Thunderbird Club

[/\/\3phist0]

The bolt on screws are under the plies, making it seem like a neck-through.
No, that can't be it either. GC descriptions are often worth reading just for the unintended humor.

I was thinking they Bondo filled them .







Nope JK

 

[Ringhammer]

The bolt-on maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard

This must have jumped from a 7ender ad/description.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

This must have jumped from a 7ender ad/description.

Or the E1 TB

 

[MCF]

I’m staring at ZZsounds.
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Could have it next week.

I prefer the blue. I’ve gone back and forth about getting one. I played George’s purple one and liked it well enough. There are reported QC issues with some. Shouldn’t be an issue buying through Zzounds; they have a good return policy and CS.

 

[RedVee]

I'd think of making creative use of them.

Use one on the back for a strap pin. Like the D-Bird / D-Roc

 

[RedVee]

Hah, maybe. But these used to come in every set.

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Coasters!

 

[/\/\3phist0]

I prefer the blue. I’ve gone back and forth about getting one. I played George’s purple one and liked it well enough. There are reported QC issues with some. Shouldn’t be an issue buying through Zzounds; they have a good return policy and CS.

I have a soft spot for Purple: and so does the wife, will ease the transaction.

If they had Turquoise, or a deep cherry sparkle it’d be a done deal.

 

[RedVee]

Latest FedMess...

I chased the dude down the street and showed him the pic and asked, Does that look like the porch to you?
He said there was no place to turn around and asked why I parked at the end of the drive.
I said there are two vehicles in the garage, and that square piece of blacktop across from our drive is called a turnaround. He looked puzzled. I said across from our mail box. It's what people use to turn around. (He knew what I was talking about because he used it to turn around.) Wish I would have asked if he backed down the street since he didn't know there was a way to turnaround and how I choose to use my drive is not his concern. But when acting like he couldn't turn around I said UPS, Amazon and others don't have a problem. Then he said he always delivers to the drive. I said, not at my house. The directions are porch and everyone else does it. He said OK, and I told him I appreciate it. By the way, we have had rain off and on today....
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Now for a Thunderbird.

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Kind of....

His cousins deliver here. Best trick is they walk all the way to the door and leave a card saying they couldn’t deliver and we need to come and pick it up. We are home. They haven’t “ring and knock and tapped” otherwise we would have answered the door.
Next day, pick up the parcel and notice it is marked “if not home please leave by the door”.


That Embassy is gorgeous.

 

[RedVee]

Use one on the back for a strap pin. Like the D-Bird / D-Roc

Oh, I don’t know if you name your bases but if so are you going to call the 60s NR “Bonnie” ?

 

[Stealth57]

His cousins deliver here. Best trick is they walk all the way to the door and leave a card saying they couldn’t deliver and we need to come and pick it up. We are home. They haven’t “ring and knock and tapped” otherwise we would have answered the door.
Next day, pick up the parcel and notice it is marked “if not home please leave by the door”.


That Embassy is gorgeous.

Had a certified letter sent to my house the other day. I was home and all the carrier did was throw a tag in the mail box saying they would try to deliver the next day...it's been 4. I know what it is, so won't waste petrol trying to retrieve it.

 

[Stealth57]

Oh, I don’t know if you name your bases but if so are you going to call the 60s NR “Bonnie” ?

I'd call it the 40B Deluxe. It had more holes than either Bonnie or Clyde.

 

[JJR58]

Taunting is my love language.

 

[Stealth57]

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Taunting or begging?

 

[dagrev]

Oh, I don’t know if you name your bases but if so are you going to call the 60s NR “Bonnie” ?

I do some, and I just might!

 

[dagrev]

The real Thunderbird. Gotta post this. Real? I assume, but who knows these days.

 

[TBird1958]

I doubt it will fit in the Epiphone case - different body shape. I did consider buying the Gator and sending it to the seller for postage but he checked the measurements and said it wouldn't fit.

When I first got the bass the tone was extremely dark, but with some new strings - and some unusual EQ - I'm very pleased. That said, I may still replace them at some point for something with a bit more inherent brightness and zing.

It will fit a Gibson case no problem.

The first thing I would look at is the pots, if they're not 500K with an .047 cap, changing over to this is your first best thing to do. The stock wiring on mine used 250K pots and the bass was underwhelming to say the least, even new Seymour Duncan Custom Shop pickups did very little for it until I changed the pots.
So, look there first, I should have!
I checked the club list, didn't see you on it, let me know, I'd be happy to add you!

 

[MCF]

Make an offer! You'd have to pay tax on the new one, too...

IME, GC won’t cut until it’s been on there awhile. If I were to buy used, it would have to be from a seller I trust, or one I can vette, either in person or by someone I trust. I know, I can ship it to the local and reject it, but the local GC is a joke. Employees there take an IQ test. If they test above 90, they don’t get the job.

 

[MCF]

39 years and she hasn’t left yet!

Congratulations! 41 at the end of June.

 

[Stealth57]

Congratulations! 41 at the end of June.

44 Friday

 

[/\/\3phist0]

I ordered:

Tocos Cosmos 10% 500k LINEAR pots for the volumes, Tocos Cosmos 250k audio for tone.

I have a collection of .022, .047, .052, and .1 caps to try out.

I use TOCOS COSMOS Japanese made pots whenever possible:
Tight (10% tolerance, have a smooth turning resistance that feels really nice, 6mm solid shafts)
Really well made, high performance pots:

Tocos Cosmos Stereo Potentiometers | HIFICollective

Tocos Cosmos Stereo Potentiometers

www.hificollective.co.uk

The barrel jack seems fine at the moment.

Ordered these knobs:

Going to go with “60’s “ tone wiring scheme I’ve used in a jazz bass to good effect in the past.
Key takeaway is that the tone taper is smoother, with less signal loss AND BETTER SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO!!!

Classic '60s Wiring​

As you can see in Image 1 (middle diagram), in this configuration, the tone cap is still connected to the input of the volume pot, but on the tone pot the middle lug is now connected to ground. Electrically, the '60s wiring is completely identical to the modern wiring with the same tone, behavior, and problems. But there is one significant difference: In terms of shielding, the '60s wiring is superior to the modern wiring scheme. When electromagnetic interferences enter a guitar, they will also stray into the tone pot's unused pin and therefore into the middle lug (the wiper) in both wirings.

With the wiper connected to ground, as in the '60s wiring, the interferences will stop at this point. But with the tone cap connected to the middle lug, like in the modern wiring, electromagnetic interferences will find their way through the cap and carry on.
So, compared to the modern wiring, the signal-to-noise ratio in the '60s wiring is superior.

This is technical knowledge from yesteryear: The wiper of a variable resistor is connected to the low resistance part of the circuit. This knowledge was really important when designing and building tube amps, radios, and televisions, but is almost forgotten today.
So why did Gibson switch from the '60s to the modern wiring? My personal theory is that this allowed them to use pre-configured pots for both volume and tone, with the same third lug soldered to the case as the grounding point. I don't know if this is true, but if you know the reason or have another theory, please share it.

*** credit : Mod Garage: Three Ways to Wire a Tone Pot