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Thunderbird Club
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I’m on a little work trip. It’s a balmy 7c (44f) here just outside Victoria:
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
They are all $1500 or more recently. At least when I started looking. 5 string EBs cost more than 4 string EBs, although not all that much more expensive. I got my 4 string EB for $500, including shipping, tax, and everything else. That was dumb luck, since I haven't seen another that inexpensive since then. I thought about looking for a 5 off and on in the past, but never pulled the trigger. Now, I wish I had. 5s were going for about $800 five or six years ago. They are going for at least double that now from what I see.
Will you be having tea at the Empress?
My Tbird fell off its stand last night.
The take the meat from the tail which, before it's cooked, looks like white chicken meat-
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Having heard quite a bit of talk (yes, I extrapolate) about using Hipshot Xtenders to assuage phantom fifth string pains, I thought someone must have tried the Xtender's Double Stop Xtender Lever. It has a separate lever with a middle detent that allows for two drops in tuning.
Having an Xtender on my T-Bird and liking it for Drop D, I decided to add the Double Stop lever on my recently purchased Jazz bass given that I'm strongly preferring four string basses these days (or maybe it's just my back). Anyhow I made the lowest note a B with the furthest detent, and the Drop D with the middle (first) detent Not sure how it will work out in the long run but we'll see- perhaps I'll go with C for the lowest which the Hipshot Double Stop manual recommends. We'll see-
Note that although the lowest note detent still uses the finger-turned nut for tuning adjustments, the first detent uses a 3/32 Allen nut, so you should keep the supplied wrench in your case candy bag.
My Xtender is the BT12 which is a drop in for modern American Fenders with the dowel holes in the headstock- here you see it at standard E tuning-
D tuning at the first or middle note position- here you can see the 3/32 Allen set screw to the right of the fulcrum of the lever. This is also when you make the tuning adjustment for this detent as opposed to the original lever which requires you to put it in the up position for adjustments.
And finally the lowest note position. As with the original lever, you must put it in the all-the-way-up position to make adjustments, but you still have the convenient finger-turned knob to adjust the low note.
Having an Xtender on my T-Bird and liking it for Drop D, I decided to add the Double Stop lever on my recently purchased Jazz bass given that I'm strongly preferring four string basses these days (or maybe it's just my back). Anyhow I made the lowest note a B with the furthest detent, and the Drop D with the middle (first) detent Not sure how it will work out in the long run but we'll see- perhaps I'll go with C for the lowest which the Hipshot Double Stop manual recommends. We'll see-
Note that although the lowest note detent still uses the finger-turned nut for tuning adjustments, the first detent uses a 3/32 Allen nut, so you should keep the supplied wrench in your case candy bag.
My Xtender is the BT12 which is a drop in for modern American Fenders with the dowel holes in the headstock- here you see it at standard E tuning-
D tuning at the first or middle note position- here you can see the 3/32 Allen set screw to the right of the fulcrum of the lever. This is also when you make the tuning adjustment for this detent as opposed to the original lever which requires you to put it in the up position for adjustments.
And finally the lowest note position. As with the original lever, you must put it in the all-the-way-up position to make adjustments, but you still have the convenient finger-turned knob to adjust the low note.
That's just wrong. Dirty wrong. The high was 28 here.... And snow. Did I mention the snow?
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between you and me, I omitted the icebergs from the pic....they were off to the right....
No thankfully we are staying out of town at a place called Bear Mountain.
Beautiful and quiet!
I’ll keep an eye out in my area.
Or here! My colleagues in Toronto are shoveling the stuff though.
no snow here yet but colder...this summer was not a warm one to boot...
It's a shame I didn't get any pics of me shoveling show yesterday.
is that on the course?
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,898
- 142,244
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
It's been far too long since I've visited Vancouver Island, it's beautiful - I did stay at Sooke Harbor for a couple nights, it was lovely.
I'm pretty lucky my work takes me here a few times a year.
