Author Topic: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop  (Read 12241 times)

Bionic-Joe

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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2017, 10:00:24 AM »
All my T-Bird saddles are notched - you can't really play them unnotched, at least I can't.

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Not to be RUDE, But ALL of my thunderbirds have always had UN-Notched saddles....simple geometry. They find their own proper center....and stay centered......and I play aggressive...with a pick...and the strings have NEVER slipped off of the saddles...You must be ripping the strings or have some Monstrous hand technique....

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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #31 on: June 24, 2017, 12:58:17 AM »
Now George has brought the subject back to "wood", a curious quirk is that my PC thru neck is a three piece construction, so more like the original types...? Does anyone know for sure if JAE ever owned one of these early Thunderbirds...?
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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #32 on: June 24, 2017, 09:07:51 AM »

Not to be RUDE, But ALL of my thunderbirds have always had UN-Notched saddles....simple geometry. They find their own proper center....and stay centered......and I play aggressive...with a pick...and the strings have NEVER slipped off of the saddles...You must be ripping the strings or have some Monstrous hand technique....

I don't know in Uwe's case but maybe it depends on the type of strings. Stainless (rounds or flats) are usually hard enough to mark a softer metal saddle enough to keep centered.

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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #33 on: June 25, 2017, 01:20:37 AM »
Now George has brought the subject back to "wood"

You're welcome.  :mrgreen:
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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #34 on: June 25, 2017, 04:56:26 AM »
I hope that's a finger.
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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #35 on: June 25, 2017, 11:06:29 AM »
'Fraid not... been a bone of contention round here for some years... :o :mrgreen:
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Re: Single-pickup Thunderbird II Custom Shop
« Reply #36 on: June 25, 2017, 07:13:55 PM »
I read today that our new US ambassador to Great Britain is the source of some amusement there.  "Woody Johnson" evidently is received with some hilarity. One comment was that "...at least he won't go soft on us."
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