Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

I think the new ones are not TB Plus with chrome covers, they don't sound quite like that, or the Epiphone 760's. I'm going to try to do a little video.... No promises tho!

did you ever play/own a 13? really curious to hear about the differences…….

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Sorry I asked about muratic acid..

 

[Gaolee]

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I am hopelessly in lust all of a sudden. I'll take all of 'em.

 

[PillO]

Sorry I asked about muratic acid..

Nothing wrong with a good chemical diversion...

 

[PillO]

Hardly, now it looks like it's supposed to, and since Gibson has shipped some with the knobs arranged this way I'd say it was not "mutilated".

Here's some reference photos.

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The last picture looks rather... Geddy

 

[Gaolee]

Sorry I asked about muratic acid..

We can derail over anything. But you knew that.

 

[MCF]

Very cool! Glad you’re lovin’ it.

Definitely has a large neck. Mine didn’t balance to my liking, hence the strap button relocation, but it’s fine now. Mine also was a pound heavier than my reverse. I felt it before, but now that it’s hanging in my preferred position, the extra weight seemed to have vanished.
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Before it arrived, I figured I’d be swapping the bridge for a Babicz, like I have on my Reverse. Now that I’ve lived with it a bit, I’ll leave it as is. It ain’t broke.

I have a friend who managed a GC for several years. I'm pretty sure they never touched your beautiful Thunderbird. It either went through a distribution warehouse or was shipped directly from Gibson.

 

[GBassNorth]

Sorry I asked about muratic acid..

It’s ok, most off topic discussions get diluted pretty quickly in this thread. Before you know it, there won’t even be a trace amount of discussion left about mutatic acid.

 

[TBird1958]

did you ever play/own a 13? really curious to hear about the differences…….

No on the '13 NR, with the TB Plus pickups. I would figure it to sound similar to a Studio, same pickups and construction - FWIW I like my Studio a lot.

 

[dagrev]

The chlorine used to be a hypochlorite solution IIRC, but newer, more predictable hypochlorites are now used for chlorination. pH is adjusted to get the right concentration of Cl2 in the water as it exists in a pH dependent chemical equilibrium.

Are you talking dirty and we just don't know it?

 

[MCF]

Sorry I asked about muratic acid..

Yeah. But it's one of the few things I actually know something about. Glad we could help Chucky.

 

[GonePlaid]

I used it(hydrochloric acid) with great results on my rust stained bricks and mortar back in 2014.

That was the year I redid all and I mean all the landscaping around our home... we bought this home in 2012 when it was 8 years old. I moved the sprinkler heads further away from the side of the house to avoid the previous owner's mistake.

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It didn't take long and those little bushes filled right in and now need to be maintained.

I used goggles and thick heavy rubber gloves and wore clothes I didn't care about while I scrubbed the brick with a long handled, stiff bristled brush. That stuff ate holes in my blue jeans and long sleeve shirt with every droplet that flicked off the bristles. I came out unscathed but those fumes were pretty bad and had me holding my breath while scrubbing. If I were to do something like this again, I'd get the appropriate canister filter breather unit.

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I widened the landscape beds where necessary and pulled all the rotting woodchips and enough soil to lay broken Spanish Tile about 3 to 4 inches deep over weed block fabric. Seven years later and the landscape beds look almost as good as the day they were rehab'ed and upgraded.

That 'rocks'.

 

[Larry V]

That 'rocks'.

No it doesn't... it ceramics!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Yeah. But it's one of the few things I actually know something about. Glad we could help Chucky.

Thanks Marshall

 

[Miles_ONeal]

My granddad used to use it to clean out rusty old-car gas tanks.....

I've heard this mentioned before, that the CP & VP feel differently. Mine are essentially identical, other than the headstock (and electrics, of course!). Just going by feel, not sound (or balance ), they play the same to me - maybe because they're both Alpine White poly?

Yeah, I don't think it's actually the model, but the finish. The VP is a burst while the CP is white. The back of the neck feels very different. I also need to do a bit of setup fine tuning on the CP, it's still a tad high.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I wondered if anyone was going to get to what it is. What you buy for pools etc. is very diluted and still very dangerous. I too am amazed it is still sold anywhere (especially California). I think the chlorine used in pools is now is much safer but still very dangerous.

Eckeltricity [1] is dangerous. We should all go purely acoustic.

1. Ref. Arthur Weasley

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I get the twin pack at Lowes.

Of hands?!?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Hardly, now it looks like it's supposed to, and since Gibson has shipped some with the knobs arranged this way I'd say it was not "mutilated".

Here's some reference photos.

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Now I want to sneak into the Gibson factory and make them all the same.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Hardly, now it looks like it's supposed to, and since Gibson has shipped some with the knobs arranged this way I'd say it was not "mutilated".

You know I'm just messing with you, I trust. Everyone has their own preferences and that's fine!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have a friend who managed a GC for several years. I'm pretty sure they never touched your beautiful Thunderbird. It either went through a distribution warehouse or was shipped directly from Gibson.

The GCs here used to do setups on at least some of their guitars and basses (every one I tried), but that might have been because all the employees were musicians who cared. No idea about now; the walls are maybe 25% full, with nothing that interests me. I just go for strings and pedals and such.