Guitar Nerds Anonymous

Where's good to buy hardware from? I finally got back to my mockingbird after months off, and it's the last thing I need to finish it
Specifically I'm looking for some black, 6 in line, treble side (left handed) tuners.

I've tried northwest, axesrus, thomann.... not wedded to anything in particular but there's nothing I really want available. It's a bit weird actually.

Nice. I just recently agreed to play drums for my pal's band and I'm having the same realisation - those muscles I once had just aren't there anymore! The spirit is willing but the legs are soft and spongey.

Very nice dude. Not familiar with the poem, is it verbatim?

Not familiar with the poem, is it verbatim?

Thank you! Yes, pretty much - he crams in a comedy indian accent on the 'please walk in front sir' in order to make 'behind' rhyme with 'wind', which I left out for obvious reasons, but his stuff feels astonishingly contemporary as lyrics imo.

Not quite the right place for it but I recently did a little live demo of a Kipling poem

https://soundcloud.com/benedict_edwards/­tommy-demo-with-apologies-to-kipling

This is really great! I struggle with melodies - did you work out the chords first?

This is really great! I struggle with melodies - did you work out the chords first?

Thank you! I worked out that I wanted to use the classic I VI V structure, and that I wanted to use major chords, so then I just noodled about switching from C down to the F when it felt like the words needed it, then back, then up to the G when that felt right. In that piece its always the last line that's key so that's where the satisfying G hits. It's a lot easier to put chords to existing words when you're not having to write the hecking things at the same time!

This is really lovely - aside from it sounding so good, I'd also never heard of the poem but you're dead right about how it's not dated.

This is really lovely - aside from it sounding so good, I'd also never heard of the poem but you're dead right about how it's not dated.

Thank you! And well worth reading his Barrack Room Ballads if you get a chance - a whole book of that stuff. For To Admire is one of the most beautiful sentiments ever expressed, it sounds like an unsarcastic Decemberists.

I did a whole record of this if you're interested: https://open.spotify.com/album/7oT6A3hJLzeO5MCbwzDbRB

Fellow enthusiast i need halp.

Thoughy this is a better place than any questions, what weight is a fretting hammer?
Considering forging my own, I doubt Ill use it more than twice (2 guitars) and im infamously yorkshire tight.

Mine is the crimson guitars one - the dead blow version. I just weighed it and it's 225g including the handle.

I don't use it much any more though, I prefer pressing them in. There's something a bit stressful about whacking so close to the finished fretboard with a hammer, and they rarely go in and seat as nicely as you'd like.

If you have a drill press, you may be able to clamp them in - here's the stew mac version of the tool, but guitars and wood (and other places) sell the same thing much cheaper:

https://www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools-and-supplies/tools-by-job/tools-for-fretting/pressing/fret-press-caul-with-5-fret-press-inserts.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=2021-07-gp&pref_currency=P&shipcalc=UK&gclid=Cj0KCQjwub-HBhCyARIsAPctr7zDfbvVVx4yMy6KX1YBcpCPCrxz4L0TLYovYjvI7-8V-kgMSV4hQ8MaAg1pEALw_wcB

What you building?

Bit of a weird one here - do super simple midi control footswitch without a huge "brain" of their own exist?

I have a Yamaha R100 reverb which is great in an 80s/90s dream pop kind of way with a Midi in for control, and would love to be able to have something very simple to just toggle the presets up/down but all I can find are all-controlling midi pedalboards?

I just spent the morning at the Boatyard Guitar Workshop, having a one on one session on fretwork and set up with the guy who runs it; Dave. It's a really nice, chilled out, well equipped place.

If anyone's interested in any guitar making bits and pieces it's probably well worth a call.

https://www.theboatyardguitarworkshop.com/

There are some stripped down solutions (this converts a double footswitch that might come with an amp into an up/down controller), but they seem to be expensive compared to a cheap multi button affair.

Midi mouse might work for you?

I remember some other basic solution for changing whammy patches so I’ll see if I can find that. My eventual solution was to program patch changes with the synth/drum tracks for that full ‘guitar tech changing patches for me’ wanker look.

Just got this Bigsby pedal video in my yt recommendations; I expect it to be furiously expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDJpjD5XQjA

I dont have a press but I might be able to burrow through my dads garage to his, although I'm probably leaning towards tepid whacking.
I'm not building owt, just fancied refretting my childhood guitar and I have a 90s washburn Ive done a few things to that has always needed better frets, theres about 6 dead notes, but I'm slowly falling in love with it.

Has anyone got an EQ pedal for sells? My GE7 just died and I'm debating whether to replace or give the little Dano one a go.

The band in that Bigsby Pedal clip are furiously German.

You managed to kill a Boss pedal?! I didn’t think that was possible.

Behringer clone is £16.90 on Amazon

I know but I want something that will last!

Cool - it's definitely doable - plenty of people do use hammers. Is it an acoustic or electric?

To be fair, it was fucked when I bought it. I found it for next to nothing in a s/h record and musical junk shop so bought it untested. Mistake. Anyway, I think I’m gonna get the Dano. I love their mini pedals and this one seems to be back in stock for £40 so yeah….

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You could rehouse the Behringer innards in the Boss case. Fish & Chips is good but equally fragile.

Is it? I thought they were metal bodies? My old PB&J was.