Thunderbird Club

[BklynKen]

No Dunkin in Canada (that I know about). Instead we have Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons is good in that it offers employment opportunities to unskilled workers for competitive wages with flexible hours. But it is where the unwashed masses go to get coffee-like excessively heated dirty dishwater. It is where many people get what I think is terrible coffee. I'm a coffee snob (as well as a beer snob, scotch snob, gin snob, and probably others that aren't coming to mind immediately).

We have Tim Horton's here. I tried it once and thought it was awful.

 

[PillO]

Posted before but if riding your T-bird in a more standard position - this trick helps bring the body against yours and stop any tendency to neck dive.
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I probably wouldn't dive if you didn't have those weight relief holes between the bridge pickup and the bridge and the one above the neck pickup.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I probably wouldn't dive if you didn't have those weight relief holes between the bridge pickup and the bridge and the one above the neck pickup.

 

[Kriegs]

I'm a coffee snob (as well as a beer snob, scotch snob, gin snob, and probably others that aren't coming to mind immediately).

Rumor has it that he's the snobbiest snob that ever snobbed...

 

[PillO]

Did they win?

Don't know; I just don't care enough to find out. It has an interesting parallel to the ongoing nonsense.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Don't know; I just don't care enough to find out. It has an interesting parallel to the ongoing nonsense.

“Kids’ meal” just seems like the kind of obvious, generic thing that seems like it shouldn’t be trademarkable, or at least enforceable.

 

[PillO]

Rumor has it that he's the snobbiest snob that ever snobbed...

I'm a comment snob too. So I only reply to posts that meet my quality standards.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm a comment snob too. So I only reply to posts that meet my quality standards.

Clearly you need better standards. I have a spare set I would trade for a bird...

 

[PillO]

“Kids’ meal” just seems like the kind of obvious, generic thing that seems like it shouldn’t be trademarkable, or at least enforceable.

It wasn't kids meal, it was big kids meal. I have to start thinking about phrases I can trademark. Maybe "phrase I can trademark" should be one.
Phase 1 - trademark a phrase
Phase 2 - ???
Phase 3 - profit.

 

[PillO]

Clearly you need better standards. I have a spare set I would trade for a bird...

You know, ex-wives get rather upset when you let them know that you have raised your standards...

 

[Gaolee]

You know, ex-wives get rather upset when you let them know that you have raised your standards...

I skipped the ex and went straight to the improvement. It saved a whole lot of trouble. The potential ex who I parted ways with some time prior to meeting my wife turned up again a few years later and provided me with additional reason to have moved on.

 

[PillO]

Posted before but if riding your T-bird in a more standard position - this trick helps bring the body against yours and stop any tendency to neck dive.
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I think one of our members also move the rear strap button higher and that relieved both dive and forward tilt.

 

[Gaolee]

I think one of our members also move the rear strap button higher and that relieved both dive and forward tilt.

There's also the strap button placement that Dingwall uses. I don't remember exactly where the lower button is on the back of the body, but it's not on the edge or in the center of the bass.

 

[GonePlaid]

Royal Blood?

No idea. Only saw them once.

 

[PillO]

There's also the strap button placement that Dingwall uses. I don't remember exactly where the lower button is on the back of the body, but it's not on the edge or in the center of the bass.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Speak for yourself, man. I'm currently in Lower Manhattan. Although within a five-block radius I have at least four Starbucks, I also have just as many much superior alternatives.

no doubt...on can always find "better"..I meant available quickly through a drive-through.

 

[GonePlaid]

no doubt...on can always find "better"..I meant available quickly through a drive-through.

I always went inside to get my coffee. The Freightliner wouldn't fit in the drive-thru.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

No Dunkin in Canada (that I know about). Instead we have Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons is good in that it offers employment opportunities to unskilled workers for competitive wages with flexible hours. But it is where the unwashed masses go to get coffee-like excessively heated dirty dishwater. It is where many people get what I think is terrible coffee. I'm a coffee snob (as well as a beer snob, scotch snob, gin snob, and probably others that aren't coming to mind immediately).

coffee (among other things) snob as well....but if I really want good coffee, I invent a reason for a business trip to Italy or Austria...

 

[PillO]

coffee (among other things) snob as well....but if I really want good coffee, I invent a reason for a business trip to Italy or Austria...

Many years ago, I decided that life is too short for coffee. I threw out the instant coffee (except the jar of decaf; that is only around because that is what my mother wants).

I paid for the top shelf machine and when I want coffee, I can have excellent coffee. Sometimes when I am out I will have coffee (because no one can make decent tea except in England), but it isn't as good as mine except in Italy.

 

[DDXdesign]

Thanks for all the strap button comments - I actually wasn't even talking about neck dive; was talking about the flipping forward along the axis of the neck, putting the back of the bass more toward the ceiling and the face of the bass toward the floor.
I did do the strap-over-the-wing thing yesterday to counter that, but the strap is even more too short when I do that =0) Definitely want a longer one to sling the bird lower, it looks ridiculous up on my chest, lol.

Current strap button placement on the neck heel is centered to the neck, directly under the 17th fret. Love to get that over to 15 for reach (all else being equal, strap at 17 on a 30" actually pushes the first position out farther than strap at 12 on a 34" by about half a fret!) but then it'd be very close to the end of the heel, so I started thinking of a post-and-button coming off the upper bout.