Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

@JIO is in a much better position to take that on than I am. But the neck could well be ok. The neck on the Silvertone in my Avitar (which I don’t count among my players these days) is remarkably straight and the truss rod works fine. That Teisco has the same tuners and bridge as the Silvertone. I’d like to see that bird kept as a “road worn” though. If @JIO picks it up, I would like the bridge to replace mine should it get changed out....

I just finished cleaning and setting up an old Squier Strat that was given to me (except I didn’t have time to level and crown the frets) and cleaned up an old Carvin Pro Bass 100 amp over the holidays and there are way too many other projects waiting to get done. It took me quit awhile to get to those relatively simple projects.

I think I have a bridge like that from an EB3 copy. I’ll go dig it out if you want.

 

[PillO]

Your room is ready at Bellevue.

You booked me a hotel in Washington?

 

[JJR58]

Indeed exotic. Rhode Island isn't an island at all.

That's the beauty of it. Unlike this dank borough i live in. Manhattan, Long Island. Oh please........

 

[JJR58]

You booked me a hotel in Washington?

Wait, DC? Certainly not the state.

 

[JIO]

If you have an ounce of enthusiasm and imagination, projects multiply like rabbits. If you have two ounces of enthusiasm and imagination, you are buried in projects.

Imagination is a switch always engaged - time and $ are my only governors.

 

[MCF]

Came out when I still lived there as a teen - everyone I knew loved the song but had no idea why it was named that... "...Omaha way... from where we came" ??? Skip Spence (who wrote the song) was Canadian born...



In 2008, Skip Spence's song "Omaha" was listed as number 95 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".[13] The song was described there as follows: "On their best single, Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis and Skip Spence compete in a three-way guitar battle for two and a quarter red-hot minutes, each of them charging at Spence's song from different angles, no one yielding to anyone else."[13] Writing in 1967,[14] shortly after the album's release, Crawdaddy! creator Paul Williams described "Omaha" as "the toughest cut on the album (and) one of the finest recorded examples of the wall-of-sound approach in rock. It surges and roars like a tidal wave restrained by a seawall."[15]

Love me some Grapes! That album came out when I was 9 or 10 and expanding my horizons from the Beatles to The Airplane, Love, the Springfield...I had an older cousin who had really good taste.

 

[MCF]

You Guys are exotic...Providence RI for me..

San Diego for me. Hardly exotic.

 

[MCF]

I think I have a bridge like that from an EB3 copy. I’ll go dig it out if you want.

Very kind of you. If you find it, let me know and we’ll work out arrangements....

 

[RedVee]

Check out this project. If I had time to spare, I'd be all over something like this:
1965 St. George GB-1 Bass Guitar - Teisco? - Thunderbird - Very Rare - Original | eBay
Funny how the ad copy the owner found says they are made in the US, while the back plate has made in Japan stamped in it.[/QUOTE

Looks to have the same bridge and bridge cover as my Challenge.

Mine has no (visible) truss rod - don’t know if that matters to you guys.

I’ll be putting some packing under the neck soon as the action is way high.

BTW I quite like my Challenge bass, cane with the OHSC with odd graffiti comments all over. It has a certain ‘cool’ to it.

 

[Count Bassie]

Indeed exotic. Rhode Island isn't an island at all.

Rhode Island was originally in reference to Aquidneck Island, which is where Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth are located. Our state was originally called Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations, which Plantations were in the coastline on the mainland across the water. And they were really plantations...
So originally, Rhode Island really was.

 

[JJR58]

9:45. Late for me on a Friday night.

 

[GonePlaid]

Wisenheimer.

Thanks for noticing.

 

[PillO]

Rhode Island was originally in reference to Aquidneck Island, which is where Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth are located. Our state was originally called Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations, which Plantations were in the coastline on the mainland across the water. And they were really plantations...
So originally, Rhode Island really was.

Strangely, I did know that.

 

[ThaCoast]

As far as the brightness goes... Are you talking about that 'new string zing' before any string is broken in? Sorry you had the bad experience putting them on... I guess 2 in the same pack that snapped stretching would sour me too. I do not abide a wussy D & G! Nor overly bright ones... perhaps that's why I gravitate towards the 55-110 set of a brand more than one person has complained about having a short life span I change em about every 3-4 months, and I'd guess that's with a 8-10hr average use time per week.

Said it before... Wow this thread moves fast!

It`s cause the cobalts compared to the regulars have some sort of blend in materials to enhance the brightness of the string &, according to them, adds in the output of the string response. But as i've said in my early post - even that enhancement to the brightness died for me after a couple of days. & since i've multiple basses, i bounce back & forth between each, so it probably got 4 hours of play tops. & then lifeless kind of tone, still bright but unlike my D'addario strings which break in & let the brightness mellow out over a few weeks, the cobalts dipped quick. I don't need over bright strings, just enough to cut through in my band's music style - even if we're a three piece composition. It's loud, fast, heavy punk - punch & attack is what my bass tone is.

Sour experience with the regular EB strings, the cobalts weren't a better improvement for/to me. Hence my preference for D'addario, & GHS once i get around to finding the gauge I want & slap it on my Ibanez GaxB medium scale.

 

[GonePlaid]

It`s cause the cobalts compared to the regulars have some sort of blend in materials to enhance the brightness of the string &, according to them, adds in the output of the string response. But as i've said in my early post - even that enhancement to the brightness died for me after a couple of days. & since i've multiple basses, i bounce back & forth between each, so it probably got 4 hours of play tops. & then lifeless kind of tone, still bright but unlike my D'addario strings which break in & let the brightness mellow out over a few weeks, the cobalts dipped quick. I don't need over bright strings, just enough to cut through in my band's music style - even if we're a three piece composition. It's loud, fast, heavy punk - punch & attack is what my bass tone is.

Sour experience with the regular EB strings, the cobalts weren't a better improvement for/to me. Hence my preference for D'addario, & GHS once i get around to finding the gauge I want & slap it on my Ibanez GaxB medium scale.

Because we do (mostly) 60s/70s rock and light jazz, I like a mellow-ish tone. But the Chromes that had been on my '67 were getting old, so I tried the EB Cobalt Flats. I have to roll the tone on the 'neck' pup from 7-ish down to 5-ish to keep from being too bright but I like having the flexibility with just a minor tweak of the bass. BTW, I was messing around w/ the bass earlier and turned on the bridge pup for a coupla minutes. Nope! My TB IV might as well be a TB II.

 

[JIO]

To me it just looks weird to see the guys that play with the bass(often a hollow body)with their right elbow at the end of the bass. If I tried that with my '67, I'd hafta hire someone to play the first 3 positions.

In the late 60's the bass player for The Kinks played his Flying V guitar with his right arm down the middle of the V!

 

[JIO]

Love me some Grapes! That album came out when I was 9 or 10 and expanding my horizons from the Beatles to The Airplane, Love, the Springfield...I had an older cousin who had really good taste.

The Buffalo Springfield were my favorite band then. Then I saw them on TV wearing leather fringe coats, western hats w/side-burns and long hair and I was hooked!

 

[JimmyM]

In the late 60's the bass player for The Kinks played his Flying V guitar with his right arm down the middle of the V!

That was actually Dave Davies, the guitarist:

 

[Nocturnal]

Check out this project. If I had time to spare, I'd be all over something like this:
1965 St. George GB-1 Bass Guitar - Teisco? - Thunderbird - Very Rare - Original | eBay
Funny how the ad copy the owner found says they are made in the US, while the back plate has made in Japan stamped in it.

I have seen a couple of these over the years. I believe the others were 2 pickup models with a burst finish.

I didn't know Bach was Czech (is that what the hs reads? Czech made?) I'm 1/2 of Czech ancestry.

Bach are/were made in Prague back then. I think they still are but I don't know for sure.

 

[Markamb1]

The blackbird holds tune very well...it dipped a bit today and when I corrected it....I swear it could be just me but it just tightened right up....its radius or range of circular motion while vibrating seemed to restrict it sound dead but looking at it it was still vibrating just in very tight circles. Very weird. I started to doubt the observation but I also noticed that the proper intonation happens to but the bridge saddle behind the string winding coarseness. Never had this with any other guitar.