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White Dog Eggs posted:Does "bury it in the garden before my girlfriend comes home" count as a plan? I guess I'll strip the lead paint off it and paint it white? It might be funny to make this guitar look kind of classy. Failing that I've got a spray can of neon-pink paint. Making this playable will be a LOT of work though. I just spend 10 minutes chiselling out some sort of weird brown putty from the cavity. I guess the previous owner did it to try and help with feedback? gently caress knows. I think it needs to become some form of tribute to the finery of Soviet-era music. Lenin-Paul.
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Gonna cross post this in the two threads, but do any of you have any local mom and pop music stores that are just absolutely scum? In my city there is one that is decent and up front about their sales needs, can be a little pushy from time to time, but they have a great vintage room and have cut me a deal from time to time. These are the guys who have that 81 ES 335 I'm mulling over. Then there is the second store where I took a Yamaha TVL to get setup and it "disappeared" for a few days. One of the techs took it home and it took me promising to come back and pick something off the wall if my guitar wasn't found "by Friday" for them to "find it". And then there is the one that has aggravated me the most. They occasionally get good/interesting gear in but some friends of mine that have put stuff up for consignment have had problems. Basically say they want $1000 bucks for the instrument, it goes on consignment for $1100, but they'll find that same instrument for sale on Reverb.com for $1500. I've had a co worker sell something through them consignment and take his cut and it was a similar deal. His cut was $1000 bucks, it was supposed to be on sale for $1100, but he found out it actually sold for $1300 and they just kept the extra cash. I went in the other day to inspect an Ibanez Rick copy. The bridge was an old, plastic, bridge and was basically worn the gently caress out. The strings were resting on the bridge pickup and it was unplayable. "Oh yeah man, it is setup to play muted". Get hosed. My BIL is a jazz musician around here and knows the musicians that own the place. I told him about the problems I and some friends had with it. "Notice that they don't have anyone there providing lessons, right? No one there anymore to do setups and maintenance, right? Cause those guys are loving assholes." The owner was a manager of the GC in Austin and figured he could move to Jackson and open up his own store due to the low cost of living.
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Oct 21, 2014 17:48
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White Dog Eggs posted:They don't seem to be embedding, you can see the album here though: http://imgur.com/a/0er4i  All of my own amateur guitar modifying ventures have been thrown into a very favorable contrast. I say paint it black, and then play Paint it Black on it.
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Oct 21, 2014 18:01
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Here's what the cavity looked like after I pulled a lot of that weird poo poo out This is about a 5th of what I pulled out, the consistency is the same as window putty so that's probably what it is. Body feels noticeably lighter now I pulled it out.  unlawfulsoup posted:I think it needs to become some form of tribute to the finery of Soviet-era music. Lenin-Paul. Clitch posted:
Weirdly enough I did think about doing it black with an x-ray printout on it as a sort of tribute to Soviet-era bootlegs of western music that were printed on old x-ray plates, but I was worried it'd look too  .
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Oct 21, 2014 18:28
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White Dog Eggs posted:Weirdly enough I did think about doing it black with an x-ray printout on it as a sort of tribute to Soviet-era bootlegs of western music that were printed on old x-ray plates, but I was worried it'd look too It's a Romanian guitar. Can it possibly look too ?
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Oct 21, 2014 19:01
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White Dog Eggs posted:Weirdly enough I did think about doing it black with an x-ray printout on it as a sort of tribute to Soviet-era bootlegs of western music that were printed on old x-ray plates, but I was worried it'd look too That link is pretty crazy, Xray bootlegs. I think a Soviet tribute guitar would be pretty awesome in general, but I can kind of see it going horribly too though. Basically, you cannot lose.
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Oct 21, 2014 19:02
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Clitch posted:It's a Romanian guitar. Can it possibly look too Exactly, if there's a guitar that needs to look it's some no-name mystery bastard that arrived on your doorstep in mysterious circumstances. Hell it would be difficult to make the guitar any worse, right?
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Oct 21, 2014 19:17
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Haha, fair point! I guess painting it black would be pretty easy. I've got to get my hands on proper x-ray prints though, using anything else would be cheating. E: I live about 5 minutes from a fairly busy hospital, I guess I could just ask nicely? Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 19:38
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please continue to update your fixes on the romanian guitar too, i really want to see this become an actual playable thing
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Oct 21, 2014 19:42
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Have an acoustic guitar, but you actually need an electric guitar? http://youtu.be/IaHxPi9dM7o?t=4m6s
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Honestly, I really like the white on white look of Mystery Communist Guitar, were it to be made playable. Also, I wish you had recorded the hosed up sound it made when you plugged it in.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:13
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Allen Wren posted:Honestly, I really like the white on white look of Mystery Communist Guitar, were it to be made playable. Also, I wish you had recorded the hosed up sound it made when you plugged it in. I'm kind of torn myself... If I can get actual x-ray print-outs then I'll paint it black, if not, I'll make it classy. GBS caster update! It's mostly wired up, just waiting on some switches to arrive then it should all work. Still waiting for my friend to finish drawing that picture for me, I'll give her a text and see what the score is. I was going to take pictures but then I realised that it looks pretty much identical to the last lot of pictures I took. Just finished roughing out a neck for another (hideously delayed) goon build too. The original got broke due to some insane circumstances that I can't comment on due to legal reasons, which sucks because it was a pretty funny story.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:20
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White Dog Eggs posted:Haha, fair point! I guess painting it black would be pretty easy. I've got to get my hands on proper x-ray prints though, using anything else would be cheating. It's probably also worth pointing out that like every other kind of film stock x-ray film has changed over the years. Most Soviet-era medical x-rays were probably acetate (like was commonly used for phonograph records until the '50s). In the West (I don't know about the former Soviet republics) acetate was replaced by polyester film decades ago. And these days a new x-ray machine will be digital. You could probably do a plausible fake with a public domain x-ray image and printer transparency media. Or if you have metal etching gear, print onto transfer paper (the kind used for DIY PCB etching) and etch an x-ray onto a metal plate/metal film.
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SubG posted:I don't know how it works where you are, but in the US exposed x-rays are considered patient information and so are covered under HIPAA. They're not just tossed in the trash, they're put into special recycling containers and then handed off to a specialised document destruction service. I did wonder about the confidentiality aspect of it, I was thinking that some might have been put aside as a teaching aid or something. Last time my dog had an X-Ray it was printed onto a clear plastic sheet thing, I assume they still do the same at hospitals. I guess another way around it would be to get the patients permission? I guess I'll have to phone the Radiology department or find the email of whoever is in charge. I guess it'd be easy enough to fake, but that wouldn't be as fun, although now I think of it if the guitar is black then I'd need a negative for it to show up or something. Hrm....
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Oct 21, 2014 23:44
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Clear acrylic PG with an LED backlight. Edit: Or do it like old LED screen sidelights, and mount the LED in a notch at the side, so it shines throughout the acrylic. Clitch fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 22, 2014 00:00
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White with glow in the dark (white) paint exposing the shape of the internals. E: you'd have to paint over the pickguard of course
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On the topic of custom color LPs, here's a local one. Guessing a "Maestro by Gibson" coverup job, but bolt on neck is a giveaway.   $400.
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Oct 22, 2014 01:00
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i'm the mother fuckin confederate flag
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Sockington posted:On the topic of custom color LPs, here's a local one. Guessing a "Maestro by Gibson" coverup job, but bolt on neck is a giveaway. Grandma's going to be pissed, when she finds out what happened to all of her nail polish.
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White Dog Eggs posted:Haha, fair point! I guess painting it black would be pretty easy. I've got to get my hands on proper x-ray prints though, using anything else would be cheating. If I can get copies of the last CT scan I had done, I'll send them to you. I think an x-ray film of the lower bowels/colon would be fitting for such a project.
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Oct 22, 2014 02:28
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I'm gonna share this here because I think it falls under the category of horrible music stuff. Apparently one of our local celebrities is in need of a new music video I wonder what was wrong with his old one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD1tz9l0RhE an AOL chatroom fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Oct 22, 2014 |
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Oct 22, 2014 03:57
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bisticles posted:I'm gonna share this here because I think it falls under the category of horrible music stuff. Apparently one of our local celebrities is in need of a new music video You know, he actually sounds like a nice guy, what with his Jim Henson voice and all Stiffler's mom is not into it though
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Gonna cross post this in the two threads, but do any of you have any local mom and pop music stores that are just absolutely scum? In my city there is one that is decent and up front about their sales needs, can be a little pushy from time to time, but they have a great vintage room and have cut me a deal from time to time. These are the guys who have that 81 ES 335 I'm mulling over. When a small local guitar shop went bust the owner let me rummage through the shop to see if there was any stuff I'd like. The guy hadn't cleaned his shop in at least 10 years, we were digging through boxes and it was even odds that we'd find at least one dead mouse per box. We found a forgotten acoustic guitar that some mice had used as a nest, the little bastards gnawed a hole in the side and had been dragging picks in there to make into nesting. Didn't really find anything too interesting, mostly boxes of rusty machine-head, trem springs and a shitload of "How to play like Eric Clapton!" VHS tapes. This wasn't in the warehouse by the way, this was in the back of his shop, behind where the big-amps went. We know he hadn't cleaned in 10 years because we found the remains of pizza box from a company that closed down 10 years ago. It was actually a nice store but it really, really stank. The owner shut the store down because his asthma was kicking his rear end to the point where he was struggling to do anything. Turns out that breathing in mouse-piss causes asthma. He got better. Sockington posted:On the topic of custom color LPs, here's a local one. Guessing a "Maestro by Gibson" coverup job, but bolt on neck is a giveaway. I.... I actually like that. It looks like fancy melted ice-cream. BigHustle posted:If I can get copies of the last CT scan I had done, I'll send them to you. I think an x-ray film of the lower bowels/colon would be fitting for such a project. YES!!!!! Holy poo poo, if you could manage that it'd be awesome.
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White Dog Eggs posted:We found a forgotten acoustic guitar that some mice had used as a nest, the little bastards gnawed a hole in the side and had been dragging picks in there to make into nesting. I always thought it was the gnomes who stole all my picks. Learn something new every day.
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bisticles posted:
Bustin' mad rhymes! See me ride in my limo it is very impressive Call me Insane Shane and I'm manic depressive when you hear my rhymes they are very frenetic I am Insane Shane and I am schizophrenic When you get near me you'll ask who farted Insane Shane is only mildly retarded
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So this hounds tooth pattern guitar is quite interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRhZg9fKRM
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:So this hounds tooth pattern guitar is quite interesting. I do not get houndstooth. It's a hideous pattern, and it's persevered for centuries.
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bisticles posted:I'm gonna share this here because I think it falls under the category of horrible music stuff. Apparently one of our local celebrities is in need of a new music video That dude is cool af
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bisticles posted:I'm gonna share this here because I think it falls under the category of horrible music stuff. Apparently one of our local celebrities is in need of a new music video drat. I thought it was from Kingston, ON. Seems like the type.
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Clitch posted:I do not get houndstooth. It's a hideous pattern, and it's persevered for centuries.
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Apparently my friend should be finished with the decal for the GBScaster by the weekend, I wasn't going to spoil it, but the design is Cthulu rising out of the toilet whilst slender-man looks on disapprovingly. Also there will be a rainbow.
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Y'know, while I try not to brag about it (because really, they're just bits of wood and wire) I'm PROUD of and really love the guitars I have. Some come and go, but the core ones are just mine, and I don't generally get really excited about a new one anymore. That said, other than my recent Suhr order, I haven't been this excited about a new guitar in YEARS.
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iostream.h posted:Y'know, while I try not to brag about it (because really, they're just bits of wood and wire) I'm PROUD of and really love the guitars I have. What have you named them
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Acquire Currency! posted:What have you named them I don't play blues. Edit: Or, to be more fair and honest: That one, that one, the other one, that one, the one with P90's and that one.
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iostream.h posted:I don't play blues. ..and that one...with the rainbow. Edit: also, that one someone threw across the studio Sockington fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Sockington posted:..and that one...with the rainbow. Hey, that guitar was MADE that way, it wasn't a choice. And I was REALLY mad that day, insanely so...
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Today I wasted an hour of my life scraping off lead paint. Turns out the top is Birch plywood that has been steamed into shape and glued on. Pretty sure the body is some type of birch, won't know until I scrape more of the lead paint off. Joy. Edit: I should probably upload a picture  You can see where I got a bit overzealous and went through the top layer of plywood in a few spots. Also the original colour was some sort of weird burgundy. I'll remember to take pictures when I do the back. Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Here's a picture of the back partially scraped off to show you the original colour. I scraped rather than sanded because even though I'm wearing a respirator I don't really want lead paint dust lying around. Spooky face! WoooOOOOoooOOOOooooOOOO (my phone actually picked this out as a face).   Also, someone had just made me aware of this on facebook;  You clamp it on your headstock and it totally helps with sustain.
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Back in the 80's I remember there were sheets of brass shaped like a headstock that you bolted on beneath the tuners to do that. 'That' being separate the foolish from their money.
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