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Post by wully on Jan 7, 2010 15:25:24 GMT -5
For the first time in a long while the forecast is for temperatures above freezing - not until Sunday though and back to freezing again Monday...
I am now officially fed up with the freezing weather and my motorbike is getting fed up being stuck in the garage.
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Jan 7, 2010 15:22:14 GMT -5
Post by wully on Jan 7, 2010 15:22:14 GMT -5
So, I spent some time this afternoon trying to improve the set up and wish I hadn't..
Seems the truss rod is would up as tight as it will go and the 4mm alan socket is pretty chewed up so the wrench doesn't turn it. Then the nut looks like it's badly worn and will need replaced - or shimmed. And the neck has two cracks on either side as it leaves the body.
Still, it was cheap and sounds OK and I can't play it anyway( but am having so much fun trying) and by the time I can knock a tune out of it I'll be back at work and will be able to afford another one.
Now the dreaming starts..... ;D
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Jan 6, 2010 16:14:54 GMT -5
Post by wully on Jan 6, 2010 16:14:54 GMT -5
I never knew there was two ways you could fit the bridge What exactly do you mean? I am intrigued Well, on my Epiphone SG the bridge is on a quick adjuster system that allows rapid change in height, but it isn't fixed down by anything other than string tension. The other day I thought that the high 'E' string was sounding pretty quiet and tried to adjust the pick up height which resulted in the string touching the pick up if it was fretted above the 12 fret... So then I went looking for some set up guidance via Google and found someones video on setting up an SG copy using Gibson specs. On watching this I discovered what 'intonation' was and how it's set. It was when I was watching this part of the video I could see my bridge was on backwards....meaning that the intonation was way off- not that I'm up that end of the fretboard often I'm not sure if I put in on backwards when I changed the strings when I got the guitar or if it's been like that a while..... So now I have most of the tools I'll need for a set up sesh in front of me and by tomorrow I'll have a capo and a quiet house all day and will go for it......
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Jan 6, 2010 10:18:36 GMT -5
Post by wully on Jan 6, 2010 10:18:36 GMT -5
I never knew there was two ways you could fit the bridge
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Jan 5, 2010 15:01:11 GMT -5
Post by wully on Jan 5, 2010 15:01:11 GMT -5
I am going to have to spend some time trying to set up my poor abused Epiphone SG.
Poor thing was in a terrible state when I got my paws on it a few short weeks ago. I gave her a quick dose of TLC which got her playable and have not really done anything else until today- which has made me realise I know jack about setting up a guitar...
I was trying to do a turnaround which involved hitting the 'a' and high 'e' stings at the same time but the 'e' string was really quiet so I thought I'd lift the neck pick up with the adjuster screw on the high 'e' side which made it ring just fine - until the string was fretted above about the 10th fret when it then bottomed out on the pickup...
I'll be off to Google 'Setting up a guitar for idiots' then......
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Post by wully on Jan 5, 2010 14:54:22 GMT -5
Oppps- didnae mean tae come across a nippit... ;D
( Translation for our friends outside Scotland - " I do apologise for appearing to be a tad miffed" )
Anyway, I've had a great time this afternoon murdering Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' I just love my Roland Cube.
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Post by wully on Jan 5, 2010 9:37:03 GMT -5
Was talking about Scotland in general- specifically central Scotland and anyway is there a famous musician from Argyll? Apart from Karen Matheson who's old man is having a sale in his furniture shop in Oban...
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Post by wully on Jan 4, 2010 16:02:16 GMT -5
Garbage ( singer in) Altered Images, Shena Easton ( sorry) Bonsky Beat, Ultravox ( Midge Ure) The Skids ,The Blue Nile , Teenage Fanclub.Danny Wilson, B.A. Robertson ( more apologies)
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Fish (Marillion) Arab Strap AC/DC ( in the beginning)
There's thoosands when you look into it which is not bad for a small country with a population less than half the size of the city of London. Must be all that poverty and urban decay....
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Post by wully on Jan 4, 2010 6:13:04 GMT -5
Lulu...
Franz Ferdinand , The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions , The Silencers, Hipsway, Proclaimers, Peatbog Fairies,
Martin Bennet ( Canadian born but lived on Mull most of his tragically short life )
And about a million more 'Croft Burning' folkies...
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Post by wully on Jan 2, 2010 16:25:06 GMT -5
I'm on the wonderful west coast of Scotland.
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Post by wully on Jan 2, 2010 15:30:50 GMT -5
It's feezing cold with clear sky here and forecast to be -9 tonight. Today I went into town to get some rock salt from the council depot as the short bit of track to the main road was sheet ice- my car was sliding sideways on it when I parked to spread the grit.....
Every cloud etc.. Since I couldn't do anything outside I spent the afternoon playing (trying to) the guitar so my fingers are now nipping and very close to blistering.
Again...
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Post by wully on Jan 2, 2010 12:28:10 GMT -5
Will you still talk to us plebs when you're rich and famous?
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Post by wully on Jan 1, 2010 6:59:14 GMT -5
'Born on the Bayou' by CCR I want to learn 'Nuthin but a Woman' by Robert Cray - only problem (!) is that any tabs I can find aren't how Robert Cray plays in on the videos and I can't yet work out what he's doing in the main riff but Mrs Wully goes back to work on Tuesday so me and the cat will have time and peace to work on it then.
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Post by wully on Jan 1, 2010 6:55:31 GMT -5
I try and pick out the tunes on Youtube I think will be easy to learn, then play around for a while until I get stuck/fed up.... I'll probably never get all the way through something but I have a lot of fun just playing the thing...not sure that's the idea but it's working for me.
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Post by wully on Dec 31, 2009 13:27:35 GMT -5
He'll hand deliver it for you sir ;D
..and probably a case of Champagne as well.
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