That's pretty much what I saw....
Non-Reverse Thunderbird Bass build
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That's pretty much what I saw....
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
Too bad. I guess that I'm glad I don't waste too much time on here and miss a lot of the threads and posts as a result.
RVA
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As far as I know, nobody said anything negative to him directly, and the screen shot Robert posted above related to private emails, not the forum. Not sure why he wanted his account canceled when he could have just taken a break, but I did what he asked.
Back to your build, the finished product is awesome! I am happy to be learning techniques to achieve precision, which are easier to grasp for me now that I have been through the process a few times. You seem to have it down rather well!
It was petty bad there for a while with daily, derogatory emails, from a Hushmail account, through a TOR server, all related to and mentioning topics here in TTR. They suddenly stopped abruptly.
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
John, this is the thing I want to NAIL down in my head, hence my questions to you and the others earlier about necks.
RVA
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That is really crappy, but I am glad to hear it stopped. If you ever find out who it was, let me know.
RVA
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Hindsight is 20/20, but leaves a lasting impression to prevent a recurrence the next time. Memories of what we "should have" or "could have" done when you put in this much effort tend to last!
RVA
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I am sorry for your frustration, but hearing you go through it too makes me feel less...lonely!! Whenever I make a mistake, it always feel like it should have been obvious, and anyone else would have seen that coming. I have been told that part of the game is how well you can hide those mistakes, but of course, I post them in my step by step pictorial threads so I can re-live the pain!
chilipeppermaniac
Ambassador of Decibels
@RVA, I was pretty tired by the time I saw John's post 151 and wanted to try to word things as accurately as possible.
Ray, I do like to follow along with builds, yours, SG John's, SG Lou, and a few pro guys or Youtubers. In response to cases like when John said the above, or when you were cutting your teeth on routing/cover plate/control panel steps, or like when jtcnj had a rough spell on peghead holes, or myself with threaded inserts in my Jackson Neck or my little splintering of the rosewood by the nut on my one Strat neck during my broken Truss Rod extraction. Things happen.
Also, in my way of figuring things out whether it be plumbing, auto repair, electrical/electronics, wood working/carpentry/ brick and block work, etc. What I usually try to do is to analyze the factors to see WHY is something a certain way, why it can fail or did fail, why when something is built and works, why does it work? In other words, I try to see all about a thing in order to NAIL down the build or fix and exactly WHY it works properly or failed in the first place. I like to know the WHY of the correct placement of parts/materials/specs for a thing, so I won't have to go through the WHY I messed it up and now have to work 10x harder to fix it due to making an error I could have avoided. The key for me is to do a thing with sacrificial materials to get it right so I know how to avoid screwing up and getting it dead nuts the first time, every time when it counts.
In case anyone ever feels like any of my advice is redundant, tedious, hard to follow, or even like where is he going with all this? Don't worry, you are not alone.
I had to rebuild/reconfigure my dad's newly but dangerously steep handicapped ramp he had a guy build for him in 2019. During the time it took me to undo and reconfigure his total cluster F, I heard from half a dozen or more neighbors, friends of the family, and of course dad's aides, that they had no idea what my plan was and how it was going to work. They'd say, " but I am sure he knows what he's doing."
So, in my roundabout way, I am hoping all your guys builds get to the point where you KNOW what you are doing 100% of the time at each step. With every check, double check, triple check and mental verification of specs and experts showing their methods and measurements etc that your "next step" yields perfect shaping, perfect fit, perfect playable work of art when all finished.
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SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I didn't know where else to post this, and I didn't want to start a new thread. Last week, I got lucky and found an oversized BC Rich case on the local Craigslist. I asked the seller if we could meet, and I could bring along my T-Bird to see if it would fit. It fit great with pleanty of room to spare, including being able to accomidate the F*'d up neck angle. So, no more leaving the bass on a stand being worried about it being knocked over.
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Congratulations on the case score
