jamesbisset
@jamesbisset
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Joined: May 23, 2020
Last seen: Mar 3, 2025
Topics: 31 / Replies: 272
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RE: To embarrass myself into finishing something ...

Thanks @tv101. your fortitude and resolution is admirable. But having stepped out onto the wide open plain of possibility that is wax finishing, tha...

2 years ago
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RE: To embarrass myself into finishing something ...

@tv101 Thanks. Totally understand. We’ve got the new stove working in here so it’s 28°c in the living room. We’ve sealed the door and Ruth, me and the...

2 years ago
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RE: To embarrass myself into finishing something ...

Maybe it’s just my age, but I’m feeling in the need of a fancy wax myself. You neglected to mention which one though. One of these, I assume? T...

2 years ago
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RE: To embarrass myself into finishing something ...

@tv101 This Easy French polish looks like it might hit the sweet spot between hardcore violin varnish and Danish Oil. Question: does it leave a rin...

2 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

😊🎸 - no emoticon for a sunburst Les Paul, sorry.

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Thick and fast, TV. Thick and fast.

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Thanks Russ. I could do with making a new one, but Chez Bisset is a kinda inaccessible at the moment...

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Thanks Russ. Reckon it might need another verse and some lyric tweaking, but it’s turned into an an ear worm for me. I can’t get it out of my head!

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

@rocknroller912 Thanks Bill. Reckon that’s the next one to demo for the album.

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Thanks Russ 🙂 Those of a sensitive disposition look away now. That is a Vox Tornado which I bought in Harare for £40 in 1984. Then I did terrible...

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

@russ Slowly, Mr Russ, slowly. It’s kinda quaint making an album these days, but I’ve got a bunch of tunes now that I wrote and (hastily) arranged ...

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Have I missed all the action? It’s 21:30 here and I seem to be the only one in the room...

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

I won’t get in till after 9 (village choir *ahem*) but I’d be up for changing the chatroom in the future too. Otherwise the Blissers will be hijacked.

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

@tv101 To go from my weekly Apple/Spotify ‘you had zero listens’ reports to this - my head is still l spinning. My work here is done.

3 years ago
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Answer to: Pickup positions

Good analysis of this point in the book "Electric Guitar & Bass Design" by Leonardo Lospennato excerpted here: www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/l...

3 years ago
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3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

@boo Unfortunately, I chose to sing an F for some reason. That’s the one thing wrong with analogue - no undo button. 😉

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

@rocknroller912 Thank you 🙂 I have a musician friend now struggling with Parkinson’s Disease. He has always insisted on authenticity in recording, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Acoustic Bliss

Thanks @russ 🙂 I sometimes wonder if there isn’t something self-destructive lurking in the sub-conscious. I didn’t actually get there in the end. O...

3 years ago
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