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Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Just because, I checked to see what the exact birthday of the soon to be PinkBird was. September 20, 1991. It was the 450th built in Nashville (that day?!?) according to guitar dater project.
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Maybe you could make/install a ribbon pup? OMG, I'm creating a monster!I feel so important! Pictures of the PinkBird getting its new plumage has driven thoughts of ribbon mics out of my head temporarily. It is only temporary, but there you have it.
I pretty much think JR and I could hang for hours, drinking and flipping discs.You win! Most eclectic tastes in the Thunderbird Club! That’s a good thing![]()
I'd join in but we'd need a cassette deck.I pretty much think JR and I could hang for hours, drinking and flipping discs.

I feel so important! Pictures of the PinkBird getting its new plumage has driven thoughts of ribbon mics out of my head temporarily. It is only temporary, but there you have it.
Maybe you could make/install a ribbon pup? OMG, I'm creating a monster!
I pretty much think JR and I could hang for hours, drinking and flipping discs.
Human? Yer gonna blow his cover.I don’t even know who you are anymore
Haha!
I wouldn’t want to hang out with anyone who wouldn’t want to hang out with Jeff. Fine human, right there

Well maybe a bit...yeah, I see what you’re saying, her style is similar to Chilton. Sound is a bit different; she plays Duo Sonics and Mustangs mostly. Alex was pure Strat AFAIK. She is GREAT live.I like to tune in to the Abbey Road webcam just to watch people re-enact the album cover.
What Big Star would of sounded like with a gal singer.
My deck died years ago. I do have a Dual table and a Technics table though...I'd join in but we'd need a cassette deck.![]()
Human? Yer gonna blow his cover.![]()
There’s still it’s sibling, the Giant Dipper at Belmont in San Diego...and the Giant Dipper, the only all wood coaster left on the west coast...
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Maybe on the West Coast of Merica. We have one:and the Giant Dipper, the only all wood coaster left on the west coast...
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Found a Japanese Instrumental Metal band today. The bass player sometimes plays those ESP Stream basses, which have a thunderbird-like shape:
What are you trying to say?
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Just yankin' everyone's chain...
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Unfair to owls.
Does anyone have a supplier for black chrome pup rings? Thunderbucker Ranch, Stewmac and a few other places I checked only have nickel or gold. Or tort.That black chrome looks slick.