Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

Agreed! never heard of such a thing and no way would i do it.

I read about on TB, and started doing it. (Ahem...I know) Setting the break angles that is.
Unless your saddles are way out, it doesn’t seem to make much difference when you move them to adjust for intonation. Just push down on the string a little.
The strings settle into that same position after a while.

 

[Engle]

Might be more accurate with one of these:
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I’m with you though. I prefer a thin neck, but after a few minutes of playing a bigger neck, I forget about it....unless it’s an upright.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I've got a great connection for New Old Stock (NOS) tubes in France....scammed another set of 6V6GTs built in France under license from Sylvania for the French Navy's F4U Corsairs' Bendix receivers during the Indochina (first Vietnam) war...

so, these went from one of these...

to one of these....boggles my small brain...

 

[Mike.C.]

Thunderbird Thursday!!!

You have the best yard for pics.

 

[PillO]

I've got a great connection for New Old Stock (NOS) tubes in France....scammed another set of 6V6GTs built in France under license from Sylvania for the French Navy's F4U Corsairs' Bendix receivers during the Indochina (first Vietnam) war...

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so, these went from one of these...

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to one of these....boggles my small brain...

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I am amazed at the human inventive spirit that can imagine ways of re-arranging a set of simple things to make new things.

Combining simple machines (levers, inclined planes, pulleys, and gears), adding in some chemistry (stochiometric combustion, lubrication, plastics) and ending up with a car.
Combining simple resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors into logic gates, then combining those logic gates into flip flops and turning those flip flops into digital computers.

Humans have a remarkable ability to break problems into smaller chunks to solve the elements and solve a larger problem. And further to create solutions to problems we didn't know we had.

 

[JJR58]

I am amazed at the human inventive spirit that can imagine ways of re-arranging a set of simple things to make new things.

Divine intervention...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I am amazed at the human inventive spirit that can imagine ways of re-arranging a set of simple things to make new things.

Combining simple machines (levers, inclined planes, pulleys, and gears), adding in some chemistry (stochiometric combustion, lubrication, plastics) and ending up with a car.
Combining simple resistors, capacitors, diodes, and transistors into logic gates, then combining those logic gates into flip flops and turning those flip flops into digital computers.

Humans have a remarkable ability to break problems into smaller chunks to solve the elements and solve a larger problem. And further to create solutions to problems we didn't know we had.

yes, humans can be amazing....what sends me is that these tubes could have been potentially being shot at by the enemy (Soviet fighter or AA guns) in the 50's and now they're going onstage to some rock show with a band.....W O W.....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Divine intervention...

prefer brunettes huh? never see you post this one..

 

[Engle]

I've got a great connection for New Old Stock (NOS) tubes in France....scammed another set of 6V6GTs built in France under license from Sylvania for the French Navy's F4U Corsairs' Bendix receivers during the Indochina (first Vietnam) war...

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so, these went from one of these...

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to one of these....boggles my small brain...

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So very cool!

 

[Engle]

My cover band is adding new songs.
The singer brought this:

I brought this:

Both work with the VP and Cobalt flats!

 

[Inky13]

Here's our very own esteemed club member @fasterpussycat explaining to the ISO board the Bees Dick measurement method....
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Note the honeycomb references where she outlines the origin of the highly scientific bio-measurement method. I'm sure the ISO board will adopt this breakthrough methodology. But as you've noted, there will have to be norms and standards applied to account for temperature differences as well as Bee Species (killer Bees, honey Bees, SOBs...).

I’m sure you’ve taken into account the variable of trapping the killer queen bee in a Volkswagen and driving it into the Houston Astro Dome, thus luring the swarm into an AC induced death.
Serious bonus points if you get my incredibly stupid random reference.

 

[BklynKen]

I've got a great connection for New Old Stock (NOS) tubes in France....scammed another set of 6V6GTs built in France under license from Sylvania for the French Navy's F4U Corsairs' Bendix receivers during the Indochina (first Vietnam) war...

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so, these went from one of these...

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to one of these....boggles my small brain...

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That's so cool! 12DW7 arriving tomorrow to replace the 12AU7 in here. The 12AU7 is way too clean.

 

[JJR58]

That's so cool! 12DW7 arriving tomorrow to replace the 12AU7 in here. The 12AU7 is way too clean.

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Oh man, I like clean. I'm probably the exception.

 

[BklynKen]

Oh man, I like clean. I'm probably the exception.

Then there would be no point to this thing. Go direct.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That's so cool! 12DW7 arriving tomorrow to replace the 12AU7 in here. The 12AU7 is way too clean.

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what brand did you get? why not an X7?

 

[JJR58]

Then there would be no point to this thing. Go direct.

I get it K.

When ever i do go direct, it will be with this.

 

[JIO]

My cover band is adding new songs.
The singer brought this:

I brought this:

Both work with the VP and Cobalt flats!

Right on! I'd love to slam that tone live on the Elvis song! (have always loved the Specials!)

 

[ToddOfThunder]

Not sure if I've told this story. Several of us used to rent a

Thurs...

my dream rig

 

[ToddOfThunder]

Not if you use them for their intended purpose, down tuning. Then the tension should be similar to a 45-105 set tuned to E standard.

The nut may also need to be filed a bit to accommodate the thicker strings. Just something to think about.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

my dream rig

thanks! the amp is running a 2.6Ohm load and set to 2. I like playing with amp/spkr matches.
on this combo, I really dig how the low efficiency NEO magnets call for higher power levels which puts the SVT in the sweet spot at comfortable SPLs..
also, the EQ is disabled so the whole signal path is VT..