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Thunderbird Club

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Off-Beat said:
Filter and brightened up picture. It's pretty obvious in the case picture that it's brown. Still brightened up, but the filter is missing.

General advice, because you caught the bird flu and are pretty excited, as we all are and especially were when it first hit us, but be cautious when it comes to supposed rare breeds. Always ask here first before you jump the gun. Godofthunder, TBird1958 and Carlo are very knowledge about any Bird produced and Hillerup basically knows(owns?) every Epi Bird ever build and most other people here owned a few themselves.
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Are you kiddin' me??? In case you hadn't noticed... I check with you guys on just about everything between my morning constitutional and my bed time!:roflmao:

It's a weird position for me to be in. Back before my musical "hiatus"... I was the guy that people came to for answers about drums and guitar. Now... I'm the awkward nerd in the corner, who makes observations that all o' y'all perceive as common knowledge, ask questions that seemingly everybody knows the answer to but me, and excitedly presents things he's found that turn out to be big fat nothing-burgers with cheese. I would estimate that about 85% - 90% of the questions I ask or items I post, are prefaced with conversations in my mind in which I'm trying to talk myself out of posting, in an effort to avoid being a pain in someone's butt or looking like an idiot. I nearly always fail to convince myself that I shouldn't post 'em though. If I'm posting an item I found online somewhere... the idea that it could be exactly what somebody is looking for or could in fact be a real rarity, just eats me up. I'll risk a kick in my pride for that. If I'm posting a statement or question that's accompanied by the possibility of embarrassment, I fall back on the old adage that, "the only stupid question is the one that goes unasked", and rely on the tolerance and decency that I've come to expect from my brothers & sisters in this forum. My quest for knowledge is what brought me here, and the people are what keeps me coming' back!

Rest assured... I'll be bringing all bass related interests to you guys before pulling any triggers!:thumbsup:
 
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theFixer said:
Are you kiddin' me??? In case you hadn't noticed... I check with you guys on just about everything between my morning constitutional and my bed time!:roflmao:

It's a weird position for me to be in. Back before my musical "hiatus"... I was the guy that people came to for answers about drums and guitar. Now... I'm the awkward nerd in the corner, who makes observations that all o' y'all perceive as common knowledge, ask questions that seemingly everybody knows the answer to but me, and excitedly presents things he's found that turn out to be big fat nothing-burgers with cheese. I would estimate that about 85% - 90% of the questions I ask or items I post, are prefaced with conversations in my mind in which I'm trying to talk myself out of posting, in an effort to avoid being a pain in someone's butt or looking like an idiot. I nearly always fail to convince myself that I shouldn't post 'em though. If I'm posting an item I found online somewhere... the idea that it could be exactly what somebody is looking for or could in fact be a real rarity, just eats me up. I'll risk a kick in my pride for that. If I'm posting a statement or question that's accompanied by the possibility of embarrassment, I fall back on the old adage that, "the only stupid question is the one that goes unasked", and rely on the tolerance and decency that I've come to expect from my brothers & sisters in this forum. My quest for knowledge is what brought me here, and the people are what keeps me coming' back!

Rest assured... I'll be bringing all bass related interests to you guys before pulling any triggers!:thumbsup:
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There's no embarresment in this club and always ask ahead however stupid you might think the question is - I share that trait with you :P, I asked way more stupid stuff.
Also wasn't meant ill mannered in any sense.

PS: You helped me alot with my stupid drum questions. :D
 
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Off-Beat said:
There's no embarresment in this club and always ask ahead however stupid you might think the question is - I share that trait with you :p, I asked way more stupid stuff.
Also wasn't meant ill mannered in any sense.

PS: You helped me alot with my stupid drum questions. :D
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No ill-manner detected:thumbsup:

... and your drum questions were solid. Nuffin' stupid about 'em:D
 
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Off-Beat said:
Always liked the stingray's looks, but the weight and sound are just offputting for me. It's anything the Bird is not. Was ready to drop some money on one years ago, but bought a car instead and kept playing my Ibanez 'til I first played a Bird.
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I actually like my Rays but they are very unforgiving basses if you have less than perfect left hand technique. If you don't fret right at the nut side of the fret is clack, clank, buzz all day long. You can EQ a lot of that out and then slap some Black Beauties or Flats on it to help but it's not nearly as forgiving as playing my TBird even loaded with SS strings. For me and my horrible finger technique the Stingray is more a studio session tool that can be played sitting down and looking at the neck vs my Thunderbird, which is a great jump around the stage, look at the audience and band member bass.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I actually like my Rays but they are very unforgiving basses if you have less than perfect left hand technique. If you don't fret right at the nut side of the fret is clack, clank, buzz all day long. You can EQ a lot of that out and then slap some Black Beauties or Flats on it to help but it's not nearly as forgiving as playing my TBird even loaded with SS strings. For me and my horrible finger technique the Stingray is more a studio session tool that can be played sitting down and looking at the neck vs my Thunderbird, which is a great jump around the stage, look at the audience and band member bass.
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Fretting hand. ;-)
 
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theFixer said:
Are you kiddin' me??? In case you hadn't noticed... I check with you guys on just about everything between my morning constitutional and my bed time!:roflmao:
...any triggers!:thumbsup:
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I for one don't mind all the chatter, it's easy enough to ignore if I want to. But I do want to thank you for not including us in your morning constitutional, and for Gods sake please don't apply the TB rule - "pics or it didn't happen" to that part of the discussion if you do.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I for one don't mind all the chatter, it's easy enough to ignore if I want to. But I do want to thank you for not including us in your morning constitutional, and for Gods sake please don't apply the TB rule - "pics or it didn't happen" to that part of the discussion if you do.
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WOW!!! Good thing I read this! That was closer than you know!;)
 
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On the question of nuts, if you're paying Gibson prices you would expect a properly cut bone nut. The cheaper more mass produced Epi will likely have a synthetic premoulded nut in a colour which matches the rest of the hardware, or in the case of the PRO IV and PRO V, a brass nut painted black.

Never understood the thing for brass nuts - they should leave them on the poor wee brass monkeys.
 
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kat888 said:
Never played a Stungray - they're definitely not a pick player's bass.
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They really don't sound good with a pick at all, much later a ended up with a Sabre as part of a trade, pretty much the same result, again the neck was very nice tho.
 
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