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Sat Jun 23, 2012 9:58 am
bassman wrote:Virtually every guitar can be considered "Hand made" if you consider the work involved in fretting a neck. Fret finishing cannot be totally mechanized. There is always a substantial investment in hand work to get a fingerboard playing well and I don't think a Plek machine can do the dirty work of hammering in frets.
So - They are all "hand made". From the cheapest Squire to the Collings you dream about.
I do like the "This cord just got lucky" ad campaign. I wonder if Darth thought of that?
bassman
Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:57 pm
Sat Jun 23, 2012 1:09 pm
JagInTheBag wrote:Umm...so yeah, I bought that ad!
Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:35 pm
zapcosongs wrote:I'm curious as to where and when you got your fetish for four strings. I dig it. Just curious.
zapcosongs wrote:PPS: Going to catch the Beachboys on tour this summer? Talk about Smile.... Ha! Great stuff!
Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:25 am
Brock wrote:zapcosongs wrote:I'm curious as to where and when you got your fetish for four strings. I dig it. Just curious.
I like using left and right hand (no picks) and like to have wider string spacing. I also prefer that the neck not get too wide, and I'm also not super fond of unwound strings (mostly the sound). [b]
I'm also not a fan of the B flat tuning above the D on standard guitar tuning, and run a high C on the five string bass (an L-5000 tuned EADGC) I have. If I had a 5 string guitar, it'd be EADGC probably too,zapcosongs wrote:PPS: Going to catch the Beachboys on tour this summer? Talk about Smile.... Ha! Great stuff!
It'll be interesting to see how much of SMiLE they do since they basically combined the recent touring Beach Boys with Brian Wilson and his touring band. I really wish I'd have seen the 2004-era SMiLE Brian Wilson tour, but I found out about the SMiLE way too late.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:11 am
Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:32 am
darwinohm wrote:You now have me thinking about a Banjo bass. It would be a fun project. It would be fun to build one with a light weight solid body to look like a Banjo. Keep Cycle TV'ing!!-- Darwin
Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:08 am
louis cyfer wrote:B flat above the d? hmm.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:23 am
Brock wrote:louis cyfer wrote:B flat above the d? hmm.
I meant G. And by "above" I meant in pitch. Hope that clears everything up.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:35 pm
Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:05 pm
that is a pretty common fusion tuning on guitar. eadgcf. works well for playing patterns and fragmented chords, not so much for regular chords.Brock wrote:Sure enough, it's just a B. Regardless, on the one instrument I have a string higher than a G, it's at C.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:37 pm
Mon Jun 25, 2012 5:29 pm
yowhatsshakin wrote: Boy, now I am reminded of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, where he spends whole sections on some fugues Johann Sebastian Bach composed solely consisting of the letters in his last name: B (= Bflat), A, C, H (= B)!
- Jos