Thunderbird Club

[Rickplaysbass]

Not sure where you stand on vegetarian Indian but this is close to Fuller's.

Govinda's Vegetarian Cuisine – Good Food | Good Friends (govindashou.com)

I grabbed some take out from one of my favorite Chinese places. Hunan Inn by Bunker Hill and 10

 

[dagrev]

Hmmm. I don't see the need for a fancy tuner. Put strings on, and tune. Then never tune again until you change strings. And since strings last effectively forever, np need to tune again!

That's just plane wrong. Only works if you are using SIT (Stay In Tune) strings.
The crazy things one can find on the interwebs. Nothing is sacred these days.

 

[dagrev]

For your drooling pleasure.

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That's not right. You should have to sit in the Sin Bin for a while for that.

 

[Stealth57]

That's not right. You should have to sit in the Sin Bin for a while for that.

 

[Gaolee]

used to play with a guitarist that hung a Claymore mine under his rear license plate…

How well did that go in the long run?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Jeez, I sure look like one of my uncles in that pic!

eins! zwei! Hasselhoff!

 

[Stealth57]

eins! zwei! Hasselhoff!

 

[WillyW]

 

[GBassNorth]

Me too! Are those Fender pickups similar to Gibson Mudbuckers?

Unfortunately I've never played through a vintage Gibby Mudbucker pickup. But I will say these walk all over modern Gibby mudbuckers and will completely bury any Tbird pickup I have (including my Grecos) in a wall of massive deep thick but still defined sound. Marshall got a chance to strum a few notes on it before it was disassembled, I think he was taken back by the wall of sound it put out.

It's a totally different sound than the Thunderbird, much more bottom end on the neck pup, every bit as much top end detail as a bird on the bridge pickup, but the volume levels these things are capable of are insane. Easily my favorite Fender pup offering. If you can get your hands on a set of Fender Wide Range bass humbuckers (not sure if Squire is the same or different) just grab them at any price. Fender only made the Telecaster modern player bass they came in for two years (2012-13). I've never seen the pickups for sale anywhere, so I ended up buying an entire 2012 bass and will be using nearly every part of it (except the body and pickguard) to build my NonReverse ThunderCaster.

If I can make it to the GTG I'll bring it with me (assuming I get it back from the painter in time).

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

For your drooling pleasure.

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thought you needed membership to post non TBird related material…..

 

[JJR58]

thought you needed membership to post non TBird related material…..

 

[WillyW]

 

[Engle]

Unfortunately I've never played through a vintage Gibby Mudbucker pickup. But I will say these walk all over modern Gibby mudbuckers and will completely bury any Tbird pickup I have (including my Grecos) in a wall of massive deep thick but still defined sound. Marshall got a chance to strum a few notes on it before it was disassembled, I think he was taken back by the wall of sound it put out.

It's a totally different sound than the Thunderbird, much more bottom end on the neck pup, every bit as much top end detail as a bird on the bridge pickup, but the volume levels these things are capable of are insane. Easily my favorite Fender pup offering. If you can get your hands on a set of Fender Wide Range bass humbuckers (not sure if Squire is the same or different) just grab them at any price. Fender only made the Telecaster modern player bass they came in for two years (2012-13). I've never seen the pickups for sale anywhere, so I ended up buying an entire 2012 bass and will be using nearly every part of it (except the body and pickguard) to build my NonReverse ThunderCaster.

If I can make it to the GTG I'll bring it with me (assuming I get it back from the painter in time).

Cool! I have a 60's Mudbucker and an Artec copy and I have had thoughts of putting both in one bass. The Artec has wider string spacing, so it would work out.

 

[Stealth57]

thought you needed membership to post non TBird related material…..

V, can I get a ruling on that?

 

[MCF]

EB in gold for a low-ish price these days. As long as we are enabling around here. Cheaper than a '64 'Bird.

https://reverb.com/item/81903519-gibson-eb-bass-2014-bullion-gold-120th-anniversary

IIRC, that's about what it was when new.

 

[GonePlaid]

Cool! I have a 60's Mudbucker and an Artec copy and I have had thoughts of putting both in one bass. The Artec has wider string spacing, so it would work out.

I have less than $200 invested in my '09 Epi EB-0 backup bass. I'd love to put a 60s Mudbucker* in it, but it would likely cost more than the bass itself. And for a backup? Nope.

*or copy-I ain't a purist

 

[Miles_ONeal]

That's the ProVibe Pro Max.

The cats just got a shipment of those and are no longer bored during down time...

 

[MCF]

Oh, how I wish- but until that first set of strings stretches…

Back in the day it was an A 440 tuning fork for guitar and mentally transposed to 220 for bass at the fifth fret.

I still have a pair of them for home and travel-

I still tune my Aria acoustic with a tuning fork. Old habits die hard.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

TT…..

 

[JJR58]

TT…..
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Yo! Tell it!