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Congrats on the new toy!
Tangential question here: while I have a goodly number of stompboxes that could use one, I have never owned an expression pedal. What should I look for? (Features, brands, etc.)
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Dang it, sounds like I got a grandma who just couldn't cook!!!!
I do like some Irish cheeses. I haven't had any Irish gourmet food that I can remember.
Try marinating your beef in Guiness.
As for the 'boiling to death', I suspect a lot of that originated in food safety. As in, trying to kill off lurking parasites and the like. Some people never got the memo that the food supply in the 19th century became MUCH safer. Like how one of my Mom"s cousins" wife- a farm girl- always cooked her chicken to dryness. I mean, would run from the table revolted if you served her moist, juicy chicken. Including SOUP.
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My Irish-ness is uncertain at best. I know of 5 ancestors who emigrated to the USA from the British Isles, but they were all sailors. And that"s about all we know about them. They could have been from any of those countries...or from somewhere else entirely.
Don"t care, though. I"m human gumbo as it is. I can claim DEFINITE ancestry from more countries, tribes and other ethnic subgroups than I have fingers & toes.
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HSPD!
I"m wearing green, no question, but my pots aren"t gold...they"re cast iron. Cooking up dinner for Mom: potatoes, cabbage with bacon in it, and a beer-braised corned beef.
(And I"m packing up a homemade Reuben for Dad to take to work with him tomorrow.)
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This? Nope, new to me as well!
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Like WPS, that"s a new one to me, Caev.
As for pedal preferences...well, these guys said something a while back that applies...
I want it all, and I want it now!
Alas, I am not a country, and cannot (legally) print money. sigh
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Stratclone would be what I"d go for. Nothing against Fenders & Squiers, I just don"t get along with their ergonomics. The clones are just subtly different enough that I prefer them.
So...Yamaha, Godin, Fret-King, G&L, Sterling by Music Man, used Carvins, etc. should all be good options in your price range. The 'metal oriented' brands like Dean, Shechter, Fernandes, ESP/LTD and others also produce their own versions, typically with higher-output pickups or EMGs.
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I"m so glad I"m not a teen, right now. I was a real bookworm, so I enjoyed my classes, work, and schoolmates*. I mean REALLY- I was in summer school (by choice) almost every other year on average between 4th grade and HS graduation. And EVERY summer in college and grad school.
Being cut off like kids are right now would have been torture. Yeah, I know about online courses- I"ve taken quite a few over the years. But it"s not quite the same.
* wellll....most of them.
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Ripped 215 at 61? Shame on those of us who can"t make a similar claim.ðð½
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Yes, they do!
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Anyone know where I can sell a kidney for some cash?
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On a whim, I tried a token (game piece) generator for online gaming to see if the images it created would work for making images usable as avatars, and whaddaya know, it did! Works with mobile devices, FWIW.
Here it is.
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Thanks all.
I think I'm going to get a new body, and move all the parts to that.
Right now I have a neck, tuners, and pickups, and that's a good start.
I'm thinking of a Tele body, because I've never had one, and it would be a fairly unusual Tele at that.Budget is important, but somewhat flexible on cost for the"right" thing.
This would be the first guitar I've made for me, and I want to do it right.
Kinda bored with Strat bodies atm, but still haven't ruled one out. Honestly, besides 25.5" scale, and not pointy I'm pretty undecided.
Suggestions?
What kind of suggestions are you looking for? Wood types?
I have a pair of Rock Beach guitars- fellow forumite Boggs"s brand- made of Claro walnut & Birdseye maple. Walnut is a beautiful wood. Someone else I know has a walnut Teleclone with a red pearloid pickguard- looks like someone made a cherry bonbon into a telecaster. But the world is full of beautiful woods perfect for guitar. And unassuming looking woods as well.
Finishes?
I pretty much favor translucent finishes if the wood has nice grain. If not, even though I have some tradiitional finishes, I see no reason not to get a fancier finish if it calls you. I personally have an appetite for metal flake, but only own a couple like that...so far. One of my Rock Beaches is a Teleclone with a translucent finish that shows the walnut grain...but also shows a ghostly fleur de lis design.
Ergonomics?
Nothing wrong with a traditional slab, but the more I play, the more I appreciate the carves of carefully crafted ergonomics.
Electronics? I really like the one guitar I have with a blend knob instead of a pickup selector.
Then there"s the Bill Kirchen mod:
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THAT"S a rollercoaster ride!
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We"ve had our ups & downs, but most of our trials have been relatively minor. Dad- an MD- had 3 C19 exposures, but never got it, and is currently fully vaccinated as of late January. Mom got her second dose the Sunday before I got my first one this past Tuesday. When the winter blast hit Texas, we experienced a series of 4-8 hour blackouts, but that was it- no prolonged misery, no busted pipes.
The one constant was that a bunch of our major appliances are all dying at about the same time. Expensive, but merely inconvenient, not earth-shatteringly difficult to deal with. Besides, now I have a new dishwasher, microwave and oven as of this past Thursday.
But one thing is for sure: the pandemic lockdowns in Texas were imposed between my Dad"s and my Mom"s birthdays. Dad got to celebrate, Mom really didn"t. And this year, both turn 75, and we still can"t really celebrate. For Dad, we did get a nice cake, and delivered slices to a few other households.
For Mom? I"m trying to cater to her whims as much as possible, precisely because she got shortchanged last year. So her request that I cook breakfast for dinner is definitely going to be honored. And for the first time in decades, I"M baking her a cake, instead of getting one from a pro. Not my decision, she wants me to do it. Not only that, but she wants a layered cake (something I"ve never made) with cream cheese frosting (something I"ve never made). But I think it"s within my culinary skills, so she"s getting that, too.
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I understand the thing about yamahas necks. I don't mind the size but there is a difference that makes me wish they would attempt to model a fender neck or a Godin neck. I recently tried a Godin stadium 59. Desert green with stained maple neck and rosewood board.compemsated three barrel bridge , slanted pup selector, seymour duncan 59 in the neck and Godin raging cajon bridge single coil. And the high def revoicer. It was flawless. Played like it was made for me .
Perfect nut height perfect setup.
I do love me p90 pups. The chime and chunk combo.
I like chords, inversions and weird intervals so I love anything that has that and still can be raw.
I"ve been looking HARD at that Godin*- how does that HDR system sound to you?
* and others, if I"m honest
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Really? Although I"m almost exclusively an Apple dude right now, I primarily use my iPhone & iPad unless I"m doing serious work. Hadn"t even looked at my Mac because most of my graphics programs are too old to run on it properly.
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I used to have an avatar of an Ammonite fossil composed of gem silica for I don"t know how many years. It looked something like this:
But it didn"t survive one of the board"s software updates, and I would like to freshen things up with a new avatar. Perhaps, like my original one, it will be a visual nod to me being sort of a colorful fossil.ð Or maybe something else.
What I need is a way to modify an image so that it will conform to the site"s size restrictions, and the thumbnail generators I used to use back in the day are now defunct.
Any suggestions?
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Nope, because I didn't like the neck feel on them, and that means they were inspiring for me to play. But the RevStar wasn't as cramped as the Pacifica or their arch-tops are, at least.
Bareknuckles are a good and safe sub on most guitars, for sure.
Fair enough!
I agree they a guitar has to FEEL right to BE right, regardless of the tone. If I hadn"t liked that Esprit"s ergonomics, I wouldn"t have bothered with the pickup swap.
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Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered swapping out the pickups instead of selling the Yamahas? I ask because I personally got spoiled by the quality of the P90s in my Reverend guitars, so when I bought a Fret-King Esprit, I was a tad underwhelmed by its trio of Wilkinson soapbars. They were serviceable enough, but compared to the Reverends...
After a year, I eventually replaced the Wilkinsons with some Bareknuckle Stockholms and couldn"t be happier with the results.
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Personally, I have 25.5', 25' and 24.75' scale guitars. It doesn"t affect my playing much.
I want to get one of those BMG Red Specials- not in the original color- and see what 24' scale feels like... And I"d love to win a baritone, too.
Edit: 'OWN' a baritone, not win. (Though winning one would rock.)
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Thanks for the tips and well wishes.
In the meantime my upstairs AC died.
I don"t know which deity I failed to appease, but I"m going to take it as a sign that I should keep playing my acoustic and the right guitar will be available at the right time
I suppose buying used from a dealer with a return policy is an option.
I"m actually interested and in the super Viking (25.5 scale). Will have to play more 24.75' scale guitars to see how they feel. My initial feeling was 'cramped'.
I feel your pain!
Shortly before Thanksgiving 2020, our oven died. A few days later, we realized our microwave was on its last legs as well. Because of C19, there were slowdowns in parts & assembly factories delaying appliances of all kinds: we"ll be getting our new oven and microwave installed in about a week.
...but just after we got our power back on for good after the winter storm outages here in Texas, our dishwasher died! The thermal shock of hot dishwater hitting freezing cold steel popped a few welds. OH, and we"re also replacing 2 televisions. 2021 is getting EXPENSIVE!
Silver lining, though: most of this stuff that"s dying NOW we"ve had for many years beyond their expected lifespan. So in the long run, ebpven though it"s a P.I.T.A. that it"s all happening simultaneously, we"re probably still ahead of the game.
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Sounds about par for the course. Life is what happens when we"re making other plans.
I was going to make a couple more suggestions, but, given present circumstances? I"ll wait until you"re on a more stable footing (unless you say otherwise, of course).
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Nah, Teles are an acquired taste, and they vary quite a bit in quality and sound.
Well, a Tele ended up catching my eye (https://shop.fender.com/en-US/electric-guitars/telecaster/special-edition-custom-telecaster-fmt-hh/product-026200.html), but that's pretty different from the garden variety at the local shops.
I'm at 7 options now: D'Angelico, Ibanez, Hagstrom semi-hollow/hollow bodies, and a Dean, Schechter, Reverend, and the aforementioned Tele.
So the next purchase is obvious.
Thanks again, everyone, for the input and the interesting tangents.
Will report back when I find THE ONE. Or perhaps THE FIRST.
I own a couple of Deans, a Special Select EVO (entry level LP clone) and a Time Capsule Cadillac (expensive). Love them both.
But I bought them when Dean Zelinsky was still associated with the company. Before he became a cofounder of DBZ guitars...which he left to form Dean Zelinsky"s Private Label. has proven multiple times he can build damn good guitars. His companies have occasionally had lapses, though.
If you"re looking at guitars from any of his companies, check the reviews of the model (including year) and, ideally, try them out in person. I"d personally veer away from any of Dean"s entry level guitars in particular right now- the QC is too variable. But the upper end ones have been pretty consistent. So have ones like the '1980' product line.
PS: that"s a nice Tele!
A thread years in the making: NGD- Godin Triumph
in Guitar Forum
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A few YEARS ago, a player I know from another guitar board tracked down and helped me purchase a guitar he knew was on my G.A.S. list, and at a price I hadn"t seen before. But for a variety of reasons- including a hiatus from playing- I never did a NGD for this purchase.
It"s a used Godin Triumph in silver sparkle, with a dragon brocaded strap from Well Hung. These were also made in sparkle finishes of sapphire blue and ruby red (all maple with alder wings), as well as a clear coated mahogany. But they didn"t make them very long- after just a few years, the model was retired and replaced by the nearly identical Radiator.* The main differences between them were the Triumphs had three pickups to the Radiator"s two, and the sparkle finish was replaced by full-body pearloid pickguards.
Back to the above...
The Triumph is a hybrid of a Les Paul and a Stratocaster.** It"s hardtail 24.75' scale with a bolt-on neck, volume & tone controls, and a trio of relatively hot but low noise singlecoil pickups. Their sound is hotter than you"d get from a strat, but not quite as beefy as P90s would be. So it can deliver both some nice, almost twangy cleans and still get dirty.
The neck is a C shape, and relatively slender. The frets seem to be medium, not jumbo. The fingerboard is rosewood.
The body, as mentioned, is maple with alder wings. Its shape is reminiscent of the classic Les Paul, but it"s also a departure. It"s flat, not arched, but the back has a nice contour, almost like you"d find on a Strat. It"s also not quite as thick (or heavy) as a typical LP or LPclone. And thhe silhouette-especially that upper bout- is noticeably...off. If there is one flaw, it"s that the body is JUST different enough in shape that it won"t quite fit well in a hardshell case made for a typical LP type guitar. (I haven"t tried it in one for Strats, though...)
As a whole, the guitar"s combination of features add up to a familiar but unusual experience. All in all, it"s a good, pretty versatile guitar- perfect for a wide variety of rock, blues, country or pop type tones. They haven"t been made in a decade or so, but can typically be found on the used market in really good condition for $300-400. I got mine for a little less than that thanks to my compadre.
* These were ALSO retired after a few years, but recently were reintroduced.
** Godin has done a lot of guitars that combine elements from Fender and Gibson designs. For example, the SD is another Strat/LP chimaera, and the Belmont is a Strat/SG combo.