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A number of us are partial to Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats. Cobalt Rounds will chew up a concrete sidewalk, let alone fingers and frets. Those aren't a great option. The flats are bright and stay bright for a very long time. They sound a lot like properly broken in nickel rounds to my ear.
Anyone use LaBella Flats on their TBirds? How about TI Jazz flats?
Congratulations! Veronica @TBird1958 will fill you in on the particulars. I joined so long ago I don’t recall what all they made me do. It was sort of embarrassing though.
Well……there is some type of bow involved…
I keep hoping someone else will buy it. I have two already.
Especially in heels.
We should just pick a weekend and surprise Marshall with a GTG at his mountain home. If we guess wrong and he's not in, I'm sure the bears will let us in provided we share some snacks with them.
Recently picked up some of the LaBella Low Tension flats, but I haven't put them on anything. I'll offer my thoughts once I have and have played them a little.
Soooo ... let's just say you got a sweet deal and your number will show up shortly!
45-105 are pretty typical. I have used Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats, SIT Power Flat, and TI Flats (red silks - much lower tension) on a JC.
Everyone picks what works for them. I do the three finger kiss salute from The Hunger Games.
Yeah I seem to remember something in the wiki about the risk of carving your guitarist in twain. Luckily it hasn't happened to me yet.
I haven't been keeping up with used prices, but would think $600 for one in great shape would still be a very good buy, if not a little more if it's what you want. White seems to be the more rare if that matters. I got my white one for $570 from Sam Ash (said it was used, but there was zero indication it was ever played), my '17 was $399 but has a common neck crack which is hardly noticeable and affects nothing as the strings keep it closed not opening up. And I put a little glue in there, what I could get anyway. Might look for a side neck shot near the nut.
Not me. Sixteen going on seventeen Thunderbirds and not a one wears flats. And most likely never will. But that’s just me.
What do you mean, "The waveform was the same for all the basses"?
Like a double bass bow??? Sounds dangerous.
Love it! Which flats?
Nope. The type of bow one wears on their derrière.
I use EBCFs on all my birds, though I am probably going to try a pair of Black Nylons on the CP, just because everything is black and white there. And black nylons look sexy.
