Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

It's a bit funky, but not terrible... it's... artistic...

I say blur the others a bit more and sharpen the image of the blond. Can JM be photoshopped out?

 

[JJR58]

talk about “cheaping out” on new promo stuff….
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Hire me, and I’ll do it at no charge.

 

[JJR58]

I’ve been in meetings. Now I have to work. So I’ll plug it in tonight. The strings are crusty old rounds with red silks at the headstock end. Bare tail ends with gold ends. I’m thinking maybe nickel Boomers.

Possibly Rotos?

 

[Gaolee]

Finally a bass that would make my playing sound better.

They have been trying to sell that forever. Who would buy a cardboard cutout like that for the same price you could get a decent Bicentennial?

 

[TBird1958]

talk about “cheaping out” on new promo stuff….
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I like it better than our current group shot, and you're smiling!
She's better looking than JM, can you give him the (pink) slip?

 

[Nocturnal]

It arrived!

The shop, J&M Guitar in Phoenix, dropped it at UPS at 4:00 Tuesday. Made it to my door in Bako today at 11:45. Not complaints at all.

It was nicely packed.
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It’s in good shape. Better than what was disclosed in the description. More on all that this weekend.
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The mystery pickup. Can anyone identify it? The label was removed.
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It doesn’t look like it was Andy’s.
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I haven’t been able plug it in. I’m sitting in a work meeting so it’ll have to wait until tonight.

Looks like a guitar pickup inserted into a bass cover, which I think Andy mentioned something about IIRC.

That's my old bass, 1000000%. Gibson humbucker-sized TB-Plus held in the chrome cover by a dab of silicone on each side of the pickup. I don't believe there was ever any routing done to the pickup cavity.

I know it has gone to a good home, but I wish he would have asked me if I wanted it before he got rid of it. Enjoy it Marshall!! I thought it was a good player.

 

[MCF]

"Could've been an email," am I right?

It was supposed to be meet the new head of CA Legal Services. I should have gone in person. But it was in Glendale. Would’ve taken 31/2 hours to get home because of afternoon traffic out of L.A. Glad I didn’t go. Who plans a meeting for 2:00 PM?

 

[Engle]

It arrived!

The shop, J&M Guitar in Phoenix, dropped it at UPS at 4:00 Tuesday. Made it to my door in Bako today at 11:45. Not complaints at all.

It was nicely packed.
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It’s in good shape. Better than what was disclosed in the description. More on all that this weekend.
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The mystery pickup. Can anyone identify it? The label was removed.
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It doesn’t look like it was Andy’s.
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I haven’t been able plug it in. I’m sitting in a work meeting so it’ll have to wait until tonight.

Congrats! Looks pretty nice!

 

[MCF]

Possibly Rotos?

Possibly as well. But don’t Rotos have silks at the tail? Or at least used to?

 

[MCF]

Congrats! Looks pretty nice!

Thanks Irv.

 

[GonePlaid]

What’s really sick is I can’t decide which one of the “What If” birds I like best.

Is it the first “What If” that Gibson would never build, a semi hollow body Tbird VI in figured wood with full gold trim - The BlingBird…
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Or is it the second “What If” that Epiphone hasn’t built yet, a 1966 NR Tribute using all Eppi parts - The Sweet 66
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Or is it the third “What If” that Fender would never build, a full on Fender shot over Gibsons NR bow - The ThunderCaster
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Love all three, but the BlingBird and ThunderCaster are really hitting it out of the park right now. I’ll need to do some fine tuning on the cap selection for the Sweet 66 to get it to the same level of performance as the other two.

And now that I’ve tasted the goodness of the Jack Casady pickups I’m getting this burning desire to do another semi hollow body reverse with F holes and a set of Electar (or maybe Alembic) pickups for the hollow body Jack should have had all along.

Sweet 66 for me.

 

[JJR58]

Possibly as well. But don’t Rotos have silks at the tail? Or at least used to?

Can’t say for sure.

 

[GonePlaid]

Going to LA ... via Omaha.

Prolly 'uneasy'.

 

[spiritbass]

Test

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You are embodying the soul of rock and roll.

 

[JIO]

Going to LA ... via Omaha.

Omaha!

 

[JIO]

I say blur the others a bit more and sharpen the image of the blond. Can JM be photoshopped out?

He stole the "Kilroy Was Here" concept from Dave...

 

[BklynKen]

You are embodying the soul of rock and roll.

You should actually hear them. Fantastic band.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

It definitely looks like a guitar pickup. But it looks to be a different cap in a different position. So who knows.

The tone knob was missing the silver insert. So I replaced the knobs with the remaining two silver ones I got from @Ringhammer (the other two I got are on my other BaCH).
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Well, boring meeting ended. At least I had something to do (with cam off) while some VP droned on about nothing important.

“My other Bach is a Bach.”

 

[Miles_ONeal]

They have been trying to sell that forever. Who would buy a cardboard cutout like that for the same price you could get a decent Bicentennial?

An Aerosmith fan with too much money? Apparently not.

 

[GonePlaid]

It was supposed to be meet the new head of CA Legal Services. I should have gone in person. But it was in Glendale. Would’ve taken 31/2 hours to get home because of afternoon traffic out of L.A. Glad I didn’t go. Who plans a meeting for 2:00 PM?

People who don't hafta drive in it.