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Thunderbird Club
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Don't know how it sounds, but it sure looks great.
Sounds good to me. It’s a “Stop Sign badge” Gretsch kit. The bass drum is a converted 16” floor Tom.
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No flooding in the immediate area Irv?
Gaolee
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My brother and I had one of those. It was a little enduro, and we thrashed it hard. It would do 45, flat out and all tucked in. Like yours, there wasn't much left of it after a few years of early adolescent use. It was gone by the time I turned 16 and could drive a car.
My sixteenth birthday was memorable. I spent it sweating in pain on the floor of my parents living room because I had sprained my neck in a wrestling match the day before.
Gaolee
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I like that a whole lot. My first kit, which I still have, is an early Ludwig Breakbeats kit with a 16" bass drum and small toms. I got it in 2014, which tells you that I haven't been a drummer very long yet. Thunderbirds, on the other hand...
Still on the hunt for a kit for my 9 year old....
Trying to get what he needs, not what I want....
Love the 16" bass
Well there’s always this…
https://www.musicgoround.com/products?search=Suitcase drum
looks like it would be fun for busking or maybe practice. There’s always electric drums, and they have the advantage of being able to practice with headphones, your neighbors will love you.
Well there’s always this…
https://www.musicgoround.com/products?search=Suitcase drum
looks like it would be fun for busking or maybe practice. There’s always electric drums, and they have the advantage of being able to practice with headphones, your neighbors will love you.
I don't want to go too odball with the kit.
I would prefer he gets the feel of an acoustic kit, and the tuning and maintenance that goes with it.
He can do electronic later if he sticks with it
a 16-18" bass drum would be prefferred to keep "neighborly"
I want a pink strata Rogers with a 24" bass, but it's not for me....
Nothing too bad for us.
My neighbour’s yard turned into a lake, but the sump pump I installed in our backyard last summer managed (barely) to keep our yard from flooding badly.
Highway 99 between the tunnel and Vancouver proper was flooded for a few days.
How was it around your place?
The fret markers on the Epi VP look cool...where'd ya get 'em?
Those are from Jockomo in Japan.
I can do holographic stickers or other colours if anyone is interested. I just haven’t found any Mother of Pearl material for my Cricut machine.
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Breakbeats kits are small, inexpensive, and I like mine a lot. Supposedly the quality is higher since mine was made. I certainly have no complaints. A 16" kick can be a cannon when it's up off the ground. It pretty much has to be in order to fit a pedal without sawing off the beater to the point it's near unusable. That little kit keeps up just fine. The shells ring and sustain in a way that requires a decent amount of damping, unless you want it to sound like a '50s jazz kit. I haven't installed mechanical damper pads yet, just moon gels and the like, to keep it under control.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I am happy to hear that my theories aren't completely crackpot.
A friend was a high school math and science teacher. I gave him a capacitor out of the 361 cabinet after replacing it with a newer version of the same thing. It was beginning to swell and there's no reason to wait for a problem. He charged it a little, and then plugged a light bulb into a circuit powered by the capacitor. The bulb stayed lit for more than a day. He never did charge it up all the way, because that thing would kill an unwary person if it was fully charged. He retired, but that big blue capacitor is still causing shock and awe in the Seattle Public School system.
Geezzz. Glad all is well. I'm sure you did your homework and you may know this, but there are sump pumps and there are Sump Pumps. Unfortunately I've had way more experience with them that I ever wanted. If it's barely doing the job and and you get that kind of rain more frequently than you like, try a sewage pump with a 2" discharge to really move some water and move it away. There are some decent middle to higher end sump pumps that are pretty decent. One made here that is really solid and lasts. Most of those off the shelf are more builder grade (cheapish and don't last long with much use at all).
To keep my Thinderbird safe, I busted up the basement floor and installed a sewage pump inside a big plastic garbage can because of the volume of water. Water would gush in to the can and that baby would kick on and about 20 gal of water disappeared in seconds.
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That looks great!
A mother of pearl Thunderbird marker for the 12th fret would be cool as well.
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Yes, they're quite different. The name & speaker size is about all that's the same.
Well, and power - with the 8-ohm speaker I got, the Mark IV is allegedly putting out about the same as the Max 250 does with no add-on cab.
The Mark IV: it takes a bit more boost to the bottom end to where I want it, but easier to bring down the highs. If that makes sense.
The Max 250: super easy to get the bottom end up, even without the Kosmos-C. Also easy to make too boom-y. But I've found it difficult to get rid of a high-end "twang", especially on the G-string.
A few minutes of fiddling with knobs & switches & such that I don't understand fully, yet, on the Mark IV, and no twang, no boom, sounds great
And a voice modulator & dark lighting?
Mine was a Mk III. Pay no mind to the settings. I must have been experimenting as that wasn't normal.
You've got me thinking I shouldn't have sold mine.... Those suckers aren't light. About what my 100w tube heads weigh in at.
That was a very unusual amount of rain, and the pump stopped the water from getting near the level of our house. It’s a cast iron 1/2hp Burcam 30071. Made in Canaduh! 2600 Gallons per hour, so 43 gallons per minute(lift is less than the 1.5m in the spec sheet for 2600).
It doesn’t take long to empty the sump.
I’m going to get a generator next. More research…
