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Thunderbird Club
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I was sctually considering one of these to scratch my fretless-curiousity itch a while back.
But then my Tbird kit showed up with that neck that was so badly mis-machined that the only solution was to defret it and reshape it.
One major thing makes me want to send Eastwood some money is they make a reasonable number of lefty models, including stuff that is visually appealing and different from the endless runs of P's and J's in black or white.
If I was still chasing guitar instead of bass I'd probably own at least one of theirs by now.
Along with Schecter, probably half the available LH choices or more come from them.
Yeah, the whole slotted headstock thing is actually pretty useful in getting a nice string break angle over the nut without having to create a scarf joint tilted headstock like Gibby and Eppi use, and the 2x2 tuner layout is a super easy reach vs some of my birds.
Same with a few other "holidays"-Good Friday, Yom Kippur('happy' day of atonement?), etc.
- Jun 30, 2010
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yah... "happy" is doing some heavy lifting ...
sometime back I posted about a similar situation that happened to me 4 decades(!) ago..we were playing at a brand new bar in Fuengirola Spain that along with a commercial strip had been built on a dry riverbed.....unexpected torrential rains literally wiped most of an adjacent amusement park into the ocean! we were getting ready for the last set and I felt cold water on my feet (bathrooms were downstairs under the stage where they found bodies the next day) so I took my bass off put it on top of the amp and ran with the rest....went back to get my gear next day to find my 15" enclosure was done but luckily everything else was ok.....on the way to the club there was a happy bunch trying to wrestle a black pig that had washed/swam down the mudslides coming down from the hills lol....
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smoking gig last night....MB working out nicely...
3 major observations but it could be me just being used to the previous model (Little Markbass 800 which they still make and almost went for) which would be
1) the preamp tube always being part of the signal chain.
2) mute only accessible through a foot switch
3) the Speakon connector in (only one output connector) doesn't accommodate standalone 1/4" jacks, frustrating, some do some don't and one never knows....
other than that, great product, was telling Jeff I never envisioned taking a 1kW rig to small bar gigs....,
3 major observations but it could be me just being used to the previous model (Little Markbass 800 which they still make and almost went for) which would be
1) the preamp tube always being part of the signal chain.
2) mute only accessible through a foot switch
3) the Speakon connector in (only one output connector) doesn't accommodate standalone 1/4" jacks, frustrating, some do some don't and one never knows....
other than that, great product, was telling Jeff I never envisioned taking a 1kW rig to small bar gigs....,
We bought a melon for this weekend. Tastes okay but a little denser than I would have liked.
Is the Eastwood headstock not angled? It looks like it is in the pics I've seen.
I thought the Speakon combo jacks were green. They are on my Carvin monitor cabs, but looking on the Neutrik site they appear black and there's no mention of colour in the spec sheet.
I made myself a couple of 1/4" to Speakon cables so I can connect my 210AV cabs to my D800+.
Funny they didn't put a mute switch on the front. It's a useful feature.
It seems like Memorial Day melons are just a bit too early. They bring them in starting in early May to get them to the markets in time. The ones for the fourth and Labor Day always seem better. Our go to is Yosemite brand from up north a ways. Fresno to Manteca…
Yes it is slightly angled, but they really didn’t need to. The tuning posts are well below the nut, so break angle would have been fine without the slightly angled headstock.
When your wife is Irish, shops the post holiday sales, and has an extra freezer. 
isn't that stuff from beantown?....sure looks good, needs some stout English mustard..When your wife is Irish, shops the post holiday sales, and has an extra freezer.
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The wife smothers her’s with mustard. Not my thing.
I think some of the best amps of ypre qualify even if they are only $1.00 — Ampeg fridges, the big Acoustic, Sunn, etc. rigs.
- Jun 30, 2010
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speaking of appliances... it's the accepted handle -
