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Thunderbird Club

#307,922
Stealth57 said:
All the pedal board posts made me jealous, so I picked up a cheap, aluminum board. Now I feel better :cool:

I still have to mount the power under but that will require some thought and drilling for the cables

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My pedal board. (There is the Sonic Stomp, but it's just part of the amp and is always on.)
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The Burmese church uses the space after us and moves things around so keeping things tidy is a waste of time.
 
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#307,924
Stealth57 said:
No one posted the spacing for a 2012.
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It is hard to pin down exact “years.” Many were manufactured ahead of the year they were marketed for and intended to be sold in. For example, the limited run reissue NRs of more than ten years ago were mostly built in ‘12 for the 2013 model year. As time has marched on, many that were referred to as the 2013 reissues have become “12’s” because the serial shows that as the year of production.
 
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#307,926
D.M.N. said:
That's the same on mine, the tiny little screws of fairly soft metal, after a couple height adjustments they are absolute deli slicers for my fingers.

Now these I'll have to look into. Hard to tell from the photos on PL, but are they flat tops or domed? I just want to avoid domed for the most part. Still condering how difficult it would be to modify the Epi VP pickups to have a countersink, could probably do it with a punch but I'd be concerned about damaging the chrome plating.
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They are neither flat top or domed/round, they’re small and somewhat in between:

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They are just barely big enough, but most of my ‘birds have the spring foams under the pickups and there is quite a bit of tension under the pickups, but the screws have all held without pulling through the holes.

I don’t think the ones pictured will work with a VP, I think the holes on the 760’s are a little bigger. But, I think I found some different P90 screws that were a touch bigger and the threads don’t go all the way to the head.
 
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#307,931
MCF said:
I think from the Internet, those are somehow affiliated with Tokai? They certainly aren’t licensed. But can maybe get away with it in OZ?

Other than BaCHs, I’m not much of a fan of unlicensed copies. And BaChs are unique in that Gibson made no sign of reissuing any NRs when the demand was there, albeit small, but vocal.
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fact that Gibson told BaCH to stop producing NRs makes them even more desirable...
 
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MCF said:
I think from the Internet, those are somehow affiliated with Tokai? They certainly aren’t licensed. But can maybe get away with it in OZ?

Other than BaCHs, I’m not much of a fan of unlicensed copies. And BaChs are unique in that Gibson made no sign of reissuing any NRs when the demand was there, albeit small, but vocal.
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The Tokai Legacy series had both names on the basses.
 
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dagrev said:
There is a slight downside to the people here. They have zero issues in assisting spending your money on more Thunderbirds. I've fallen for their tricks several times. Be careful, they are experts. ;)
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I only need one bass. They talked me into two. Then three. Four. Five. I was close to selling one when someone conned me into getting a pair of my holy grail list pickups for it; now it’s a main player again.
 
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#307,940
dagrev said:
My pedal board. (There is the Sonic Stomp, but it's just part of the amp and is always on.)
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The Burmese church uses the space after us and moves things around so keeping things tidy is a waste of time.
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If I had more room under the riser by the PSU, my Sonic Stomp would live there because it’s always on too.
 
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