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Thunderbird Club

#293,685
SubHuman said:
Yes I have a perfectly good T Bird neck with tuners and TRC.

Wow you do nice work like many here too! Thanks...I was hoping "plug 'n play" Ha!
Thanks for that detailed build info! I'm kicking around some ideas.
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If you want to feel empowered to work on your own bass - it would be a good primer to get involved. It's do-able for a novice, but you'll need a few power-tools to make it happen. A very experienced craftsman using hand tools could pull it off - but that's another level.
 
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#293,689
SubHuman said:
Didn’t know what the song was about. That’s quite the audience call back for a car accident! For some reason videos wouldn’t play?
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It started with kids. We used to (still do?) the Police youth club used to run U18s only, no alcohol discos all around the place, called Blue Light Discos - because of the Police light on top of their patrol cars. (We didn’t adopt blue and red til later).
Anyway little snotty nosed 15yo’s started singing this comeback line. Obv no idea what the song was about, just assumed it was a boyfriend/girlfriend breakup I guess.

Anyway somehow it spread and then got out into the wild and became “a thing”.

Now I wonder if I sang an acoustic version at a nursing home… whether I’d get the No Way call come back. :laugh:

must be Geo locked?

I’ll just try this one.
It’s from a TV show but with live vocals as they muck around a bit. But the lyrics are the same as the recording.
Twisters are a snack, like Cheezels but an extruded cheese snack rather than circles.



The other song I tried was their famous encore song, “you just like me cos I’m good in bed”. Mellencamp took that song into his live shows for a little while. There is/was a YouTube of it but it wasn’t very good.

The Radiators have a song “gimme head”. A mate had that at his (first) wedding as the ‘first dance’ song.
 
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Bond Girl will be playing in a few hrs (7:30 downbeat) at "The Makeout Room" - a groovy SF venue we played a few years ago.

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...at that time Marco was on lead guitar and Paul on horn/melodica, and Steve on drums - I'll guess 6 years ago...
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#293,698
Ringhammer said:
Nope, I don’t actually have any idea where they are, plus it’s enough driving going from San Mateo to Petaluma, (to get my ‘99 Ebony ‘bird that just does NOT want to set up well, PLEK’ed and all, but it’s a good as I guess it’s gonna get. It’ll just be one of my ‘birds with higher than I like action) then back to San Rafael to get my V4BH and 6550 modded ‘73 V2 which both now have new match power tube sets and the best of all of the vintage pre-amp tubes I have installed in them. The back to San Mateo to do a late Friday afternoon service call.

My upcoming setup for use in the Bad Lemon rehearsal space will be to use the V4BH with SVT212AV and the V2 with an SVT 48HE (4x8”) coming out of a ABY snd creatively using two HPF’s set different to each head. Keeping some sub 40hz lows in the V4BH/212, but pulling 50 or 60hz (or more) completely out of the V2/4x8, and otherwise using the amp tone controls to dial in a good mix between the two. I had my tech confirm if the amps were in phase, and they are not, but my ABY box has phase inversion switch on the B out. My tech thinks the better way is to use a speaker cable that is reversed on one end, and using it at one of the amp to speaker connections. This actually seems to me as well to be the best way, but I’ll be trying both.

Hoping this will all be enough as far as power to keep up in our loud room.

Right now I’m using my SVT5Pro (all SS, no tubes at all), into these two cabinets, bi-amped and crossed over, and the spec states I’m getting 340w continuous from amp A and 340w from amp B to each cabinet. I have no idea how much of that I’m actually using to sound good, but I will say, it sounded pretty good as of Thursday night.

I’m only doing this cuz I have all this stuff and want to use it. This rig will never be played out…. Pretty much will alway use the Orange AD200/115/(and sometimes)210 or the Orange TB500 and 2x 112’s for gigs.
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Much love for my two V4-BH Classic heads. I use one twice a week. (One is actually the older Blue line V-4B, which is in my office at hime.) When I heard my first BH I was in love. "That" was the sound I was chasing.
 
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#293,700
JIO said:
Ok, my Teiscobird (2nd from left in post #293633) was made with a mid '60s Teisco Del Rey short-scale mahogany body, like the brown one next to it. The other four I made from scratch so all cavities & neck pockets were routed specifically for the 34" Epi T-bird necks.

I traced the neck heal (which actually is curved with a squared-off fb ramp) and did whatever I needed to do to the body neck-pocket to get it to fit. It appears I curved the lower wall and had to add (Bondo) on the G-side wall. I highly recommend a laser to get the neck positioned straight - center of nut to center of bridge, straight across all position markers. Because it was a short-scale bass, I positioned the bridge where I needed it, which was lower than where it was originally.

Shown in this pic is a trick I developed to find where to drill neck-screw holes on an already drilled neck heal; four same-size (as the holes) nails cut so they just stick out of the holes, and pressed against the neck pocket once aligned correctly. (with your laser) The nail peaks/points indent the wood and you then know where to drill your holes. Attaching a neck to a body is the most critical part of modding - it's gotta be spot-on. Another tip is making the body holes just a bit larger than your screws/bolts. This is for 'fudge-room' - which doesn't need to be much. (tilting the neck one way or the other side-to-side to align)

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I used recessed ferrules and wood-screws. I've also sunk steel mollies into the neck heal and used machine bolts for a dynamic neck-body coupling. The tighter the connection - the better the neck & body become one and it will resonate/sound better. There's a lot of conjecture about neck-thru or set-neck being superior to a bolt-on - but if a bolt-on is done correctly, they are all going to have a very similar unified resonance. And... a bolt-on can be repaired much more economically and efficiently. At least for Leo Fender in the late '40s - that was a top priority as he was getting direct feedback from professional guitarists (and later bass-players) and they needed to get their axes up and running ASAP if they had an issue that would have prevented them from playing a paying gig.
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The original ss bridge was just under the B-pu - the 34" scale bridge positioning as you can see is much lower on the body.
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Where the ss bridge was is where I located the Guild RI Darkstar pu -
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I later shifted the control knobs away from where I end up playing which unintentionally lead to turning the V control down mid-song live.
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A still playing it from our vid for our "Tiny Desk - 2024" entry -
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I really like that finish.
 
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