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Thunderbird Club
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Don’t catch their disease!
they mail it everytime, 7 bucks gets you salad, main course and desert…..10 bucks when they do prime rib…can’t beat..
That was the first production car with seatbelts as standard equipment. Unfortunately, they were only shoulder belts. They hadn’t figured out that lap belts worked better. Nobody wore them anyway.
My guitar player in Bad Lemon has his art on display at 111 Minna gallery in SF. Went to the opening tonight.
Any locals find themselves in the city in the next few weeks, drop by and have a look.
Any locals find themselves in the city in the next few weeks, drop by and have a look.
I can’t take the credit for the black Tele pickguard, it came that way from the factory. The Tbird pickguard below it (brown paper template) is the one I designed to look familiar to Gibson NR owners but still pay honors to the Tele donor bass that provided all the parts for this Tbird NR build. Hence the added point near the knobs and the deep set wrap around neck pocket vs the heel kiss that Gibson uses on their NR builds. Don't get me wrong, I love the Gibby design, but the objective of this build was to create a bass that Fender would have built if it could get away with building a Tbird.
Almost bought one of those new when they first came out, fantastic sounding bass. That jazz bucker in the bridge position pretty much sealed the deal for me. Never been fond of single coil Jazz pups in the bridge position. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) a used Spector Rex 5 pro caught my eye, and the rest is thunderbird history.
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oh, so that was your first Bird?
Precision Deluxe.
They’ve changed through the years.
@Chucky Stiletti , what year is yours? I had the same one around 2002. I think that’s around when that model was released.
Gotcha. Sounds like the predecessor to my Ultra Precision. Had two of them off dumb luck and traded the second one away for a Sandberg 48 5 string. That was my first bird. Then along came the Lull
Careful letting them touch - they will multiply!!
it should be particle board.
Just look for water damage, if they sit in water the particles separate.
that one looks fine and in great condition
My cousin had a nice '64 Beetle. Sucker might go 70 down a long steep hill. Depending on how much beer was left as additional weight.
I s'pose. The 62 Chevy I traded for it had a 327/250. A little bigger-and thirstier.
We're back at the PSL Legion on the 26th. It's our only 4 hour gig. All the rest-including tonight's Elks Club gig-are 3 hours.
Yes, I bought it somewhere between 2005 and 2010. Was graciously invited to join the club here around 2015 and been buying birds of every flavor since.
Up to 19 now with no two a like, there’s lots of different tone flavors out there in the Tbird world - P/J’s, Sidewinders, Grecos, Dingwalls, Single coils, humbuckers from China and Epiphone and Gibson and Bartolini and EMG and Fender, active/passive, coil splitting, series and parallel wiring, and the list goes on and on. With every purchase I try to find the one that will not be a complete sound duplicate of something I already have.
I loved the sound of that silver burst! Can’t wait until my “Royal Olive Green” custom shop arrives next week. If it sounds anything like your silver burst I’ll be beside myself.
