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Hiya Tal, welcome back, I've missed you

Awww

Well, I was never *entirely* away.. of course, uncharitable types would say I'm never entirely all here, or all there, either..

Hopefully, I'll be spending a bit more time on site. Maybe I'll even get around to finishing a few of the projects in which I somehow got involved...

I admit that since I got my new axe, I've become more involved with music, and find less time to spend on the computer.

I guess I need a clone

Or maybe just more

I know just what you mean, in the past few weeks, we've bought a new PA, speakers, monitor & a new amp for Grandad We were going to buy a new electro-acoustic as well, but couldn't find one as good as the el cheapo I bought him some years ago that he's modified & I've fitted a new pick-up to.

rock on!

I think I'll start looking for a reasonably priced, used acoustic this summer. Nice for outdoors, or when the power goes off

I gather Grandad sings as well as picks/strums? I can't seem to do both simultaneously..

What kind of mods did you do to 'el cheapo'? I'm gathering bits & pieces to build a custom axe.. I have some straight grained rock maple, (naturally!), for the neck, some nice curly maple for the top & back, mahogany for the bod, some ebony for the fingerboard, and a couple of Seymour Duncan humbuckers.. I might add a stacked single coil and piezos to the thing. Fun. Loud fun!

BTW, is your email still the AOL one? Mine is the same, although I have a new forwarding service as well at despammed dot com

Grandad does backing vocals only, and then only if they don't coincide with a widdly-widdly bit . The el-cheapo had it's bridge filed down to lower the action right down, an unknown pick-up from a scrapped axe fitted inside and 10's strings instead of washing line. It just needs some new machine heads now and it's ready for stage use

That home made one sounds a lot of really good fun at least you've not got any neighbours to annoy

We've got to get a new bridge pickup for Grandad's Yamaha SG3000, it used to have a controller for a guitar synth attached and since we've taken it off, the pickup has sunk. That'll probably be a Seymour Duncan.

My email address is still the same, but I seem to have lost yours when I changed computers a while back

"widdly-widdly"

My first attempt to learn was on an acoustic with, (as I much later found out), very high action and young cables for strings. I was just a kid, with tender little fingers, and my dear older brother loaned me one of his guitars.. obviously the cheapest one Discouraged me for a looooooong time! Well, a year or two, anyway

My other guitar is an old Samick semi-hollow, (Gibson 335 copy). I installed an SD 'Jazz' at the neck, and an SD JB-4 at the bridge. The JB-4 for bridge is very nice clean or dirty, even on the Samick

Although the Samick definitely sounds better with the SDs, the neck of the guitar is flawed, very slightly twisted -- and I think it's too 'soft' anyway, and so the output is kind of muddy, compared to the Ibanez solid body, which has stock pickups... For now, at least

I'm going to recycle the SDs to my project guitar, and either keep the Samick for experiments, maybe carve a new neck for it, wind some custom pickups, etc., or sell it... And I *could* annoy my neighbours, but I'd have to crank the amp up a fair bit

I'll email you...