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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: neepheid on November 20, 2014, 04:37:44 AM
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Hi guys
I'm not a lover of vast swathes of chrome (control plates and the like say on a Jazz, Stingray or '51 P - so industrial looking) but I never really got on with the black hardware on my NR Thunderbird - just didn't suit. So I've changed my tuners and bridge to chrome. Just got the strap buttons to go, but already I think it looks way better.
On a side note, the bridge is actually off an Epi JC and it fit perfectly - metric bolts and everything. When did Gibson go metric?
(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/nonrevtbird/chrome/20141117_232042.jpg)
(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/nonrevtbird/chrome/DSC_0044.JPG)
Yes, much better. That's enough though - quite happy to leave the pickups as is. To my eyes, the chrome/black is balanced out by the knobs being both.
Also, I have absolutely no intention of swapping the tone pot with the jack socket so don't even suggest it ;)
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Even I have to admit that it looks nice.
I only realize this now - duh! - compared to the original, Gibson mistook tone pot and jacket routing on the whole reissue series, :mrgreen: , that is so dumb, it's already cute again.
Metric is the way of the world - feel subjected every inch of the way, you Yanks! :mrgreen:
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/30/books/reich-span.jpg)
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I think if you do the pickups covers, it'll be really nice. I don't think I like the chrome and black together for some reason.
On my vintage burst, mine are V V T all inline, with the input at the bottom.
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Even I have to admit that it looks nice.
I only realize this now - duh! - compared to the original, Gibson mistook tone pot and jacket routing on the whole reissue series, :mrgreen: , that is so dumb, it's already cute again.
Metric is the way of the world - feel subjected every inch of the way, you Yanks! :mrgreen:
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/30/books/reich-span.jpg)
I'm fine with it as long as it means I get 10 day weekend after a 5 day work week. ;)
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I think if you do the pickups covers, it'll be really nice. I don't think I like the chrome and black together for some reason.
On my vintage burst, mine are V V T all inline, with the input at the bottom.
Nah, that's a chrome step too far for me :)
Also, I prefer the jack socket where it is because I suspect it's better for when one puts one's lead through one's strap.
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/04/30/books/reich-span.jpg)
My old man took an active part in beating Kraut asses from N.Africa to Anzio, Monte Cassino, the Bulge and into the fatherland. Stick that up your metric system.
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I'm fine with it as long as it means I get 10 day weekend after a 5 day work week. ;)
I thought that was a basic premise of the metric system in France.
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I thought that was a basic premise of the metric system in France.
;D
I'm afraid our calm, collected Europeans just don't really understand chrome - It's always best in excess! ;)
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Oops, a can of worms that isn't labelled "chrome hardware"! I'm happy to live in a land where the two systems co-exist. I'm much more comfortable talking about small things (screws, nuts, bolts, small gaps, hex heads) in metric, but use imperial for larger stuff (road distances, height/weight of people, bags of sugar, weight of meats, scale length (863.6mm doesn't quite trip off the tongue like 34" ;) ). I can't stand all this talk of eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and sixty-fourths of an inch. I think nut width is my tipping point (where I'd rather say 38mm than 1 1/2")
Sometimes we get swindled in the conversion. When I was a kid we used to be able to buy a quarter pound of sweeties (candy?) which got shortened to "a quarter of" whatever (Kola Kubes if you're offering). Once the shops went metric, we got offered 100g bags - no doubt for the same price. A whole 13.3g less. Scandal! It can work out in your favour though. Because people like to make nice sounding numbers, I was in a restaurant recently which offered a 250g sirloin steak. That's an extra 3 sixty-fourths of a pound, folks. So it's not all bad :)
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My old man took an active part in beating Kraut asses from N.Africa to Anzio, Monte Cassino, the Bulge and into the fatherland. Stick that up your metric system.
Well, I'm grateful to him for eradicating Nazism, introducing democracy and not introducing inches, feet, yards, ounces, pounds, pints, gallons and all that other horrible stuff you guys have! We got lucky with only the good parts then. 8)
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I thought that was a basic premise of the metric system in France.
Naw, that was Monsieur Dadagobois' sticking it up part of it ... For the love of the derriere, go French!
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"I think nut width is my tipping point (where I'd rather say 38mm than 1 1/2") ..."
Can we leave discussion of the more organic aspects (nuts and tips) out, please? George started that unholy mesalliance with his selfie.
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Well, I'm grateful to him for eradicating Nazism, introducing democracy and not introducing inches, feet, yards, ounces, pounds, pints, gallons and all that other horrible stuff you guys have! We got lucky with only the good parts then. 8)
I know you well enough even via this forum to know you enjoy a good pint!! :o
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568.26 millilitres of your Best Bitter please landlord !
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I think if you do the pickups covers, it'll be really nice. I don't think I like the chrome and black together for some reason.
+1
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pints, gallons
To complicate things further, the Americans have different sized pints and gallons to the Brits. A British gallon is 4.55 liters, but a US gallon is 3.9 liters. Don't ask me why though.
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To complicate things further, the Americans have different sized pints and gallons to the Brits. A British gallon is 4.55 liters, but a US gallon is 3.9 liters. Don't ask me why though.
Ha, I thought everything was bigger in the USA. Seems not in this case ;)
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That US Gallon used to play havoc with Aircraft quantification... :o
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That's a good looking "ugly duckling", don't change a thing ;D
Ive got its twin, luckily Gibson was nice enough to deliver mine with a chrome bridge so I only had to get the tuners.
(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/WIN_20141120_182606_zpsad9489b1.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/WIN_20141120_182606_zpsad9489b1.jpg.html)
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Did they really mix the hardware black and chrome?! The mind, it doth boggle!
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Indeed they did, came new from Sweetwater that way. They also had a couple that had upside down lefty TRC's.
Ever since Stevie Wonder took over the quality department things have been slipping through I guess...
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Quality check card obviously sloppily filled in and then signed, sealed and delivered!
I have a Custom Shop LP Bass with four different finish tuners, but I always thought that was an inside joke. I'm not so sure anymore.
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What tuners are you using on it?
I'm interested in doing the same to mine...
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I just used chrome versions of the stock Grovers so everything lined up and no need to drill.