Thunderbird Club

[TBird1958]

I'd be interested to know if you think the wrap affects tone.

It does, no doubt about it.

 

[JIO]

I'd be interested to know if you think the wrap affects tone.

Best wrap for metal?

 

[Gaolee]

I'd be interested to know if you think the wrap affects tone.

Ah, that's the key then. Tone wrap!

 

[Gaolee]

Best wrap for metal?

I dunno. The image on Veronica's bass might be better characterized as best unwrap.

 

[GonePlaid]

It does, no doubt about it.

OK, I shoulda specified. Gooder or worser? Or ____?

 

[ToddOfThunder]

My Vintage Pro.........Not like any other.
It's been in quarantine at the wrap shop and it took some time getting set up at Mike Lull's Guitar works, added a Hipshot D tuner. Any excuse to wear a little black dress!

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That is soooo RAD!

 

[BklynKen]

OK, I shoulda specified. Gooder or worser? Or ____?

Hotter.

 

[GBassNorth]

Thank you! The design is made up although certainly inspired by nose art, I'd say this would be more like an F105, as Ms Paige wasn't around in the '40s. The wrap does want to wrinkle at some places on the body so I've carefully trimmed it back with a new #11 x-acto knife. The PG is a separate wrap and the screws are painted, it was done at a local sign shop - were I to do it again I'd probably work with a shop that does vehicle wraps.

Looks great. I've thought about doing a wrap, maybe someday. Love your selection of Mrs Paige.

Best wrap for metal?

Aluminum foil

 

[Eddie LeBlanc]

Looks great. I've thought about doing a wrap, maybe someday. Love your selection of Mrs Paige.


Aluminum foil

With a ground wire.

 

[JIO]

Aluminum foil

 

[PillO]

Also, any side or back shots of the wrap?

There is already a backside on the front side...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

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Oh no!....don’t give PillO ideas.....when I saw that helmet I instantly.......never mind..

 

[GBassNorth]

There is already a backside on the front side...

That's a pretty cheeky comment.


...or maybe a comment about pretty cheeks, you decide.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I just googled F105 images, it's about 50/50, camo vs. natural metal.

...
man, I was just looking at nose art on Vietnam era 105s and most of it you can't post......far cry from the 8th Air Force over Europe 30 years before..

 

[JIO]

...
man, I was just looking at nose art on Vietnam era 105s and most of it you can't post......far cry from the 8th Air Force over Europe 30 years before..

My dad was the pilot of one of these. (not this one specifically) B-52 medium range 2 engine bomber in the South Pacific. 490th Bombardment Squadron, 'Skull & Wings' (Burma Bridge Busters)

 

[KaraQ]

The box is not as pretty, but it does contain Thunderbird content...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

My dad was the pilot of one of these. (not this one specifically) B-52 medium range 2 engine bomber in the South Pacific. 490th Bombardment Squadron, 'Skull & Wings' (Burma Bridge Busters)

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B-25 Mitchell made by North American (who also made the P-51) in SoCal...rightly named after Billy Mitchell who went up against the Navy in proving battleships were made obsolete by aircraft carriers and getting court martialed for that .....pretty gnarly...

 

[GonePlaid]

B-25 Mitchell made by North American (who also made the P-51) in SoCal...rightly named after Billy Mitchell who went up against the Navy in proving battleships were made obsolete by aircraft carriers and getting court martialed for that .....pretty gnarly...

The Navy was always run by 'traditionalists'. "We do it this way because we've always done it this way". General Mitchell kinda proved them wrong. It took a day in early December '41 for them to see that.

 

[Engle]

...
man, I was just looking at nose art on Vietnam era 105s and most of it you can't post......far cry from the 8th Air Force over Europe 30 years before..

Well I had to google image search that. Found an interesting way to decorate the boom hatch!

 

[GonePlaid]

Well I had to google image search that. Found an interesting way to decorate the boom hatch!

Quel est "boom hatch"?