I've got the greatest guitar of them all!
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John Watt
Banned
Well, reitze! That's wonderful, having a patent pending. That makes you part of history, inventions and modern infrastructure.
A huge congratulations!
But let me remind you, my first online post about my guitar stated I was hoping to inspire other musicians,
and was giving my inventions away.
Despite the hater and sincere criminal attempts to portray me as a mental out-patient, thief and liar,
and that's not being suspected of trolling or jackbooting various domains and threads, when you can take that for granted,
I just kept doin'it as much as I could, getting a camera and scanner to pump up my online output, input for you, I hope.
It got to where even though I was volunteering all my input, others thought I had to be someone else famous,
trying to create an online sensation with special effects.
Uh.... real life... the legalities... not available for me... and that's where you've surpassed me, getting all offical about it.
I'm protected as far as being the inventor, builder and player, seeing that as part of my general lifestyle,
but it's not an ambition of mine. Call me unambitious about it, or overwhelmed by just having it, but I'm totally cool with all that.
Eternally cool.
And for all the "predicaments", and that's predicaments as from predictable, that I get into online, defending my Canadianess,
let me be completely open and honest with you about my limited online use.
I've got a contact, almost a friend, through online, a New York advertising executive who has a jazz magazine, online too,
and he comes to Canada to host a jazz radio show, easy to meet up with for me.
But I'm not doing anything that way, thinking he is a New Yorker, heavy, heavy into jazz, and my guitar is still more Jimi style.
I see this gentleman is now emphasizing his involvement with modern pop and rock, including them more now, so that looks better for me.
But I'm just sitting on it, just like the invitation to call the local cable t.v. when I'm onstage next. I want them to be about my guitar,
and me playing it.
It's not easy for me to get into a self-promotional headspace, about my guitar or me. I'm just used to being onstage as the lead guitarist.
So I am sitting on patent applications, t.v. exposure and potential gigs. Not sitting on top of the world, but carving out a path to get there.
And, reitze, even though I'm more about my guitar and my past musical experience, and that includes The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
wait until you hear me start playing it. That's when I want to be truly, artistically innovative. More than anything, I'm an electric guitarist.
That's not a slam against you, a working, successful suburbanite, a man with a wife and family, what I don't have, why I keep music going.
So I'm not going to hit it with a big musical production video, even though I could.
I'm thinking that when I'm there, it's some of my guitar, some of my playing, some of my songs, some of my stage presence.
And hopefully, I'll be selling C.D.'s at the end of the night, a souvenir of the live performance you just, uh, went through. (experienced?)
I heard the Axis, and stood listening in front of it, while Jimi was playing, while his roadies were watching and turning those
home-made controls.
Yeah! You're home-made, and so am I. Let's not lose those words, which, like some of those words, as my friend Ron Sexsmith sings,
are words we never use.
As detrimental to others ordinary understanding as it may show to be, from now on, starting this new decade, ten years late of the new millennium,
over sixty years after the first Fender Stratocaster production, over forty years after Jimi last played one, from now on,
when I type Stratocaster and Les Paul I refer to the original, rock changing guitars, the '60-'64 Fender Stratocaster, and '57-'58 Gibson Les Paul.
I'm naming those templates of design and manufacture as standards of electric guitar instruments.
No more Strat-style. I'm calling apples apples and black cherries black cherries.
Someone has to clean up north american manufacturing and the appreciation of existing design and musical tradition,
for the betterment of all, globally and online.
I'm sure your patent application had to be very specific. Why aren't manufacturers and advertisers?
Rant off!
A huge congratulations!
But let me remind you, my first online post about my guitar stated I was hoping to inspire other musicians,
and was giving my inventions away.
Despite the hater and sincere criminal attempts to portray me as a mental out-patient, thief and liar,
and that's not being suspected of trolling or jackbooting various domains and threads, when you can take that for granted,
I just kept doin'it as much as I could, getting a camera and scanner to pump up my online output, input for you, I hope.
It got to where even though I was volunteering all my input, others thought I had to be someone else famous,
trying to create an online sensation with special effects.
Uh.... real life... the legalities... not available for me... and that's where you've surpassed me, getting all offical about it.
I'm protected as far as being the inventor, builder and player, seeing that as part of my general lifestyle,
but it's not an ambition of mine. Call me unambitious about it, or overwhelmed by just having it, but I'm totally cool with all that.
Eternally cool.
And for all the "predicaments", and that's predicaments as from predictable, that I get into online, defending my Canadianess,
let me be completely open and honest with you about my limited online use.
I've got a contact, almost a friend, through online, a New York advertising executive who has a jazz magazine, online too,
and he comes to Canada to host a jazz radio show, easy to meet up with for me.
But I'm not doing anything that way, thinking he is a New Yorker, heavy, heavy into jazz, and my guitar is still more Jimi style.
I see this gentleman is now emphasizing his involvement with modern pop and rock, including them more now, so that looks better for me.
But I'm just sitting on it, just like the invitation to call the local cable t.v. when I'm onstage next. I want them to be about my guitar,
and me playing it.
It's not easy for me to get into a self-promotional headspace, about my guitar or me. I'm just used to being onstage as the lead guitarist.
So I am sitting on patent applications, t.v. exposure and potential gigs. Not sitting on top of the world, but carving out a path to get there.
And, reitze, even though I'm more about my guitar and my past musical experience, and that includes The Jimi Hendrix Experience,
wait until you hear me start playing it. That's when I want to be truly, artistically innovative. More than anything, I'm an electric guitarist.
That's not a slam against you, a working, successful suburbanite, a man with a wife and family, what I don't have, why I keep music going.
So I'm not going to hit it with a big musical production video, even though I could.
I'm thinking that when I'm there, it's some of my guitar, some of my playing, some of my songs, some of my stage presence.
And hopefully, I'll be selling C.D.'s at the end of the night, a souvenir of the live performance you just, uh, went through. (experienced?)
I heard the Axis, and stood listening in front of it, while Jimi was playing, while his roadies were watching and turning those
home-made controls.
Yeah! You're home-made, and so am I. Let's not lose those words, which, like some of those words, as my friend Ron Sexsmith sings,
are words we never use.
As detrimental to others ordinary understanding as it may show to be, from now on, starting this new decade, ten years late of the new millennium,
over sixty years after the first Fender Stratocaster production, over forty years after Jimi last played one, from now on,
when I type Stratocaster and Les Paul I refer to the original, rock changing guitars, the '60-'64 Fender Stratocaster, and '57-'58 Gibson Les Paul.
I'm naming those templates of design and manufacture as standards of electric guitar instruments.
No more Strat-style. I'm calling apples apples and black cherries black cherries.
Someone has to clean up north american manufacturing and the appreciation of existing design and musical tradition,
for the betterment of all, globally and online.
I'm sure your patent application had to be very specific. Why aren't manufacturers and advertisers?
Rant off!
paulskirocks
Blue Zone Compliant
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Hey, you are starting to do a much cleaner job. Keep up the good work!
Line 6 sounds better and is easier. Vox has loyalists and a few other advantages
Thanks guys!
John, your innovation and invention are appreciated regardlesss if you get sponsorship. You've already accomplished the part that counts and 100 years from now the semi-solid will be attributed to your name. Meanwhile I hope you're enjoying your guitarS (yes plural make another if you don't have more than 1!). BTW, I just learned from a friend about FORSTNER drill bits to avoid the blems on the holes ($15 on eBay) - and the next guitar is just arrived:
Still for me its a hobby sell-possible because it really does "feel too expensive" for really and bumping around. I even used a case when I took it with me today
My instructor (Phil) agrees its not quite as good as his w/ the Line 6 - though not bad at all. He kept turning it up sooo loud my left ear is still annoyed. anyway, here's a couple demo-vids:
Jazz on down (Phil w/ the Ibenez/Line-6)
Edit: Swap vid to new demo-upload (does better showing the advantages the Vox does have):
Edit2: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260719523947
Thanks guys!
John, your innovation and invention are appreciated regardlesss if you get sponsorship. You've already accomplished the part that counts and 100 years from now the semi-solid will be attributed to your name. Meanwhile I hope you're enjoying your guitarS (yes plural make another if you don't have more than 1!). BTW, I just learned from a friend about FORSTNER drill bits to avoid the blems on the holes ($15 on eBay) - and the next guitar is just arrived:
Still for me its a hobby sell-possible because it really does "feel too expensive" for really and bumping around. I even used a case when I took it with me today
My instructor (Phil) agrees its not quite as good as his w/ the Line 6 - though not bad at all. He kept turning it up sooo loud my left ear is still annoyed. anyway, here's a couple demo-vids:Jazz on down (Phil w/ the Ibenez/Line-6)
Edit: Swap vid to new demo-upload (does better showing the advantages the Vox does have):
Edit2: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260719523947
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
if it's too loud, you're too old. 
John Watt
Banned
That birds-eye f-hole actually looks too nice to use for parts.
And thank you, reitze, for even typing the word sponsorship with me in mind.
I was sponsored once in a residence in Toronto by Professor John McCallum, Electronics, York University, in '79-'80.
He signed a contract and went to Hong Kong to write their curriculum and design their online.
A keyboardist from Nova Scotia who already lived there invited him to meet me,
and it was my non-smoking, non-drinking semi-vegetarian lifestyle that got me in, more than anything else.
He also appreciated, not my technical knowledge, but my comprehension of electricity, and being a Watt.
No, I'm not looking for a financial sponsor. That goes against how I live my life.
But if anyone else wants to do anything with my template, they're totally welcome.
The sixth body attempt, and I've posted pics already, is for sale. I'll never finish it.
That's a good deal for a lefty, a real lefty.
And thank you, reitze, for even typing the word sponsorship with me in mind.
I was sponsored once in a residence in Toronto by Professor John McCallum, Electronics, York University, in '79-'80.
He signed a contract and went to Hong Kong to write their curriculum and design their online.
A keyboardist from Nova Scotia who already lived there invited him to meet me,
and it was my non-smoking, non-drinking semi-vegetarian lifestyle that got me in, more than anything else.
He also appreciated, not my technical knowledge, but my comprehension of electricity, and being a Watt.
No, I'm not looking for a financial sponsor. That goes against how I live my life.
But if anyone else wants to do anything with my template, they're totally welcome.
The sixth body attempt, and I've posted pics already, is for sale. I'll never finish it.
That's a good deal for a lefty, a real lefty.
Loud Concept
Well that fits the question for what's next conceptually. Now that I have the Alverez/Line-6 working head to head against the Schecter/Vox... Both have definate advantages. Basically I can get really nice wide bandwidth sweet tone easiest from the Line-6. The Vox has the waw effect that the Line 6 doesn't (in that last video above). The Alverez also has the 6x9" speaker which is really nice for the tone quality of the sound it puts out. The only bummer with the 6x9s is that the ones I bought off of ebay with smaller magnet size then the rest turn out to have huge magnets so the speakers must weigh 2 or 3 lbs each. Oh well this one has the perfect speaker cabinet for it anyway.
Here's the concept so-far:
if it's too loud, you're too old.
Well that fits the question for what's next conceptually. Now that I have the Alverez/Line-6 working head to head against the Schecter/Vox... Both have definate advantages. Basically I can get really nice wide bandwidth sweet tone easiest from the Line-6. The Vox has the waw effect that the Line 6 doesn't (in that last video above). The Alverez also has the 6x9" speaker which is really nice for the tone quality of the sound it puts out. The only bummer with the 6x9s is that the ones I bought off of ebay with smaller magnet size then the rest turn out to have huge magnets so the speakers must weigh 2 or 3 lbs each. Oh well this one has the perfect speaker cabinet for it anyway.
Here's the concept so-far:
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
the speaker is going to compromise the top. between the F hole and the Bigsby, there's not enough support for you to cut a hole that big. use a smaller speaker.
The Bigsby will sit on top of the speakers tweater-thing (big or small speaker, it seems it has too sort of). Smaller would suck for sound but then again for that much weight I might get 2 of the regular 6" speakers... still perplexed - since I don't want to settle for less speakage. I also have a couple 10" speakers but would have to project toward rear....
Better maybe a 4x10"...
And come to think of it, there's nothing to compromise if I fill an F hole - something like this:
Though I did like the idea of mounting under the bigsby.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
the Bigsby has to be bolted to the top. otherwise it won't seat right and could affect tuning stability even when you're not using it.
John Watt
Banned
reitze... reitze... are you still there... can you see me... I'm not sure I'm coming through...
either I'm experiencing my first middle-aged moment... or you got me... I'm not sure, I just don't know.
What you typed, how you thought... what new concept you embedded, ingrained in me... I'm not sure.
I took a '64 Stratocaster when I bought it in '70 and used my Dads's hacksaw to even the scallops,
painting it with model car spray paint, putting a big P.A.F. Humbucker by the neck, changing tuners,
slapping the neck on a self-made lefty body, ordering DiMarzios sight-unseen, drilling in Straplocks,
making my own car seat-belt guitar strap, unbreakable and totally slippery.... but I never, I never, ever, even once,
looked at an acoustic guitar as a housing for a speaker. Oh... oh... now I will, I have no choice.
You did that to me. Now I'm thinking about speakers good for the lid of a self-amplified piano.
Now I'm back to thinking cello. I gotta go... while there are stilll some vibes to carry me.
either I'm experiencing my first middle-aged moment... or you got me... I'm not sure, I just don't know.
What you typed, how you thought... what new concept you embedded, ingrained in me... I'm not sure.
I took a '64 Stratocaster when I bought it in '70 and used my Dads's hacksaw to even the scallops,
painting it with model car spray paint, putting a big P.A.F. Humbucker by the neck, changing tuners,
slapping the neck on a self-made lefty body, ordering DiMarzios sight-unseen, drilling in Straplocks,
making my own car seat-belt guitar strap, unbreakable and totally slippery.... but I never, I never, ever, even once,
looked at an acoustic guitar as a housing for a speaker. Oh... oh... now I will, I have no choice.
You did that to me. Now I'm thinking about speakers good for the lid of a self-amplified piano.
Now I'm back to thinking cello. I gotta go... while there are stilll some vibes to carry me.
Hi John, cello sounds like fun - could fit a 10" speaker in that. ohh hmmm
Howie, yea the more I look at it... cutting the top... there's an arch w/ a flex round the f holes... and end-to-end vib-sense... so I'm starting to more seriously consider mouting a speaker to the back (John suggested that once I think). My ear still ringing from that Dean/Vox being next to me so I seem to be pumping "OUT" a lot more sound than I need "IN" (toward me but not in my face).
Looked over my collection of speaker options. The best choice will be 2 of the Line 6 Spider's speakers, or maybe an 8 or 10" from an old amp. The 6x9's have too big of magnets (heavy). Anyway, the 6" Line 6 speakers have a good output for their weight and if pointing backwards perhaps 2 of them, 1 behind each f hole If I can mount the amp-parts around it easy enough. That way some sound would project forward too - though more like an ordinary acoustic I think. But still a bigger speaker like from that ol Gorilla CG-25 or will have to look around...
John Watt
Banned
reitze! Yeah... I was going on about a side-mounted speaker, thinking you'd want to hear more yourself,
but that was back then, before you really upped the volume level overall.
It's too bad, in a way, that we can't see sound, or the air moving because of it.
If different magnetic patterns had different colors, it would be so easy to be efficient during a build,
and the self-wrought wouldn't be able to get away with uninformed comments because we could all see and know.
It's finally snowing and staying on the ground, making me happy enough to get out there for a nice, long distance bike-hike.
But it's still an acoustic world, and I was hearing interesting phenomena, so I was sitting there at the edge of Lake Erie,
sitting on my extra gloves, on that frozen rock, thinking about the physical facts of our life on earth, and thinking light and cities,
just what I could see, with only the sound of the quiet water, not even lapping at the shore.
And then I could feel one of those cold little fingers, where the cold is worming its' way up my sleeve,
and I thought of magnetic and acoustic patterns, using feedback, like the anomoly of the cold up my parka,
and thought of less efficient wiring patterns adding unwanted signal to your guitars' output,
I let my mind follow the electricities path, and potential paths, thinking pre-amp loop, floor effects, speaker displacement,
and I was starting to think of some riffs, remembering "Rainy day, dream away", Jimi with Stevie Winwood on organ.
So I shut my eyes and started dreaming about playing that rhythm, getting into that tone and riffs,
so I let myself slide down to the beach level, reclining on half sand, half grainy snow, my back against the old waterworks fixture,
and got dreamy, the darkness like looking up at the dark roof of Maple Leaf Gardens, when Jimi was onstage,
the lights of the American cities across the lake looking like bunches of stand-by lights, just waiting,
and I felt warm and content, so I started drifting off a little, and it started drifting back on me, like a soft, white blanket,
so I reached into my pocket where I always carry a pick, and held it up under the starlight, that shiny, white Fender small heavy,
moving it up and down, like a soft, white comet going across the skies in front of me, back and forth, wheee, wheee, a comet,
like some inter-dimensional angel coming to pluck my strings and make the best music I ever heard, my sweet angel...
But then a four engine passenger jet came by... and it wasn't going to land... it kept going towards the Buffalo Airport...
and it didn't have to stop, it just kept on going... and so passenger jets by the lake leave their contrails baked...
into my mind... eventually
but that was back then, before you really upped the volume level overall.
It's too bad, in a way, that we can't see sound, or the air moving because of it.
If different magnetic patterns had different colors, it would be so easy to be efficient during a build,
and the self-wrought wouldn't be able to get away with uninformed comments because we could all see and know.
It's finally snowing and staying on the ground, making me happy enough to get out there for a nice, long distance bike-hike.
But it's still an acoustic world, and I was hearing interesting phenomena, so I was sitting there at the edge of Lake Erie,
sitting on my extra gloves, on that frozen rock, thinking about the physical facts of our life on earth, and thinking light and cities,
just what I could see, with only the sound of the quiet water, not even lapping at the shore.
And then I could feel one of those cold little fingers, where the cold is worming its' way up my sleeve,
and I thought of magnetic and acoustic patterns, using feedback, like the anomoly of the cold up my parka,
and thought of less efficient wiring patterns adding unwanted signal to your guitars' output,
I let my mind follow the electricities path, and potential paths, thinking pre-amp loop, floor effects, speaker displacement,
and I was starting to think of some riffs, remembering "Rainy day, dream away", Jimi with Stevie Winwood on organ.
So I shut my eyes and started dreaming about playing that rhythm, getting into that tone and riffs,
so I let myself slide down to the beach level, reclining on half sand, half grainy snow, my back against the old waterworks fixture,
and got dreamy, the darkness like looking up at the dark roof of Maple Leaf Gardens, when Jimi was onstage,
the lights of the American cities across the lake looking like bunches of stand-by lights, just waiting,
and I felt warm and content, so I started drifting off a little, and it started drifting back on me, like a soft, white blanket,
so I reached into my pocket where I always carry a pick, and held it up under the starlight, that shiny, white Fender small heavy,
moving it up and down, like a soft, white comet going across the skies in front of me, back and forth, wheee, wheee, a comet,
like some inter-dimensional angel coming to pluck my strings and make the best music I ever heard, my sweet angel...
But then a four engine passenger jet came by... and it wasn't going to land... it kept going towards the Buffalo Airport...
and it didn't have to stop, it just kept on going... and so passenger jets by the lake leave their contrails baked...
into my mind... eventually
Hi Tiltsta,
I've got this one up to feature the blem on it:
The Album for it is here: http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk213/reitze/Elliott%20Dean%20Vox%20Power%20Guitar/, and there maybe a better pic in the eBay listing here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260719523947.
Auction/sale/discount comment: This thread isn't intended to "push" guitars but it is intended to share a hobby. The listing is setup for $577 initial bid based on invested cost and 10x that BIN . If you've posted to this thread previously and somehow express purchase at $577 interest then sold- would end auction early (and $577 was in theory $350guitar, $27 knobs, $100amp, $30pup, $70case in parts).
Edit: Well nobody wanted it from eBay for the invested costs. So I guess I'll progress to kicking the shit out of it and see how long it lasts - spent more than I wanted too but got a good guitar anyway. So now instead of feeling like its "too nice" its more like time to put some ownership marks of usage on it... sure its not what jimmi played but at least I'm not inhibited by that. ...contentment in mediocrity must be nice for many... ok rant off.
Edit 2: wow playin and playin it now. The wow effect is fun with an acoustic like this. I'm glad to keep it now. Gotta switch cam batteries again... vids happening with it - sweet sound, enjoying the instrument that I'd previously considered beyond my spending on self - sort-of (imho vs available). The wow is a very nice effect to have as I'm learning from it.
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Flamencology
You don't deserve koa.
If it makes you feel any better, I've seen no evidence that you're a thief.
John Watt
Banned
Flamencology; Coming from you, that does make me feel better.
There still are some who say I found it in a dumpster, but that never bothered me.
But that's not "ordinary" forum behavior. That's locals who joined to, uh, bother me.
The real life repercussions are real life.
Welland! Don't move here unless you want to own it.
As far as evidence about me being a mental out-patient and liar, and just an all-round crazy guy,
yes, I'm using that evidence for myself, to my benefit.
Living right is the best revenge, as my Scottish grandmother used to say.
There still are some who say I found it in a dumpster, but that never bothered me.
But that's not "ordinary" forum behavior. That's locals who joined to, uh, bother me.
The real life repercussions are real life.
Welland! Don't move here unless you want to own it.
As far as evidence about me being a mental out-patient and liar, and just an all-round crazy guy,
yes, I'm using that evidence for myself, to my benefit.
Living right is the best revenge, as my Scottish grandmother used to say.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
A multi-neck... at least its some technology.
Phish:
wait, how is that "some technology"?
also, that's a Rick Neilsen design. he is the guitarist in Cheap Trick.