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Thunderbird Club

#344,002
Count Bassie said:
I had one, sold it. Now I have an FSO that has a similar neck, but it's super light and sounds really good, so I don't mind it.
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That's what my Fender Precision is like. You could land a B-52 on the fretboard. It's great for some things. For others, not so much. It is 1.75" wide, but road-kill flat, front to back, which makes it a bit of a challenge. I keep it anyway. Probably should sell it because I don't remember the last time it came out to play.

Edit: Marshall might like it, except that it is not blue.
 
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#344,003
dagrev said:
My wife asked about me retiring a couple years ago and I told her I've worked my whole life and don't know remember what it's like to not work. The only time I don't remember working was when I was a little kid. By 11 was doing regular work for people not long after that I was doing simple maintenance for two guys that owned a bunch of apartment buildings. One was a slum lord. We collected rent weekly. One of us would go to the front the other out back for those who wanted to live there free. I will say he treated everyone fair and never took advantage of anyone. They will in parts of town that should have been avoided, but even criminals had some morals back then! Lost of stories there. But I'm not sure I'd know what to do to not have to get up and have things to do. No wonder I'm tired an wore out! I earned it!
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I would retire now if I had plenty of money for retirement. But I don't, so I'll keep working. And spending money now, because I'm going to have to cut that out when I don't have a job. I'm not sure what having enough money to retire means.
 
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#344,004
Nocturnal said:
I don't want to retire so I can "do nothing". I want to retire so I can pursue things that will make me happy for however long I have left. Been working in some form since I was 13. Ready to hang it up as soon as possible.
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Seems like we all started around that age. I don't remember exactly how old I was when I first was able to fire the Gravely with a pull strap. About 9 as I recall. I was a bigger kid. It was loud. I also started on tinnitus early.
 
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#344,006
Gaolee said:
I would retire now if I had plenty of money for retirement. But I don't, so I'll keep working. And spending money now, because I'm going to have to cut that out when I don't have a job. I'm not sure what having enough money to retire means.
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2-4 times what you think you'll need.
 
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#344,008
Gaolee said:
That's what my Fender Precision is like. You could land a B-52 on the fretboard. It's great for some things. For others, not so much. It is 1.75" wide, but road-kill flat, front to back, which makes it a bit of a challenge. I keep it anyway. Probably should sell it because I don't remember the last time it came out to play.

Edit: Marshall might like it, except that it is not blue.
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I've come to like flat... My Chickenbacker is flat and pretty darn wide, which turns out to be kind of fun to play. It's gud for me to have different feeling instruments, I fall into a rut when it's the same always. I think it's healthy to have ergonomic changes like that.
 
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Count Bassie said:
I've come to like flat... My Chickenbacker is flat and pretty darn wide, which turns out to be kind of fun to play. It's gud for me to have different feeling instruments, I fall into a rut when it's the same always. I think it's healthy to have ergonomic changes like that.
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Maybe, but when yer 80+, with arthritis happening, comfort matters. It sux that I couldn't play the 67(?)NR the last few gigs 'cos it needs work I can't do/afford. The Epi Embassy has been a good fill-in, but it ain't the 'Bird.

Oh well, doo-doo transpires.(or sumpin' like that)
 
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Gaolee said:
I would retire now if I had plenty of money for retirement. But I don't, so I'll keep working. And spending money now, because I'm going to have to cut that out when I don't have a job. I'm not sure what having enough money to retire means.
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Me, either, but I do know it’s more than I have now.
 
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#344,013
MCF said:
It was either retire or let the stress kill me. My wife will work a little bit longer; she didn’t go back to full time work until our daughter finished high school.
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Yeah, same. Retire before the stress got me. Plus I figured after 44 years of full time work that it is enough for anyone. Certainly enough for me.

I now have time to do things I like.
My wife wanted to keep working for a while as she was not long into her new career path. It works for us.
 
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RedVee said:
Yeah, same. Retire before the stress got me. Plus I figured after 44 years of full time work that it is enough for anyone. Certainly enough for me.

I now have time to do things I like.
My wife wanted to keep working for a while as she was not long into her new career path. It works for us.
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Truth be told, should have hung it up earlier. But for me, “full” social security retirement age was 66 and 8 months. I ended up going to 67 and 5 months. 65 would have been better.
 
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#344,016
dagrev said:
Likely so, but I have no clue. I never paid much attention to most of the neck nuances and never was able to match with the stated shapes. To me they were wide and thick or thin, narrow and almost always nicely rounded (Js and Thunderbirds). My '64 that's wide and thin was similar to an early 2000s G&L L2k. Had a Lakland Skyline once and it was more narrow and thin--but nothing like a Geddy Lee neck, which was narrow and really thin.
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talk about a baseball bat.....wouldn't have it any other way......wouldn't play like a P otherwise ...love sinking my teeth into those P necks....like it makes you (me at least) play more physical(?)..... hard to explain...
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Chucky Stiletti said:
talk about a baseball bat.....wouldn't have it any other way......wouldn't play like a P otherwise ...love sinking my teeth into those P necks....like it makes you (me at least) play more physical(?)..... hard to explain...
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I get it. Playing is physical- if the action is too low it's not getting what I want to give it. Of course too high and I'm fighting. But yeah it has to make my blood move.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
talk about a baseball bat.....wouldn't have it any other way......wouldn't play like a P otherwise ...love sinking my teeth into those P necks....like it makes you (me at least) play more physical(?)..... hard to explain...
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I get that, but since I started my bass journey on a skinny neck Gibby EB-3 and my next bass was the 67(?)NR, anything over 1 5/8ths hurts.
 
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