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Thunderbird Club

#55,461
TBird1958 said:
Interesting comments on the VP necks, I've been playing mine quite a bit, it's definitely thicker front to back that a Post'88 Gibson. I work a little more to play it, compared to my '89, so between the two the Gibson plays easier - This is just my opinion, for a 6' 1" human I have smallish hands and aside from the fantastic tone, neck size has always been something I like about Gibson Thunderbirds.
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Neck size is a funny thing. I'm used to the upright, which is a log by comparison. I didn't feel like lugging it around last night, so when I went over to a friend's house to make some noise, I took the fretless 'Bird. It took me a while to get the intonation settled down and to stop completely missing strings because the neck was so small. It sure was fun to play it.

It has aging Chromes on it. I think it needs Black Beauties. Just not enough zing and snarl. It's partly the Alumitones, partly the strings. Even lowered, they can get a pretty good bite. They are just more midrangy lowered. With the bridge pickup only, it sounded like it was thinking about going out to bite the tires off a truck somewhere. It will be even better with new strings. It reminded me of why I really enjoy playing it.
 
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Gaolee said:
They think we are pretty scary in here. Or just flat weird. That's OK. Both are correct, sometimes at the same time.
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The funny thing is, the only other club that is as interesting and welcoming to me (And for a couple of the same reasons) is the guys who play for church worship services. My brother is a member of that group, so I keep up with what he posts and it leads me in there frequently. They have a narrow main focus, just as we do here, but they have interesting tangents, also a trait this group shares. The only other group I frequent is Charvel and Jackson club, which is so small it's almost replicated by the group on Facebook...where a new member just posted pics of his THREE Jackson Thunderbirds.

A lot of the rest of the forum gets kinda dull for me rather quickly. Questions that are thoroughly answered on the first page get another 50 pages (or more) of "me too!" answers pretty frequently.

I find such a wealth of experience in this group that I just ask questions here and get solid answers without the lower signal to noise ratio of genpop.
 
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Kenova said:
I’m always around here. I’m enjoying with ‘Bird, playing and doing some youtube videos. ;) <3
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So, I have not played for a couple of days.

Many of you will recall that I had surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome a few months ago. Well, occasionally those who have had that surgery then develop tenosynovitis (a $10 word for trigger finger). I am now one of that minority. I have not yet been able to get into see the surgeon, but have started managing myself with largish doses of NSAID. Fortunately, treatment is relatively simple. About 60% that are managed with a steroid injection remain symptom free at 6 months. Surgical intervention (both open and closed) fair better with 100% symptom free at 6 months.

I plan to continue with NSAID to see if it can be managed that way, but if that fails will probably opt for steroid injection first.

I suppose it wouldn't be as much a problem if it were in the plucking hand rather than fretting hand.
 
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PillO said:
So, I have not played for a couple of days.

Many of you will recall that I had surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome a few months ago. Well, occasionally those who have had that surgery then develop tenosynovitis (a $10 word for trigger finger). I am now one of that minority. I have not yet been able to get into see the surgeon, but have started managing myself with largish doses of NSAID. Fortunately, treatment is relatively simple. About 60% that are managed with a steroid injection remain symptom free at 6 months. Surgical intervention (both open and closed) fair better with 100% symptom free at 6 months.

I plan to continue with NSAID to see if it can be managed that way, but if that fails will probably opt for steroid injection first.

I suppose it wouldn't be as much a problem if it were in the plucking hand rather than fretting hand.
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That sucks!!
Hope you don't need another surgery!
 
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Dr_Feelgoood212 said:
That sucks!!
Hope you don't need another surgery!
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Thanks. I will go drug first. If it is surgery in the end, the surgery is an order of magnitude easier than the release surgery (which took all of 9 minutes from open to close). The closed operation takes less than two minutes and consists of little more than inserting a needle in the right place. It is done in office with a local.
 
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PillO said:
So, I have not played for a couple of days.

Many of you will recall that I had surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome a few months ago. Well, occasionally those who have had that surgery then develop tenosynovitis (a $10 word for trigger finger). I am now one of that minority. I have not yet been able to get into see the surgeon, but have started managing myself with largish doses of NSAID. Fortunately, treatment is relatively simple. About 60% that are managed with a steroid injection remain symptom free at 6 months. Surgical intervention (both open and closed) fair better with 100% symptom free at 6 months.

I plan to continue with NSAID to see if it can be managed that way, but if that fails will probably opt for steroid injection first.

I suppose it wouldn't be as much a problem if it were in the plucking hand rather than fretting hand.
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I had surgery on my left thumb for Tenosynovitis. Check in, prep, procedure, & check out was a total of about 3 hours. Recovery was about a week of being certain to bump the thumb on every available object possible, and then life was pretty much back to normal. It's about as UN-invasive as a surgery can get. It's only a tiny smidge as invasive as carpal tunnel surgery. You know what's better for you than anyone... but IMHO, I would encourage you to just get the procedure done & get it over with, rather than taking pills or injections, or any of that.
 
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JJR58 said:
@TBird1958. As far as the new avatar, when left to my own devices, unattended, weird things happen. And that's a minimum of 5 nights a week. When I get back home to my computer. I'll put back up the obviously (old) new and improved disturbed avatar.
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Thunderbirds and body parts.............................It's a theme! :woot:
 
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kat888 said:
Ahhh, GenPop.

We have the 'P bass is the greatest of all time' thread of the day, the compressor thread of the day, the coffee table bass of the day thread, the Class D thread of the day, yadda yadda yadda.
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All "opinion" threads. All doomed to scrutiny, ridicule, and a thousand different claims that other people's opinions are "wrong". I think I'll just hang out here, thank you very much;)
 
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