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Thunderbird Club

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MCF said:
Not sure how much longer there’ll be service for that phone. Maybe then he’ll leave the nineties behind.
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August 13th. I saw an Instagram photo of a seventh generation photocopy of a mimeographed handbill from Bill Gates' basement that was tweeted to a Facebook account, explaining that the only way to propagate COVID enough to stop the THUNDERBIRD assault on everyone's God-given rights not to have neck dive requires 100% mobile phone compliance with 5G. On 8/13 at 08:13 hours, any non-5G phone will start an incessant whine (condensed from presidential tweets) that will annoy users of non-5G phones until they upgrade. Land lines will simply cease to function at that time.
 
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real pain in the dick dealing with Gibson...trying to get the right TRC but they won't help...from what's out there if the thickness is ok the lettering isn't....if the lettering is, the matte finish isn't....if all else is, the color of the lettering is silver and not gold...
shouldn't be this hard to find an adequate TRC....I believe the Gibby stock ones are 1mm thick...can anyone please confirm?
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Chucky Stiletti said:
real pain in the dick dealing with Gibson...trying to get the right TRC but they won't help...from what's out there if the thickness is ok the lettering isn't....if the lettering is, the matte finish isn't....if all else is, the color of the lettering is silver and not gold...
shouldn't be this hard to find an adequate TRC....I believe the Gibby stock ones are 1mm thick...can anyone please confirm?
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If someone doesn’t do it first, I’ll measure my two for you tonight after dinner. Believe it or not, I’m trying to actually do my day job, sitting through a thoroughly boring video conference.
 
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PillO said:
Happy Canada Day (some of us still call it Dominion Day).

It is a bit like your American Independence Day, except Canadians being a polite sort, didn't fight a war for secession; we just waited around until the Queen got sick of us and booted us out.

So, what kind of Canadian Thunderbirdy sort image could represent all that?

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Happy Canada Day then! Go buy yourself a Dingwall on us! Just send the bill to....I'll have to post that later.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
real pain in the dick dealing with Gibson...trying to get the right TRC but they won't help...from what's out there if the thickness is ok the lettering isn't....if the lettering is, the matte finish isn't....if all else is, the color of the lettering is silver and not gold...
shouldn't be this hard to find an adequate TRC....I believe the Gibby stock ones are 1mm thick...can anyone please confirm?
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Chuck - just confirmed on my 2015, the truss cover is single ply gloss black with raised gloss gold lettering and is 1mm thick, no beveled edge.
 
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MCF said:
If someone doesn’t do it first, I’ll measure my two for you tonight after dinner. Believe it or not, I’m trying to actually do my day job, sitting through a thoroughly boring video conference.
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Thx! Totally believe you as I was on a Hoishin call on teams on my work PC while posting these pics on my personal laptop...gotta love the internet...
 
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GBassNorth said:
Chuck - just confirmed on my 2015, the truss cover is single ply gloss black with raised gloss gold lettering and is 1mm thick, no beveled edge.
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...and just for the record, my Eppi Goth truss cover is single ply gloss black with raised silver outline lettering and is 2mm thick with standard beveled edge on three sides and a back beveled edge on the side that contacts the nut.

The VP appears to be the same as the Goth except the lettering is not outline, its solid and its flat Gold.
 
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GBassNorth said:
...and just for the record, my Eppi Goth truss cover is single ply gloss black with raised silver outline lettering and is 2mm thick with standard beveled edge on three sides and a back beveled edge on the side that contacts the nut.

The VP appears to be the same as the Goth except the lettering is not outline, its solid and its flat Gold.
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Coolest club around by far, thanks again George.
 
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GBassNorth said:
...and just for the record, my Eppi Goth truss cover is single ply gloss black with raised silver outline lettering and is 2mm thick with standard beveled edge on three sides and a back beveled edge on the side that contacts the nut.

The VP appears to be the same as the Goth except the lettering is not outline, its solid and its flat Gold.
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...and further more (@Chucky Stiletti since you have a BaCH but might not have the original cover), its 2mm like the Eppi but its gloss black on white lam, beveled on three sides, no bevel on the nut side, no text of any kind and completely different screw locations vs the Eppi or Gibby (the screws are stupidly centered under the G and E strings, requiring a detune to remove the screws). Overall length is quite a bit shorter than the Eppi and width at the nut is greater on the BaCH as well. In other words, not a drop in replacement for a Gibby cover.
 
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