StratDudeDan

it's so...so...beautiful... and the auctions will probably close upwards of $150 or more, too, so i'm not even gonna bother wasting money to ruin that lovely piece of wood.

Looking at the deal they are offering, you will be waiting an extremely long time to get your free phone. http://www.themobilematrix.com/info1.html ah...this is why he asked us to sign up... smart man, but i got my phone and bluetooth enable computer. sry, dude.

well worth it sir. needed to hear that again.

dude, that's how i've learned everything. seriously...

some interesting routing may accomodate for that, though. heck, just a small drill bit would if you wanna go ghetto with it. that's a huge pickgaurd to cover stuff up with, after all...

i don't suppose you're on commission for them?

well, now that my g/f cares about guitars, i'd say her. i officially change my vote!

wolfenstein, baby. old school...

who doesn't?

uh...i don't think i've ever seen or heard of anyone doing that. how would you even go about doing that? mounting the mount on a sliding rig or something?

i'll admit, i don't really like the idea of lawsuits and money back and forth and big name guitar makers taking control and all that jazz. i'm more of the "let people do their thing and who cares if it's a better thing than yours" sorta attitude. i know that i'm building an SG copycat, and that it won't touch a real SG, though maybe 3 or 4 down the road, it will. i know that i used to own a fender strat, but had my uncle (professional carpenter/cabinet maker) build me a new body for it, and used the original fender body as the template (this was so i could experiment with finishing). none of my product will be of "fender" or "gibson" quality for quite some time, but if all of a sudden, i start making better guitars and selling them at local shops or to my friends or online, are they gonna hunt me down? plus, i'm all for making creative new body styles. my above copycats are for learning and experimenting. i love the mustang and jaguars of the world, the ibanez jetking 1, things most people don't know about. sure, my dean razor bass may have roots in a strat design for the body, but it's been tweaked and made to look original, and it's obvious that it is. i may love the strat body/pickgaurd/three pickup look and feel and weight, but if someone comes out with something new, innovative, and good looking, i'm gonna veer towards that one at the store the next time i'm there.

so uh...did the whole carriburst comp die a horrible, painful, slow and agonizing death? i haven't heard anything about it in a long time...

at my old high school, there were three oboe players. two were the hottest girls i have ever seen in my life, the third was this gay guy that got all the girls. what's up with that?!

specs?

ooh...burn...

indeed.

those 10% of the roads get me everywhere I need to go too!!! my point exactly, fellow MAC brethren.

wrong! are you talking about the joke or the bacon? 'cause wes is right on both parts... as for you, incorrectomundo, my friend. i started on drums my 5th grade year, took them all the way through my freshman year (as well as trombone) and then decided i wanted to get serious about t-bone, followed by picking up bass. i actually appreciate what drummers do like mad, too. my best friend is a drummer, and has been the drummer for every single one of my "bands," as well as covered for more people than i can imagine at last minute notice and whatnot. i would never think about questioning his musicality. he may not be able to tune a guitar for crap, but i know no one that can create better background for something i or one of my friends writes/plays. that's one of the many reasons i took drums. my dad (being a band director) did that to me on purpose, 'cause he knew i was going to be some sort of musician (son of two music teachers) and wanted to make sure i had a base that not many other people had. if i hadn't have played for all those years, i would probably be no where near the bassist i am now. in a big band, the bass player is the time-keeper for the drummer while the drummer holds the band together, thus, the success of time rests on the bassists shoulders, and without that training, i wouldn't be able to handle that. btw, the whole bassist = time-keeper thing is a kinda new thought to a lot of jazzers, and if you're interested in rythm sections or combo work and have a different opinion, i really want to talk to you to hear your ideas as well as put up an argument of sorts for mine, mostly for learning purposes...pm or e-mail me, please. edit - not to hijack my own thread here or anything...

*cough cough* MAC *cough* i love living in a world where things work. i once ran across some comparison between cars and computers. if a MAC were a car, it'd get 5000mpg, could move at speeds upwards of 300 mph with ease, and would be invincible in a wreck, but could only drive on 10% of the roads. you know what? those 10% are the best roads to me, so i'm sticking with 'em.

thinking we need to know, once and for all.

looks like ham, tastes like neither. officially, it should fall into the "ham" catagory because it has nothing to defend it's bacon side of it other than those blasted canadians... but on the other hand, i can't say i have a canadian ham and pineapple pizza. just sounds wrong. it's canadian bacon and pineapple, for christ's sake... oh! the choices! there should be a third catagory: refuses to choose sides. i vote ham.

good question. on my acoustic, i tune every string down a full step. it just has more of a bodied sound to it then, it seems. keep a capo clipped onto the headstock just in case. on my guitar, standard, but occasionally i bring it down to drop-D just to mess around.

the same with pop and poop.

man, i'll be honest, i hate the feel of laquer on maple boards. when i'm playing bass, i love a good wenge fretless fingerboard. feels so...so...perfect. but the closest thing to that on guitar (other than wenge) would be rosewood, which all of my guitars/basses are right now except for my semi-plastic feeling board on my cheap uke... therefore, i vote (and am the only one to do so) rosewood.

LMAO!! He got you wes ouch...