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Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: exiledarchangel on April 01, 2010, 11:21:47 AM
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I'm searching for a pair of (black) pickup rings, does anybody know if they are identical to 60s and 70s Tbird pickups?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no such animal I am aware of.
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http://www.fretsonthenet.com
(http://www.fretsonthenet.com/tbirdringblackano.JPG)
Try there. :)
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Ditto!what ol man C said.M
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Do the rings from F.O.T.N. fit the modern black pickups?
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Do the rings from F.O.T.N. fit the modern black pickups?
I just went to my parts box and checked. I originally sent a pickup ring from a 60's bird and one from a 70's bird to David, so I know they're great replicas. What I didn't know (because I'd never tried it) is that they won't work with modern black bird pickups (at least not the set I have). The newer pickups are slightly larger than either the 60's or 70's pickups. It looks like the discrepancy is down to the difference in thickness between the metal cover of the older pickups and the plastic cover of the newer ones. I'd still recommend checking with Dave and seeing if he's got some that will work.
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If that's the difference, perhaps some light filing on the inner edge would work.
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He wouldn't have this problem if he just gave in to the goodness of CHROME ;)
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Do the rings from F.O.T.N. fit the modern black pickups?
yes
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/shadowcastaz/th_cgold.jpg) (http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/shadowcastaz/?action=view¤t=cgold.jpg)
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http://www.fretsonthenet.com
(http://www.fretsonthenet.com/tbirdringblackano.JPG)
Try there. :)
Well what you know about that ?
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http://www.fretsonthenet.com
(http://www.fretsonthenet.com/tbirdringblackano.JPG)
Try there. :)
I already contacted him but he is not sure if the vintage rings will fit the modern TB+ pups. Dimensions seem ok, but he asked about the corner radius.
I guess I'll scan a drawing and send it to him to be sure.
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I've sprayed the one mark set over black, but I've also had to shape it, as the body on my T'bird differs from a Gibbie...
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YOU PAINTED THAT LOVELY CHROME RING BLACK?!
That's it.......Send the Luftwaffe over!
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... and the pups covered in sparkly gold stuff (on a second attempt - did you voodoo the chrome beneath to shed its covering...?)
Honest Ma'am... it does come off for inspection purposes... (ducking for cover, a sparkly gold one... ;D)
err... would you believe it's on an undercover mission...? (running much faster...)
Err going offline now and hiding in the shed until its safe to come out (stop sniggering, V...!)
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I already contacted him but he is not sure if the vintage rings will fit the modern TB+ pups. Dimensions seem ok, but he asked about the corner radius.
I guess I'll scan a drawing and send it to him to be sure.
They won't fit, but I had them make me a pair that would. Maybe they still have the template on file?
(http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs451.snc3/25832_1253866065281_1188420788_30637201_3393832_n.jpg)
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... and the pups covered in sparkly gold stuff (on a second attempt - did you voodoo the chrome beneath to shed its covering...?)
Honest Ma'am... it does come off for inspection purposes... (ducking for cover, a sparkly gold one... ;D)
err... would you believe it's on an undercover mission...? (running much faster...)
Err going offline now and hiding in the shed until its safe to come out (stop sniggering, V...!)
HAVE YOU NO SHAME YOUNG MAN!? Just wait 'till your father gets home :vader: :vader: Oh, wait he would approve of the black paint :vader: German sensabilites being what they are........
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Mind you, there is an awful lot of "sparkly-stuff" going to be on my 'bird...
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That's unusual... the sound of multiple piston engines... hmmm where are they going...?
(http://www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/stuka.jpg)
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Those are Hellcats Kenny, really ;)
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That's unusual... the sound of multiple piston engines... hmmm where are they going...?
(http://www.topedge.com/panels/ww2/na/stuka.jpg)
I know where they are going: DOWN in flames!
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They won't fit, but I had them make me a pair that would. Maybe they still have the template on file?
(http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs451.snc3/25832_1253866065281_1188420788_30637201_3393832_n.jpg)
Great action shot Tom!
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Those are Hellcats Kenny, really ;)
It's my dislek... disleks... dixslesia... err...
"... And frankly, I don't give a damn..."
(I'm not going to live that one down, am I Ma'am... ;))
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Nope! ;)
I hope whatever you painted those parts with has some bite - that and you must have a light touch......... I've worn groves into the metal on my '76s and on TB Plus.
I have visons of black paint flaking off of the pup cover in large necrotic chunks......... ;)
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Stukas were useful for lots of things, but they never helped much with bad taste. :-\
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The propeller-driven siren on some of them didn't exactly raise anyone's spirits, either...
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Well, they certainly grabbed attention!
But Fräulein Rpmmel's comment was right, in a way the Stukas were, well, not exactly Helldivers, but Dauntlesses, Ernst Udet (a WW I ace and early shaper of the Luftwaffe) brought the dive bomber concept to Germany only after having witnessed a test dive bomb attack on an old WW I battleship which the US Navy had staged in the early thirties to document how potent the new weapon could be. It's an American invention alright.
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I hope whatever you painted those parts with has some bite - that and you must have a light touch......... I've worn groves into the metal on my '76s and on TB Plus.
I have visons of black paint flaking off of the pup cover in large necrotic chunks......... ;)
Don't forget I used to play mostly HM... never been accused of having a light touch... that's why I mentioned it was an easy fin... easy to redo... ;D
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Well, they certainly grabbed attention!
But Fräulein Rpmmel's comment was right, in a way the Stukas were, well, not exactly Helldivers, but Dauntlesses, Ernst Udet (a WW I ace and early shaper of the Luftwaffe) brought the dive bomber concept to Germany only after having witnessed a test dive bomb attack on an old WW I battleship which the US Navy had staged in the early thirties to document how potent the new weapon could be. It's an American invention alright.
Those tests probably developed from Billy Mitchell's sinking of the ex-German Navy ship, the Ostfriesland, in 1921 and some former US Navy battleships a couple of years later.
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Stukas were useful for lots of things, but they never helped much with bad taste.
They were forever immortalized by Cox & Revell as a child.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Old-Cox-Thimble-Drome-JU87d-Stuka-Dive-Bomber-1965_W0QQitemZ180490718217QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a0615cc09#ht_836wt_1167
http://cgi.ebay.com/Revell-04620-1-72-Junkers-Ju-87-B-2-R-2-Stuka_W0QQitemZ280324373762QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4144a27d02#ht_2960wt_941
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That just took me back to 1974. :)
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I still have the motor out of my Cox P-51 Mustang. Those old things were FAST, loud and incredibly fun. Eventually the bodies got covered with fuel and exhaust and became sticky but it was all part of the experience.
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I had one of these back in the day. Wish I still had it now that the prices are crazy!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cox-049-Vega-Funny-Car-Dragster_W0QQitemZ370311022311QQcmdZViewItemQQptZRadio_Control_Vehicles?hash=item563841c6e7
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I always thought the non-retractable landing gear on those offensive - it looked outdated already in the Spanish Civil War when the Legion Condor used them to battle the Spanish Republic. But it probably gave them great landing stability on less than great airfield strips and might have had a stabilizing effect for the wings in dive attacks too - after all, the Stuka wasn't built for speed (or for being up in the air when Allied fighters were around, it was one lame target practice duck then!).
Miraculously, Oberst Rudel (the Stuka ace with 2530 sorties, three Soviet navy shipss, 800 Allied trucks and cars, 70 amphibious landing craft, 150 artillery and anti-tank gun positions, more than 500 tanks, four tank transport trains plus many bunkers and bridges to his credit, unfortunately also an unsavory Nazi regime apologet after the war) even managed to shoot down nine enemy planes with his Stuka - must have been unnarmed gliders! Or perhaps he had those kills while flying his tank buster FW 190 A which he also flew (albeit not as often as his beloved Stuka).