It looks like you’re extending the ball ends to keeps silks off the saddles. May ask what you’re using to do that? I can’t tell from the pic.
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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I'll get you on the list a little later today!
MCF I use brass bass string ball ends:
Thanks! Can see clearly in the pic now. You have two beautiful Tbirds. I’m one with an addiction to blue, although I don’t have all that many blue basses. If there are any other basses, we would love to see them. And we’re pretty open to other great basses around her too; even 7enders, Rics, Rays....
Don't get me started, I'm a Bassaholic. But here's one more from 1998.
Guy Guy.How would you refer to Buddy Guy?
Back to Birds. a 2015 in obligatory dress. I didn't know it was a thing around here, I just did it for fun!
Yeah. Is that not the most beautiful “modern” Reverse on the planet?No offense to @GBassNorth and his 50th anniversary edition, but I am totally in love with that blue one.
Where in Colorado, if you don't mind me asking? I'm on the Western Slope, but about to move to Colorado Springs at the end of the month.
Yep. It’s a thing around here. My best bass. Light, low action, incredible neck and tons of tone options. Currently with Cobalt Flats. What’s on yours?
I just ordered 3 of these on Reverb, he only has 7 left, size XL only!
Very cool! One of the nicest designs I’ve seen. Way too big for me though.
Yep my Favs were their Peacock Blues. And they stopped making them too. But they looked cool on my white Bird.
Well, you sent me down the rabbit hole...
It appears that DR has ceased production of all the coated strings except for Dragon Skins, Silver Stars, and Bootzillas. I guess the various colours didn't sell well enough to warrant continued production. From my reading, the three remaining are each different. Bootsy are coated steel on a hex core, Dragon are coated steel on a round core, and Silver are nickel on a round core.
Who knows what they and many are doing these days. DR is known for variety. Maybe when the world returns to normal, they’ll resume production of more options.
They are cool shirts..even if you don't have a T-Bird out that night you can still represent
Perhaps they will come back. Certainly with no one playing out and those (like me) who just get together with a few others to make some noise for fun not doing as much, demand is probably way down. Or maybe with fewer opportunities to play out people are spending more time maintaining and changing strings?
On the other hand, they made a wide variety of colours - black beauties, red devils, cool blues, all the neons... I have to think that the variety of colours meant low turnover on the SKUs because there were so many options. I don't know what the economics are around the variety of colours (i.e. were the colours and coatings done in house, or was it out sourced, what were the minimum production runs, I don't even know how many ft (m) of wore on a spool not how much wrap wire goes on a bass string etc.)
It may have been time to rationalize the SKUs and the down-turn made for a reasonable place to do that. What really surprised me is that Black Beauties are gone. I would have thought that those would be one of the more popular SKUs and I would have guessed that Bootzillas would have been one of the slower moving SKUs. I guess (at least to me) there are still many known unknowns and I suspect even more unknown unknowns.
Or just get the tat like the queen has...They are cool shirts..even if you don't have a T-Bird out that night you can still represent
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