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Gibson Basses / Re: Epi bolt-on 'bird
« on: April 24, 2023, 07:12:34 AM »The fruit vendor! How are you? Still in Nürnberg?
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Natürlich! And since last year with german nationality, big win!
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epi bolt-on 'bird
« on: April 23, 2023, 06:34:40 AM »
So, we're talking about my favorite neck of all time, the bolt on Epi Tbird... I don't know about the newer versions, but mine is wide and on the chunky side, just how I like em.
When I pick my Epi EB0 after my Tbird, the first word coming to my mind is "broomstick", it really feels like a mandolin with chunkier frets...
The original Epi pups are indeed mud, and not in a good way, they are the equivalent of over-wound guitar pups, they are in the 14k range after all. They sound nice with (a lot of) distortion through.
I bought a pair of Gibson authority wrapped in glorious black plastic from a great man from Seattle sometime ago and I am a happy man since.
When I pick my Epi EB0 after my Tbird, the first word coming to my mind is "broomstick", it really feels like a mandolin with chunkier frets...
The original Epi pups are indeed mud, and not in a good way, they are the equivalent of over-wound guitar pups, they are in the 14k range after all. They sound nice with (a lot of) distortion through.
I bought a pair of Gibson authority wrapped in glorious black plastic from a great man from Seattle sometime ago and I am a happy man since.
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Brooks Thinline Telebird
« on: July 03, 2022, 03:06:00 PM »
Nice work, is that PRS wiring on the pickups?
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Arguably the prettiest thing £350 can get you
« on: June 14, 2022, 03:12:14 PM »What I don't get is why it is stringed with four strings (specs says four string bridge) while the headstock has eight tuners.
Easy, its for an extra set. Broke a string, no prob, already a replacement is installed.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Fast neck nonsense
« on: May 27, 2022, 11:25:41 AM »
You could always add some grease on the back of your neck, if speed is your thing... 
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Flooding in Germany and Belgium
« on: July 21, 2021, 12:16:03 PM »
Germany used to be a classic "harsh winter country", but now birds have stopped migrating because our winters are no longer life-threatening to them (the herons that used to travel southward now hang around my pond in winter and eye me - and my fish - mischievously!) We have all kinds of new animal and plant species that have crossed invisible "temperature borders" that always used to be there. We have parrot populations in parks, they survive our mild winters easily by now and increase in size. I'm not saying all this is horrible, species come and species go, nature adapts, eco systems change, but it sure is a sign that something is happening.
My neighbor asked me to bring her a small olive tree last summer when coming back from Greece (I live in south Germany btw), at first I was very skeptical about the poor tree trying to survive on this climate, but so far, so good. Maybe 100% bio local German virgin olive oil will be the next big thing on the following years, who knows.
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Gibson Basses / Re: NBD: RNR Thunderbird
« on: January 03, 2021, 09:45:27 AM »Never minding your personal predicament and how even in this day and age lefties are obviously left to their handicapped fate, that mod turned out gorgeous, love the fin too! Makes me want to reverse my bass playing skills!!!
PS: My first year in school was in 1966/67, that was actually also the first year where German schools gave up forcing lefties to be righties based on a new recommendation of the education board that had gone out. But the principal would still make impromptu visits in our class to "check" whether the lefties were really "comfortable" in writing left-handed; not in an intimidating way, but genuinely concerned about what was obviously still deemed as an unfortunate affliction.One leftie - Ralf - sat right in front of me, I remember the principal bowing down to him and even gently taking his left hand with which Ralf was scribbling/"shoving the pencil" away: "Can you actually write with that?"
No worries, Ralf stuck with writing left-handed - as did all the other lefties in class (I think we had three, two boys, one girl, roughly 10%). I still crack jokes about it. For some reason, attorneys seem to be quite often lefties and whenever I "detect" one at the office I comment: "OMG, you're a lefty, how did that slip through with our HR people?! " Invariably, they crack back: "As creative and smart people tend to be!" These days, they even celebrate it ...
Nice story Uwe, same in Greece, but even worse. Untill late 70s/early 80s I think if you were a leftie you were doomed. Even now when some old people spot a leftie, they give him the "wtf is wrong with you kid, your right hand had an accident or what" look. Personally I was "advised" to go right, but that obviously didn't work for me. But even if I do most of things better with my left, I play right-handed, a genuine southpaw traitor.
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The Outpost Cafe / Makes screwing a pleasure
« on: January 26, 2020, 04:31:38 AM »
This is too much, even for this forum.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Make your loose neck pocket a tight fit with this genius fix
« on: December 10, 2019, 02:20:51 PM »Errm, okay, then.Shall we contact Mitchell and Webb and correct them? Comedy must be historically accurate!
Don't forget: he is German.
Everything must be perfect.
Always.
Everywhere.
At all cost.
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: pickup help please
« on: December 09, 2019, 07:00:48 AM »
Also add some new solder to the old blobs, that always help to melt them faster.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Germany's Got Talent
« on: November 12, 2019, 12:55:59 PM »
"definetly the WURST act I've seen ", couldn't agree more. Even my colleagues have better sense of humor, well most of the time anyway.
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Thunderbird Day!
« on: November 04, 2019, 02:55:03 PM »
Welcome, and stay away from the chrome, it is a poison after all.
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Gibson Basses / Re: I blame Uwe for this.
« on: October 17, 2019, 01:53:28 PM »And don't forget the two piece Warwick bridge, they used for a while.
Probably the best bridge of all (especially in black...).
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: October 06, 2019, 09:12:54 AM »
I am not really into this modern prog metal thingie, but I really like this. I know, it is a bit out of place with all those old people here 
but give it a try anyway, it is like anal sex, you don't know if you like it if you don't try it first.
but give it a try anyway, it is like anal sex, you don't know if you like it if you don't try it first.