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| Thread ID: 142475 | 2016-07-08 07:01:00 | New Guitar On Deck | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1422839 | 2016-07-08 07:01:00 | I'm building again since it's over 65F on a full time basis for the rest of the summer . Here's some pixs here: . dropbox . com/sc/w5gawmswlajegmd/AAACKIU4PruUzeKu6CzTMlIWa . " target="_blank">www . dropbox . com Further on now - this is today - I added the frets and filed them to be equakl and then reshaped them and added twin color binding to the neck: . dropbox . com/sc/t9qqooh37v4ulqv/AABGDPguWZZ6wWcaEMZUOuA-a" target="_blank">www . dropbox . com I can only build when it's over that temp because my garage was basically unheated . Well, I built a wood stove too - with a built in afterburner/retort to burn off the heated exhaust gasses by inserting more air with oxygen into a larger riser cylinder where the final combustion takes place . I know it works 'cause when it gets running in about 5 minutes (NZ= not available) - the exhaust goes clear and the temp which is 750F at the firebox, jumps to 1100F in the retort . Here's pixs of the wood furnace, as I call it - on my Google site: . google . com/112263300797297388332/6304824545639647041?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKC1rYyHhZnV-gE&feat=directlink" target="_blank">picasaweb . google . com |
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| 1422840 | 2016-07-08 07:15:00 | *EQUAL - where's the spellchunker when I need it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1422841 | 2016-07-08 07:17:00 | That is awesome, and more! So these new bass guitars are Vreeland Special editions? Even more awesome, son is extremely impressed! Cheers, LL |
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| 1422842 | 2016-07-08 07:25:00 | I call them: "TUXEDO BASS" and the three penguins in tuxedos and high silk hats are my logo . I've build quite a few of them now - some for customers who commission one - others that have no customer that become MINE! I'll try to drop a few more of them in here for youse guys to see . Here's a couple that I built a few years ago: . dropbox . com/sc/m1b1qh9oewvg31r/AAAW4Gl9UeQthK5wqKONMnHUa" target="_blank">www . dropbox . com |
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| 1422843 | 2016-07-08 07:30:00 | Here's last year's workbench before the winter, and that gave me a lot of time to change things around: lh3.googleusercontent.com ..... and me: www.dropbox.com |
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| 1422844 | 2016-07-08 07:45:00 | Here's another few pixs: picasaweb.google.com irectlink picasaweb.google.com irectlink picasaweb.google.com irectlink lh3.googleusercontent.com picasaweb.google.com Try them, see what you think. |
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| 1422845 | 2016-07-08 08:00:00 | This album was supposed to be in sequence - but I never got around to collating them. picasaweb.google.com |
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| 1422846 | 2016-07-08 10:07:00 | Pretty cool Joe. Ken :) |
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| 1422847 | 2016-07-08 11:13:00 | Very impressive Joe, your multiple and consummate skills seem never-ending. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1422848 | 2016-07-08 17:33:00 | Building bass guitars was something I never had on my Bucket List . It just happened because I had just gotten back into music after a 47+ year hiatus . After I retired, I bought a couple of basses and played a bunch more and wondered just how hard it could be to build one myself . I recognized that I could parlay my automotive body and painting experience into wood, fiberglass and paint . . . . and it worked . I'm into my own designs after popping out a few Fender Telebasses, a Fender Jazz, a modern Fender Precision and then I decided that if the headstock wasn't Fender or my Penguins, then I didn't have room for another brand in my collection . I tend to stay with the iconic Fenderesque style but taking license with the woods, the finish and other details that don't mess too much with the Fender silhouettes . Currently I have 13 basses at home and a few assigned to other residences with good friends . Some are Fenders, one is an Ibanez which is the ONLY exception in the it is a big black acoustic bass that has pleasant memories for me . Right now I've gone into "Guitar Rescue Mode" in that I find broken, trashed and even waterlogged guitars that have lost heir appeal and wound up in the trash . I also spent time restoring an occasional old classic acoustic like the 1948 Martin D acoustic that was cuddled in the arms of a drunk in Chattanooga while he was lying in a drainage ditch with the water flowing into the guitar and out the soundhole . That guitar took two years to rebuild what with all the seams blown open, the wood all warped and the neck had to be untwisted . It came out pretty much like new . . . although to a purist I could not completely reproduce the binding with the 1/64th inch insert so I just bound it with what was available . |
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