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Don't ask me where, but somewhere I've read a story of a guitar tech who got a camo painted guitar from a kid with a request to make it look like it'd been shot...so he took it out to the range and gave it a bullseye with his .357...apparrently the kid freaked out with joy when he saw it. Trouble is, in Germany we have quite strict weapons laws so all I could legally do to it would be shooting it with a bb gun...likely that the richocheting pellet would cost me an eye. If I shot it with a real caliber, it would surely make a nice hole, thus rendering the "it stopped the bullet" story impossible, so I think I'll skip that one or at least save it for a later project. I need to refit the neck and solder the electronics to the jack so I should be able to get it done some time this week I hope. so long ace

Now THAT is info I've been searching for a LONG time, mate. You rock! Just by chance, do you know if this same classification system is used in the rest of Europe, too (specifically Germany, that is)? so long ace

I think somebody is trying to be controversial just for the sake of it...stepping in the stream whil not noticing that the water has moved on and the bed has dried...omg I should get some sleep so long ace

Interesting vote turnout so far *lol* Guys, let me just say this: I used to take drum lessons for about two years and a few months and you wouldn't believe how many possibilities there are to play a note on a drum...just about as many as on guitar. Opposed to guitar, which is only challenging to your hands, drums is a challenge to the whole body and coordinating 4 limbs independently just takes one helluva lot of practice. Drum training has improved my sense of rhythm greatly and was a vital addition to my playing style on guitar, not to mention that understanding what the drummer does is key to a good band interaction (again, given a good drummer, of course). Like said above, takes very much to get good at. I used to have lessons with a guy who has become German head of drums department for the Modern Music School, which is affiliated with the Los Angeles Music Academy, so this means the dude can play, and he's like a tall version of Mike Portnoy and he says "I envy those guys who are good enough to really play those afro-cuban rhythms right"... I think all those drummer jokes are bad propaganda, just like the guitarist jokes, the singer jokes...all good fun, but no one in their sane mind would ever deny the fact that anyone who practices an instrument is actually a musician. Back in the day however, every week before we'd start drum class we'd share the newest drummer jokes and have a good laugh about them so long ace

Not even necessarily neck thrus. Even bolt on/set neck guitar bodies are often made from 2 or even 3 part bodies. so long ace

I think it woulod be possible, seeing how many guys have repaired necks with broken headstocks, you'd just intentionally saw off the headstock and glue a new one. I myself wouldn't want to run a risk and damage an otherwise perfect neck. I think I'd rather build a new one with the desired headstock shape. Look in the repair section on the main site for info on broken necks so long ace

i guess it depends on the bass player...i play chords all the time As far as pressing goes, well, i think you guitar players just need to toughen up a bit You play chords on the fretless bass? My respect...I hope your bandmates like it, too No really, with thin strings I find it harder to get a defined sound because you have more finger flesh dampening the string in relation to its thickness...if that's halfway understandable. No offense intended, but there IS a reason that you see way mor frettless basses than guitars so long ace

Tenacious D, song is called Tribute. Jack Black is funny As for the No Doubt thing, they are along with Pink some of the only people on todays mainstream radio I can actually listen to. That specific part of lyric may not be brilliant, but oh well...to those who write their own songs I ask everyone who is not guilty of at least one "desire/fire" rhyme or similar atrocity to throw the first stone ;-) As for worst lyrics, some Yngwie Malmsteen songs have always stood out...745926 Demons will do their dance (off of the Alchemy album), Playing with fire... On a related tangent, over at Guitarwar we were cracking on Yngwie and making up song titles that referred to his obvious diet problems, that was the funniest thing ever, I remember songs like: Littles Sausage Now Your Chips Are Burned I Am A Pie-King Munching Out I'll Drink Coke Light Tonight (I'm) Heavy Tonight Overweight 1383 Length 18, Width 51 (the jeans song) Spanish Cookie Magic Eclairs Fire and Icecream Main-dish and Beer Roasting the Animal No weight lost Cholesterol in your veins Seventh Steak just to give you an idea... best lyrics, mhhh dunno, I was a huge Bad Religion fan back in the day and their lyrics had a big art in that... so long ace

*cough* ask decalshopmike *cough* so long ace

Carl Verheyen is a studio guitarist of the league of Michael Landau or Steve Lukather. He currently plays for Supertramp and also has his own blues rock band. They came to a place near me where you can pack in about 50 ppl and that's it...AND I MISSED IT! bullsbollocks...To me, this whole "best guitarist" horse has been flogged to death so many times, it's not even annoying me anymore. It's all personal preference, or a more precise question. Best technical player as in "plays the most notes per second" would be quite easy, most likely a tie between Michael Angelo Batio and Rusty Cooley. Best technical player with emotion...already unanswerable. I know I'm probably gonna get beaten up for this, but I simply don't like Joe Satriani. His songs, playing and sound do nothing for me. I like "always" because it's a fun one to play, but I've owned his "flying in a blue dream" and heard a couple tunes from other albums, and he just doesn't ge to me. All personal preference and it's good that way. Speaking of which, where in the name of satan is Paul Gilbert on this list? Frank Gambale? Leo Kottke, Preston Reed, Laurence Juber and Paco de Lucia? See? I could go on for hours but I chose not to. On the other hand, in threads like this you always find an interesting new name or two... I voted null, of course so long ace

Cool with me, thanks a bunch. Wes was so kind to already add it to the thread...it's in the solidbody section btw. god save the queen ace

It is very hard to play a fretless. My teacher has both a Godin Glissentar fretless 10-String and a Tele with a neck that has the first five frets only. We refer to it as the "rhythm" guitar...no playing beyond the fifth fret. It's hard to intonate correctly and to press hard and "defined" enough with your fingers to get decent sound. Forget playing chords on the fretless. It is however interesting that you can use it to vary intonation slightly depending on your style, like intonate the b3 a little higher in the blues scale, stuff like that. Still, I don't feel inclined to play one for real. Different thing on bass for sure because you don't have to play chords that much... so long ace

umm...about 2.5 kilograms Welcome Mr. Mushy! That may not be the best guitar ever assembled, but I didn't even make one from scratch until now and you've got me by 10 years, so I'll join in the choir, stick with it and persevere, you're gonna get there for sure. Once you've got something with correct intonation and a decent pickup (not implying yours is indecent, mind you), you're halfway done. Looking forward to seeing more stuff from you, little dude. so long ace

Bestest: Tie between Blind Guardian '98 and Dream Theater in 2001, both in Trier, Guardian open air at the Exile and DT in the Messemarkthalle. Guardian was the first real metal concert I attended and it was a perfect hot day, they were playing their asses off, even played my favorite song for the first time live and after the show we got to drink a few beers with the guitarist and the drummer from Vicious Rumours who were opening for Guardian. Dream Theater was just a stray from the normal "metal" concert scene, because during TSCO, people were sitting down on the floor of the hall, although it was packed, people still left you space to breathe and move and they had sound like you were listening to their CD in your living room (especially if you have a room like me, where the only comfortable seat is positioned in the sweet spot of the stereo *lol*). Worst is a tie between Stratovarius in 2001 and the second time I saw Yngwie, but both times it was less the band's fault. Stratovarius had Rhapsody and Sonata Arctica open for them and I looked forward to Rhapsody a lot, they sucked hard. Their old drummer did...bad sound, bad timing. Sonata were the winners of the evening although they had the first band - bad sound issue, too. Stratovarius were good but the sound guy was a freaking asshole...I'm not a softie when it comes to loud music, but even though I was wearing earplugs, I thought "I need to get out of here or I will die because I can't breathe anymore". Also, after the concert my buddy and I got lost in different parts of Stuttgart because we had some issues with transportation and had to spent the whole night on the train station after we had found each other again, but that's a different story *lol*. Yngwie in Losheim just sucked because the room was only half full and most of the crowd were just there to mock him...completely not cool. His bass player's solo also sucked ass. so long ace

This one has been published as a tip in the last issue of the German Guitar & Bass magazine: That guy took a piece of plywood board and glued two pegs (language barrier...clamps for hanging your washed clothes on the line, ya know) onto it so that he could clamp the wire in there, thus holding it in place...there is also a picture of it but I don't have a scanner on me at the moment...I think you get the idea, though. so long ace

here it is...I'll port what has been posted in the vote thread later...feeling lazy so long ace

Does anybody here speak 1337? Okay, I apologize...some nice postings already, thanks for your input soapbar...As it looks, the majority wants a sticky thread, I'm not quite sure if TAST is the best place to put it, although I put the poll over here. Wesley or Brian, if one of you could be so kind to open a sticky thread in the section you think is appropriate, that would be cool. So we could port the info over there before it gets lost in this thread. so long ace

Yeah that's what I thought, too. I have no problem with ordering overseas, done that a couple of times already with other stuff and never had a problem with it, but as far as inlay goes, I'd have liked to see the actual material "in real" before buying. It's not mandatory but it would have been a psychological factor, ya know. But for other supplies like hardware and stuff I find that Rockinger and Thomann have quite a good selection. so long ace

http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.ph...st=0#entry64404 Wow that's great, 7 days is pretty fast shipping and the service sounds cool. Prices are good, too and with a strong Euro I think we're saving quite a bit. Only one more thing Marcel, have you been successful in finding inlay material in Germany so far? I've checked some "bastel"- resources but to no avail so far, google didn't turn up anything, and the only store for that kind of stuff in my area that I know of didn't have anything in that direction. btw, the salmiakgeist question has been answered in my last post, too so long ace

Go get your own thread No really, the reason why I only directed this post to continental Europeans was that I think that you british guys have different brands and stuff again, so it might be useless for the continental Europeans, too. Of course you're by all means welcome to prove me wrong ;-) Also shipping from the UK shouldn't be quite as brutal as shipping from the US... so long ace edited due to broken English

Exactly what fidgec94 said. The uniform vine inlay also gives it a nice touch, me mucho likey. so long ace

In the finishing section, Guitar Maestro, Phil Mailloux and myself were talking about how much of a pain in the rear it is to go shopping for stuff in Germany when you know the American products, brand names and suppliers, but don't know the European equivalents. So we wanted to set up a little section dedicated to us guitar-retarted continental Europeans to post brand names, stores and most importantly experiences with the "domestic" equipment and materials we have acquired. If you're German, French, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch, Danish, Polish, Luxembourghish or whatever, vote in the poll. Thank You so long ace

They have a couple of cool designs, but you definitely don't want stickers on the back of your neck. I think waterslide decals will fit you just fine, so I'd go with decalshopmike here. so long ace

Ammonium hydroxide, to answer your first question (checked the Altavista translator thingie, I'm smart but I'm not THAT geeky that I'd know that off the cuff *lol*) About the Clou stuff, I've seen their products in the hardware stores but they only had the pre-bottled dyes, not even all of them and so I didn't find what I was looking for. There is a nice blue-ish tone however trhat I'm taking into consideration. Unfortunately I couldn't find any colour samples on their website. However they have a small tutorial section on their page but pg has way more info I think ;-) Well, seeing as we are the only ones who have voted on the Euro thread so far, I'm gonna post a poll in the appropriate section . So Marcel, how was ordering from LMII? Did shipping kill you? How long did it take for the goods to arrive at your doorstep? so long ace

That gnome looks scary...like he's gonna run around with his little scythe at night and kill people... Oh btw, nice job Matt, thou rocketh so long ace