Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Yes. Keep up the enablement. It's what we are best at around here. I appreciate that all that work I have done to enable others can now be returned to enable this absolutely required paint boondoggle.
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Thunderbird Club
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- Mar 8, 2011
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Tip jar. We didn’t play for tips, but the jar is always in that club
Octatrack is terrific, but the learning curve is a bear! I love modular synths, but am pretty dumb when it comes to using em
Yessir! Didn’t ask for tips, but that club always has a jar
Out of curiosity, what the consensus on what a Thunderbird II with a headstock repair and general playwear might go for? It strikes me that many of the ones I can find currently listed are a tad high price-wise. I'l keep waiting until I find one for a good price, wish I'd managed to snag that one Elderly had up earlier this year.
Did you at least drink beer from it?Yessir! Didn’t ask for tips, but that club always has a jar
But you don't refuse them.Tip jar. We didn’t play for tips, but the jar is always in that club
Octatrack is terrific, but the learning curve is a bear! I love modular synths, but am pretty dumb when it comes to using em
Yessir! Didn’t ask for tips, but that club always has a jar
Still no tbird in my life, but I'm helping with some wiring for a project that is mashing up a few interesting ideas, one of those being some thunderbird pickups mounted to a jag-esq body... and yeah. Could be interesting!
Gaolee
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I looked at one locally for $1500 a while ago. It had a headstock repair and I decided the price was too high. DOH!
Gaolee
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It would be like a NR. Nothing wrong with that.
FWIW, here's a closeup of the headstock repair on my 67 NR. The first repair in '77 required a graft that cost me the serial #(519096). Last year the headstock snapped completely off just above the nut. The Luthier put graphite reinforcing rods in it. As he said, it might break again, but not there.
Wasn’t that previously @TBird1958
I'm not sure, was my first thought, if it is, it's in San Diego.
You're gonna have to elaborate on that a bit, no idea what you're talking about, lol.
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Julie, he means that that combination of vintage Thunderbird pick ups in a Jag body would be somewhat similar in tone to a Gibson (N)on (R)everse Thunderbird, which are a similar shape but set neck construction.
Non Reverse Thunderbirds are shaped kind of like a Jag with the upper horn longer.
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I wish! Cutting out carbs to address this winter weight that’s piling back on. No booze of any kind for awhile, I’m afraid
