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Thunderbird Club
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Or Utah, even.We're not in Kansas anymore are we... Or Cal...
We’d love to hear whatever we have not.Thanks!
All mine, including the flaws.
Clear nitro over candy emerald over gold metallic over primer. All rattle cans.
Hand sanded and polished, no machine work... wet sand and up through automotive compounds.
Came out perfect, after several mis-steps, including sticking my thumb right thru the final wet coats on the horn.
Lasted a little over a year before the COVID-impacted (poor formulation, no inventory, crazy-high prices) clear nitro started to crack. Known issue with that brand from that time, now...
So it's apparently decided on self-relicing in accelerated decrepitude.
Still looks great from 3 feet, and plays like churned dairy products.
It's got a number of build-drama stories.
Pyramid del Sol?
A donde is “to where.” Such as, ¿a donde vas? Ser conjugations infer a permanent characteristic. Estar would be a better verb in this case.
Si Señor, first time..
San Miguel de Allende, sounds like you've been here..
Butcherboy
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…2025 favorite Basses…
…1965 rev… and…
…1976 bicentennial…
…1965 rev… and…
…1976 bicentennial…
No sir... it reminded me very strongly of a plaza I saw in Spain on vacation a couple years back.
Well, let's see...
Was my second build, first bass build, from a kit resold by a company out of Utah, but originating from China.
Neck arrived with a severe S-bow in it, high at the 6th and at the nut end. Took some major rigging of clamping pressure and heat over time to get it straight. But its die-straight and rock solid now.
Was originally a "J-bass" kit but the neck is of P-dimensions/width and originally of an FSO head profile. I redesigned it into a hand-drafted Swinger/Katana motif mainly because 7ender never made a lefty one and I liked the rarity. Worked entirely from a handful of undimensioned photos from the web - I've never even seen a real one.
Headstock decal is handmade waterslide with metallic hand painting applied to the "back" sticky side of the decal so the black print on the front acts as a mask. Custom "brand" font designed myself as a lefty homage to the original Katana font... slant reversed.
Was originally routed JJ. I rerouted to PJ and it's got threaded inserts for both patterns, and connectorised pickups. Can swap from PJ to JJ in about 15 minutes' effort, for no good reason except I can.
Body had a pencil-eraser sized pocket of rot in it that I discovered while re-routing that I had to dremel out and fill.
Discovered mid-assembly after painting that the J-pickups/routs provided are smaller than standard, specific to one Chinese OEM maker. Nothing else will fit the pattern. Ended up returning the upgraded pups I'd bought. Spent a lot of research time finding the maker and sourcing a spare set for the future.
The Hipshot bridge and tuners (which required special-order sleeves due to odd-sized tuner holes) cost more than the rest of the build.
Stuff like that.
The fretless 'Bird I'm building now will have plenty of story, too, and it's definitely benefitting from what I learned duilding the emerald monster.
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Ummm, there is no Round Rock UT.
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Yes, the classic "it was THIS big! story"Looks like another fish story...at least I hope that was the discussion.
He’ll have difficult time making it home for the New Year’s Eve gig. Assuming he’s really there…never know with him…We're not in Kansas anymore are we... Or Cal...
Gaolee
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That surprises me completely. But I am a bit of a freak that way.
Right now, my favorite is the 2013 EB, with the 2001 Thunderbird and Flamingo close behind. The EB is getting quite a bit of play wear all of a sudden. Its finish held up like iron. Until all of a sudden it seems to have figured out how thin it is. Plus I am playing it a whole lot these days.
Gaolee
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OK, that is my favorite bass. I just do not own it. Yet. Bwahahahaha!The Troll maker.
Favorite song? I forgot to say, which is appropriate. Beats me. Miles Davis Sketches of Spain is a favorite record, not really a song. But I listen to it all the way through every time. It depends on my mood. The Sex Pistols version of Johnny B. Goode into Roadrunner is pretty great at times. So is the live version of Fables of Fabus by Charles Mingus. I have been listening to Public Enemy a fair amount lately. It seems like a reasonable time for angry music.
