I've got the greatest guitar of them all!

[reitze]

Busted Head... still a good dog

understatement of the year.

Thanks uplifts the bummer a few minutes ago... the dog got a tag in a string or something... it scared him and of coarse he jumped...:(

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Thanks uplifts the bummer a few minutes ago... the dog got a tag in a string or something... it scared him and of coarse he jumped...:(

that sucks.

but it also shows a part of guitar manufacturing that is sorely overlooked: headstock angle. well, at least it's overlooked until your dog freaks out causing the guitar to fall face forward, launching the headstock towards your face.

 

[reitze]

that sucks.

but it also shows a part of guitar manufacturing that is sorely overlooked: headstock angle. well, at least it's overlooked until your dog freaks out causing the guitar to fall face forward, launching the headstock towards your face.

Thanks.
So I was figuring no 7 to be a future line 6 with my ministar... but ?...parts is where this all began... so something should come if it but there's line notin left of thatml... will have th buy something... or mayhbe put an abortio hbaed like no1...idk but THANK GOD I HAVE ANOTHER!

 

[John Watt]

I'm trying to imagine the feeling of having a back-up guitar, but I can't.
I've never had one.
Here's one of the better photos from my bike-hike yesterday.
I'm suprised it was that busy, on the water and the beach, on a Tuesday.

After a long bike-hike, getting in after two, having a hot bath and sleeping in,
I'll get some bike photos together tonight, once and for all. Non-electrified bike, that is.

 

[reitze]

Bikes. Hmm perhapse it is time to ride-n-play

I'm trying to imagine the feeling of having a back-up guitar, but I can't. I've never had one.
Here's one of the better photos from my bike-hike yesterday. I'm suprised it was that busy, on the water and the beach, on a Tuesday.
After a long bike-hike, getting in after two, having a hot bath and sleeping in,
I'll get some bike photos together tonight, once and for all. Non-electrified bike, that is.
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Hi John,
I set your sunset pic to my desktop background. Nice!
I have a few choppers I've built m'self. Mostly for my dog's exercise. Even though a little off-topic ride-n-play should cover it. If not there's our mutual unusual-similarities. Anyway, here's some of my bikes:

Number 1 was a quick build for the boardwalk and given to a dying friend who needed exercise:

Number 2 was for the dog Sparky:

Number 3 was not as good as the first two and is rusting out back:

Number 4 was used a few times a week for 5 years in a row:

Number 5 was built last summer to be a better ride than 4 - was good, still in garage intended for an EV conversion:

You've seen Number 6 (above, the 1st EV).

Perhapse I'll make 1 more eventually.

 

[John Watt]

reitze! So you used that bay photo for a screensaver? So did I.
I had to look at this photo for a while, it's so pale and pastel colored.
But that's the way it looked when I was there.
The overcast weather and cool breeze is beautiful for long distance shore-walking.

That's so true, after getting home, having a hot bath and sleeping in,
I puttered around to see how loose I felt and then I went and did it again.
So now I'm waking up after sleeping in again and I've got to go downtown.

There are sign customers and bottles of ginger beer to meet up with.
For sure, photos of my bike tonight, not that there's a lot different to see.

I think I'll bring my camera for a little photo adventure. I'll show you some Welland.

EDIT: By showing you some Welland I was thinking some local-made bicycles out there.
I lost part of a pedal, cracking the rest, so I stopped at a friends' bike shop to get new ones put on.
They couldn't take my old ones off, so I went to John's Bug Shop and they got a torch out.
These are my two pedals, one still flaming out on the parking lot.
And that's my bike with no pedals, still too hot to touch. I wasn't planning on that.
I wasn't planning on getting into the hot sun either, but it's almost six and I've gotta get out there.
yeah... someone's got to break in these new pedals.

 

[reitze]

reitze! So you used that bay photo for a screensaver? So did I.
I had to look at this photo for a while, it's so pale and pastel colored.
But that's the way it looked when I was there.
The overcast weather and cool breeze is beautiful for long distance shore-walking.

That's so true, after getting home, having a hot bath and sleeping in,
I puttered around to see how loose I felt and then I went and did it again.
So now I'm waking up after sleeping in again and I've got to go downtown.

There are sign customers and bottles of ginger beer to meet up with.
For sure, photos of my bike tonight, not that there's a lot different to see.

I think I'll bring my camera for a little photo adventure. I'll show you some Welland.

EDIT: By showing you some Welland I was thinking some local-made bicycles out there.
I lost part of a pedal, cracking the rest, so I stopped at a friends' bike shop to get new ones put on.
They couldn't take my old ones off, so I went to John's Bug Shop and they got a torch out.
These are my two pedals, one still flaming out on the parking lot.
And that's my bike with no pedals, still too hot to touch. I wasn't planning on that.
I wasn't planning on getting into the hot sun either, but it's almost six and I've gotta get out there.
yeah... someone's got to break in these new pedals.

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lol, going for guitar-studio/lesson... maybe I can play on my ride there. I've got it bungied on so it will play:

BTW, it's funny looking at those bike pics of myself above. I've lost about 75lbs since then. Though not exercise - just watching the calories. Here's the video PROVING I can ride and play. of coarse neither is to full capability but still fully riding and fully playing:
[YOUTUBE]AyaIlVWwE-Q[/YOUTUBE]

 

[John Watt]

reitze! Just when you rounded the pole and straightened out to turn around in the parking lot,
what you played was what I would be thinking, some kind of revving sound like a car slowing,
kinda like going vroom vroom vroom, just like I go rrrrr rrrrr rrrrr sometimes like brakes.

I can see being a ride'n'play can have it's own appropriate set list.
More than the listeners intellect, more than the dancers on the dance floor,
pedaling and playing in highway traffic is a more demanding art form.
And just because you've come up with this heavier metal way to perform,
don't worry about your weight... the logo on your cap... or the infamy of fame.
I don't want you to be the first blues-rider to turn into oncoming traffic.

I've had a nice day so far, and it's the sunniest and hottest it's been all week.
Might as well take off so I can make it to the lake an hour before sunset,
and type about the bike later. I'm still breaking in those new pedals.
I'll be breaking them in until they're broken.

Please, reitze, don't let your forum receptions get you down.
I know what you mean when you say holding your guitar with a bungee cord.
There's a lot of highway bridges over ravines in your part of the world.

Angel came down from heaven yesterday,
and she stayed just long enough to rescue me, me.
She told me a story about the love between the moon and the deep blue sea,
and then she gave me my angel wings, she said I could fly over wild blue yonder...
she said fly'n'fall with my angel bungee wings... I could be flying low or I could be flying high,
it's up to me how to jump-start my life, my life, but when I crash I can only bounce back up...
my angel bungee wings... bounce... oh yeah, now bounce up front, bounce up and down a little,
you gotta be nice'n'bouncy for me'n'alla my friends, bounce on it now baby, oh baby bounce,
spread my angel bungee wings... bounce on my sweet angel.

Somehow mixing Jimi's lyrics with hip-hop club talk... not anyhow.

 

[reitze]

reitze! Just when you rounded the pole and straightened out to turn around in the parking lot, what you played was what I would be thinking, some kind of revving sound like a car slowing,
kinda like going vroom vroom vroom, just like I go rrrrr rrrrr rrrrr sometimes like brakes.

I can see being a ride'n'play can have it's own appropriate set list.
More than the listeners intellect, more than the dancers on the dance floor,
pedaling and playing in highway traffic is a more demanding art form.
... .

U R right about it having it's own appropriate set list. Even it's own road-appropriate-tone. I should have started out clean becaus as it was I had some high-gain-RF feedback from being in the insane mode (prolly pressed the amp-button w/o noticing). Here was part 1:


Edit: Wow a little mojo with a link from http://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/ to my boasting video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_wUfvKL3M.

 

[John Watt]

I got back from my ride late last night, soaked in the tub and hit the hay.
What a beautiful night out last night.
Here's a couple new photos from the ride, thinking you might enjoy some engineering sights.

The boat being repaired is the same one in the ex-Robin Hood location.
That's also seeing two former Welland canals and one new one.
The hydro photo looks good to me because it's there, barely between sunset and night.



I'll be heading out this afternoon to visit some downtown businesses, grocery shop,
and stop in to see if the new banana seat I ordered is in.
I'm going to have a hard time taking pics of my bike when it looks shabby.
And I'll admit it, stopping in at select stores to drive people crazy is a fun thing to do.

Oh boy, I know... I know... there I was, at the shore of Lake Erie, far from mankind,
and I'm looking out over the beach, across the water and up at the stars and milky way,
and I'm thinking if you used an old bike tire tube like a slingshot between your handlebars,
you could send C.D.s out into the crowd riding by in your own rock star parade.
That could even be big in New York, hitting windows many stories up.

I ordered the one banana seat I could over ten years ago, when I built the bike.
That's still the only one available, still just over $12.
Considering I built everything around that seat, it's nice to get a direct replacement.

I'm back to add this, seeing that I'm sounding all light and breezy, even if everything isn't.
A friend of mine I like to visit, a man in his early forties, thinks he might be in danger of trouble.
To avoid getting into that trouble, he's put $200 down on a set of drums to get into drumming.
He used to have a set when he was younger, and he sits there beating a table with his hands.
Drummers! He's acting like one. Some of his friends are worried but I say it makes me comfortable,
feeling like I'm in a band on the road in a room with the drummer.
The last time I was there he had sticks and a practice pad, a real one.
So I'm going to take one of my karaoke machines and a mike and give it to him,
saying it's there as a practice amp for when I bring my guitar, and his friends can sing if they want.

If you knew this situation, you'd see it's fraught with peril. It's a heat score already.
However, too bad I can't power up the karaoke while I'm riding the bike... reitze!
Nah, I might stop and start rapping off at people around a fire and get chased down the street,
or worse, get invited in.

See you later!

 

[reitze]

Another Head Job

I got back from my ride late last night, soaked in the tub and hit the hay.
What a beautiful night out last night.
Here's a couple new photos from the ride, thinking you might enjoy some engineering sights.

The boat being repaired is the same one in the ex-Robin Hood location. That's also seeing two former Welland canals and one new one. The hydro photo looks good to me because it's there, barely between sunset and night.
View attachment 1113 View attachment 1114 View attachment 1115...See you later!

Thanks that's interesting - looks like the canals in Montreal.

that sucks.

but it also shows a part of guitar manufacturing that is sorely overlooked: headstock angle. well, at least it's overlooked until your dog freaks out causing the guitar to fall face forward, launching the headstock towards your face.

Thanks though it's not toooo bad since I hot-melt-glued it and it's playable again. It's not like these are major investments to be called "great guitars". Really just the opposite since I'm after then take-it-anywhere model where cheep acoustics have such a widespread love.

The ML is the lightest of the playable guitars but doesn't have the free-live-string-inf-sustain-with-sweet-tone and the Natural on the left is best for that:

But of coarse just after I thought I had 2 good guitars (in addition to the 1 give to my daughter and 2 on loan to the studio) I thought I'd switch the speaker/amp locations on the ML and slipped with the angle grinder which killed a small capacitor on the amp and of coarse took out the amp in the process. There's just so much going against it so-far... funny it didn't happen yesterday since that was Fri13th.

 

[reitze]

A Gig I wouldn't have w/o the Power Guitar

I wouldn't take more than 1 object to an event like this one... it was in the car... the pastor liked the idea... (was our picknick / party - rain-out). My family was here teasing my daughter about eating her mushroom and rhyming with upper room...

So here's an example why and how... comes down to Power Is Power... without it I wouln't have had a gig - and for me gigs are few and far between because it's not a profession! IMHO this is why guitars are and will remain the greatest instrument and with power...

I've got the gr8est!

 

[John Watt]

This is not the considered reply with photos of my bicycle that I've been contemplating writing.
I'm just borrowing this office system and have a few quick comments about your video output.
reitze, you've got to broaden (all rock puns included) your video model.
Sure, you and your inventions deserve the spotlight, but what about the entertainment factor?
It's nice to mention your Pastor, church picnic, and rhyming mushroom with center room,
but what about all the rock guitarists who see that video pic?
See that dark-haired woman at another table? Why didn't you get her into it? That would be hot.
She could have used her cup for a slide while you were picking, getting some kinda duet going.
When your wife complained, the Pastor could have Bible-thumped you over the head.
All the stereotypes of rock performances could have been there, just reitze style.
Creating your own world and looking like you're trying to save the other one is a typical rock lifestyle.
You've got to get into it.
No-one, well, almost no-one, wants a guitar so they can't score at church functions.

Don't forget, I'm just pushing you to upgrade to a new public persona,
the one thing you can control online, what you upload about yourself.
After the mortgage and loan crisis reaches you, and your wife leaves you,
taking the kids and house, we'll be able to really get into it.
You'll be a flaming skull tearing down the road with satanic logos all over,
playing super distortion heavy metal, seen rubbing your neck on the handlebars,
giving us some whole lotta love, while you were waiting restlessly at a stoplight.

 

[John Watt]

reitze! I'm just about to put up a couple photos of my bike and get into it, but I got thinking.
This is a long thread, it's your thread, and it's in guitars guitars guitars.
So I'm going to the lounge, everything but guitar, supposedly, and start a bicycle thread.
Let's see if we can turn some strings to springs and strokes to spokes,
and get rockin'n'rollin' on rubber.

 

[reitze]

reitze! I'm just about to put up a couple photos of my bike and get into it, but I got thinking.
This is a long thread, it's your thread, and it's in guitars guitars guitars.
So I'm going to the lounge, everything but guitar, supposedly, and start a bicycle thread.
Let's see if we can turn some strings to springs and strokes to spokes,
and get rockin'n'rollin' on rubber.

Sounds like a good plan.

 

[John Watt]

Maybe it's because I'm in the Niagara Peninsula and ride my bicycle all the time,
with all the other riders on all the new recreational paths throughout the peninsula,
and the three feet at the side of roads marked with a white line for bike riders,
and maybe it's because I'm seeing electric bikes, scooters, chairs and all the toys,
and it could be because I was riding a banana seat bike with ape-hangers in '69,
strumming my '64 Stratocaster with a black seat belt strap and P.A.F. Straplocks, still using them,
but ride'n'play is where it's at. I consider taking my guitar outside as catching little spontaneous gigs.
If I was able to just take it with me, riding my bike, I'd do that, but I'd love to be able to ride'n'play.
Instead of playing with who's in front of me, or the situation, I'll serenade people through windows.
There's more of a chance of throwing cash, or for a first I'll be climbing trellises. I need the exercise.

I'm glad you saw this in time and I hope you like the style of my bicycle thread.
I'm expecting a puncture soon.

 

[reitze]

Maybe it's because I'm in the Niagara Peninsula and ride my bicycle all the time,
with all the other riders on all the new recreational paths throughout the peninsula,
and the three feet at the side of roads marked with a white line for bike riders,
and maybe it's because I'm seeing electric bikes, scooters, chairs and all the toys,
and it could be because I was riding a banana seat bike with ape-hangers in '69,
strumming my '64 Stratocaster with a black seat belt strap and P.A.F. Straplocks, still using them,
but ride'n'play is where it's at. I consider taking my guitar outside as catching little spontaneous gigs.
If I was able to just take it with me, riding my bike, I'd do that, but I'd love to be able to ride'n'play.
Instead of playing with who's in front of me, or the situation, I'll serenade people through windows.
There's more of a chance of throwing cash, or for a first I'll be climbing trellises. I need the exercise.

I'm glad you saw this in time and I hope you like the style of my bicycle thread.
I'm expecting a puncture soon.

 

[reitze]

Power Guitar #7 Ali-seven

It has begun.

 

[reitze]

 

[John Watt]

reitze! You're doing it. I've been pushing you to redefine your public persona,
but you put it all into your guitar, looking more original Terminator blast-face with it.
Wow! I love how you conformed the circuit board like a pickguard. That's a first.
Don't let Godin see that.

You've inspired me, and seeing your Ali-seven gave me some thoughts.
If I was using the name Ali with a number like you, I'd have to call it Ali-in-three.
Most of his first bouts didn't last three rounds, and he was told to stretch the fights out for television.
That's why he was walking around with his windmill punch around the perimeter of the ring,
sayin' I'm gonna get you.

reitze, can you please take a request from me and re-name, or compose a new song, for a name I made up,
Hardno Techno.
That could be a shout-out said different ways.

Seeing that circuit board like a pick-guard....
I'm going to have a hard time typing serious tonight for my domain.