Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

What is @Dr_Feelgoood212 doing reading TB Xmas morning? Don't you have a train set to put together, dinky cars to play with, or siblings to fight with?

 

[GonePlaid]

No, I used a piece of 1/4" Al rod and a 1/4" hole drilled into the side of a Schaller chromed brass knob. Interference fit just like the originals...probably why a lot of them are missing the lever. I sliced the same rod into 1/16" tall cylinders to look like pole pieces on the handmade pup covers topping Duncan SCP quarter pounders.


The original UK Phantom had single coils very suspiciously like the first gen Precisions, only with 1/4" mags instead of 3/16" and overwound. HOT! In fact most of the bass except for the body/headstock shape is early Precision like. 1-3/4" nut, baseball bat neck profile, threaded saddle bridge and those pups. It also balances great on the strap. 8lbs.

Something got lost in translation when they moved production to Italy. Pencil necks, weak pickups, and super light body with a bunch of wood removed. Neck dive city. I used to play mine Wyman style because of that, even after pounding a bunch of lead fishing sinkers into the body wherever I could. The early EKO ones had that goofy Gretsch style back pad, by the 70s they'd ditched that.

As far as the sound of the UK one, sounds a lot like my vintage 'birds. If I was playing in a three piece it would be my weapon of choice...Tbirds are becoming a little too mainstream.

Here's the build thread on the two Phantoms I built:
1965 VOX Phantom IV Clones, two of them to menace.
This is the other one:

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"Tbirds are becoming a little too mainstream"?

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

What is @Dr_Feelgoood212 doing reading TB Xmas morning? Don't you have a train set to put together, dinky cars to play with, or siblings to fight with?

Only child, and we do presents on Xmas eve cause we make a drinking game out of it and that wouldn't be socially acceptable at 7 in the morning

 

[PillO]

Only child, and we do presents on Xmas eve cause we make a drinking game out of it and that wouldn't be socially acceptable at 7 in the morning

1. You poor kid. You will never know the joy of fighting with your siblings, getting them in trouble, or the unimaginable joy at seeing justice rendered to them at the hand of a parent. Only children miss out on so much.


2. In what world is drinking at 7am Xmas morning unacceptable? How else do you plan to be three sheets to the wind by lunch time, sober by mid afternoon, and ready to drink again by dinner time?

 

[GonePlaid]

Only child, and we do presents on Xmas eve cause we make a drinking game out of it and that wouldn't be socially acceptable at 7 in the morning

"It's 5 o'clock somewhere" [I made that up]

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

1. You poor kid. You will never know the joy of fighting with your siblings, getting them in trouble, or the unimaginable joy at seeing justice rendered to them at the hand of a parent. Only children miss out on so much.


2. In what world is drinking at 7am Xmas morning unacceptable? How else do you plan to be three sheets to the wind by lunch time, sober by mid afternoon, and ready to drink again by dinner time?

Ya but I don't have to share anything!!

That's what college was for.

 

[GonePlaid]

1. You poor kid. You will never know the joy of fighting with your siblings, getting them in trouble, or the unimaginable joy at seeing justice rendered to them at the hand of a parent. Only children miss out on so much.


2. In what world is drinking at 7am Xmas morning unacceptable? How else do you plan to be three sheets to the wind by lunch time, sober by mid afternoon, and ready to drink again by dinner time?

 

[TBird1958]

Probably Our Queen @TBird1958 or @godofthunder59. I have 12 but pretty sure they have more.

It's bad luck to count them, but you have more than I do Andy.

 

[PillO]

"It's 5 o'clock somewhere" [I made that up]

I drop the kiddo at her mother's at noon. Then commences the Xmas of doom, which involves a lot of high volume bass frequencies, several craft beers, some fine single malt, and a bit of top shelf gin. Maybe a few pissed off neighbours (if they haven't wisely gone to visit relatives) and some police presence...

 

[Count Bassie]

Billy Sheehan said he fixed a too deep cut G string nut slot by shimming it with a little piece of paper...

I remember that. I used a bit of a paper match once.

 

[JJR58]

1. You poor kid. You will never know the joy of fighting with your siblings, getting them in trouble, or the unimaginable joy at seeing justice rendered to them at the hand of a parent. Only children miss out on so much.


2. In what world is drinking at 7am Xmas morning unacceptable? How else do you plan to be three sheets to the wind by lunch time, sober by mid afternoon, and ready to drink again by dinner time?

I’d already be drinking now if I didn’t have to take my cuz to the airport.

 

[PillO]

I remember that. I used a bit of a paper match once.

What did the paper match?

 

[Nocturnal]

nice! no NRs?..

The only NR's I still own are the Epi versions (the white and green one in the pic) and the Fernandes Spector copy of the flipped over Bird. I sold the Bach earlier this year.

 

[Count Bassie]

What did the paper match?

My nut.

 

[Count Bassie]

1. You poor kid. You will never know the joy of fighting with your siblings, getting them in trouble, or the unimaginable joy at seeing justice rendered to them at the hand of a parent. Only children miss out on so much.


2. In what world is drinking at 7am Xmas morning unacceptable? How else do you plan to be three sheets to the wind by lunch time, sober by mid afternoon, and ready to drink again by dinner time?

I too am an only child. I eat slow, still tend to be somewhat slow to violence and have only been the recipient of parental retribution.

Thank God for Wing Chun, bitter ale, bass, and you miscreants. And 5 o'clock, somewhere. .

 

[TBird1958]

I too am an only child. I eat slow, still tend to be somewhat slow to violence and have only been the recipient of parental retribution.

Thank God for Wing Chun, bitter ale, bass, and you miscreants. And 5 o'clock, somewhere. .

This guy!

 

[Count Bassie]

This guy!

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And a Merry Christmas to you, Queen of all us!

 

[Inky13]

I drop the kiddo at her mother's at noon. Then commences the Xmas of doom, which involves a lot of high volume bass frequencies, several craft beers, some fine single malt, and a bit of top shelf gin. Maybe a few pissed off neighbours (if they haven't wisely gone to visit relatives) and some police presence...

So a traditional old fashioned holiday then?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I remember that. I used a bit of a paper match once.

everybody did back then....didn't look good but...

 

[Engle]

Never...would be a mess... one is staying in bead....the double brutal bc rich zombie.... the blackbird standard.... if I ever get the Ampeg Amb1 I’ll half step the blackbird and standard the ampeg.

Oh and I bought the GEDDY LEE BIG BEAUTIFUL BOOK B@§§ at Costco for 52 Canadian dollars!

Problem is I can’t open it until tomorrow because if she bought it for me then I will have ruined another surprise..... have to wait in case I have to take the one I bought back

I’m going to Costco...Yikes! Now I have to go to Costco?