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Not a problem . . . a little bit of graphite fiber in the right places will cure all stiffness issues.

johnhall wrote:Not a problem . . . a little bit of graphite fiber in the right places will cure all stiffness issues.

Gives new, "let's not go there", meaning to the term, "truss rod".

brammy wrote:

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Super-DOOPER Strat!!!

sloop_john_b wrote:
I'm not casting aspersions on the people who cover their guitars in diapers while they play them (sorry Tony ). Why is there such a backlash here?

LoL! Just for the record, I don't COVER them with a diaper, I have one on my lap and I wipe it down between sets WITH a soft cloth diaper!

IDK, I was raised by a Depression Era Mom....who drummed into my skull..."Take the best care of everything you have, and it will last you forever"..you know, the old...you take care of them and they'll take care of you.....I just can't see myself abusing any of my basses. Even the CHEAP 75.00 Wasburn ones get the rub down and wipe off as well. Just the way I was raised I guess.

My cars frequently get high 275,000.00 miles, my LP's still all play like new, my RICS that I owned from new, still look like new 10 years later, my pre & post war Lionel trains work almost like new...with the exception of my body, my possessions are in great shape! SO, when I'm gone, I hope my kids will treat the things they inherent the same.

brammy wrote:

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Reminds me of the "engorged upper horn" of the Warwick RockBass series.

jingle_jangle wrote:I've worked on both sides of the fence, and thankfully my job now is encouraging young soon-to-be professionals to stand up and make their own choices using crtical faculties, not just toeing the chalkline of greater profits.

In today's job market, you are preparing them for a quick trip from the corporate job to the unemployment line. One instance of standing up and they will be cleaning out the office. Reality, no matter how much it sucks.

sloop_john_b wrote:This is ridiculous. I love the look and feel of vintage Fenders. I don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to drop on real ones (contrary to popular belief). If I buy a new one and try to relic it myself, it'll come out looking like sh*t.

Totally agree with you, John.

cjj wrote:I've got plenty of sandpaper out in the shop...

You've obviously never seen a good relic.

johnallg wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:I've worked on both sides of the fence, and thankfully my job now is encouraging young soon-to-be professionals to stand up and make their own choices using crtical faculties, not just toeing the chalkline of greater profits.

In today's job market, you are preparing them for a quick trip from the corporate job to the unemployment line. One instance of standing up and they will be cleaning out the office. Reality, no matter how much it sucks.

+1 I am with you there, John.

As much as I would like to stand up for ideals, I can't help but understand how the whole system works, and that people who choose individuality in the jobplace often end up jobless altogether. Sad I know, but that's what us young "soon-to-be-professionals" face big time.

collin wrote:

johnallg wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:I've worked on both sides of the fence, and thankfully my job now is encouraging young soon-to-be professionals to stand up and make their own choices using crtical faculties, not just toeing the chalkline of greater profits.

In today's job market, you are preparing them for a quick trip from the corporate job to the unemployment line. One instance of standing up and they will be cleaning out the office. Reality, no matter how much it sucks.

As much as I would like to stand up for ideals, I can't help but understand how the whole system works, and that people who choose individuality in the jobplace often end up jobless altogether. Sad I know, but that's what us young "soon-to-be-professionals" face big time.

In a creative profession though, things are a bit different.

Acoording to Led Zeppelin Cadillac's go with Rock N Roll LOL!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDe23UM6kjY



I agree I own an old cadillac goes very well with Rock N Roll

1965 wrote:

cjj wrote:I've got plenty of sandpaper out in the shop...

You've obviously never seen a good relic.

No, I can say that you are absolutely right on that count...

collin wrote:

johnallg wrote:

jingle_jangle wrote:I've worked on both sides of the fence, and thankfully my job now is encouraging young soon-to-be professionals to stand up and make their own choices using crtical faculties, not just toeing the chalkline of greater profits.

In today's job market, you are preparing them for a quick trip from the corporate job to the unemployment line. One instance of standing up and they will be cleaning out the office. Reality, no matter how much it sucks.

+1 I am with you there, John.

As much as I would like to stand up for ideals, I can't help but understand how the whole system works, and that people who choose individuality in the jobplace often end up jobless altogether. Sad I know, but that's what us young "soon-to-be-professionals" face big time.

You guys should read everything ever written by Daniel Quinn--perhaps especially his third book from the Ishmael series. The system is basically going to HAVE to change at some point or else we really will be living in Huxley's Brave New World, or not living at all. Quinn would probably argue the latter, not the former. "Taker Culture" as Quinn terms it will totally wipe itself out eventually anyways, but it's better if we start dismantling it now before it takes a big piece of the planet with it.

Done ranting. I'll see you all tonight at the secret meeting at the docks right?

I've read some of Quinn--at least until I got depressed and slashed my amp grille cloth...too much a coward to do fleshy stuff.

I live in the World Capital of Self-Righteous Indig-Nation--Marin County. People here all have Causes, spelled with a capital C, and a good many of them are just Pet Peeves with Onions and Peppers (PPOP). It's kinda hard to avoid being steeped in this sort of stuff. Honestly, everyone in my town has at least one Prius in their driveway (thinking they are showing their commitment to doing something about global warming, even though it's been shown that a Prius has a larger carbon footprint over its lifetime than an Escalade, due to battery disposal costs and manufacturing inefficiencies). There's a lot of surface interest in Issues, but once the index of self-satisfaction has reached equilibrium, most people are OK with having done their part. Sacrifice? Unacceptable.

Quinn's basic premises are spot-on, but about 100 pages into him, you start wanting to kick the wall, just to be doing something.

As far as Brave New World, we're there already. If you live in the UK, you are aware of the thousands of street surveillance cameras that have been installed (lots of which the councils have no money to actually put a pair of eyes onto them.) Currently ,police everywhere in the USA are literally doubling their efforts at stopping innocent motorists for minor infractions; revenues from nonsense tickets have doubled and more in many locations. There has been an intense and concerted effort to chip away at our constitutional rights (our phone calls are being monitored, although a lot of the data is dumped or kept, until the State Department pays their bills to the communications companies that they forced to accept this task).

This is veering dangerously close to political commentary, so I'll move away from this. But I do find myself wondering if the freedom I felt as a child was an illusion or a product of youth or...

jingle_jangle wrote:But I do find myself wondering if the freedom I felt as a child was an illusion or a product of youth or...

No, it was real. The world has changed.