Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

2 from Mbappe currently. He passed Messi.

I'm glad this all ends tomorrow. I guess it would be cool if Spain wins. But I won't watch. It would be more entertaining to sit on the back porch and watch the grass I've been trying to restore grow.

 

[Stealth57]

I'm glad this all ends tomorrow. I guess it would be cool if Spain wins. But I won't watch. It would be more entertaining to sit on the back porch and watch the grass I've been trying to restore grow.

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[Miles_ONeal]

Tapes? I've used LaBella and D'Addario over the years. Can't remember which is on my Ibanez semi-hollow EB-2 wannabe.

Interesting tilt/angle/whatever on the pup.

It's like Warhol set up a bass.

 

[GBassNorth]

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Pretty much says it all.

 

[dagrev]

I finally got enough ahead of life to start sandout on the build today.

starting with the neck and 800 grit at the root as finish was so thick on the sides of the neck would no longer mate to the body.

Got that solved and nicely leveled from the root to the 9th fret.

Now I have to stop and go to a social event...

Boo.

I can't do anything on the what was going to be a ThunderPbass. Too humid every weekend. When not humid it's raining...

 

[GBassNorth]

It's like Warhol set up a bass.

LOL - I'm frequently amazed at the set up I see on bass purchases, especially after the seller claims "it plays like butter". When that bass arrived the action was so high and uneven from string to string I couldn't imagine playing the simplest of basslines on it.

 

[dagrev]

I'm glad this all ends tomorrow. I guess it would be cool if Spain wins. But I won't watch. It would be more entertaining to sit on the back porch and watch the grass I've been trying to restore grow.

USA is playing Spain and beating Spain in the Nations Cup Rugby. It's over now but I recorded it. Not sure who won yet.

 

[Engle]

Turns out this isn't going to fit up against the butt of the neck on the ex-Hecker there's not enough wood there for it... So I either have to install it down closer to the P position or set it into another bass. For my reasons for having this pickup, standard Mudbucker position is where I want to put it. I think I'm going to have to hold on this, continue with the Gibson Thunderbird reissue p'up and just roll that way.
I do want to use this pickup though. So far it's either getting added to the CP, or I'll have to find something inexpensive to drop this into.
O, the mulling...

That's how my bass collection got so large - Buying parts and then building basses for the parts...

 

[MCF]

LOL - I'm frequently amazed at the set up I see on bass purchases, especially after the seller claims "it plays like butter". When that bass arrived the action was so high and uneven from string to string I couldn't imagine playing the simplest of basslines on it.

A broken bridge on an otherwise pristine bass? I wonder if it didn't come like that from the factory and the buyer was too clueless to do anything about it.

 

[Nocturnal]

A broken bridge on an otherwise pristine bass? I wonder if it didn't come like that from the factory and the buyer was too clueless to do anything about it.

There have been other instances of 3-point bridges arching and breaking in the middle. You don't see it a lot, but it happens.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm glad this all ends tomorrow. I guess it would be cool if Spain wins. But I won't watch. It would be more entertaining to sit on the back porch and watch the grass I've been trying to restore grow.

lotsa vintage 60's TBirds if you know ow what you're doing.....

 

[Count Bassie]

There have been other instances of 3-point bridges arching and breaking in the middle. You don't see it a lot, but it happens. View attachment 7538944

They're made of pot metal.

 

[GonePlaid]

I can't do anything on the what was going to be a ThunderPbass. Too humid every weekend. When not humid it's raining...

Waddaya mean not humid? Raining's about as humid as it gets.

 

[GonePlaid]

USA is playing Spain and beating Spain in the Nations Cup Rugby. It's over now but I recorded it. Not sure who won yet.

Spoiler alert:
The team with more points.

 

[GonePlaid]

There have been other instances of 3-point bridges arching and breaking in the middle. You don't see it a lot, but it happens. View attachment 7538944

Hmm. Dunno. Ain't got any.

 

[JIO]

It's like Warhol set up a bass.

???

 

[JIO]

cut #6 - Israelite - Mike (the man in a van with a bass in his hand) Watt on bass --- I worked out his rockin' bass-line and it confirmed why we all know his name! Try it - it sounds deceiving simple but takes some serious chops and feel to make it groove.

 

[GonePlaid]

Something from around 2020 +/-:

And one from 1982: (not the same guys)

 

[JIO]

LOL - I'm frequently amazed at the set up I see on bass purchases, especially after the seller claims "it plays like butter". When that bass arrived the action was so high and uneven from string to string I couldn't imagine playing the simplest of basslines on it.

I'm amazed when it shows up w/o issues!

 

[MCF]

There have been other instances of 3-point bridges arching and breaking in the middle. You don't see it a lot, but it happens. View attachment 7538944

How does that even happen if it didn't come out of the mold that way?