V V T with 500k pots should be easy to duplicate.
I'm changing mine to V blend tone when I get off my butt to do it.
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V V T with 500k pots should be easy to duplicate.
I'm changing mine to V blend tone when I get off my butt to do it.
There *may* have been a bit of sarcasm attached to that statement.I think you think to highly of them!But take your point.
IIRC those are your wife’s tats. Surprised she hasn’t inked an AMX or TR6 yet.
My first car was a 2 door canary yellow 1964 Falcon Sprint. It had a little 260 V8 and a 2 speed automatic. My dad and I went in together on it for my 16th birthday. $800.00! I wish I still had it.
Pretty straight forward. I’d guess that both basses already have the same 500k pot value in them (note that the Eppi might be a metric pot or an alpha pot, that’s ok as long as the value is the same). You’ll need to check the cap value in both basses (stamped on the back side of the orange cap in your NR). If they’re the same then it’s just a matter of desoldering your old pickups and soldering in the new ones.
The only difference you might hear would be from wood and construction differences, which some people claim makes no difference and others claim it makes a noticeable difference, go figure. Personally I think different wood types and construction methods do make a noticeable difference, but in your case the woods are similar (mahogany in both basses) as is the construction (multi lam mahogany) neck through vs set neck. If you were attempting a maple body with a maple and ebony bolt on neck arrangement I suspect you’d get different results.
I'm slow at times. But actually thought you have a point and that could have been their thinking. I don't think it was good thinking if that's what they were thinking. I even get different PUs as options...if wanted but always have what made them classics. LPs do have some variety, but they always had the standard PU if that gold standard is what one wanted. Colors is what they should experiment with IMO.There *may* have been a bit of sarcasm attached to that statement.
I've love to know if sales dropped and by how much when they came out the Epi VP (which sounds more like what people expect when buying a Thunderbird.
My first car, '72 Plymouth with a 318.... $700 It was a light car and with the 318 it was quick if you cold keep the tires some spinning. I put the rims and bigger tires on. It was deep metallic brown with gold flake. Had no AC, but the vents were boxes with doors on each side, which held 3 beers each.
Ideal in the winter.My first car, '72 Plymouth with a 318.... $700 It was a light car and with the 318 it was quick if you cold keep the tires some spinning. I put the rims and bigger tires on. It was deep metallic brown with gold flake. Had no AC, but the vents were boxes with doors on each side, which held 3 beers each.
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LOVE slot mags....
You guys aren’t really “selling” your locations. It’s all alien to me.
73 is 22.77 c according to mr Google. Nice autumn / early spring day. Very nice winter day in Sydney.
no snow here, on the occasional snow in the Blue Mountains or Southern Highlands (both just outside Sydney) it makes the news and people jump into their car and head out ‘to see snow’. Usually it is barely snow, more like sleet.
from internet.
Port Macquarie has, according to the CSIRO, the best climate in Australia, with mild winters and gentle summers, and water warm enough to swim in for most of the year.
^ Port is a couple of hundred miles (385km) north of Sydney.
Perth has supposedly the best weather of the capital cities. “Mediterranean climate evidently. Not been yet, 5- 5 1/2 he flight from Sydney. Pretty much like going coast to coast in the US.
A lot of reading at the beach or by the pool.
My first car…
1965 Mustang 289 HiPo V8. Walked all over 327s and kept up with most 350s. It helped that it was a very light car and had good gearing, unlike my Camaro friends who used to curse their slush boxes in red light runs. Bought it for $600 at the junk yard, rebuilt the motor myself, tried to rebuild the automatic transmission (wont ever try that again, springs flying everywhere, AAMCO fortunately was able to fix it) and eventually put Craiger SS mags and air shocks on it. Sold it a couple of years later to buy my first wife a wedding ring, talk about regrets (on both the sale and the marriage).
1965 Mustang 289 HiPo V8. Walked all over 327s and kept up with most 350s. It helped that it was a very light car and had good gearing, unlike my Camaro friends who used to curse their slush boxes in red light runs. Bought it for $600 at the junk yard, rebuilt the motor myself, tried to rebuild the automatic transmission (wont ever try that again, springs flying everywhere, AAMCO fortunately was able to fix it) and eventually put Craiger SS mags and air shocks on it. Sold it a couple of years later to buy my first wife a wedding ring, talk about regrets (on both the sale and the marriage).
Thanks Willy. I loved them and wanted something a little different. Everybody had Cragars. They looked great, but were everywhere. These were a little different in that these were highly polished on the outer surface and were very shiny and didn't have that duller brushed aluminum which was far more common. They were ETs.
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Throwback Thursday... Anyone remember these cables? Clue BL.
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Cragars are boring... I plan to switch to the stock hubcaps and steel wheels next tire change
-UNLESS- I find a set of American Racing... I don't think the slots would look right on this car.
How are those Oilers?But the Hockey team is better.
We call them jelly bean mags for some reason lol
I've always liked tinkering on broken things - when I was younger & still into cars (before computers/electronics started to take that spot), I liked to find old broken-down cars in fields & such, and drag them home (sometimes literally.... ), and tinker on them just enough to get them drivable again. Then I'd generally lose interest & sell or swap it for something else that was broken.
As long as I don't have be in itOr talk
I really don't like being on camera, still or video
you just need a disguise. Lobster has been done. Zorro mask maybe?
Australian Jelly Bean mags made by Cheviot in Sth Aust.
Speaking of the Oilers, McDavid and the boys are home tonight against Winnipeg. They have a score to settle from last years play offs and another loss to them just the other night! One thing lucky about being my age(49) is I got to watch the dynasty years here in Edmonton. I hope this is the beginning of another run of years where the team is at the top or at least near the top. @GonePlaid I’m a huge hockey guy. Still play rec and am a fan of some great players that play(ed) for your TB Lightning! I’m small so St.Louis was always a fav(except when he played for Calgary) and Stamkos.
