Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

For you refin types. What wood am I dealing with and what is the recommended progression of sanding? This is the 92 Peavey Foundation. The heat gun worked well but in some areas it looks like they had a gloss undercoat on the black poly.

 

[PillO]

Canadian Invasion

Imp and Melon

 

[Stealth57]

Hoser Inhabitation?

Ah, a good hockey trivia lead in to the term hoser.

 

[Ringhammer]

I get grief for being a Neil fan. But I’m really excited about this release so I can’t resist telling about it.
Neil Young

Somewhat related, my heavy band, Red Sun Ruins, is talking of adding “Ohio” by CSN&Y to our short list of covers. 3 of 4 of us sing (not me), and we have found that they all have rather complimentary voices to each other, so this will be a fun and interesting challenge for them. We already have a couple originals where each of the three guys has parts to sing…

 

[D.M.N.]

refinned 65(4?) someone in the club posted and I snagged about a week ago….is your brother interested in that white BaCH?
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Very nice! And, ha, no, it's me.

 

[PillO]

Somewhat related, my heavy band, Red Sun Ruins, is talking of adding “Ohio” by CSN&Y to our short list of covers. 3 of 4 of us sing (not me), and we have found that they all have rather complimentary voices to each other, so this will be a fun and interesting challenge for them. We already have a couple originals where each of the three guys has parts to sing…

I rather like punk re-imagining of classic songs. Such as:
Disturbed doing Land of Confusion,
D.O.A. doing We Gotta Get Out of This Place,
Black Flag doing Louie Louie,
M.O.D. doing Surfin' USA, and

Stepping Stone as done by just about everyone

 

[Camaro69]

Nut? Hog?

For you refin types. What wood am I dealing with and what is the recommended progression of sanding? This is the 92 Peavey Foundation. The heat gun worked well but in some areas it looks like they had a gloss undercoat on the black poly.

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[Camaro69]

Ah, a good hockey trivia lead in to the term hoser.

Eh

 

[Stealth57]

Nut? Hog?

No entiendo.

 

[Camaro69]

Walnut? Maybe maHOGany

 

[Gaolee]

For you refin types. What wood am I dealing with and what is the recommended progression of sanding? This is the 92 Peavey Foundation. The heat gun worked well but in some areas it looks like they had a gloss undercoat on the black poly.

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It doesn't look like mahogany, not even luan mahogany. I'm going to guess that it's something like alder, or maybe an Asian wood that I don't know much about. As heavy as a Peavy is, it could be maple. I would expect western bigleaf maple, not eastern rock maple.

Sanding? It depends on what you want to do with it. If you are going to put a clear coat of some kind, like tung oil, then start with 100 just to get any bumps smoothed out, then head for 200. I would use 0000 steel wool on darker wood, but that color might show the bits of steel wool. Raise the grain by dampening it and letting it dry. Then polish it off with fine steel wool or fine scotchbrite pads. Then work in the oil with a scotchbrite pad. That's how I typically finish furniture. It's really time consuming, but the result glows. It doesn't have to be as flat as if you are using a non-penetrating coating.

If you are going to paint it, then the usual undercoat routine and block standing once it's got paint on it. By paint, I mean a non-penetrating finish. It could be clear.

 

[MCF]

Somewhat related, my heavy band, Red Sun Ruins, is talking of adding “Ohio” by CSN&Y to our short list of covers. 3 of 4 of us sing (not me), and we have found that they all have rather complimentary voices to each other, so this will be a fun and interesting challenge for them. We already have a couple originals where each of the three guys has parts to sing…

I am anxious to hear it.

 

[PhR75]

What's the signal chain there? Love all the clips you post, tone is so meaty and articulate. It was your demos that sold me on the Suncoast HD-1, which I now have as an always on. Kinda want to get another, and frankenstein them into a single case so I can use a single footswitch to flip between the Boost and OD.

Thanks! The signal went through Boss Line Selector that has a Broughton Filter in one loop (high pass on 40hz and low pass on somewhere but usually below 1,5 k) and a Digitech Tone Driver Overdrive in the other loop. It has gain on minimum and the "morph" pot usually somewhere in 2 or 3 o'clock area (so it's kind of emulating one or the other Tube Screamer models). Tonedriver is always on and gives a little bit of grind and if I want it to go to the more overdriven territory I switch a DOD Bi-Fet Preamp on which drives the Tonedriver and with its tone knob I can add more treble or make it sound like the bass has a mudbucker. Not sure if it was on when I made the clip.
The Line Selector mixes the clean and overdriven signals together and that goes through whatever delay and chorus/flanger pedals I have in the board and also through the always on DOD Milk Box compressor and another Bi-Fet Preamp and finally through the NUX Solid Studio IR box. I usually use a Dr. Bonkers' Gallien Krueger 4x10" cab simulator when playing live and it was used for those clips too. I have also several Acoustic 301 and Hiwatt 4x12" cabs loaded in, also from Bonkers.

I usually post this clips among other things to my Instagram page and you (and everyone) are welcome to follow me there.
https://www.instagram.com/o_man_2023?igsh=MXFyeGpkejBvc3k1

 

[MCF]

For you refin types. What wood am I dealing with and what is the recommended progression of sanding? This is the 92 Peavey Foundation. The heat gun worked well but in some areas it looks like they had a gloss undercoat on the black poly.

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I believe it is likely Maple. The painted basses were usually that. I believe the natural finished ones were good ‘ol southern ash.

 

[MCF]

He is on the cutting edge. He was doing grunge 25 years before anyone in the pacific northwest figured it out...

Hence the flannel shirts.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

No cross-country for old men.

#notalloldmen

 

[Miles_ONeal]

It’s only been a couple days or so hasn’t it?

Hours.

 

[PillO]

Hence the flannel shirts.

And the first to pull his music from Spotify (although the last to put it back).

 

[PillO]

No entiendo.

No bacon

 

[Stealth57]

It doesn't look like mahogany, not even luan mahogany. I'm going to guess that it's something like alder, or maybe an Asian wood that I don't know much about. As heavy as a Peavy is, it could be maple. I would expect western bigleaf maple, not eastern rock maple.

Sanding? It depends on what you want to do with it. If you are going to put a clear coat of some kind, like tung oil, then start with 100 just to get any bumps smoothed out, then head for 200. I would use 0000 steel wool on darker wood, but that color might show the bits of steel wool. Raise the grain by dampening it and letting it dry. Then polish it off with fine steel wool or fine scotchbrite pads. Then work in the oil with a scotchbrite pad. That's how I typically finish furniture. It's really time consuming, but the result glows. It doesn't have to be as flat as if you are using a non-penetrating coating.

If you are going to paint it, then the usual undercoat routine and block standing once it's got paint on it. By paint, I mean a non-penetrating finish. It could be clear.

If it all sands nicely, I was going to go Au natural. My painting skills leave a lot to be desired, but I can handle doing a natural finish.