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Location: GA USA | The WRB is in da ATL! I got it today.
Jeff, you wrote "I had this guitar made while in the Philippines by a guy in a tiny shop in Lapu-Lapu on the Island of Mactan."
How long ago did you have it made? Any other interesting tidbits that should go along with the presentation. I'm lined up to play it at church next Wednesday and I'll have to give some backgound. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It was made in 2001 and traveled with me to 5 or 6 countries in south Asia.
The shop was remarkably primitive. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
I'm lined up to play it at church next Wednesday and I'll have to give some backgound. I wouldn't give too much detail about Jeff, though. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
The shop was remarkably primitive. Uh, oh. I may feel a caricature coming on... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Thought you might.... |
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Location: GA USA | Good grief. Now I see why Zilla had it so long. I would take a while to check out all the swag that's been tacked on.
I don't think it's gonna work for playing Wednesday with the Youth band, though. They rock out and the wrb is all acoustic. I have a pickup that will clip into the hole, but then you're not hearing the guitar, only the string vibration. There's no place to attach a strap, and there's a little issue with the low E string slipping out of the nut regularly. But I'll take it and show it around. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | E string slipping out of the nut? That's hasn't been an issue in the past.
Feel free to add strap buttons. |
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Location: GA USA | I looked into it, and the string is wound very high on the peg. I can address that.
I'll think about the buttons. I don't want to weaken the butt area where the large crack is (after typing that, I had to take a giggle break) but if I shift it to the rear (snicker) I can avoid that. I suppose I should place it below the inlay stripe, right?
I have a set of Dunlop pegs from the strap locks I bought for the Balladeer. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | if you pre-drill, yo can put it dead center. Inlay won't be bothered and the finish crack won't either. |
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Location: GA USA | I've made a decision not to put them on myself. I'm not Mr. Superhandyman, and don't have a great system for securing/drilling. If I play it Wed., I can use a stool (he he). |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Man.
There is so much to say here and very little of it is appropriate. I'd better catch another thread... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | right up Weaser's alley |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I'm much more at home in the boobs thread. |
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| Drill holes in his wooden round back and he's all "help yourself", but tell him he now owns the only pink ute with twin EMG active humbuckers and he replies via his lawyer. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | it was just THAT shade of pink. |
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| Technically it's called fuschia. |
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Location: GA USA | It dawned on me why you may have not had the problem with the slippage. It's got new tuners, right? The profle of the post must be higher. It was wound with only one wind around the post, and there was no break in the line (see photo). I replaced the strings and left enough to wind down the post and now it has plenty of tension.
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Location: Cicero, NY | You talk a good game, Captain, and some may actually go with it but I'm going to agree with JW - fuschia is just wrong no matter how thin the break is.
But that's just one opinion... ;) |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Shame on you Captain, you're not watching the Falcons get their tail kicked. What am I going to do with you! ;) |
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Location: GA USA | Apparently I waited long enough to tune in, because I watched the 4th quarter and they were doing more of the kickin' (as in 6 FGs to win). |
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Location: GA USA | Weaser, I'm sorry. That fuschia thing went right over my head. I don't even think I was part of that discussion. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | You're a lucky man, Cptn. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I was wonderin' where that'd go...
Bor-ING. |
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Location: GA USA | Just a pic of me with the youth band, playing Brad's favorite chord on the wrb.
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Location: closely held secret | Nice shot, Jas... but it looks more like they're playing with you. |
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wooden roundback tour...
