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Thunderbird Club

#73,381
GonePlaid said:
OK. That's just too cool.:thumbsup:
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:)Thanks - It started out an overly heavy ash body with sparkle finish. (it was cheap from Stew Mac) I used various widths of forstner drill-bits to remove as much wood as I could from the back. It also has a brass bridge plate on the back that the brass bridge is bolted to like a sandwich to dynamically anchor the bridge into the body. Even removing all that wood - because the neck (ebony/wenge) is heavy - the finished bass is still heavy but not excessively so. The pu is a Novak Darkstar and it has one stacked 500k pot. (V/T) All of that resulted in an amazing instrument regardless of looks. It sounds massive, like a very musical wrecking-ball. I feel that every aspect of it contributed to how it sounds. It wasn't planned out - it evolved and it's alive!



 
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JIO said:
:)Thanks - It started out an overly heavy ash body with sparkle finish. (it was cheap from Stew Mac) I used various widths of forstner drill-bits to remove as much wood as I could from the back. It also has a brass bridge plate on the back that the brass bridge is bolted to like a sandwich to dynamically anchor the bridge into the body. Even removing all that wood - because the neck (ebony/wenge) is heavy - the finished bass is still heavy but not excessively so. The pu is a Novak Darkstar and it has one stacked 500k pot. (V/T) All of that resulted in an amazing instrument regardless of looks. It sounds massive, like a very musical wrecking-ball. I feel that every aspect of it contributed to how it sounds. It wasn't planned out - it evolved and it's alive!


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Very impressive, brother!
 
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JIO said:
Apparently the slots do help by isolating each string section - not sure it really does anything but it was worth trying. Brass nuts can either help or not. I always test a bass I make with a few different types (bone/brass/maple/ebony/tusk) to see which sounds best. I also have made dual material nuts of brass/ebony or brass/tusk or bone. In general this Warmoth neck is on a very special bass that sounds amazing. When you add up all the particulars, I'd have to believe they all contributed to that awesomeness.

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Echoing Mark here, but that's a thing of wonder.
 
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GonePlaid said:
Every once in awhile someone trying to be"funny"hollers"FREE BIRD".The crowd laughs and then we play it. Nyaah,nyaah.:smug:-Be careful what you ask for!:D
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That's very cool of you guys to play requests when you know them. :thumbsup:

I was at a local bar listening to some friends' band doing covers mostly when a slightly inebriated woman asked the lead singer if they could play a song, don't remember which, and my friend responded with, "We're not a jukebox." TBH, I was a little disappointed to see her dismissed in such a way.

Even if the lady was told that they stick to their playlist it would have been better than the "jukebox" response.
 
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Larry V said:
That's very cool of you guys to play requests when you know them. :thumbsup:

I was at a local bar listening to some friends' band doing covers mostly when a slightly inebriated woman asked the lead singer if they could play a song, don't remember which, and my friend responded with, "We're not a jukebox." TBH, I was a little disappointed to see her dismissed in such a way.

Even if the lady was told that they stick to their playlist it would have been better than the "jukebox" response.
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If that had happened at"Archies"in Ft. Pierce,the sozzled woman would have been the owner.The "playlist" answer is more diplomatic and might save your gig.Ya never know if the requester has some influence.
 
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JJR58 said:
Wait a minute, i had this, and it had an ebony board. Ok, 2 Gibsons with ebony boards then.
Old and losin it, that's my excuse.

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Don't feel bad, Jeff.

A week or so ago, we started a few pages of all of us listing the basses we've owned and I failed miserably at remembering what I've owned and I've only been playing bass for 5 years.

I completely forgot that I had a Gibson SG Bass in walnut. Anniversary Edition as well... beautiful looking bass but pretty unremarkable sounding bass to me, TBH. Once the honeymoon phase was over, every time I'd play it, I'd be wondering why I wasn't playing one of my Tbirds.

I never went back to edit my list... who has time to look back through a brazzillion posts. :laugh:
 
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Larry V said:
Don't feel bad, Jeff.

A week or so ago, we started a few pages of all of us listing the basses we've owned and I failed miserably at remembering what I've owned and I've only been playing bass for 5 years.

I completely forgot that I had a Gibson SG Bass in walnut. Anniversary Edition as well... beautiful looking bass but pretty unremarkable sounding bass to me, TBH. Once the honeymoon phase was over, every time I'd play it, I'd be wondering why I wasn't playing one of my Tbirds.

I never went back to edit my list... who has time to look back through a brazzillion posts. :laugh:
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I'd mentioned my first,a Phillipine Beatle bass copy,and my EB3. I'd forgotten that was EB3#2;EB3#1 was stolen from me.:rage:( it was in the trunk of my '63 Volvo-trunks didn't latch automatically then. I guess someone saw me from across the parking lot at the college.I needed it for rehearsal 2nd hour but couldn't take it in my 1st hour class and the bandroom wasn't open at 6AM)
 
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GonePlaid said:
I'd mentioned my first,a Phillipine Beatle bass copy,and my EB3. I'd forgotten that was EB3#2;EB3#1 was stolen from me.:rage:( it was in the trunk of my '63 Volvo-trunks didn't latch automatically then. I guess someone saw me from across the parking lot at the college.I needed it for rehearsal 2nd hour but couldn't take it in my 1st hour class and the bandroom wasn't open at 6AM)
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Side note: I was majoring in something other than music but playing w/ one of the big band labs.At the time there was only 1(UB)player at the school. I had a free hour so I volunteered to help out the second group.At the time my" amp" was cobbled together from hi-fi components(didn't have the greatest sound but was better than a poke in the eye). I didn't expect anyone to kiss my keester but the conductor never thanked me for giving up my free hour. He DID,however,bitch about my tone so next rehearsal and from then on I found something else to do:smug:
 
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GBassNorth said:
Rumblefish - Hey I have one of those, and not a bit of Tort on it!
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Reverend Rumblefish 5L (one of only four made in this finish). The "Blackwood" finish is actually Formica and it sounds great! They had some truly funky finishes (fish eye, lava, Blackwood, etc).

I now return you to your regularly scheduled Thunderbird goodness.
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Most awesome! Il, have one someday. For now I have a Fellowship, but the two are completely different animals
 
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Larry V said:
Don't feel bad, Jeff.

A week or so ago, we started a few pages of all of us listing the basses we've owned and I failed miserably at remembering what I've owned and I've only been playing bass for 5 years.

I completely forgot that I had a Gibson SG Bass in walnut. Anniversary Edition as well... beautiful looking bass but pretty unremarkable sounding bass to me, TBH. Once the honeymoon phase was over, every time I'd play it, I'd be wondering why I wasn't playing one of my Tbirds.

I never went back to edit my list... who has time to look back through a brazzillion posts. :laugh:
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When we were all doing that list, there was no way i was going to remember all that i had, but the Ripper wasn't long ago, comparitively speaking.
 
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Just added SD pickups and Hipshot bridge. Sounds amazing. Gotta hunt down some chrome tuners and a black-white-black pickguard...

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