Green everywhere! Bass, guitar, iron...
Last edited:
Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
- Start date
-
- Tags
- club thunderbird
Germans/OCD? Is that a thing?
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,236
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
I know! It's not even my fave color, but there's a lot of green on many important items in my life!
Green,,,,,I actually like dark blue better, I need some blue Thunderbirds.
You do have an airbrush don't you?
(GN Sky Blue, MP Jenks Blue, RI (?) Blue, etc.)
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,236
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
You do have an airbrush don't you?
I airbrush almost daily, have a really nice spray booth equipped with a large squirrel cage fan next to my modelling desk. I have several Iwata's, I shoot Auto lacquer and TCP mostly. This morning before work I sprayed clear gloss then clear dull on the SP Cannon & Co. boxcar.
Model work is always a great way to start the day, I get about an hour in every morning before heading out to the salt mine.
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
- 221,967
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Thanks! Yah, Sperzel locking tuners also has pins for grounding it. They provide a thin cardboard template for placement. Will be curious to see if the screw-hole is covered by the new tuner.
It'll be close, but from what I can see so far, I don't think it will be.
I'll hopefully get to install them this evening/tonight, and find out!
...of course, in my particular case, it's not like this 'Bird doesn't already have a bunch of extra holes & other finish issues to be resolved later...
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Or go CroMagnon and just drive 'em in with a hammer.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
You would be surprised about the things that German engineers find important. I have had German cars that had a different sized screw or bolt for everything. Some engineer apparently decided that there was only one size for that specific job and it didn't matter that there were no other screws on the planet that were the same. And, getting to some things was impossible. They could be assembled in factory conditions but required a near complete disassembly to get to. I much prefer Japanese or American engineers. And I won't go near anything engineered in Italy, with the remote possibility of a Moto Guzzi.
got offered more than I paid for the bass for these buckers yesterday...
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,236
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Seriously, wow!
I guess for those that don't know that should say something about the desirability of Greco pickups.........
Japanese depends on the era. For a while, if you didn't have small (even fro Japanese) hands, there were places under a hood you weren't going to get to without removing and disassembling the engine- if then.
As for American engineers, the deep space capsule set for testing late next year had a redundant PDU die, and they're trying to figure out how to safely disassemble enough of the capsule to replace the PDU, without missing their end of 2021 launch date. Someone screwed up big time on that one. This is 2020; an astronaut should be able to get to anything in the ship, never mind a horde of engineers and techs on the ground.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
- 9,057
- 38,405
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
I want to see the video of you laughing.
Last edited:
Isn't it a wonderful thing!
The Greco pups are magic. And to think, you have the dual buckers. You could sell just the bridge pup to offset a big chunk of the bass purchase, and you'd still have a screaming beast in the neck pup.
I think I've mentioned it before, I'd consider buying a beat up Greco IV just to pull the bridge pup out and install in my BaCH.
LOL - should be an Advertisement...
!Christmas sale at Men's Warehouse!
50% off all COVID Zoom meeting suits - Shirt, tie, Jacket combo - as shown by our dashing model.
I just use a puppet that looks like me...
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,897
- 142,236
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
