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Nov 13, 2014 22:47
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Is it bad that I really want one of these?
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Nov 13, 2014 23:16
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 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Buil...=item19f6644c46 600 bucks  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Telecaster-Guitar-Clock-/331375241759?pt=Guitar&hash=item4d2780ea1f if the clock works this would be a goofy stage prop at least  http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leslie-West...=item2598df216a i think this one exists just to annoy me. yes, it's headless.
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Nov 13, 2014 23:16
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The cut-outs aren't even properly rounded out  .
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Nov 13, 2014 23:35
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White Dog Eggs posted:I may be slightly bitter about that one still. The tech I use is incredibly forward about his clients. He has no idea of the concept of confidentiality but it makes for some funny stories. That last time I went to his place to pick up one of my guitars had the best, "Hello and welcome to my abode!" I've ever experienced. Range the doorbell, door flies open and he just starts with, "Look at this firewood! Idiot hacked it to pieces trying to fit a floating bridge and now wants me to fix the drat thing and refinish it. It'd be cheaper to buy a new one and have me do the the floyd upgrade from scratch but we can't do that can we? It's got soul you see... Ponce". I loving love going to his place. Sometimes I do wonder what he says to other clients when my gear's over there. "So this guy in a suit turns up and hands me a swirly thing from the 80's that I suspect has trace amounts of cocaine and hooker's pussy juice all over it. He thinks hair metal's due a revival and he's a baldy bastard. AND ITS GOT A DICKHOLE!" 
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Nov 13, 2014 23:56
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Fair Hallion posted:here's 17 yr old me's guitar
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Nov 14, 2014 00:03
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Fair Hallion posted:here's 17 yr old me's guitar That's bitchin' Suddenly I want custom OOH and AAH knobs made.
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Nov 14, 2014 00:10
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:The tech I use is incredibly forward about his clients. He has no idea of the concept of confidentiality but it makes for some funny stories. That last time I went to his place to pick up one of my guitars had the best, "Hello and welcome to my abode!" I've ever experienced. Range the doorbell, door flies open and he just starts with, "Look at this firewood! Idiot hacked it to pieces trying to fit a floating bridge and now wants me to fix the drat thing and refinish it. It'd be cheaper to buy a new one and have me do the the floyd upgrade from scratch but we can't do that can we? It's got soul you see... Ponce". I loving love going to his place. Hahaha, if he's anything like me he's probably thinking "Finally, someone who isn't going to try and pay me in effects pedals and 'slightly cracked' mobile phones!" To be fair, most people are pretty good, even the ones that offer you silly poo poo will cough up, you just get the odd one or two who are "uhhh... I'm skint until next month, I can pay you in weed though". I guess that's the price I pay for not having a dedicated shop...
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Nov 14, 2014 00:15
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unlawfulsoup posted:Speaking of 'custom' guitars. America can't let you English have all the fun. Would (not @ $1200 tho) Tsaedje posted:Is it bad that I really want one of these? Also would (and almost did a few years back)
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Nov 14, 2014 00:18
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Tsaedje posted:Is it bad that I really want one of these? Does the weird string poo poo do anything?
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Nov 14, 2014 00:21
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hitchensgoespop posted:Does the weird string poo poo do anything? Make it easier to play the intro to Ashes in the Fall
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Nov 14, 2014 00:26
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hitchensgoespop posted:Does the weird string poo poo do anything? something something "proper tension" something something "frequency of the wood"
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Nov 14, 2014 00:35
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My double neck dick hole guitar payment went through! Will post an update if/when it arrives.
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Nov 14, 2014 00:35
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it ain't easy being cheesy
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Nov 14, 2014 00:44
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shiksa posted:something something "proper tension" something something "frequency of the wood" i know it looks stupid but it works well and even ed roman, went "yeah jeff babicz did good"
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Nov 14, 2014 01:51
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muike posted:i know it looks stupid but it works well and even ed roman, went "yeah jeff babicz did good" How did Ed Roman actually die? I can't imagine him having a heart attack or a stroke or anything, I imagine him melting into a pile of goo/warm butter. Barnaby Rudge fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 01:57
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shiksa posted:
Maybe this is my lefty Stockholm syndrome reflex in evidence, but I totally would.
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Nov 14, 2014 02:04
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White Dog Eggs posted:How did Ed Roman actually die? I can't imagine him having a heart attack or a stroke or anything, I imagine him melting into a pile of goo/warm butter.
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Nov 14, 2014 02:06
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I remember reading something about Babicz acoustics having some kind of crazy adjustable neck/heal height mechanism too, so you can adjust your string height/action super quick. Sounded like a cool concept, but it seems like it would just decimate sustain to have the neck be a moving part like that
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Nov 14, 2014 02:14
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JohnnySmitch posted:I remember reading something about Babicz acoustics having some kind of crazy adjustable neck/heal height mechanism too, so you can adjust your string height/action super quick. Sounded like a cool concept, but it seems like it would just decimate sustain to have the neck be a moving part like that If it was done well I reckon you could probably get away with it, no idea how it'd work though.
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Nov 14, 2014 02:16
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found it: http://www.babiczguitars.com/continually-adjustable-neck.htm
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Nov 14, 2014 02:37
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unlawfulsoup posted:Speaking of 'custom' guitars. America can't let you English have all the fun. I like this more than I should, it has a weird look like something you'd see from Alien, how the 70s envisioned a space-faring future with loving chromatic CRTs and dippy birds.
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Nov 14, 2014 03:12
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White Dog Eggs posted:Hahaha, if he's anything like me he's probably thinking "Finally, someone who isn't going to try and pay me in effects pedals and 'slightly cracked' mobile phones!" i get turning down effects pedals and phones for payment but weed is legitimate tender
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Nov 14, 2014 03:40
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Stux posted:i get turning down effects pedals and phones for payment but weed is legitimate tender he's in the uk, by weed he means hedge trimmings laced with polecat urine
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Nov 14, 2014 03:43
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Dewgy posted:he's in the uk, by weed he means hedge trimmings laced with polecat urine Knowing the... calibre of gentleman that he was, it would have been manky dogshit-grade soapbar.  (those little white flecks are probably bits of plastic) This sums it up pretty well; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKceQT0Scg4 Also you can get really good skunk for cheap around here for pretty cheap. And we have no polecats here 
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Nov 14, 2014 03:51
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White Dog Eggs posted:Knowing the... calibre of gentleman that he was, it would have been manky dogshit-grade soapbar. awwww my vision of you in my head as ken shabby is shattered
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Nov 14, 2014 03:59
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Dewgy posted:awwww my vision of you in my head as ken shabby is shattered Hah! I'm more of a "embittered ex-techie guy" than anything else (my beard is rapidly approaching unix levels, I should probably shave it). I did once clean toilets for a living though, so theres that.
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Nov 14, 2014 04:13
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unlawfulsoup posted:It is my experience that, yes people almost always have no loving clue what they want. There is a reason quality things aren't decided by vote or committee. Even that youtube dude's guitar only gives you a range of options because bozos left to their own devices would probably vote to have electric razors mounted to the neck so they could shave before gigs. 
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Nov 14, 2014 04:18
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Fair Hallion posted:there was a brief "design your dream guitar" chat several pages back; has anyone here done the Warmoth thing of ordering a whole built guitar to their own spec? And how did your Warmoth-tar turn out... I mean for the money I'd expect good results. I'll post the results when I talk to him next month. I think he may have ordered it already. P.S. WDE is super cool and I want to hang out with him (dude your stories are/must be amazing), and P.P.S. Oscar I want to be your pal. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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Nov 14, 2014 04:46
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 Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:That's bitchin' Suddenly I want custom OOH and AAH knobs made. the top of the 'knobs' was a circle cut of sticky-back white shiny plastic, so I could write something different in whiteboard marker, for each gig. so "ooh / Ahh", "love / hate", "arse / elbow" etc etc. that guitar started off as a right-handed Hohner superstrat, but, I am left-handed. So after a period of playing this guitar strung upside down, I got fed up with the volume knob getting in my way. I was also inordinately annoyed that the lower horn of the body now extended farther than the top one. So my 17-yr-old brain hatched a plan. I was about to embark on my first guitar makeover. First, I was going to even the score on that lower horn. To give you an idea of what I saw in my head, here’s a crude diagram. ( not much cruder than the actual cut job I did)  So I destrung it, unbolted the neck, took a handsaw (Coping Saw?) and began. It turned out the body was plywood, so wasn’t an ideal medium for my crude carpentry. The actual pots were turned up full, and pushed down into the body, never to be seen again. What remained were the 3 on-off toggle switches for the 3 pickups. The rebuilt guitar was terrible, the action was sky high, the neck didn't have proper support from the body any more (I could get a deep trem effect by shaking the guitar back and forward). I still played a load of gigs with it though. I didn't know any better. The strap was also gaffa-taped on there of course, as per the punk/grunge stylings of the day. Eventually it got a respray and became a blue amorphous blob  The nut? Cracked & fell off long ago. The replacement? An off-cut of chromed metal bar, about 6mm diameter. String slots? Nope. But the allen bolt locking nut held the stings in place. The tuner for the low E got smashed off at a gig. Find a similar replacement? Nope; use a wrong-sided, *acoustic* guitar tuner. It was actually excellent for quickly tuning down to ‘D’ for the songs that required it.  the back, lovingly smothered in stickers & warning tape.  that's my retarded teenage guitar story.
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Nov 14, 2014 11:07
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unlawfulsoup posted:Speaking of 'custom' guitars. America can't let you English have all the fun. I like the weirdness of it, but on the other hand there's so much poo poo on there it almost looks steampunk
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Nov 14, 2014 11:16
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Dewgy posted:he's in the uk, by weed he means hedge trimmings laced with polecat urine im in the uk as well as you son of a bitch. you can get decent stuff here if you know the right people White Dog Eggs posted:Knowing the... calibre of gentleman that he was, it would have been manky dogshit-grade soapbar. skunk? nah nah, its all about chedda now, keep up WDE!!!!
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Nov 14, 2014 11:21
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but gently caress soapbar yeah, gently caress that stuff is horrific. both the weed and the pickups.
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Nov 14, 2014 11:22
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Fair Hallion posted:
I love gear with stories behind them, that's awesome man
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Nov 14, 2014 12:32
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Fair Hallion posted:(retarded teenage guitar story) Now there's a guitar with some serious mojo. I bet it just oozes tone, and also various other substances.
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Nov 14, 2014 12:49
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 http://www.violinguitarmaker.com/guit1.htm
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Nov 14, 2014 13:33
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Fair Hallion posted:that's my retarded teenage guitar story. this is the best thing to come out of this thread
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Nov 14, 2014 14:15
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shiksa posted:something something "proper tension" something something "frequency of the wood" good enough for me, sold.
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Fair Hallion posted:The tuner for the low E got smashed off at a gig. Find a similar replacement? Nope; use a wrong-sided, *acoustic* guitar tuner. It was actually excellent for quickly tuning down to ‘D’ for the songs that required it. This rules.
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