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Bloozguy

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  1. Aww, shucks. It wern't nuthin' Probably my all time favorite Pretenders tune and you nailed it! Great job!
  2. Do you think we have enough US and Canadian folks interested to do a couple hour drive for a face-to-face transfer? That would be way cooler than shipping...
  3. I never had the opportunity to meet, or even converse with, Wyldbil, but from what I have heard about him I'm pretty sure he would wholeheartedly approve and probably say "play the hell out of it boys and girls!"
  4. If you send it up here I'll be happy to pass it around at one of the 4-3-2-1 Club gatherings...and you could show up and bring it home personally afterwards!
  5. I forgot all about this thread...this beauty showed up at my house last month: 2004 Robin Avalon Classic
  6. Thanks. I stand corrected. I may have misunderstood Curtis when he was explaining all of that.
  7. Talk about perfection. Great color for a Jazzmaster. Did you install the Lollars? I'm curious about the original pups vs the Lollars. Thanks! No, the Lollars(I've got the Vintage set) were in it when I got this one. Everything you read about them is true - especially the part about them being bright. Bright, but not harsh and thin like AVRI, IMO. More hifi. I like the tone of the neck pickup to be up full, but I like the bridge pickup best when the tone control is rolled back to around 7-8, so I'm thinking of modding the controls on my JM so I can set it up like that. I think the bridge on some 500k pots (or even 250k) instead of the 1M, and the neck on all 1M will get me closer to what I want to hear. The neck pickup is as perfect of a pickup as you could ask for, but if the bridge had a couple more turns of wire I wouldn't complain. Still, when you roll the tone back and crank it through my Super Reverb, it flat-out twangs like nobody's business. Just not quite as round as a Tele bridge pickup. Both pickups take anything from mild overdrive to fuzz no problem. When I'm playing around the house I tend to like them better with my SR vs my 66 BFDR, but when I've listened to some recordings of the band with me on the DR, what I think of being a bit too bright when practicing equals the right amount of "cut" through the mix in a small bar. In short, I like 'em, especially that neck pickup, but some of the offerings from Novak look mighty nice, especially in the bridge department. I've got a '97 "Crafted In Japan" 1962 Reissue Jazzmaster with a Mastery bridge and Novak pickups. When I talked to Curtis he suggested I try a JM-V (vintage Jazzmaster spec) in the neck and a JM-90 (P-90 style built to fit under the Jazzmaster cover) in the bridge. He definitely steered me in the right direction! The neck has that great vintage Jazzmaster sound and the bridge has a real similar sound...but with balls! He also told me that one of the reasons the reissues, both Japanese and American, sound a little thin is because their pickups are wound closer to the way a Strat pickup is wound...taller coils versus the big flat coils of the real Jazzmasters.
  8. Ooh...can't sell the Rawhide...my fiance likes that one...and so do I
  9. My Fakimba Fleetwood is going up for sale today or tomorrow...
  10. Only five for me in 2013: Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee HH Gretsch G6120JR2 Nashville JR Gretsch G6199 Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Robin Artisan Prototype Robin Texas Rawhide Slabtop Supreme Hollow And those don't really count because I sold at least one for every one that I bought
  11. When Armadas show up used, I'm tagging one. USA Robin Artisan will be tough. There aren't many...here's mine. You just had to show me that one again, didn't you... I'm thinking you must be tired of it by now...
  12. Pretty much the only two three things I'm lusting after (well, in the guitar realm that is) are a USA-made Robin Artisan, a PRS DGT and an EBMM Armada...
  13. I had one of the torsion springs on my garage door do that a few years ago when it was blistering cold... Thanksgiving in Austin, Texas was awesome...zip code change doesn't sound too bad...but what would I do without the 4-3-2-1 club crew?
  14. The truss rod shrinking more than the surrounding wood puts more tension on the rod just as though it was over-tightened. That, combined with the cold temperature could cause it to crack.
  15. Biggest reason you don't pee outside in Minnesota when it's -5 like it is right now...
  16. Damn...busted! Not out of my humble brain...I have software that calculates thermal expansion of various materials, motion based on thread pitch, and fret spacing for different scale lengths...took about 3-4 minutes to plug in the numbers and...voila! It's the seeds and stems...really
  17. A mild steel truss rod will expand and contract at a rate of 0.0000073 inches (7.3 millionths of an inch) per inch per degree Fahrenheit. If the guitar was at 72 degrees Fahrenheit and cooled to -10 degrees Fahrenheit that would be an 82 degree change in temperature. This would make the truss rod contract 0.0005986 inches per inch of length. A 21-fret 24.75 inch scale guitar neck is will typically measure 17.39173228 inches from the nut to the 21st fret. That would make the total shrinkage of the truss rod 0.0104107 inches over its entire length. I’m not certain what threads are used on MIJ Squier truss rod nuts, but they are likely M4 diameter x 0.7mm pitch or M5 diameter x 0.8mm pitch metric threads. An M4 x 0.7mm truss rod nut will move 0.027559055 inches per revolution and an M5 x 0.8 mm pitch nut will move 0.031496063 inches per revolution. That makes the 0.0104107 inches of truss rod shrinkage equal to 119 to 136 degrees of truss rod nut rotation or between 1/3 and 3/8 of a turn, depending upon the pitch of the truss rod nut. The neck wood will shrink as well, but only about 0.0000017 to 0.0000027 inches per inch per degree Fahrenheit or a total of 0.0024244 to 0.0038505 inches over the length of the truss rod. Easy answer…yep, could have snapped from the cold...and...
  18. Since we're on the subject of prices and assholes I must share this one... When I was in college I worked at a local gun store. One day a guy walked in with a very old, very rare, 28 gauge Parker double barrel shotgun in nearly perfect condition. He said that it belonged to his grandfather and he didn't want it around the house in case the kids got hold of it. He also said, very arrogantly, "my neighbor collects guns and said I shouldn't sell this for any less than $1,500 and not to let you guys cheat me so I want $1,500 for it." I took a look at it and wrote him a check on the spot. We sold it later that day to a local dealer for $5,000. The dealer sold it to a collector the next day for $9,000. The next day he brought a buddy of his into the shop to show him the gun. I wasn't working that day and one of the other guys said it had already been sold and for quite a bit more than we had paid for it. He came in the following day when I was working and started yelling at me the moment he got in the door. Called me a liar, a thief, and a few other things that belong in the Outer Circle. I said "First of all, never yell at someone wearing a cocked and locked 1911 .45 on their hip. Second, you never once asked me what I thought the gun was worth. You were arrogant and full of your neighbor's advice and demanded that I give you $1,500 for it. I merely complied with your demand." My dear departed mother told me that I should have felt morally obligated to give him more money. I told her that if he had come in and asked what I thought the value was I would have been morally obligated to tell him the truth, but coming in and demanding a price was in effect digging his own hole... She agreed with me.
  19. I'm in the Babicz camp with JohnnyB and jwhitcomb3. I've got one on my custom-built mahogany tele. Better sustain, easy to adjust, and a nice smooth place for your hand to rest. Not too traditional in the looks department, but neither are the Gigliotti guitars.
  20. I'll be there. Had to miss the last one and I'm getting withdrawal symptoms...
  21. I want one of those CDs too. How can I get one?
  22. I was a Monkees fan back in the day (and still am) but I always knew it wasn't Michael Nesmith playing those guitar parts...all the guitars on their first two albums were done by a combination of Billy Strange, Howard Roberts, Al Casey, Jerry Cole, Louie Shelton, Glen Campbell, Mike Deasy, Tommy Tedesco, Bill Pitman, and Barney Kessel...part of what was then known as "The Wrecking Crew." I think I still have the fold-out poster that came inside Grand Funk Railroad's "Live Album." Not wrong for me having the poster...I saw them in concert on that tour.
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