What do you like?

[Hooper_X]

Now we're talking! Portable tools, the reason for our existence!

Call him a Luthier, Jr., or Junior for short. That'll motivate him to do a quality job on your repairs...

Unless I need to have a neck reset, or some other really involved repair that is beyond the scope of my abilities, I'm not going to call him at all. That's why I bought the Dremel.

 

[packersfan]

To my ears, fossilized walrus and/or mammoth ivory doesn't sound any better than synthetic Tusq®, which runs about $20 for a set of bridge pins. I just got the FWJB because it was on sale... and so that I can say to other guys who play guitar, "Oh, those bridge pins, they're fossilized walrus jawbone."

If I was going to drop $1500 on a flat top acoustic guitar (I'm primarily an electric guitarist) I'd just go another grand and get a Yamaha LL26. I'm completely sold on Yamahas at this point.

Sounds like it. I gather they have a good sound?

 

[packersfan]

I need to copy & paste this in the 'what made you smile today?' thread.


I love you guys too!

Please do! I know it'll make my day, don't know about Oman.

 

[packersfan]

Unless I need to have a neck reset, or some other really involved repair that is beyond the scope of my abilities, I'm not going to call him at all. That's why I bought the Dremel.

That's right! Put them out of work. They need to expand in today's economy, and I think they're too restricted.

Way to make them grow as craftsmen!

 

[Hooper_X]

Sounds like it. I gather they have a good sound?

Yamaha's sound incredible to my ears. I originally bought a low-end Martin (low-end in Martin-speak means a little over $900.) A week later (about a week ago) I played my friend's Yamaha FG730S (which is a $300 guitar) and it sounded every bit as good. Needless to say, I returned the Martin to Guitar Center and bought a Yamaha. The only reason that I didn't buy a $300 FG730S is that I wanted a guitar with solid rosewood back and sides. According to every acoustic guitar guy I know, solid wood ages like wine, sounding better after 20 years than the day you bought it. Plus, the LL16 has a better, less restrictive, finish.

FYI: I don't bang on my own guitar. As an "enlightened redneck" you might appreciate this, I'm learning Travis picking.

 

[Hooper_X]

That's right! Put them out of work. They need to expand in today's economy, and I think they're too restricted.

Way to make them grow as craftsmen!

That fat bastard has more work than he can handle. He has his own shop, plus he's the week-end guitar tech at the local Guitar Center. I'd hazard that 50% of the people who buy guitars there don't know how to so much as change the strings, let alone do an initial set-up. So, he's making $40 here and $40 there for a few turns of an allen wrench... and maybe, just maybe, rubbing a too-tall bridge saddle on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper for 30 seconds.

 

[packersfan]

Yamaha's sound incredible to my ears. I originally bought a low-end Martin (low-end in Martin-speak means a little over $900.) A week later (about a week ago) I played my friend's Yamaha FG730S (which is a $300 guitar) and it sounded every bit as good. Needless to say, I returned the Martin to Guitar Center and bought a Yamaha. The only reason that I didn't buy a $300 FG730S is that I wanted a guitar with solid rosewood back and sides. According to every acoustic guitar guy I know, solid wood ages like wine, sounding better after 20 years than the day you bought it. Plus, the LL16 has a better, less restrictive, finish.

FYI: I don't bang on my own guitar. As an "enlightened redneck" you might appreciate this, I'm learning Travis picking.

I don't blame you, for the same sound and quality, for less?

Actually, I can appreciate that. I'm in the process, however prolonged, of learning the banjo.

 

[packersfan]

That fat bastard has more work than he can handle. He has his own shop, plus he's the week-end guitar tech at the local Guitar Center. I'd hazard that 50% of the people who buy guitars there don't know how to so much as change the strings, let allow do an initial set-up. So, he's making $40 here and $40 there for a few turns of an allen wrench... and maybe, just maybe, rubbing a too-tall bridge on a piece of 400 grit sandpaper for 30 seconds.

lol, when i bought my banjo, i didn't know how to tune it. Now I can do it by ear and with the meter.

Of course he is. How better to gouge the public who doesn't know about things like that?

 

[Hooper_X]

lol, when i bought my banjo, i didn't know how to tune it. Now I can do it by ear and with the meter.

Of course he is. How better to gouge the public who doesn't know about things like that?

Four or five string? I might eventually pursue the banjo... when I have a lot more time on my hands. I like Dixieland Jazz from the 1920s, and the banjo (originally an African instrument--and word--oddly enough) figured prominently in that genre. I also like quite a lot of old country and bluegrass music. I'm not a fan of contemporary country (e.g. that guy from Australia and the chick from American Idol) but I used to watch reruns of "The Grand Ole Opry" on UHF television when I was a kid. I also saw quite a few K-Tel Records commercials back then, featuring the likes of Conway Twitty, The Carter Family and Hank Williams Sr.

Edit: and, of course, Minnie Pearl

Double Edit: ...and I used to watch Heehaw, with virtuosic pickers, Buck Owens and, especially, Roy Clark. I hadn't thought about that in, perhaps, a decade or more.

 

[muffie]

I like it when it rains. I like the smell of rain.

 

[packersfan]

Four or five string? I might eventually pursue the banjo... when I have a lot more time on my hands. I like Dixieland Jazz from the 1920s, and the banjo (originally an African instrument--and word--oddly enough) figured prominently in that genre. I also like quite a lot of old country and bluegrass music. I'm not a fan of contemporary country (e.g. that guy from Australia and the chick from American Idol) but I used to watch reruns of "The Grand Ole Opry" on UHF television when I was a kid. I also saw quite a few K-Tel Records commercials back then, featuring the likes of Conway Twitty, The Carter Family and Hank Williams Sr.

Edit: and, of course, Minnie Pearl

Double Edit: ...and I used to watch Heehaw, with virtuosic pickers, Buck Owens and, especially, Roy Clark. I hadn't thought about that in, perhaps, a decade or more.

5 string. My problem is that I try to play guitar left handed, and you can't find a left set banjo unless you are prepared to shell out some green.

I like a lot of the old country music too, and don't care for the new stuff at all. Give me some stuff from the '60's and '70's, and I'm good. We watched Hee Haw every Saturday nite!

 

[packersfan]

I like it when it rains. I like the smell of rain.

As long as it's warm. I'll pass on the cold, biting rain, though

 

[laydee_luck]

I like nachos, beer and football on Sundays.

 

[packersfan]

I like nachos, beer and football on Sundays.

You said it! Especially football played somewhere in the state of Wisconsin, in a stadium populated by lots of Cheeseheads!

 

[muffie]

As long as it's warm. I'll pass on the cold, biting rain, though

I agree, biting cold rain should only be experienced when your in front of a nice warm openfire, which is something I like.

 

[laydee_luck]

You said it! Especially football played somewhere in the state of Wisconsin, in a stadium populated by lots of Cheeseheads!

<<<< has a cheesehead hat

 

[packersfan]

I agree, biting cold rain should only be experienced when your in front of a nice warm openfire, which is something I like.

True, but that's a whole other like, isn't it?

 

[packersfan]

<<<< has a cheesehead hat

Excellent!

I like Cheesehead hats!

 

[laydee_luck]

Excellent!

I like Cheesehead hats!

I like the fact that I can flip mine over and it holds my nachos and beer

 

[packersfan]

I like the fact that I can flip mine over and it holds my nachos and beer

Multipurpose headwear! I like that, too!

 

[laydee_luck]

Multipurpose headwear! I like that, too!

I like packer fans

 

[packersfan]

I like packer fans

Thank you! I like them too!

Being like this, I like people who live somewhere and can pull for who they like!

 

[laydee_luck]

I like people watching

 

[packersfan]

I like people watching

Hmmm, not really thought about watching.

I like thinking about it, all the time.

 

[Morrigu]

I like ing