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  • Loving the b-bender, was a bit worried it was gonna be a total one-trick pony but I think we're gonna be good friends... I'm thinking about chucking a strap button on the neck plate, just so I can play it straight when I want to... Not urgent unless I'm playing a show but a nice mod anyway...

  • Double post, have a free pic!


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  • i just bought one of these...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEvMxy8r7Zk

    can't wait to give it a whirl.

  • I'm terribly envious, I've wanted a B-bender for so long!

    Might start investigate fitting one to my Squier Thinline Master Series HH Telecaster...

    I've already goldtopped it and added a Seymour Duncan '59 at the neck and a Dimebucker at the bridge :)

  • are you learning any Clarence yet Joe?
    I have no guitar news
    Other than when I mistyped “Bassman” into the eBay search earlier it auto corrected to “ass masturbator”

  • Wow... I've been noodling mostly, found a couple of quick licks just by messing about... My finger's getting stronger every day now so I'm finding it easier to play again... I can do a passable little thing now, the hard work begins I guess!

    I've been enjoying doing rhythm things with it, most of the open minor chords sound brilliant with the bender moving under them... Bit of delay and backwards reverb and you've got yourself something happening all of a sudden... Great fun...

  • They're so expensive tho'... This is what forced me to buy this one, it's an entry level bender... I think I'd like a nice, light double bender, loads of money tho' as that's a custom job...

    It's great to finally have one... Wanna get good enough to go out and play a couple of gigs with friends who have country things happening... Have a listen to Simmo, he's a bit of a legend in Brissy...

    https://youtu.be/xr1uf2mqU20

  • Just going to leave this craft / guitar pron here

    https://youtu.be/479fQhf34U8

  • I was just watching that!
    I dip into Ben's stuff quite a lot - it's often not quite my taste but seeing him work on that was fascinating and makes me want lairy inlay on one of mine

  • I’m doing inlays today. Very complicated ones.


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  • I lose track - have we heard of this one before?! Going to need more pictures and details than just that teaser!

  • I think I’ve mentioned it before. I’m taking the London Met guitar building course.

    https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTk1NzkxMDA0MTgwOTAx?igshid=1hbeogdjmhc19&story_media_id=1959065431345260021

  • I once actually put some position markers in the wrong place. This was back in the 80s, working for a luthier who was a lovely guy... anyway I drilled the 12th fret dots at the 11th fret, finished the guitar, rushed off on holiday and came back to an annoyed boss who’d sold it cheap.

    Then I came across the exact same guitar 10 years later in Croatia during the war...

    /csb

  • I must’ve checked these half a dozen times for fear of doing exactly that.

  • That’s Fufkin nuts! What on earth were you doing in the Balkan war anyway? Reporting from the killing fields for Guitar & Bass?

  • Poncing around refugee camps with a mandolin putting on circus shows for kids... http://theseriousroadtrip.org/history/

    I’d love to find a guitar I made, if anyone ever finds a Kinkade OM or dread with ‘RB’ on one corner of the label I will buy them many beers.

  • Ah yes - sorry, I forgot you were doing that course.

    Doesn't hurt to check all the time -I was five minutes away from gluing a fretboard onto mine with all the fret spacings shunted up on (first to second fret on mine was the second to third fret spacing etc) :)

  • Just ordered a trial pack of Rombo picks. Will report back on them!

  • Spent some time practicing playing slide at the weekend. Not sure why, just did. Slide is something I've dabbled in since day one but never really devoted any time to practicing properly.

    Been trying hard to concentrate on muting behind and in front of the slide properly and getting a few nice little bluesy 1/4 note bends sounding clean. I'm still on an early ZZ top jag and trying to cop a few licks from the Just Got Paid solo. The persistence is starting to pay off and it's definitely sounding less shit-busker-on-the-tube than it previously has.

  • Good for you, I've never had the patience to sit down and learn properly... I remember when I had the fanciful idea of buying a pedal steel, sold my Les Paul and had the cash I needed for a nice Sho-Bud from Rhodes Music... Got talking to the guy in there, he asked if I'd ever played one and I said no, then asked if I'd ever played lap steel, again I said no... Then he asked if I played slide and I said I did but I was shit at it, he told me I'd be an idiot to buy it...

    I bought a Casio FZ-1 sampler instead... I couldn't get rid of that thing in the end, had to leave it in the street for the bin men... What a waste... I'm an idiot after all!!

  • Haha. WAC. Maybe. It's hard to know innit? Pedal steel is something else altogether tho... Who knows. Piano and organ players manage to work all four limbs simultaneously to make music so maybe it's less terrifyingly daunting that it might at first seem.

    I actually find lap steel less difficult than slide on a regular guitar. On lap steel you don't have to worry about fretting out and the way it's laid out means you can see clearly what you're doing. Playing slide on regular guitar feels like trying to play table football with the table tipped on it's side!

    One thing that's helped me is playing in standard tuning. It's all too easy to find a couple obvious open tuning cliches then get sort of stuck.

    By going back to standard, I've found that you have to play clean and choose your notes witha bit more thought. Plus you already know your way about the neck so as long as you get your head straight as to what you're doing, you can concentrate on getting it in (or nicely out of) tune and getting good tone.

    Would love a guitar setup for slide tho. I'm finding it nearly impossible not to fret out on the high e string with 10s and a low action on my tele.

  • Yeah, I'm a really imprecise player so slide is out for me unless I can get away with loose and sloppy... I don't have the patience!!

  • Not guitar and shld probs go elsewhere but, anyone read the Jeff Tweedy book yet?

  • Friend gave me this POS left-hand "Benson" electric and told me to do something funny with it. So here is a new idiotic project. Either will do double whammy or poor-man's B-bender with double-whammy B string and normal routing for the rest.


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