Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

wabbit

 

[dagrev]

Point Lobos - a small slice of heaven on earth!
I always make a point of stopping there every time I'm in the Carmel area.

Speaking of which, I'll be up there in a few weeks for some golf at Spanish Bay and Pebble Beach. Should hit Lobos and this little gem while I'm there...
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Looks nice, but do they have a Krispy Kreme?

 

[dagrev]

Hmmmmm. Tetanus-y...

That was my first thought..... Just trying to take them off would have seemed dangerous.

 

[dagrev]

Only store where I’ve ever seen them on a wall was at a Sam Ash. Our GCs here rarely have Epi basses in the stores; an occasional bolt-on bird and maybe an EB is usually all they have.

I'm thinking it was a Sam Ash where I saw and played one. Never seen another one in a store.

 

[GonePlaid]

I'm thinking it was a Sam Ash where I saw and played one. Never seen another one in a store.

Closest Sam Ash's aren't.(1 in FTL-71 mi, 2 in ORL-~140 mi, 1 in Sarasota-153 mi)

 

[Nocturnal]

There was at least one video(Someone Like You) of him playing one of these 'cept it's black and has 1 less string.
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Pretty sure he is playing a Hagstrom:

Yours looks like the bridge I could purchase from BaCH. Saddles already slotted and everything chromed. Apparently BaCH let a few out the door without slotting. I think @Nocturnal had one like mine.

Correct. The saddles on my Bach were not notched. And as crazy as it seems the bridge did not have the large bridge posts holding it in place. It had these instead:

I reached out to Rob (Bassvarken) and he helped me get the correct pieces. I never heard anyone else say their Bird had those studs either.

 

[JIO]

Point Lobos - a small slice of heaven on earth!
I always make a point of stopping there every time I'm in the Carmel area.

Speaking of which, I'll be up there in a few weeks for some golf at Spanish Bay and Pebble Beach. Should hit Lobos and this little gem while I'm there...
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I was in Carmel in early June (killing time while our new dog was being fixed in Monterey) - it was pretty dead/quiet with only a few shops open. I was struck by how many art gallery's there were - every other building/space it seemed. Some pretty awful stuff priced pretty high. Everything there was overpriced - shopping villa for the 1%.

 

[GonePlaid]

Pretty sure he is playing a Hagstrom:
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Correct. The saddles on my Bach were not notched. And as crazy as it seems the bridge did not have the large bridge posts holding it in place. It had these instead:
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I reached out to Rob (Bassvarken) and he helped me get the correct pieces. I never heard anyone else say their Bird had those studs either.

Could be. As usual, the bass player gets very little face/bass time

 

[JIO]

There's a little bunny who comes to visit my garden most mornings. Very timid, but seems to have gotten accustomed to me, so we stand there and look at each other.
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Bunny's (wabbits) are yummy food treats for all critters (earthbound or flying) who eat other animals. It's why they are skittish/timid and why they reproduce so plentifully. (also why Jack-rabbits are so fast) If they weren't hard-wired to operate like that - they'd have been wiped-out decades (or longer) ago.

 

[GonePlaid]

Closest Sam Ash's aren't.(1 in FTL-71 mi, 2 in ORL-~140 mi, 1 in Sarasota-153 mi)

I s'pose I could call them and see if there are any. I go to Orlando every coupla weeks, the others less likely. Then again, the one in FTL(Margate)is near a KK.

 

[GBassNorth]

I was in Carmel in early June (killing time while our new dog was being fixed in Monterey) - it was pretty dead/quiet with only a few shops open. I was struck by how many art gallery's there were - every other building/space it seemed. Some pretty awful stuff priced pretty high. Everything there was overpriced - shopping villa for the 1%.

That it is.

The wife and I collect various types of art. Always interesting to see what's being showcased in each gallery. If I find something I really like, I normally contact the artist directly and work a good deal that way. Some will deal and some won't but usually I end up with what I consider a nice piece for a fraction of the price as shown in the gallery.

The real bummer for me was when Rumbleseat music in Carmel closed. I always made it a tradition to buy a bass every time I visited Carmel, unfortunately not any more. I guess I might have to run on up to Santa Cruz for that now.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I was in Carmel in early June (killing time while our new dog was being fixed in Monterey) - it was pretty dead/quiet with only a few shops open. I was struck by how many art gallery's there were - every other building/space it seemed. Some pretty awful stuff priced pretty high. Everything there was overpriced - shopping villa for the 1%.

it was jumping yesterday....so was this..

 

[GBassNorth]

Pretty sure he is playing a Hagstrom:
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Correct. The saddles on my Bach were not notched. And as crazy as it seems the bridge did not have the large bridge posts holding it in place. It had these instead:
View attachment 3965389

I reached out to Rob (Bassvarken) and he helped me get the correct pieces. I never heard anyone else say their Bird had those studs either.

Nope, not like my BaCH studs at all.

 

[JIO]

it was jumping yesterday....so was this..
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Looks yummy - can't remember the last time I ate lobster.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Just measured everything, looks like the Philly Luthier bridge will just fit but the claw is a different size and screw spacing. I can live with that.

Why replace da craw? (Not da craw! Da craw!)

 

[GBassNorth]

it was jumping yesterday....so was this..
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Yum!
Decided to go through the deep freezer in the garage this morning to see if there was anything that needed to be cooked before it got too old. Had to make due with three Filet Mignon steaks and a half dozen large Alaskan King Crab legs that weren't used last Valentine's Day due to some COVID panic cancellations last February. Not bad for a quick little unplanned meal, although some lobster tail would have been nice too.

 

[GonePlaid]

Still attached:

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'm thinking it was a Sam Ash where I saw and played one. Never seen another one in a store.

Bought my first Epibird off the GC wall here in Round Rock. Haven’t seen too many since, though.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Still attached:
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We can fix that.

 

[JIO]

Still attached:
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'64 II - no breaks

The day in the fall of 1978 that it arrived at my apt in Chicago. (Polaroid SX-70 pic) Strap was from my recently stollen '63 II - one of only a few made that year ~