draelyc

Can somebody tell me about the mini toggle switch? Up makes the tone darker; down makes it brighter (more noticeable thru the clean channel than with overdrive). But which setting is “normal” and which is the “special feature”?

Huzzah! Got the truss rod to move on my own! Had to keep tinkering with it b/c of my CDO*. Guess it was just old and ornery, lol. I still have no idea what trem arm to get for the Schaller Floyd bridge — a quick net search yielded way too many options for my ignorant self to figure out. But since the truss rod is working, now it looks like I will be able to set it up to my specs, and that’s a huge, uh, well, relief. Pun apologized for. 😬 *CDO is the exact same disorder as OCD, except the letters are in proper alphabetical order as God intended. 😎

Welp, she’s gonna need a bit more work than appeared at first glance: I haven’t been able to get the truss rod to turn at all. It might be the same thing that happened to my two oldest Hamers — that the nut’s been turned so much over 30 years that the wrench can no longer get all the way down to the nut because the top of the rod pokes out too far. If so, I know that can be fixed because I’ve had it fixed on my other two guitars … but I’ll have to take it to the repair shop do that. And I’ll have to get that looked at before I can do a proper setup. Which I’ll have to do before I can find out if this guitar will be as awesome as I hope it can be. So stay tuned, True Believers — it’ll be a little while before I can share any NGD vids. 🤞🏼

I finally got my mitts on the Centaura I purchased from Guitar Center Used last week. It shipped super fast, which while normally am awesome thing was in this case a bit of a complication, as it showed up before I got back to town. Had a friend snag it from my porch and hold it for me till today. <whew> So it turned up without the tremolo arm & bushing, which I expected because none of the pix in the listed showed a trem arm. But it also turned up with an original Hamer hard shell case, which is way cool because that was not mentioned at all in the ad. Sweet! The guitar itself is gorgeous — always hard to tell for sure from photos, but the sunburst is a nice, subtle fade without a hint of clownishness, if you know what I mean. And the maple board has a stunning grain pattern. I plugged it in long enough to make sure the electronics work — all good there. The thing has clearly been loved and even more clearly has been gigged and rocked hard. A few deep nicks (all pictured in the ad) and a layer of grime that I suspect dates all the way back to the ’80s. I’m prolly gonna spring for a full cleaning & setup at my local shop. Might as well, as I’m gonna have a treble bleed cap installed. So, not meandering tone-test videos yet, not till I’ve got my preferred strings on it & have it cleaned up & set up. But here’s a short clip from the unboxing video I took — I cut out all the ASMR bits to shorten the running time, lol:

Absolutely stunning Studio! How do your Studio and your LP compare/contrast?

Wish I could have been there this year. Hope this happens again!

Oh man, this would be a blast! And I'm kinda sorta not tooo far away. Hmm. How's the jam thing work? List of songs in advance? Or more of an open mic setup, where you sign up for a time slot & play whatcha got?

Fwiw, I’d love to contribute something, and it would be a first time for me here. 👍

Will there be a vol. 5?