Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Well now, this is interesting.

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Love the neck inlay, but the body is making me dizzy. I bet it sounds heavenly.

 

[Klondike]

Good point. My wife retired (as soon as she was eligible) from Marathon Petroleum and was mostly involved in inventory control at their second largest bulk storage terminal. That included trucks, trains, barges and pipelines. It used to be an Ashland Refinery. So I'm going off things I think I recall her saying. I hope correctly. I think the most danger from friction is likely from things like loading/unloading trucks since they have to be grounded, or used to anyway. She's in the sack or I'd ask for clarification.

While not playing Thunderbirds much, I went back to school and finished my intended degrees. I worked for a company one summer that was refurbishing a 1 mill gallon tank. Weird being inside one of those with a floating roof.

Correction: the 200k miles of pipe is just oil. It looks like over 2.5 million total according to Gov numbers. Very safe when you think of those numbers and the few problems you hear or know of, being aware of the one in CAL today.

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yes, that is exactly the most dangerous part. Loading trucks etc. we mostly will ground our equipment each evening, mostly.

 

[Klondike]

Sure, you can...... but I'm going to be standing over there, somewhere far away



Yeah, I've seen a bunch of stuff that's so unsafe, it just makes you want to start running

The worst kind were the "new, improved" safety procedures that made things worse, or were actively dangerous because the people thinking them up were not only idiots, but also had no idea of the things they were trying to make rules for.

Kinda like trying to make safety rules for motorcycles, for example, when you've only seen pictures, and your closest experience is roller skating

a large part of what I see, our clients have hires so many people with degrees. Having a degree is fine, they have plenty of knowledge, book knowledge and little life experience. Nobody wants to approve certain things. Today is a perfect example. We are nearing the end of this phase of the job, a 2.5 mile 24 inch pipe. last week we filled 16 frack tanks with water, had to have them tested for purity or more importantly imperfections from residue. By Friday we did not have permission to use four of the tanks. Test was Yesterday and today we were scheduled to de-water the pipe, we could not get anyone to sign of on the dewatering till after noon! So today turned into an 11 hour day. this sort of thing happens all the time. But we have a saying, "Chaos is Cash" so I made more money today because someone didn't want to sign off on dewatering. Monday is our scheduled tie in.

 

[Blazer]

Well, there's news on my instruments to be told.

Today I traded in some surplus gear and made myself the owner of this Eighties Reject bass. And the first thing I did was to paint on my band's name. As it is the intention to use it very much with that said band.

Korean made plywood monster, the previous owner actually installed a second tone knob but I'm going to rewire it so it has the normal two volumes one master tone set up.

But this week also saw me place in an order for a guitar I wanted back again, since I used the original one with my old Metal Band Slavantas as this year sees the 15'th anniversary of the founding of that band.

I pretty much wrote all the band's songs using that Epiphone Les Paul. It died when its neck split after somebody knocked it over.

Turns out that the current version of the Epiphone Les Paul Custom is way cooler than the guitar I owned at the time.

Because current Epiphone Les Paul Customs have Mahogany construction and ebony fingerboards whereas the Koran made Epi I owned was made from Alder and had a rosewood fingerboard.

And hey, it's a White Les Paul custom, it's Steve Jones, Randy Rhoads, James Dean Bradfield, Lars Frederiksen...

 

[dagrev]

Now why did you have to go and tell about that P pickup.

Sorry. I have no excuse that anyone would buy. I forgot myself and simply wasn't thinking. That's all there is to it.

 

[Klondike]

I kinda like starting my Monday morning with a bit of this…

…clears out the Monday morning cobwebs and is a good replacement for caffeine, plus plenty of eye candy (Spector, my favorite non Gibson brand).

Damn thos girls are indeed good. the drummer is so fast on her runs and I love that Spector tone!

 

[dagrev]

A steal…
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No affiliation, just enabling.

I'm glad it's not black. I don't have one of those. Don't know what kind of "case," but that's a deal assuming in person there is little wear and no issues.

Miles, that's about as good as it gets, depending on condition. I'd never sell mine for that.

And just who sells these wonderful basses? Must be someone who fights the ergos for some reason.....

 

[dagrev]

Well now, this is interesting.

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Love the Thunderbird inlay. Why in the crap can't Gibson do that on their historic flagship basses?????

 

[dagrev]

Love the neck inlay, but the body is making me dizzy. I bet it sounds heavenly.

Glad it's not just me. Don't think I could look at it for very long.

 

[Gaolee]

Well now, this is interesting.

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That is just flat great!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

@GBassNorth
better?…….

 

[GonePlaid]

Well now, this is interesting.

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I gots enuff trouble keeping 4 in tune!

 

[GonePlaid]

@GBassNorth
better?…….
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Let us know how/if it works(better/same/worse)for ya.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Let us know how/if it works(better/same/worse)for ya.

for now seems ok. compared the silks and what was on there was not Boomers (RS66) so the feel of nickel and gauge diff jumó out…tone through the SVT was delectable, partly due to higher tension, curiously no intonation adjustment was required
using my Snark….gigging it tomorrow….let’s see..

 

[GBassNorth]

@GBassNorth
better?…….
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Finally, I can sleep at night! That unused claw had my OCD in overdrive. But the real question is, do you notice any difference in sustain or intonation.

 

[BklynKen]

Well, there's news on my instruments to be told.

Today I traded in some surplus gear and made myself the owner of this Eighties Reject bass. And the first thing I did was to paint on my band's name. As it is the intention to use it very much with that said band.
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Korean made plywood monster, the previous owner actually installed a second tone knob but I'm going to rewire it so it has the normal two volumes one master tone set up.

But this week also saw me place in an order for a guitar I wanted back again, since I used the original one with my old Metal Band Slavantas as this year sees the 15'th anniversary of the founding of that band.
View attachment 4428219I pretty much wrote all the band's songs using that Epiphone Les Paul. It died when its neck split after somebody knocked it over.

Turns out that the current version of the Epiphone Les Paul Custom is way cooler than the guitar I owned at the time.
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Because current Epiphone Les Paul Customs have Mahogany construction and ebony fingerboards whereas the Koran made Epi I owned was made from Alder and had a rosewood fingerboard.

And hey, it's a White Les Paul custom, it's Steve Jones, Randy Rhoads, James Dean Bradfield, Lars Frederiksen...

And Blake Schwarzenbach.

 

[dagrev]

@GBassNorth
better?…….
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Headstock secure once again!

 

[WillyW]

@GBassNorth
better?…….
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That's a much better look, once I determine how many thunderbirds imma get I'll have to order a few.

 

[TBird1958]

In a sweaty bar a long time ago..............

 

[godofthunder59]

I hear rumblings at Gibson. there could very well be 60's spec birds on the way in 2022.