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@cheesewhisk

it’s a bit hard to see in that photo but it’s basically on the same line as the front pin.

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Oh how I Love they Ken Lawrence. I actually have a Hetfield Snakebyte so is hazard a guess it’s in a similar position, the button is also on the neck joint on the back of the body rather than the horn. 
great thinking though, so glad I’m not doing this alone, it really is like having a safety net being on here 


   
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Oh how I Love they Ken Lawrence

Yeah his guitars are definitely awesome!

I would always put the front pin on the side of the guitar for two very good reasons: When the pin is on the back of the body it causes the guitar to lean away from you wrecking your fret hand and if the player has a beer gut it only gets worse. It may look cleaner on the back but it also gets in the way of your hand, it’s hard enough to get shreddy on the skinny frets and that strap lock and the strap bumping into your hand? Fook that!

My opinion though...

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@mattbeels Is that a picture of Motley Crue? 🤘😜🤘

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Yes, Theater of Pain tour!

and it’s Mötley Crüe, alright?

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and it’s Mötley Crüe, alright?

@mattbeels 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃 🤘😜🤘

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Mattley Crue. 🤣😂 

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Mattley Crue. 🤣😂 

Haha, good one @russ!

Btw, I really like a lot of the songs that you post. There’s a lot of cool stuff in there that I probably never would have heard of otherwise 👍...

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Btw, I really like a lot of the songs that you post. There’s a lot of cool stuff in there that I probably never would have heard of otherwise 👍...

Best,

Mättley Crüe

Cheers@mattbeels. I listen a lot to BBC 6Music especially in the evening where I find a lot of my new music.

Btw. How did you get the little dots above the a & u? 

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For starters I’m using an iphone but it must work on other smartphones and tablets as well. I don’t know what the keypads in the UK are like but here in Germany you get all those diacritic marks. I imagine it’ll be the same for you.

You just need to press and hold the letter and a menu pops up and then you just choose what you’d like.

The dots are called Umlaute (Umlauts for English speakers) and the Germans use them on the vowels a, o and u. There are others for different languages but I don’t really know who uses what, learning German was enough, let me tell you! 

They change the pronunciation of those vowels and to write them without Umlauts you would add an e. I live in a town called Tübingen which can also be written Tuebingen.

There’s also a way to get them with a standard keyboard but I don’t know how.

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Bands like Mötley Crüe, Motörhead, Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche and Hüsker Dü used them purely for styling, and they became known as Heavy Metal Umlauts.

Obviously if you see them in a German band name it’s because that’s how it would actually be pronounced, like Die Ärtze.

So have fun with Umlauts! 

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On a PC try

https://www.earlyisd.net/vimages/shared/vnews/stories/57c824513b3c5/Instructions%20for%20Special%20Characters%20-%20Powerspeak.pdf

 

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Cheers Mättley Crüe. 😂 

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On a PC try

Thanks Bill. 

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Cheers Mättley Crüe. 😂 

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welcome to the Umlaut club Rüss!

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Rüss!

@mattbeels I might just adopt the Umlaut Matt. 😁 

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No doubt you did a great job, it seems quite difficult to make, but I really appreciate your effort, I must say these kinds of activities in lockdown great impact on our minds, we think of more productive ways to create new and exciting things. 


   
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