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I looooooooooooove all of Unreal Tournament! Its the official #1 game of the New Hampshire Technical Institute Gamer's League (NHTIGL). Currently i'm ranking #2 in the game, but that's because our treasurer was a poohead and decided that he was going to screw us all out of our money by not doing his job, and just playing UT for 3 days straight until the tournament. He got 1st, but if he'd been like me and did his homework, gone to class, and all that stuff you're supposed to go to college for, he woulda lost

NP VanKirk. They do sound good btw, but they just break so dang easy >.< *thinks* According to my research, SRV used 12s and 13s, along with bass frets on most of his guitars. He also tuned down a half step. I wana know how the heck he played the fast part of Rivera Paradice on 13s o.O... or any other song he plays >.< and those bends! Holy crap, those gotta do some damage on the callouses o.O

I've personally never had a hard time getting a response on a tech, or technique topic here. Everyone here seems really friendly, and willing to share

I use a wetstone, and mineral oils. That's for my knives and chizzles though. Overall, what i use for sharpening my knife edges on my floyd is a 5/8" round file.

No... Its Ken Francis of Sonic Designs. he's an okay liuther. he got most of his experience working at BC Rich.

The guitar world lessons are normally pretty good when they first start out. As the lessons go on, they run out of stuff to talk about, and just teach people how to play their songs. Zakk's column used to be pretty good when it first started up. He went through scales, picking technique, pinch harmonics (of course), improvisation, and a bunch of other stuff. Joe Satchriani had a pretty good column as well. Well it was kind of boring, but if you could get through it, then you would learn a lot. He did a lot of theory. Even Kirk Hammett's column was kind of useful... until Newstead left. Then it turned into 3 months of why he left lol. But yeah, its pretty rare to get a good lesson article out of there. What i do like a lot are the "betcha can't play this" articles pretty hard stuff in there (for me anyway.) You also have to take into account that they get the artists that are currently popular at the time to write columns.

well from what i saw at www.warmoth.com, they send you a basic nut, only a little oversized. Don't trust me though, wait for someone else to reply.

Well, I go on line to ask Ken how my custom bass is coming, and as luck would have it, he's forced to give up his shop (for his privacy, i won't tell why). So ya he can't finish my bass. What he's gonna do though, is he's gonna send me all the stuff he's done right now. This includes: A rough cutout of the body shape i've chosen A flame maple top A very nice bridge A new nut for my custom neck which was completed last year UFO style black and gold knobs Strap pins Measurements (hopefully lol) So yeah, i've got a partially done project to work with w00t. ... *smacks self for saying woot* Anyway, yep, looks like i've got my first real project! yay for me!

Well from what i gathered from my tech... who is no longer my tech, he says that nuts come in a standard size and that you have to trim them down to a point where they'll fit what you're doing. Unfortunately, i donno if that's true or not.

Elixirs on my guitars, and on my bass if i can afford it. On average on my bass i use Rotosound pressurewounds. I love the feel of those they eat up your fingers goooooooooood. But pretty soon since my fretless is coming in, i'm gonna have to get used to using flatwounds. I've asked plenty of people, and they all prefer D'Addario Chromes. So that's what i'll be trying out first If those don't work, then i'm going back to rotosound stainless steel flatwounds. I really like a soft feel, with a lot of grip, and ultra bright sound.

Mmmmmm blue steel. great for guitar, and horrible for bass. The only bass string i've ever broken 3 Low E strings in a row on.

Good to see you again southpa!

Ya that probably would have worked out a lot better. But i managed to get it out. Now my only problem is getting rid of the excess on the brass nut. I don't have any equipment for doing this stuff, except for hand tools (files, razors, sandpaper, screw drivers, chizzles, etc.). So yep, i've been filing for 3 days and i got the height perfect. Now i gotta figure out how i'm gonna do the sides. I'm thinking of using a clamp, pen, and a hacksaw. either wish me luck or yell "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DON'T DO THAT!"

typically people use the HH combination of pickups. But i've found that having SSS or HSS is pretty cool as well, if you have a set of hotrails in there. I think those mini humbuckers (humbuckers that fit in single coil slots) are pretty cool. I like the way my RG sounded more before i put the EMGs in it. It had a HSH, with a hotrail in the middle, and a JB in the bridge. Awesome lead and rythm sound, and the powersound reacted quite well with the wood, so it made a very nice accoustic sound.

Wow, i'd be proud to own that one. *looks closer* oooooo and its a seven string too Actually, i'd be even more proud to have made that o.O Very cool job!

I like heavy guage as well, but unfortunately, my ibanez necks are a little too thin to handle them without me worrying about them. I like my standard tuning though, so i use Elixirs 11-47s. To me, Elixirs are worth it. I normally change my strings every 3-5 months because of them now. Even then, the sound isn't gone, but the unwrapped strings just start getting all rusty and cruddy >.< and i don't like having brown fingertips after i play. But the guitar i'm making will have an aluminum neckthru, so i'll be able to put the 13s on it

woohoo! i got it out using a t bar, and a hammer, and lightly tapping with the t-bar's entire edge on the nut itself, and it snapped the glue right off without taking off that chunk Now i just gotta handsand the new brass nut to the same size as the original nut... which appears to be made of plastic, or rubber or something o.O

I'd never gotten a link from the jcf, but somewhere i heard about people building these really cool guitars at jemsite, project guitar, bunnybass, and a bunch of other places. I went to Project Guitar first, and i'm glad i did This place has the friendliest and most down to earth members i've ever met on the net. BunnyBass was too cutsie, and sold out the forum for a website where you have to pay to see pictures of basses, and a few guys on the jcf were so immature that they just drove me away. ESP board... well i won't go there lol. Metallica board... wayyyyyyyyy too fast paced, and sweary.... and flaming... and unfriendly... *curls up in the corner*

...well there's no finish on the rosewood fretoboard, but i tried the exacto knife thing anyway. Then i tried the hammer and punch thing. Annnnnnnnd now i've got a thumbnail sized chip out of my headstock I managed to glue it back on though without any fuss, but still, that sucked Are there any ways of releasing the glue without using force? chemicals? heat?

I can do that but i don't want to right now.

Okay, well anyway lol Ken sent me a new shiny brass nut to put on my GRX 20 which has a graphite(?) nut on it. Unfortunately i can't figure out how to get that nut off in order to put in the new one. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

What i normally do is hold the wire gently with pliars, and then silver the tip of the wire's exposed part. If you don't know what that is, its when you put the wire tip on something you're not afraid of damaging, (wood surface, old desk, etc.) and apply solder to it. After you've silvered the tip, heat up the casing a bit, and apply the now silvered tip of the wire to the case. Then hold the soldering pencle on it until it melts. as soon as it melts to the case, take the pencle away from it, and gently hold the wire to the pot using the pliars until the solder dries (1-5 seconds). I do all this with an 80 wat radio shack soldering kit, and it seems to work out quite well.

Welcome to the forum dude! you came to the right place, if you're looking for anything about guitars!

Cya in a bit dude! Take care, and get back safely

Well if you're one of those people who are sick of graphite nuts that like to wear down, then you can use this thing. If the nut wears down, you can adjust the height so its back up and all high again. You can also have a high action, or a low action, and no matter what, you'll have perfect action without buzz. So its kinda fun. Either way, he installed it for free so i'm happy with it!