Thunderbird Club

[Goatrope]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

 

[GonePlaid]

Replacing the three point.......no clue, wish they would. Oh will I replace the three point? Naw not worth the effort.........maybe I'll put the last Badbird II on it but probably not.

So, if it works, don't...etc. Got it.

 

[dagrev]

Has any thread on TalkBass hit 10k pages? We'll hit that in 700 and I wonder if it'll just expand that page number box. I see the first page's is the same size as 9300's.

Then it'll happen later today!

 

[Instagator]

Keeping up with the posts here is like standing on the side of the highway with a skateboard,bungee cord and a grappling hook.. waiting for the right speeding 18 wheeler to come by.

Just hang on and keep up.

 

[PillO]

Because you need another Thunderbird. That's why.

That is the best answer.

 

[PillO]

Has any thread on TalkBass hit 10k pages? We'll hit that in 700 and I wonder if it'll just expand that page number box. I see the first page's is the same size as 9300's.

I'm betting it will just extend past the box on the assumption that the number and box elements are not linked for size.

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

Why

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

Would

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

We

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

Do

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

That

 

[PillO]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

?

 

[WillyW]

It took 9 months to go 700. Let’s try to compress that.

I don't use a compressor, if I 'm getting louder and clunkier it's on porpoise.

 

[godofthunder59]

I kept thinking something looked different but never stared long enough to figure it out. For the life of me I don't know why Gibson is obsessed--(demented) and can't leave the spacing alone? I think the modern Thunderbirds would sound better had that not changed the spacing. Exactly what was wrong with perfection?
Demented: "Having lost the normal use of the reason [they sounded great where they were--what reasoning thought moving them was an improvement?]; afflicted with or characterized by dementia [forgetting part of the reason they sounded so good in the first place and are in demand).

I like the claw! A lot. Makes it look normal, or what I'm so used to seeing.

I see the bridge PU is lowered about as far as it can go it seems. Don't use a bridge PU much?

Don't use it at all

 

[GonePlaid]

Don't use it at all

Me too, neither.

 

[godofthunder59]

I was debating on the tug bar, in for a penny in for a pound.

 

[BklynKen]

I was debating on the tug bar, in for a penny in for a pound. View attachment 4406720

While you're at it, are you gonna do bridge and pickup covers?

 

[godofthunder59]

So, if it works, don't...etc. Got it.

Honestly replacing the three point is always a compromise, even the best three-point replacement leaves me wishing it was a two piece bridge. It's large three hole foot print and location of the two main anchors makes it impossible to introduce a two piece replacement the only real solution is to fill the mounting holes and mark the new location and drill the appropriate mounting holes. I've been puzzeling over this problem for decades, long before Hipshot or Babciz. There really isn't a good solution, they are all a compromise.

 

[godofthunder59]

While you're at it, are you gonna do bridge and pickup covers?

Naw I always take them off.

 

[Larry V]

Naw I always take them off.

So it'll be a cheap mod... just put the holes in then.