It may be the profit motivation is not necessarily part of a definition because IMHO most Americana musicians 1) ply the genre for love of the music and 2) have only a rare chance of making a living income. Exactly as you state it. If someone had merely a hunger for profits and their music would in...

Doog wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:13 amSo sick!

Thank you

plopswagon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:36 pm That’s cool, it reminds me of Bill Wyman’s modified Tuxedo Bass

Never seen that, cool. Now off to google who built it…

Well, in favour of the strat, they are easy to fix, and easier to cannibalise together. And that presents teachable moments. I spend a fair bit of of my break and lunchtimes teaching other guitar nerds how to take apart and fix strats. Yes, and they have a cool factor among some teens. I prefer tel...

It looks so fancy I need sunglasses, and also getting an urge to pour a glass of red and just watch it.

Love the idea of a rubber foot. I think about this a lot, as I teach guitar to 400 different children across a two week timetable. Things get trashed (except for Roland Cubes, which I'm yet to encounter a dead one of). I try to think of ways that I would cut out non-essential features to make thing...

Heres the feet and the controls. Tone is very tight so they dont do stuff with it. I plan on playing country tic tac with this so might need the tone. It sounds very much like a dano baritone, which it kinda is.

It is almost as short as the 1448 which is itself tiny, and a guitar. And smaller.

Textile tape cost one euro. Will be enough for 30 basses. Painted a friends tele black years ago, leftovers were spent here. Neck is finished with shellac that was left from a chair renovation I did.

Had a dano bridge, and thought I would need two, so built another one. The are almost a hundred dollars now, wont pay that. But as often happens, a cheap Fender-clone was better so this was all in vain.

As a Fender fanboy, had to make a neck stamp.

Cut the wood for two. Assumed most things would go wrong with the first one so good to have a spare.

I teach bass among a multitude of jobs. I have a Gretsch junior jet bass for kids, but it is too heavy for most children under twelve. Kids love Hofners, but they are a wee bit fragile, and did not trust my club bass with them many times. Danelectros are hard to come by, reissues are solid body (=he...

Beautiful Mustangs. Is the worn one matching headstock gold or what? Really cool. Thanks- it’s a heavily worn in competition orange that supposedly spent the first 40 years of its life in the good behavior room of a prison. There’s still remnants of the red comp stripe on the side by the strap butt...

Beautiful Mustangs. Is the worn one matching headstock gold or what? Really cool.

Also, my -64MM is 22,5” A and -71MM 24” B.

The -64 is thin at the nut but quickly baseballbats itself by the seventh fret. A cool, albeit strange neck.

plopswagon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:27 pm I carry my amps in a plastic grocery sack.

A colleague gave me thirty apples one day and I carried them home in an empty amp case as I could not find a sturdy enough bag.

We’re redoing the back bedroom into the guitar/yoga room. Here’s bunch of g’itars n’stuff. 2BF6B08C-68CD-4E51-9EFF-4E747ED30477.jpeg Left to right: 72 Takamine dreadnought, 80 Fender Telecaster (bought new),mid to late 90’s Musicman Stingray, late 80’s Musicman Stingray fretless, mid 80’s Fender ‘6...

Nick wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:12 am Nothing new but had some gear out that looked good together so I took a pic

So nice. I have a soft spot for pinkish teles and champs.

rahbro wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:57 pm 20221220_165547.jpg

Great match, shiny green and sun tan brown bronco.

Thanks! The two screws in the picture you posted need threaded metal inserts in the wood to screw into, similar to a TOM tailpiece. The third screw, not pictured, which anchors the back of the bridge, screws directly into the wood. So it is sort-of gibsony danelectro technology! Amazing how Fender c...

…and more. It’s yellowed a lot since the paint job a few years ago. Has not been outdoors during winter, that would cause a spider-web lacquer disaster.