Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

It’s become crazy down here. Just trying to do weekly grocery shopping was a nightmare. Tons of hoarding going on. Lots of empty shelves. Reduced store hours. I’m just waiting for the Gov to say everything should close and everyone should stay home.

Already happened here in RI. We're a move away from the National Guard imposing order.

 

[godofthunder59]

Nice Toronado!!

'73 Thunderbird

 

[Butcherboy]

Already happened here in RI. We're a move away from the National Guard imposing order.

Corona timeout in Europe, all gigs are or will be cancelled until we don‘t know.... so it‘s time to work on medium scale thunderbirds....

 

[GonePlaid]

View attachment 3745010 Made some progress with the black '68 NR. Headstock resprayed, Thunderbucker installed, setup and ready to rock! Plays and sounds great! I'll do a video demo soon. View attachment 3745009 View attachment 3745009 View attachment 3745011 View attachment 3745013

 

[Gaolee]

If that doesn't happen regularly on your campus, you are not at an engineering college. Of course, some people start before college...

Dad was a university chem prof. Sometimes his answer to questions was, "I'll show you soon." Sometimes he didn't wait for me to ask. My first sodium reaction viewing was at UTEP, under a hood in a lab. Then he told me about the student who ignored instructions and put a big hunk of sodium into a Pyrex beaker with a liter of water in it- without closing the safety shield and using the embedded gloves, and with no protective gear. Student went to the hospital with burns and to have glass dug out of his skin, and the lab was shut down for a day or two. Pretty sure the student was kicked out of university; I know he failed Dad's class and was PNG. He was fortunate to still have both eyes intact.

Dad also once handed 8 y/o (IIRC) me a liter of mercury with no warning as to what to expect. (Dad's hand darted down in case he had to catch it.) In case you don't know, that's 13.5 kg (~30 lb). Gotta love toxic liquid metal (it was in a heavy duty plastic bottle).

My high school best friend's father was a metallurgist. There was a strobe light in his basement. There were bottles of mercury and squirt bottles. We were about 13. I admit nothing.

 

[Gaolee]

Figured this was the place to ask.
I considering picking up a Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV.
Just wondering how the neck would handle a set of high tension flat wounds like the roto jazz 77's

Just fine in my experience.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I love their Creamy Jalapeño Salsa - it is the stuff of legends! I’m in Corpus Christi and we got our first Chuy’s a couple of years ago; but honestly if they would have just opened up a drive thru Creamy Jalapeño Salsa joint, then I would frequent that as much as I do Chuy’s.

You can always just order a pint to go.

 

[TBird1958]

It's a good time for solitary pursuits, cross dressing and wood shedding seem to work out well.

Time out and scratch build a model - it's quite soothing, this took about two weeks.

Now it's filthy...

 

[BklynKen]

Just heard last night my St Patrick’s day gig got cancelled.

Sorry. Just got the news that the entire tour is canceled. Really bummed.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

We have two, each equidistant from the house, about three miles. They do great business and feels local even though it’s a chain. Much better than that other grilled pollo place with the drive thru window for not much more. A favorite with us too.

They work hard to both stay Chuys and feel like part of the community.

 

[GonePlaid]

Already happened here in RI. We're a move away from the National Guard imposing order.

Scary times.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Sorry. Just got the news that the entire tour is canceled. Really bummed.

So sorry to hear this.

 

[GonePlaid]

Sorry. Just got the news that the entire tour is canceled. Really bummed.

That sux.

 

[MCF]

A little blue today. The gang said the 7ender could be in the pic because it’s blue.

 

[Gaolee]

We plan to eat out just as much as ever, if not more, in part to support our favorite restaurants and servers. They're all pretty savvy, and we're taking reasonable precautions (as we do every flu season).
I know some churches are cancelling services, going to livestream services or parking lot services, etc. Ours and the one I'm helping at both plan to have services tomorrow (expecting reduced attendance) so I'll be playing bass and having a blast.

Our church cancelled services until April. So we are apostate for a little while, I suppose. Does that mean Lent is cancelled, too? Hmmmm... We went to out favorite neighborhood restaurant on Friday, and will probably be there more than usual until this is over to support them how we can. A friend at the gym says the gym is the only place she has been, besides home, for the last two weeks. She says she is going a bit stir crazy. This will pass in time. The main thing is to be as safe as possible, but to stay sane and support each other as well.

 

[MCF]

My high school best friend's father was a metallurgist. There was a strobe light in his basement. There were bottles of mercury and squirt bottles. We were about 13. I admit nothing.

Glad you’re still alive. They’d dispatch the hazmat unit to that house today...

 

[TBird1958]

Sorry. Just got the news that the entire tour is canceled. Really bummed.

Hopefully it can be rescheduled at a better time.

 

[Gaolee]

I’m glad it’s going well for you guys there. Here near “ground zero” we’ve had a record 50+ restaurants close over the last week and a half and most of those have shut the doors for good. They anticipate many more closing and the number of “out of business” signs harkens back to 2008. I work in the restaurant design field and I personally know a lot of these operators. We are easily pushing 100,000 people who have now lost their job. I’m literally concerned about holding on to my house we just purchased less than a year ago. It took me 12 years to recover from the last financial storm. We lost our house, our family business and every drop of savings we had. Here I am staring face to face with what feels like the same monster.

All the best to you. That sucks. All of it.

 

[TerribleTim68]

We’re now up to 70 restaurant closures in Seattle. The job market won’t sustain this very long.

 

[dagrev]

Figured this was the place to ask.
I considering picking up a Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV.
Just wondering how the neck would handle a set of high tension flat wounds like the roto jazz 77's

Worked fine for me. But I don't have a Pro IV and I used a light set, having no need for heavy strings.

 

[Gaolee]

Sorry. Just got the news that the entire tour is canceled. Really bummed.

That sucks. There is a lot of that going around and misery does not love company. But better to overreact and then dial it back than underreact and regret it.