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Thunderbird Club

#328,961
ectoflanger said:
YouTube user and luthier Dave’s Fun World of Stuff has featured it on his channel mostly with success-



Check out Warped Neck’s testimonials link- though they don’t claim a 100 percent success rate, a number of customers were pleased-
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Love the crazy Canuck! Even if he doesn’t like Thunderbirds. The episode where he takes a grinder to a three point is classic.
 
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#328,963
dagrev said:
The most problematic cars I've had were "low mileage." Things are meant to be used.

I don't know, but something as simple as some Gumout might work if you can get it everywhere is need to be. And might not....
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Hit it with liberal anounts of Brakleen and got the linkage to turn but found that I need to remove that other plate held down with a 5/16 hexhead screw then move it again as in this short clip-

 
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#328,965
ectoflanger said:
Understandable- I’m hoping that it will work with a neck that’s not so much twisted but a bit too bowed-
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Thing was a mess, although it was OK cosmetically. I gave 125 2015 dollars to a Fresno pawn for it, more to use as a learning tool than anything else. Got it to be an acceptable enough player, but couldn’t get the action low enough for me. Basically got it to 7ender spec though, and gave it to the music department at a high school down the street from my second residence that I had in Sacto back then.
 
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#328,968
Engle said:
Wood is not entirely predictable and sometimes necks are going to warp or not move the way you want them to.
The concept of Fender instruments included a removable neck could be replaced much more easily than the set neck on a Gibson.
You are using that feature.
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Indeed. Excellent real world observation and application.
While set and neck-throughs are cool and have some advantages (no or fewer dead spots is the only one that practically shows up for me in real life), they also have serious downsides. While I don't think there is a right or wrong, I personally think Leo was onto something really important in making instruments that can be addressed more easily. Leo was practical among other things and I like that.
 
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dagrev said:
Indeed. Excellent real world observation and application.
While set and neck-throughs are cool and have some advantages (no or fewer dead spots is the only one that practically shows up for me in real life), they also have serious downsides. While I don't think there is a right or wrong, I personally think Leo was onto something really important in making instruments that can be addressed more easily. Leo was practical among other things and I like that.
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Yeah. He wasn’t a musician. He repaired radios. And he hated things that couldn’t be assembled and disassembled logically so they could be fixed in a few minutes.
 
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Nice views of Catalina and Crystal Cove from our villa today. I love Newport. I went to UC Irvine for the beach. Never regretted a single thing about it. We come back a couple times a year to just chill and relax.
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