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    I gave the dots three coats of black Sharpie maker to get an idea of how it'd look. I did it on a cheapo steinberger with a dark (dyed?) rosewood fingerboard. It doesn't look that bad! At certain angles, it's invisible... other angles it looks shiny. Well, anyway, it's given me more impetus to try ebony plugs on an ebony board.
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    Hey! I resemble that remark!
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    By "Jap" I assume you mean Japanese? What does having Japanese parents have to do with being spoiled? Last I heard, it's not an exclusively Japanese condition. Also, what does his having 12 vintage guitars have to do you YOU developing YOUR skills. Your comments just make you appear jealous. -- nyjbkim, proud Korean-American shredder.
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    Sweep Picking

    jbkim replied to Snork's topic in Players Corner

    Welcome to shred-dom, young padawan! Have you checked out The Shred Zone?
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    Or you can direct mount the pickup into the body... assuming solid body.
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    Ah, I was researching the same thing. You might want to read this. Search down the page for "4 conductor" and the question after that: "How do I tell which is the beginning and end of the wire on a bobbin?" Also at that website is a section on winding with pics of repairs, page 9 could be useful.
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    Yeah, $30 is cheaper than the $100 for the Vintique that was originally posted. I thought the pictures might be helpful for those do-it-yourselfer's that have access to a machine shop.
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    I just saw a neck offered on ebay with inserts. The company is AxeInnovations. Their price is lower than Vintiques' but I don't know if it's stainless steel. The site has some good pictures of the process if anyone's interested.
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    It looks like the ABM's... look at allparts ...pretty expensive.
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    crossroads

    jbkim replied to ultraman's topic in Players Corner

    Melody is in the ear of the beholder . For example, some people just love Ornette Coleman (sax) but is too atonal for my taste. When people talk about "tone and feel," the blues is what's usually first mentioned. The blues are nice and simple... heartfelt... it's "comfort food" for the ears, your brain digests it easily, that's why it's soooo much loved. Complex chords require complex "melody." Jazz comes to mind. What might sound like lots of scaluar runs involve intricate interplay with the underlying accompaniment. There is melody there, it's just involes a different mindset to hear it. "His playing's not too fast, you just need to listen faster " Classical pianist/violinists play cadenzas that make guitar shredders look like they're standing still yet they don't get this kind of criticism... weird.
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    crossroads

    jbkim replied to ultraman's topic in Players Corner

    Ah, you didn't catch the fingerpicking. Yeah, it's very subtle... almost no noticeable movement. But he does do massive hammer/pull's for his chromatic runs (which is apropos.) His (older) Wieniawski video has more traditional picking... along with some nice sweeps and pivots. It's too bad he restricted the Moto Perpetual. His scales are quite "interesting"... very Garsed-ish (maybe Holdsworth-ian too ) Oh! And to the original poster, I re-read my post. I didn't mean to stomp on your accomplishment. It's just, well, so 15 years ago for me (Man! I'm old... good thing I'm gonna die soon )
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    crossroads

    jbkim replied to ultraman's topic in Players Corner

    Heh, I remember how popular this was with guitarist 15 years ago ... and I'm surprised I still remember some of it. Nowadays I'm more impressed with Marshall Harrison's version of Paganini's Perpetual Motion. Hmm... unfortunately, he seems to have restricted that video's downloads recently... but he still has this one for free.
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    K.I.S.S - get the carvin FT6... guaranteed 100% compatible with your neck
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    And if you really want to use a tom for some reason, you can route a recess to mount it lower.
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    It's the first number that determines the number of beats in a measure... the same as in fractions (hence the term "numerator," to indicate the number of parts of the whole.) You should check your DT book again. I'm sure there are plenty of 4/* but the restriction is 4/{1,2,4,8,16,32,...}
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    I can't tell from the picture if it has a locking nut... if NOT, then: locking tuners, graphite nut, soldering the ball-ends of the strings (unwound.)
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    I think they're called strippers .
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    Yup, what you say is true. I should have said Asian labor in general. I mentioned Korean labor because as far as I know, that Kramer is made in Korea. I think the price is lower since MusicYo sells direct, whereas Jay Turser's are sold through retail channels.
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    I'd have to sell my liver to afford one of those .
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    There are some weird time sigs used... I remember reading about a composer who'd write in something like sqrt(2)/2 time by manually punching holes in a player piano roll.
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    mmm... taco. Now I'm hungry!
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    and most important... cheap Korean labor.
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    4/6? Is there such a thing as a 6th note? You probably mean 6/8... don't mind me, I'm just being a wiseass .
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    Wilky's are pretty cool... although I'm a floyd man. Don't forget to factor in a slippery nut and locking tuners into your mods. You'll need these to get the most out of a stock trem to wilky conversion. I'd go with a graphite nut instead of a roller nut. For locking tuners, any of the sperzel, LSR or steinberger ones are good...sperzels would be cheapest but the LSR or steinys look cool .
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    Really? Wow, things must have really changed. I've been out of the loop for too long. I was under the impression that the canonical Strat had 6 screws for the trem.
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