuman]

Same here - and I still have a very serviceable (meat & potatoes) audio system that produces a favorable music delivery to the space it's in. Regardless of my "components" I still am hearing them through my JBL Decade speakers - bought new in '76. re-coned in the late '90s by A. Brown Sound in San Rafael, CA who worked on the Grateful Dead's speakers. (they offered 'hemp' speaker cones) I have known high-end audiophiles in the past - nowhere near that level... and luckily so.

Yes audiophiles make collecting guitars look affordable! They can drop some money!

 

[GonePlaid]

No, you forgot the Parasitic oscillator. It's little and often overlooked. But leave that out and you have serious problems. Assuming you survive.

What about the Turbo Encabulator?
turbo encabulator - Google Search

 

[TBird1958]

That has Glam Rock written all over it! I really like it.
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[SubHuman]

That is a beauty!

 

[JIO]

Nice work!

Thanks - I went one-off instead of cutting a wood template. Both tacts are time consuming but I don't plan on making another.

 

[JIO]

It's a good purple.

 

[Gaolee]

Cool. My brother may move his over. It has been in their bedroom since they moved in around 2000. It’s a dark Burgandy. He plays guitar mostly now. I may hit you up for info if that happens and he’s up for the change.

Because we don't do search, here's the information now, and when it's time, ask again.

Blue Vintage Sparkle on Drums - Jammin Sam

I put it on an early '70s Reuther stencil kit that has thin luan shells, probably made by Pearl. The kit I put it on originally had a ratty silver wrap. It's a kit with concert toms. The blue is nearly a perfect match for another Reuther stencil kit from maybe a little earlier that still has its original wrap and has bottom heads on the toms. I don't have the space to set them both up as a monster kit, but that sure would be fun to do.

 

[Gaolee]

While I would prefer a proper metalflake, those seem to be rare in the stringed instrument world. Sparkle is far more common.

Drum kit sparkle is far closer to metal flake than the Zzounds Epiphone sparkle. If they hadn't called it sparkle, I would have called it metal flake.

 

[Gaolee]

If the Thunderbird becomes available in the blue that apparently is now a Firebird color, my ‘17 Ebony first gen VP is toast.

I was going to refinish my VP. It went to a good home where it will be loved a lot more, so that's good. Other bass guitars will get colors.

 

[Gaolee]

well poopie, if I hadn’t gotten my KB-1 and EB4 and loved them so much I’d probably get both…. Thems nice.

I'm pretty sure the 2013 EB is going to be the next color change victim. I have been playing it a lot lately.

 

[dagrev]

What about the Turbo Encabulator?
turbo encabulator - Google Search

Cheap and modern work around for the vintage Parasitic oscillator.

 

[dagrev]

WW

 

[Gaolee]

That is a beauty!

Nice bass, too.

 

[WillyW]

That is a beauty!

and I think there is a bass in the picture....

 

[DJ Bebop]

 

[TBird1958]

At a seemingly innocent garage in Hollister, CA...........

 

[dagrev]

At a seemingly innocent garage in Hollister, CA...........

Coast to coast Thunderbirdism sweeps the nation.
Tomorrow the world!
Day after that...who knows....

 

[GBassNorth]

Had a great flight home from Phoenix to LA during sunset yesterday, a pic looking out my window somewhere over Arizona…