Thunderbird Club

[Chucky Stiletti]

got a pic of the white one?

 

[JIO]

But it's still an authentic 'Bird 'cos the PG is f---ed* up by 2 screws.

*oul

looks to be a gen1 T-bird

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

pretty cool...you guys gotta get lives....

 

[Bent77]

here's a fun one... I already blocked the OP...

Your 2015 Epiphone Thunderbird Classic IV Pro might be a rebadged 2014 Gibson.

not sure if they shipped the fully finished gibsons overseas then painted them with poly, or for sure how the delusion goes... the op got panties twisted pretty quickly....

Hopefully Queen V doesn’t ban me. Nice job calling in the air strike

 

[JIO]

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ok.., I'll stop posting stuff like this -

 

[MCF]

Thanks, I really appreciate that. (And the offer from your next post.) I ended up ordering some from Phily Luthier. Should be here any day now. Had to order 12. Three and shipping was even more expensive than Stew Mac. Now I have two truss rod nuts from when I replaced the one on the '76 and soon a bunch of TRC screws.

If your eyesight is as bad as mine, you can never have too many tr cover screws.

 

[TBird1958]

Hopefully Queen V doesn’t ban me. Nice job calling in the air strike

Thing is, while I am a Mod, I am not assigned to the Basses part of the forum so while I can see the reported posts ( there were several) I cannot act on them - Only the Mods assigned here can perform actions on posts.
We do have the ability to discuss this kind of stuff - BTW that guy had a meltdown!

 

[PillO]

@PillO How is the hand recovery progressing along? Able to play Mountain Jam all the way through by now?

In case you want to play along and not have to dig it out.

I'm a couple of days behind (a few hundred posts)

I had my final surgery follow up with the surgeon today. There will be many more appointments with the surgeon as continuing maintenance occurs; gotta replace those worn out components or I will just quit working in the left lane one day.

Things continue to improve. Strength is not fully there yet and may still take 6-12 months to come back. Endurance is coming back. We had an intersting discussion about plasticity today. She has never seen someone relearn a muscle as quickly as I got my thumb working*. But I still struggle a little with index finger; I have to think about my middle finger to make it work. It will take some time.

* I had some tendon translocations, so my thumb is now under control of a different muscle and my index finger is twinned to my middle finger.

 

[Bent77]

Thing is, while I am a Mod, I am not assigned to the Basses part of the forum so while I can see the reported posts ( there were several) I cannot act on them - Only the Mods assigned here can perform actions on posts.
We do have the ability to discuss this kind of stuff - BTW that guy had a meltdown!

You do a fine job as a mod on Tbird topics!

 

[TBird1958]

I'm a couple of days behind (a few hundred posts)

I had my final surgery follow up with the surgeon today. There will be many more appointments with the surgeon as continuing maintenance occurs; gotta replace those worn out components or I will just quit working in the left lane one day.

Things continue to improve. Strength is not fully there yet and may still take 6-12 months to come back. Endurance is coming back. We had an intersting discussion about plasticity today. She has never seen someone relearn a muscle as quickly as I got my thumb working*. But I still struggle a little with index finger; I have to think about my middle finger to make it work. It will take some time.

* I had some tendon translocations, so my thumb is now under control of a different muscle and my index finger is twinned to my middle finger.

Sounds like you're improving - Yay!

 

[PillO]

Fun Monday tb trivia -


Thunderbird Club members hold 10 out of the top 20 "Liked" tb members.

GonePaid - #3
Gaolee - #4
JIO - #5
JimmyM (honorary member) - #6
JJR58 - #10
PillO - #12
Tbird1958 - #15
Chucky Stiletti - #19
Bklynken - #20

Give the lady in the pink hat a cupie doll!

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I'm impressed, and a little disturbed by this...

 

[MCF]

I'm wanting to check out Ronnie' Spector's bio.

It’s on my list. I love Ronnie.

 

[MCF]

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I´ll take better pics during weekend.

An exciting day! Happy for you Ice.

 

[Bent77]

I'm a couple of days behind (a few hundred posts)

I had my final surgery follow up with the surgeon today. There will be many more appointments with the surgeon as continuing maintenance occurs; gotta replace those worn out components or I will just quit working in the left lane one day.

Things continue to improve. Strength is not fully there yet and may still take 6-12 months to come back. Endurance is coming back. We had an intersting discussion about plasticity today. She has never seen someone relearn a muscle as quickly as I got my thumb working*. But I still struggle a little with index finger; I have to think about my middle finger to make it work. It will take some time.

* I had some tendon translocations, so my thumb is now under control of a different muscle and my index finger is twinned to my middle finger.

Hoping for a full recovery!

 

[RedVee]

New NR mod today from
Gibson btw….

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Ok, I like that. But “mini humbucker” from where?

 

[RedVee]

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I’d call that White Hot!

 

[MCF]

@Count Bassie have you ran the Dunlop stainless ? I liked those especially much on a Bird

As do I. The Dunlop Marcus Miller stainless or SIT Power Steels are my top strings at the moment.

 

[RedVee]

My Sunbursts.

Challenge bass “Charlie” tobacco burst

2011 Gibson “The Loved One”* Vintage Sunburst

* name subject to change

 

[RedVee]

I'm a couple of days behind (a few hundred posts)

I had my final surgery follow up with the surgeon today. There will be many more appointments with the surgeon as continuing maintenance occurs; gotta replace those worn out components or I will just quit working in the left lane one day.

Things continue to improve. Strength is not fully there yet and may still take 6-12 months to come back. Endurance is coming back. We had an intersting discussion about plasticity today. She has never seen someone relearn a muscle as quickly as I got my thumb working*. But I still struggle a little with index finger; I have to think about my middle finger to make it work. It will take some time.

* I had some tendon translocations, so my thumb is now under control of a different muscle and my index finger is twinned to my middle finger.

Good work!

 

[bylar13]

Another cool find @JIO at CME:

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/gildaxe-custom-teiscobird-red-sparkle-1304900