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I suck!! I couldn't decide so I finally just hit "null vote" and voted for all/none of them Too many good choices to pick from this time but it was down to Stew and Maiden in the end. I love me an old Chris Craft (and I miss mine) and that top on Maiden's looks like you can jump right into it and take a swim.

How old is the guitar? I would think Martin would stand behind it if it is only a few years old (I don't know what Martin's warranty is). Southpa's suggestion will work but if it were mine I would take it to a Martin dealer ASAP and see if they will fix or replace it for no charge before I touched it.

I do remember....I thought they were more punk (like the dropkick murphies) so i searched and I remember the "old" stuff from them back in '95 and 2000. I guess I didn't realize they were still around!

IIRC they toured here a while back (SummerFest maybe???) and they played their stuff on the radio ahead of them coming here. Now I have to find a CD!!

I put the neck on a home made body that I cut to fit the neck. Now that I think about it I think I bought a J bass neck from TNT also but I never mounted it on anything. I ended up reselling it a year later. It was a nice neck but again the frets needed work....no big deal. Talk to Brian (site owner) or better yet go to his web site universaljems.com and check out his necks. He has great deals and will also answer any Q's you have about pocket size, etc.

I've actually heard of the dropkick murphies and the Real McKenzies!! The murphies were popular here in the States a long while back IIRC and I haven't heard much from them in years. Korn is metal when you're 40+

I knew I spelled it wrong....I can't say it right either! Man, I hope I live long enough to learn to play all the stringed instuments! That plus the other 20 or so I'd like to learn. My house is full of stuff and all I seem to play is my bass so I'm working on learning more now that I have a life. I can drum on the table all day but when I get behind a set I turn into someone else and I am totally uncoordinated

I have the soft reeds but it is still pretty hard to get used to.....first day though so I'll get better and it will get easier. BTW I can't puff out my cheeks....I was reprimanded for that already by the wife. She says I have bad "emberchoue" or whatever it's called. I keep asking her "What about the lumberjack and does he play the oboe too?!". She no longer thinks I'm funny Didn't Korn do that or am I thinking of someone else??

I need to know what "circular breathing" IS first I'm guessing you blow out through your mouth and breathe in through your nose at the same time so you have a constant stream of air??? Remember, I'm a bass player, not a rocket scientist If that's it I'm not sure I could apply it. The oboe is an air demanding little unit! I can't believe the force it takes to make noise with that thing I think my wife went along so easily so I would buy it and give up and she would have a nice shiny oboe to play I did learn 4 notes today and I played 3 songs in the beginner book - Woo Hoo!! The funniest thing about this is I thought I forgot how to read music because I fumble and stumble when reading for bass. I looked at the oboe music today (treble clef) and I was reading and playing right along with no probem. I think I just get tangled up on bass because my eyes are seeing bass clef and my brain is reading treble clef and trying to change/convert it.....if that makes sense. Sort of "clef dyslexia" I guess. Strange!

I looked at bagpipes and did some research on the imports (Pakastani) and found nothing good was said about them, in fact some of it was scary. I did find some very good ones but they ran about $3000... The $1400 I spent on a barely used Fox oboe seemed a little easier on the wallet for now. The sales guy even tossed in 3 reeds and a book. After I get the oboe down and once the Christmas sales rush starts up in October (and I get some cash rolling in) I'll buy a decent set of 'pipes.....summer is very slow for guitar sales. That gives me time to play though

I have purchased from Dragon Fire in the past (more than a year ago) and the parts were decent quality, Chinese imports. Not bad at all for the price and no different than what a hundred other guys are selling on eBay and elsewhere. And as Rhoads said the frets will need levelling and cleaning up on the edges if you buy a neck. On a neck I bought I had to tamp down 2 frets that were not set correctly but for a $25 strat neck I wasn't complaining.

Circular breathing??? I just need to breathe!! I didn't know the oboe required so much air. I picked up a Fox last night at the music store in the big city and now I need to learn to make noise! My wife who hasn't played in 17 years picked it up, opened up a music book I had on the counter and started jamming! She remembered everything! I could barely blow hard enough to make the reeds squeak. Looks like I have my work cut out for me on this one.

I have NONE!! The only pedal I use is a TU-2 tuner pedal........a Bass should sound like a Bass IMO.

Does anyone play anything besides guitar? How about oboe? Since my arthritis in my hands is so bad (see my "age related playing issues" thread) I decided to take up something that wouldn't be such a strain on my fingers. I picked up a clarinet, a flute (think Ian Anderson not Peter Pan ) and now I'm getting an oboe. I've always liked the sound of the oboe and bassoon. My wife played oboe for 7 years when she was younger and has an interest in playing it again so I thought it might be a good choice. She plays piano now and since the oboe is a "C" instrument we can jam together. She doesn't like jamming with me on bass because we play and like different styles of music.......my Metallica doesn't mix with her LeAnn Rimes We both like classical and jazz so we can jam together (and the clarinet should come in handy for jazz too!). What do you guys play? I know there are a bunch of multi-talented people here.....

The Search function found this: PH FB 1 PH FB 2 PH FB 3 Please search first, chances are the question has been asked before.

Why don't you go through the setup tutorial and get your string height where it belongs? Sounds like you hate Ibanez for something you changed on the guitar......

Welcome Perry.....and good luck!

It does resemble a hydroplane boat....wierd! It also looks rather, shall I say "masculine" if you look at the bottom half from the front....... I don't know why I noticed that....

Nice work. I'm with the owner on this one, I like it the way it is. Bulky is good......who likes a too skinny woman? See, Drak won't go away even if he's not posting......c'mon back already!

I second that. And please use punctuation......I have a headache now from reading your post

This was discussed very recently.....I used the SEARCH function and found this: Mahogany Search first and avoid redundant threads......and avoid everyone telling you to search first

Wow!! PMS this week or what?? Let's get back on topic.

Thanks to guitar_ed I decided to tackle this project sooner rather than later. I'm a rookie at this acoustic business as I mentioned in his thread so feel free to point me in the right direction. I'll post the link to save space here. My web site seems to be loading very slowly for some reason.....I'll have to look into that. ThunderChief Repair This is a Tacoma CR20/C20 ThunderChief that is no longer made since Fender bought Tacoma out. I couldn't see relegating it to the scrap pile as it is one of the best sound basses I've played. It's also one of the loudest unplugged (if not the loudest) that I've heard. I hope it stays that way with the new top

Fix your link.....it links to an "Add Reply" on this forum.

BlueseyGrunge****.......your name will be changed or deleted as soon as Admin can do it. I already edited your sig as there are no pics allowed in sigs here. No swearing either.......it's a family forum and will stay that way. Read the forum rules and the updates in the announcements section. It's a pretty easy going place to hang out in if you can follow a few simple rules and realize there are others here that don't want another trashy internet forum. BTW.....You have mail.