Rocknroller912
Rocknroller912
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RE: Jazz Bass Paint Job (Chameleon)

@mattbeels I always wonder why electric players even bother with volume controls they always go full blast - after the sound check and setting the l...

4 years ago
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RE: Jazz Bass Paint Job (Chameleon)

@boo Nothing complicated inside it’s just a carbon track connected to the rotating centre terminal. Either of the outside lugs can be connected to g...

4 years ago
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RE: Jazz Bass Paint Job (Chameleon)

@boo Ive got some pots lying around from when I used to be interested in electronics. Was going to have a clear out one day so if you know the valu...

4 years ago
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RE: BYOEG Online Bandsman 2

@mattbeels @boo Electronics buffs in the UK use the term “ground” it’s recognised fairly world wide. Professional stage sound equipment has a gr...

4 years ago
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RE: BYOEG Online Bandsman 2

@boo Thanks for the tips on Aquacoat. I bought some but haven’t tried it yet, so I’ve got a clue about how to work with it now. If you bought it fro...

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@jonhodgson Good research i didn’t know there are so many different types of classical bracing

4 years ago
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RE: Finishing Maple Fretboards

@deej Sounds like you were sitting on the sea front in Ayr, ok in the summer but it’s a bleak place in the winter. I’m thinking of trying to get a p...

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@robin My theory on bracing is that the standard X pattern and bracing sizes have been developed over a number of year by big manufacturers to give ...

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@jonhodgson Fair point about the use of the word “thesis” and in a sense the term is academic (pun intended). Obviously if someone has made 1000 gui...

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@jonhodgson Yes I think the video you mentioned is the one. It was about a year ago.

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@jonhodgson Thanks for making the point, always thought of a thesis as something presented for formal qualifications although I didn’t check the dic...

4 years ago
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RE: 🎶🎸 Your Favourite Song In This Moment 🎸🎶

@russ I was thinking the same as you that other posts are getting lost because of it but didn’t want to appear negative. After years of trawling thr...

4 years ago
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RE: John Greven thesis on voicing choices in a steel string acoustic

@jonhodgson Interesting article and I can’t disagree with any of the theories, in particular the point that more arching of the top leads to a decre...

4 years ago
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RE: Missing the workshop

@tv101 I feel your pain with big country houses. Lived in a big three storey house for years, it took 26 rolls of wall paper to decorate the stairwa...

4 years ago
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RE: No Livestream Sat

Best Wishes Mark thinking of you

4 years ago
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RE: My Ultimate Tip - LIVE@1pm!

@boo I feel your pain with the bowed body blank, I’ve been there a few times in the early days. I always check now by putting one half in a vice wit...

4 years ago
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RE: New Workshop

@mattbeels Great looking space make sure you get the coffee machine sorted first can’t do serious work without it

4 years ago
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RE: DIY Drum Sander

@johhodgson Thanks for the video. Wish I still lived in London, my town doesn’t have any shared facilities and local joiners hardly do wood work any...

4 years ago
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RE: My Ultimate Tip - LIVE@1pm!

Great demonstration today of how hard it is to prepare wood using hand tools. I’d love a drum sander but don’t have the space, so if your limited like...

4 years ago
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