Thunderbird Club

[theFixer]

I want a double-neck that's a regular bass on one neck and a sort of 12-string variation of a Bass VI on the other neck.

Gotta see it!!! The first "Bass XVI"

 

[Larry V]

Oh, I believe you. Wood varies.

About 8.25 lbs. and nowhere near 10 lbs. That seller's scale is off. I can see an extra .5 lbs and maybe an extra .75 lbs. but no way can I see an extra 1.75 lbs. due to variability in wood especially in a same model year.

 

[kat888]

Oh and @theFixer -- no one eats mutton. It's 99% lamb. Someone who had worked in the 'freezing works' told me that once you'd seen the state of a mutton carcass, you'd never touch mutton again.

 

[kat888]

I want a double-neck that's a regular bass on one neck and a sort of 12-string variation of a Bass VI on the other neck.

This is in no way an endorsement of Genesis or any other prog-related bassery ... but Mike Rutherford used to have a Shergold doubleneck 4 bass/12 g*it.

 

[Korladis]

Gotta see it!!! The first "Bass XVI"

Ha ha, yeah.

I do actually have things I'd use it for.

 

[Korladis]

This is in no way an endorsement of Genesis or any other prog-related bassery ... but Mike Rutherford used to have a Shergold doubleneck 4 bass/12 g*it.

I'd be using it for doom, most likely.

 

[kat888]

I'd be using it for doom, most likely.

The Shergold was fugly as all get out, but hey it was modular.

 

[BklynKen]

About 8.25 lbs. and nowhere near 10 lbs. That seller's scale is off. I can see an extra .5 lbs and maybe an extra .75 lbs. but no way can I see an extra 1.75 lbs. due to variability in wood especially in a same model year.

Wow! That’s nuts. I could ask him to double check or just wait it out. Plus if that guy from Gibson is correct and there really are no Thunderbirds for 2018, my decision is that much easier.

 

[theFixer]

Completely the opposite end to me. Down my neck of the woods we have venison. And there are plenty of cows, pigs and chickens to cover all of your animal flesh requirements. My father is the seafood person in our family. We were out once for a slap up meal and the waiter brought the dessert menu, says to my dad '... and a chocolate fish for you sir?'

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Were I to have a 10 meter cattle prod... I might consider using it to flip that over & read the list of ingredients! Even then... the very idea is off-putting enough to make me walk away

I've seen pics of Christchurch. What an amazingly beautiful place! It sounds like the New Zealand Road Commission exists only in one's imagination! My ex-father-in-law told me about renting a car to explore the South "Island". He was not prepared! It was his first time at the helm of a right-hand-drive vehicle... it was a stick shift (which he already struggled with)... and (in his telling of the tale), all the roads were half lane wide high-speed obstacle courses marked only with road signs that said "don't be a dumbass or you'll die" (loosely translated).

 

[theFixer]

Oh and @theFixer -- no one eats mutton. It's 99% lamb. Someone who had worked in the 'freezing works' told me that once you'd seen the state of a mutton carcass, you'd never touch mutton again.

I'm learning already! I thought mutton and lamb were synonymous

 

[kat888]

Were I to have a 10 meter cattle prod... I might consider using it to flip that over & read the list of ingredients! Even then... the very idea is off-putting enough to make me walk away

Chocolate coated raspberry marshmallow.

I've seen pics of Christchurch. What an amazingly beautiful place! It sounds like the New Zealand Road Commission exists only in one's imagination! My ex-father-in-law told me about renting a car to explore the South "Island". He was not prepared! It was his first time at the helm of a right-hand-drive vehicle... it was a stick shift (which he already struggled with)... and (in his telling of the tale), all the roads were half lane wide high-speed obstacle courses marked only with road signs that said "don't be a dumbass or you'll die" (loosely translated).

Christchurch was as flat as a pancake ... now it's even flatter.

Yeah the roads in the South Island are mainly narrowish single carriageways with frequent requirements to slow down behind tractors, sheep, sheep trucks, etc. Overtaking was the other national sport, but now there are overtaking lanes every few kilometres to stop frustrated NZers meeting each other at a closing speed of 250kmh.

I'm learning already! I thought mutton and lamb were synonymous

Technically there's lamb < 1yr, hogget > 1 year and mutton = an adult sheep.

At birth the lambs are separated out and the females are kept for wool and breeding, while the males have their nuts removed and are kept for meat. They get a trip to the freezing works sometime after that and are sold as lamb.

Mutton would be a ewe who is past it as a breeding animal, therefore an older female.

 

[Count Bassie]

Is it routed for a split? If I was building an FSO I'd use a single coil, standard full width humbucker or ... an Alumitone (could be nice with the fretless).

Yep, routed for split type. I want the sound of a 'bucker, but already cut the pickguard months ago out of brass, fits a split. Don't think I want to go backwards, I'm not putting a lot on this. It's a lark is all, but with all the stuff out there, I figured I can find something in the form I'm set up for.

 

[Count Bassie]

Idiots.

Or someone there is just very, very snarkish. I'm going with that...

 

[JJR58]

You get used to them though. There are constant tremors in NZ. At school, when the classroom started shaking, we'd all drop under our desks until it stopped, without any instruction being necessary from teachers. No one ever expected Christchurch to get flattened though. It was always assumed that any big quake would hit the North Island.

The thing that terrified me was once in Hawaii, the tsunami alarm went off ... just testing.

I never did get used to it. When I first got to CA in '85, they always increased in size. The lighter ones were no big deal, and I thought, hey, this is kind of cool. NOT!

 

[Korladis]

Or someone there is just very, very snarkish. I'm going with that...

I mean that they're not making any T-birds in 2018. That's a dumb move, IMO.

 

[Count Bassie]

I mean that they're not making any T-birds in 2018. That's a dumb move, IMO.

Oh. I thought it was funny/absurd/dumb...

 

[Korladis]

I guess they're just leaving basses to Epiphone?

 

[JJR58]

I guess they're just leaving basses to Epiphone?

They do a decent job at it, no?

 

[JJR58]

Chocolate coated raspberry marshmallow.



Christchurch was as flat as a pancake ... now it's even flatter.

Yeah the roads in the South Island are mainly narrowish single carriageways with frequent requirements to slow down behind tractors, sheep, sheep trucks, etc. Overtaking was the other national sport, but now there are overtaking lanes every few kilometres to stop frustrated NZers meeting each other at a closing speed of 250kmh.



Technically there's lamb < 1yr, hogget > 1 year and mutton = an adult sheep.

At birth the lambs are separated out and the females are kept for wool and breeding, while the males have their nuts removed and are kept for meat. They get a trip to the freezing works sometime after that and are sold as lamb.

Mutton would be a ewe who is past it as a breeding animal, therefore an older female.

Now take all of what Kat quoted out of the equation here. And just have her replies....

 

[D.M.N.]

I'm learning already! I thought mutton and lamb were synonymous

I think in the US there's overlap, as lamb seems to be used rather universally for any sort of sheep meat from what I've seen. However, most of the meat that you can buy of sheep is lamb, as mutton isn't commonly sold here. Which is a real shame, I think it's quite delicious. A lot gamier, and quite fatty. I had a lot of it when I was in North India, it's very prominent in Tibetan cuisine. Mutton Momos are fantastic.

You know what else is delicious? Caribou. Caribou tastes great.