I've got the greatest guitar of them all!

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why is he standing on the wall?

Don't worry... he's "off the wall"... must be one of those bat-caves!...
ya gotta turn yur head to the left cause I don't know how to get the video rotated. Will have to hold the phone the other way from now on.

 

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Updates: Paint Job on Sharky, and the finished Head Job on the Natural

{Summarized from HCAF posts (not cross-post)}

Paint Job

Fronts ok, but I got a darker area than I wanted in the top right on the back here:

hmmmmm think I'll call this guitar Sharky too...

Great Balls and Head Job

************************* PROOF: THE GREATEST HEAD ******************************************

At the very end I compared the D and G with the wammy pressed and they are very close. Unless there's an extra length of the unwound strings being longer than the wound strings there's a big disconnect here. The rest is in the spacing of the string pegs vs their tension (still not sure what it should be but it's definatly a relationship - that big center gap was worst though).

 

[paulskirocks]

I hate it. If it were only 10 bucks, I would buy it so you guys could smash it...

Sorry, reitze, I am trying to learn to be more of a hater, so your genetic mutations are good practice for me... So, although I don't actually hate them, they sure do look like a million bucks... worth... of... er... eh...

 

[reitze]

Breakdown

I hate it. If it were only 10 bucks, I would buy it so you guys could smash it...

Sorry, reitze, I am trying to learn to be more of a hater, so your genetic mutations are good practice for me... So, although I don't actually hate them, they sure do look like a million bucks... worth... of... er... eh...

hi paulskirocks. lol sounds like a breakdown. Uploading a few... more videos


Just think, ya could be dog-ballin!

 

[paulskirocks]

^^^LOL your facial expressions alone are worth watching the first video! By the way, I have to say, killer sustain...

 

[reitze]

^^^LOL your facial expressions alone are worth watching the first video! By the way, I have to say, killer sustain...

lol, thanks. It far exceeds the sustain and especially distortion-tone I've ever had access to before. And yes the FM212DSP and the FM25DSP I traded for that do make the same sort of tones, BUT... I just never had them "on me" so that I was ever motivated to dial them in and enjoy them. Even now I still don't. Instead I'm thinking I could trade-in the FM212DSP (but I broke Ch1-V know so I gotta fix that to be able to trade it in - or canibalize the ... ). Here are a couple more videos.

Happy 4th:
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and some over the hills:


oh and Tar Fishin - seems that aught to be more profitable than fishin for shrimp?

 

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Weight Reduction for Sharky

I didn't like the extra size over the speaker and the battery-cover was crap so I re-located the batteries inside and re-filled behind the speaker. Using some spot-putty (automotive finishing) to finish it up now (nice hot sunny day for that too) - meanwhile back-porch boom-box-guitarin...

11.05 lbs with the strap and batteries.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

please stop wasting your money and time on this and take some guitar lessons. for the love of god. take some guitar lessons.

 

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Lessons? Mark???

please stop wasting your money and time on this and take some guitar lessons. for the love of god. take some guitar lessons.

These projectes can't be a waste if it finally got me into electric playing after 20 years... and last 6 months I seem to have come further than the last 20 years... that's mostly just practice figuring out whatever I can but yea lessons...

There's prolly a good market in lessons for guys like me if it were more about amp, tone, electic-sounds, ... I tried taking lessons after 10 yrs of playing and it was really hard to listen to a guy who whanted to show me song by song note by note and couldn't even trade rythm/lead in a blues jam - only took one lesson from him (he did show me blackbird so it did give me 1 lick)... and looking at the on-line offerings they seem mostly how to do this or that (similar... a lick...)... but obviously my short comings aren't this or that (lick) - so what would you suggest?

My own impression is the best boost I get are from time playing with others who can keep rythm and improvise... but that's soooo hard to find... now and then like in the acoustic sound-room of Daddy's recently... and with these amp-in playing along to CDs... that seems to be bringing me along more (like these covers (nervous about covers on youtube, may kill this video)):


I really am curious the impressions on this topic as this forum is about lessons... hope Mark has ideas?
Thanks,

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

i'd love to teach my students about tone shaping and how the instrument works. i tell them weekly to bring in their amps and effects and rarely do i get any takers.

most guitar teachers teach songs because that's what keeps students interested. but they're supposed to use the songs as a vehicle to teach you about music. you as the student need to tell the teacher what you're looking for and why you're paying him. otherwise he's just going to go through his schtick and you'll end up with a self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[reitze]

i'd love to teach my students about tone shaping and how the instrument works. i tell them weekly to bring in their amps and effects and rarely do i get any takers.

most guitar teachers teach songs because that's what keeps students interested. but they're supposed to use the songs as a vehicle to teach you about music. you as the student need to tell the teacher what you're looking for and why you're paying him. otherwise he's just going to go through his schtick and you'll end up with a self fulfilling prophecy.

yea that's pretty much been my experience. have met some who loved their teachers but... the guy who swore by his instructor was a lick-aholic-nothing and the time he came to my house to jam he brought some multi $K strat antique while kids were jumping and drums slamming... he was pathetic even though he had a repruituar... me I just wanna enjoy it... like playin along to things... amp-in-guitar solves a lot of things... still need to find a better ballance of weight vs performance. The ML at 7 lbs is gr8 but needs rebuilt for strength.. but by then... still optimizing this concept but can say going into the house to cool (now) and having the Ovation with the FM212DSP here - it's pathetic compared to the amp-in on the back porch. The FM212DSP has more tone options so I can get everything on it I would on the back porch... but there's something missing not having the instrument light up with the power... overly live-strings become chaotic but these have sustain... want that w/o weight issue. Need to build another and re-make the ML...

After all, these Power Guitars have given me power-lessons. I would think if you're into guitar teaching (Mark) you'd find my youtube channel an interesting progression of a certain class of customers... hope that helps. lovin the guitars--- goin back outside now... enjoy!

Edit:
A friend recommended his guitar instructor. Like me he's been playing a long time w/o many lessons till recently and found his instructor by similar recommendation, described their approach... I start tomorrow!

 

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Update: Re-built the ML with the VOX amp

Sure this one's getting ugly now that its been hacked twice. Still it's only 6.7 lbs and the VOX DA-5 has a lot more capability than the old amp. The limitation is still RF induced feedback due to the speaker being too close to the pickup.

The VOX DA-5 amp is not working 100% (busted gain knob, effects feed back) but it's a lot better than the Roland MC.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

that bridge is going to go flying the opposite direction if you're not careful.

 

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that bridge is going to go flying the opposite direction if you're not careful.

lol yea I trimmed it a little. And on the inside I cut off the extra length of the screws that hold it on.

But if it goes flying I figure I'll put the one on it from the Epiphone Special 1 that's here in parts. As it is the ass-piece was too wide and lifted it a little too - so the action sucks now. So either I trim the bridge insert or cut and re-glue the ass-piece. Think I like the ass solution a little more but meanwhile it's playable and another VOX amp is due for the electric Dean.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

lol yea I trimmed it a little. And on the inside I cut off the extra length of the screws that hold it on.

But if it goes flying I figure I'll put the one on it from the Epiphone Special 1 that's here in parts. As it is the ass-piece was too wide and lifted it a little too - so the action sucks now. So either I trim the bridge insert or cut and re-glue the ass-piece. Think I like the ass solution a little more but meanwhile it's playable and another VOX amp is due for the electric Dean.

you compromised the top. there's nothing to support the bridge and it's pulling away, bringing the top with it. that's why your action went up. once that bridge comes off, the guitar is shot. sounds like it's well on it's way.

replacing the bridge won't do any good. you need to have the bracing there too for structural support. i figured an engineer would have known that.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

i figured an engineer would have known that.

Yeah, really.

 

[wok]

well, he's banned over at MAPZ

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

well, he's banned over at MAPZ

that's not exactly setting the bar high though.

 

[reitze]

you compromised the top. there's nothing to support the bridge and it's pulling away, bringing the top with it. that's why your action went up. once that bridge comes off, the guitar is shot. sounds like it's well on it's way.

replacing the bridge won't do any good. you need to have the bracing there too for structural support. i figured an engineer would have known that.

compromised top yea but not the bridge glue. rather the whole top. the flexing are is around the speaker. That's cause I cut the whole top off to fit the amp and didn't add strenght there cause ya know it was just a parts guitar with a parts amp anyhow. Now its playable for a while at least and again represents a Proof Of Concept. It even helped me isolate the RF limitation to my acoustic setups (re-wondering about the classic guitar w/ piezo).

 

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Power Guitar 6.

It weighs 10.7 LBS.

Still red to finish the back and do the head beor its finishd but alredy a nice player. My new guitar instructor borrowed the natural. He really liked it.