Nitefly SA Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 (edited) OK, here are two designs of mine, the one on the left is the Retroid and the one on the right is the Pilot the retroid is named for its 60's guitar influences and the pilots name comes from the two guitars it is made after an airline and the ice man, an "airman" AKA a pilot. tell me what you think of them, i realize the retroid looks like a vertigo but i designed it before i had ever heard of or seen a vertigo, or fernandes for that matter http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d69/RG1570/Pilot.png Edited October 23, 2005 by Nitefly SA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 They're both interesting - it's hard to judge from a (very) rough sketch, but I'd sure like to see these cleaned up and drawn out to scale! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 im gettin to that, well if some one likes them then algebra class wasnt wasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Dude, algebra class is never wasted - you might get by without typing, volleyball or American History, but you're gonna end up needing that math eventually - take my word for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 (edited) thats exactly what my algebra teacher says, its not true, ive learned everything i am going to use in life as far as algebra goes, tell me, how many times have you had to use radicals in the last week? Edited October 23, 2005 by Nitefly SA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I drew the line at geometry, I think (been close to 20 years). Well, I was always very bad at math, but somehow made it up to Geometry 2, in the 12th grade. They started those problems where you have to "prove stuff", or however that went. I said "forget this ", and since it was the last class in the day, I stopped going and went home early everyday and played guitar and started learning guitar repair. I still managed to get my diploma, and then even went to a major university for a short period (until it started to feel like going to a geometry class, LOL ! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 OK, here are two designs of mine, the one on the left is the Retroid and the one on the left is the Pilot Which one is the one on the left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 (edited) i didnt even see that, i'll fix it. I'm not really a math person either i get the stuff i need to though after that my mind realizes how worthless it is and stops taking in information, i get stuck with the worst teachers. algebra 1 and 2 i failed both MISERABLY retook them in summer school got a B in algebra 1 and a C in algebra 2a i am now taking 2a again and failing, my teacher always talks about his boats and how cool space travel is. he is a terrible teacher. and he has a combover (thats not foolin anybody!) PS. one day we had a sub and he had a combover too, is it some sort of algebra teacher code that the male teachers have to have combovers? Edited October 23, 2005 by Nitefly SA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 WOW, those clases at 12th.... I wish!!! I took al the basics, Geometrys, Algebras, and Pre Calculus from 9th-11th and Calculus the 1st semester of 12th. After that we were done with math. And all my teachers were femele! But my worst one (but the best math teacher I have ever seen) was a 4'7" 50yr old nun from Cataluna, Spain. She could explain everything so clear! I'm glad at that base (she teach me from 4-7th grade) after this math was a breeze, I always got a's or b's. Back to the guitars. I like the Pilot, it resembles a lot an Iceman (as you mentioned) , but with the bass cutaway like the Washburn Idol. Very nice lines on the other too, but not my style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briand Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I like the one in the link. Ah, yes full scale drawings are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 ...its not true, ive learned everything i am going to use in life as far as algebra goes...That's true - if you don't learn it, you dang sure can't use it later! And I use roots fairly often - for instance, the 12th root of 2 is the frequency increase or decrease of a semitone in equal temperament, so it's directly related to fret placement, among other things - not to mention trigonometry for figuring distances from angles (and vice versa), geometry for figuring surface areas and volumes, and so on. And I sincerely regret not getting a firm grasp on calculus at an early age, because I struggle with it to this day! But that's just me... You may have totally different life goals! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 (edited) some people get math and some dont , i think its a genetic thing, my dad doesnt get it either. and about the pilot design, that upper "half cutaway" is actually taken from this airline maiden69-i am a Sophomore. my school only requires 2 years of math to graduate thank god. PS- the pickguard congifuration was also taken from this model. Edited October 23, 2005 by Nitefly SA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nansorbdarb Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Ive never been a big fan of lots and lots of knobs and controls on any guitar, but that retroid design you have there really looks great. Keep up the good work man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I seen that one before, but it still looks more like the Idol than that airplane http://washburn.com/products/electrics/idol/index.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I use calculus all of the time. It's great for figuring out tangents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Be glad if all your teacher talks about is space travel and boats. I had to put up with a Bi-Sexual Chinese Algebra teacher who was forever talking about how lonely he was and always saying " I'll take whatever I can get". That's San Francisco public school for ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tirapop Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 I use calculus all of the time. It's great for figuring out tangents. ← Calculus for tangent? How does that work? I've been out of college as long as some of you guys have been alive. With tangents, I use simple trig relationships and Pythagorus' theorem. That's about all I can remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 my grandma said that when she was in school, algebra was an elective, ah, simpler times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 ...ah, simpler times... Or to quote Anthony Newley, "...And children were working in coal mines, and life was a beautiful thing..." - I have no wish to return to the simpler times of crank telephones, hurricane lamps, outdoor plumbing and intimate association with livestock as the most effective means of transportation. Besides, no Rock'n'Roll, no TV, no video games, no Internet... what's good about that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Which reminds me, I've been meaning to see if there's any Amish websites for the longest time ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 (edited) Calculus for tangent? How does that work? Man, it's so easy, it's ridiculous. You'll kick yourself for using the pythagrian theorum and trig identities. All you do is take the derivitive of the function(some sort of curved line in this case) and plug the coordinants of your point into it to get the slope. Then you use the slope you've just found and the coordinants to write up an equation in point slope form. And there you have it. Doesn't work so well if you don't have the equation of the original line(not that it couldn't be figured out), but if you do, man is it a piece of cake. peace, russ Edited October 25, 2005 by thegarehanman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 i thought this was an english-speaking site and as for no video games, internet, etc, if we never had them we wouldnt miss them, like time travel, i dont miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Oh really ? You failed to realize with TIME TRAVEL, you can go back to simpler times !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitefly SA Posted October 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 but i wouldn't fit in. if you have ever seen back to the future you'd get my drift.if i was born there, it'd be great,but i dont want to go back to then because, i'd miss the internet and video games and coke in more than 8 oz. increments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted October 28, 2005 Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 So, are you in some left-handed way trying to pimp the virtues of being a dumb-ass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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