I am perfectly happy with my blingy silver-blue grille. Just because I occasionally think 'maybe they should match' doesn't mean I don't come to my senses two minutes later, and say to myself 'looks cool like it is'.
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Thunderbird Club
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I am perfectly happy with my blingy silver-blue grille. Just because I occasionally think 'maybe they should match' doesn't mean I don't come to my senses two minutes later, and say to myself 'looks cool like it is'.
Cool thanks. Would you know where I can buy an accurate TBird pickguard decal?
Gaolee
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Around here, inertia and good sense fights with the urge to monkey with everything relentlessly and remorselessly. Misusing and modifying things is only restrained by laziness and lack of time.
Sloth and time didn't stop me from making a couple dozen sound panels for the Basement of Bad Ideas, complete with cloth covers stretched on frames around the sound deadener material. That stuff is so ugly that I had to do it. I also made new grill cloth covers for a couple old Gibson guitar amp speakers that are now small (and kinda crappy) PA speakers.
4 days from Osaka to here! Unbelievable.
All the way in a thinly padded Epi Gig Bag, with some cardboard reinforcing at each end and then bubble wrapped the lot. Amazingly neck is not broken!
Sailed through customs.
Pics to come.
Initial thoughts.
OMG what a long headstock. The bass feels enormously long and I am used to TBirds. The neck appears to be be further "out of the body" by an inch or so compared to my 08 Gibson ie in about the same positions as my '90 Greco. My 77 Greco TB II has the neck in a similar position to the Gibson.
It won't fit in the Greco cases and just goes in my Gibson case.
Finish is superb. Just excellent.
Frets excellent. No nasty ends like so many of the cheaper Fenders often have. No buzzing.
Bridge and tailpiece don't look cheap at all.
The tail piece looks like Scott's.
Tuned it to pitch (shipped detuned)- played like a dream all up and down the neck and the intonation is spot on. 1.5 mm at the 12th.
The fretboard looks like rosewood but I reckon it is not as porous.
Pickups sound like they could be Chinabuckers (allowing for the newer and different strings on this)
Full size pots etc and the pickups appear to have the same braided leads as the Chinabuckers.
Running out to buy some strap locks.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
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Some more pics of my dirty bird acquisition:
Diggin that HS. Not trying to be snarky, but looks like new strings are in order.
godofthunder59
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No but I know where you can get a pg with logo
Thank you. The concern is will it fit properly...
Can you let me know who to contact?
godofthunder59
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I just channeled my inner Mark and put in a dukeofrock bid on another Shure 330 microphone. It may or may not work. If it does, then I just got one for dirt cheap. If it doesn't work, then I'll have to get it repaired, but it will still be less expensive than buying one at the normal price. I'll have four of them when it arrives. There's some screws loose - who but a nutbag have more than one Morely Rotating Wah and more than one Shure 330 microphone and more than one Thunderbird? It could be worse. I could have 27 identical trucker jackets.
That'd explain the lot of us.
Hell, we're all in a state of Rock and Roll Suspension anyway.
I was really hoping that link would lead to tort like cloth....
Haji
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Yes, but the neck has to be adjusted (dead flat, I think, but I'm not certain) for it to matter. I've heard stories of the PLEKalizer (That's what I would call the cutter if I had invented it) cutting into the fretboard when steps were left out of the pre processes.
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Travel day today...been in this dang van too long!
