Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Knowing then what you are saying now, I considered replying ("gosh gee-willikers, I had no idea" etc) but knew it was a waste of my time & energy and just ripped up the letter and ignored it. Carlo went through a similar deal with the Vox guy. Meanwhile... there are reoccurring threads with tb buyers of cheap copies making lame justifications ("because it's my money and I'll spend it any way I choose") for companies blatantly manufacturing copies complete with counterfeit logo's. This (that it is criminal) is where I would agree with Ric & Vox attempting to protect their brand - but not over a one-off sorta lookalike that does not have their trademark logo.

There may be value in contacting the lawyers and asking what you are doing to which they object. Some are quite reasonable and explain why they sent the letter. Others don't know why they wrote it and will bluster about
'testing them in court". Not all lawyers are terrible, but there are enough that the reputation of all gets tarnished. Good lawyers will ask what you want to achieve and how much you are willing to spend to achieve that. They will then lay out a strategy - in this case starting with a C&D.

To maintain a trademark, you have to prosecute all infringements, and I suspect that is what is happening - they object to using the name, even if you are saying that it is name-like.

I wholeheartedly agree about the fakes being imported from suspect areas. There has been time, money, and energy invested in producing a recognized good. To produce a "knock-off" dilutes the brand and robs the producer of the good and the owners of the good.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Awesome! My father (Captain) piloted a B-25 Mitchell in WWII. He loved that airplane. There were a couple in disrepair sitting in a local cornfield airstrip outside of Omaha (near Offutt Air Base - Strategic Air Command) where I grew up and he used to take me and my brother to look at them. Years later a couple guys from CA came and fixed one up and flew it out of there. My dad was there 'overseeing' their progress and became friends. A local TV station did a short spot on them and my dad was included.

Would you happen to have a link to that?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Lovely stuffed with cheese and griller on the BBQ (grill)

Or stuffed with cheese, battered and deep fried..

 

[Christine]

Or stuffed with cheese, battered and deep fried..

Scottish surely?

Sounds nice though

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Scottish surely?

Sounds nice though

There's a spot by the coat in Moss Landing that does them like that as well as deep fried artichokes...my favorite..

 

[Engle]

That's what it looks like and sounded like, a Guild maybe?View attachment 3059642

I built an EB3 copy years ago using my 67 EBO as a template. I made a few mistakes, including using a jazz pickup on an angle like that. I’m thinking about replacing it with an Artec mudbucker to match the Gibson mudbucker at the neck.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

There's a spot by the coat in Moss Landing that does them like that as well as deep fried artichokes...my favorite..
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literally a shack by the water..

 

[Engle]

literally a shack by the water..

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We have those around here. I believe they are for drying/smoking salmon.

 

[Christine]

There's a spot by the coat in Moss Landing that does them like that as well as deep fried artichokes...my favorite..
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I'm not sure I like artichokes but they look nice all the same, I like eating meat (@Gaolee behave) more than veg but deep fried veg sounds like a winner

 

[TBird1958]

Left to right -

Pelham (duh) Epiphone with 66 Thunderbuckers, bridge upgrade. The neck is from one of those Vintage Icon/Wilkinson relic basses I have always been interested in, finally found a cheap one to harvest the neck from. I am going to remount the bridge, because it left the factory a few mm off center. Which kind of screws up how the strings align on the neck, the bridge's string spacing adjustment won't completely eliminate it.

Alumnibird has been posted all over TB before, EGC neck on a Epiphone that was completely painted (fretboard too) under the influence of cocaine. Upgraded bridge and Lace Aluma bass bar pickups because aluminum. The worst neck dive in the world. I had a pro convert this one for me.

Epiphone Goth, pretty much stock except for the P-bass neck. Some boo boos and mistakes made but nothing preventing it from being played.

Bluey and Blackie were kind of me learning to use a router, my badass father-in-law gave me his old one. He's the best.

Cool! Do I have you on the club roster? Happy to add you if you'd like.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I'm not sure I like artichokes but they look nice all the same, I like eating meat (@Gaolee behave) more than veg but deep fried veg sounds like a winner

Many vegans (a first world luxury imho) around PC Northern CA...

 

[cornfarmer]

Cool! Do I have you on the club roster? Happy to add you if you'd like.

sure, why not.

 

[JIO]

Would you happen to have a link to that?

The short TV story was done in the late 70's on a local Omaha station so have no idea if it's available anywhere. I did find this though - which has to be the same 2 guys.

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"At this same time ('76), Carl met Joe Davis who had also purchased a derelict B-25 at a small airfield near Omaha, Nebraska. Both Davis and Scholl began looking for B-25 parts, and Scholl discovered the surplus airplane parts business owned by Jack Hardwick in nearby El Monte, California. Hardwick was in the process of disposing of his vast inventory via the scrapper. Scholl and Hardwick sat down in the office and discussed buying all the B-25 parts. Thus, Scholl and Davis went in together to purchase Hardwick's entire B-25 inventory."

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The short TV story was done in the late 70's on a local Omaha station so have no idea if it's available anywhere. I did find this though - which has to be the same 2 guys.

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"At this same time ('76), Carl met Joe Davis who had also purchased a derelict B-25 at a small airfield near Omaha, Nebraska. Both Davis and Scholl began looking for B-25 parts, and Scholl discovered the surplus airplane parts business owned by Jack Hardwick in nearby El Monte, California. Hardwick was in the process of disposing of his vast inventory via the scrapper. Scholl and Hardwick sat down in the office and discussed buying all the B-25 parts. Thus, Scholl and Davis went in together to purchase Hardwick's entire B-25 inventory."

Part of Porfirio Rubirosa's divorce settlement after Doris Duke included not one but two (!) B-25 Mitchells....some guys have all the luck..

years later he ate it while speeding in his Ferrari 250GT around Bois de Boulogne in Paris...oh well..

 

[Gaolee]

It's been like that in CA forever...now FL? Weird, Cubans don't eat spicy..

The kind of spicy I like challenges Mexicans and Indians. It would kill the average Cuban or other Latin American. I was very surprised when I found out how non-firey most Latin cuisines really are. Cuban food, at least in NYC, is spectacularly greasy. Good, but full up with suet and lard.

 

[Gaolee]

If I live to see 2019 I will have lived a longer life than any male in my family ever has.

Well then here is to welcoming in 2020 with you!

 

[JJR58]

Well then here is to welcoming in 2020 with you!

And I thought I wouldn't make it to being 42. Turning 60 at the end of this year seems like a miracle to me.

 

[Gaolee]

This was a bit of a tough weekend. Played a 9pm-1:30 gig in St Louis Friday night, had to be loaded in for an event at Busch stadium by 10:00 Saturday morning. Played noon-2:30, loaded up the van and drove 3 hours north to play a street fair from 7-10. We were obscenely over served after the gig. You’d think we’d know better by now! Got up early to make the 6 hour drive in time for our singer to make his gigs in Nashville. He plays two, four hour shows on sundays. Not sure how he’s going to pull it off! Some bad choices were made

Bad choices are necessary. Saturday morning was proof of that for me. I got enough unaltered sleep last night that this evening's show should be reasonably competent.

 

[Gaolee]

The fleet.

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The teal one is a complete knockout!

I hate automatic spell corrections.

 

[Count Bassie]

The kind of spicy I like challenges Mexicans and Indians. It would kill the average Cuban or other Latin American. I was very surprised when I found out how non-firey most Latin cuisines really are. Cuban food, at least in NYC, is spectacularly greasy. Good, but full up with suet and lard.

Miami sounds like a much leaner version of same. Miami is very Cuban, also sub-tropical of course. I don't know what exactly that has to do with it, but I'll venture that all that grease and the Miami heat/humidity is desirable to avoid.