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Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:28 pm
by rahbro
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:43 pm
by rahbro
Can't wait for the cork sniffing bl00z3 L@wer replies
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Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:45 pm
by rahbro
taylornutt wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 5:39 am
rahbro wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:04 pm
taylornutt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:31 am
Which run of Jagstang is that one from?
i got it christmas 1995
I picked up one of the New Mexican Jagstangs and was amazed how much lighter it was compare to the Sherwood Green Jagstang I used to own.
If it was sherwood green, maybe someone used their own piece of wood on it.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:03 pm
by Doog
rahbro wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:43 pm
Can't wait for the cork sniffing bl00z3 L@wer replies
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I know you don't actually care, but truss rod adjustments and
proper nutjobs aren't about TOAN and M0J0; it's about making the guitar perform properly and stay as tune as possible across the neck, in the way that you'd configure and maintain
any tool.
But I know that you don't care so it doesn't matter
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:42 pm
by plopswagon
Deez nuts
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:02 am
by NickD
Maintain deez nuts.
I didn’t have to make any adjustment to the nuts on my guitars when I switched from 11s to 9s, but all bar one needed some truss rod adjustment and all needed to be properly set up.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:35 am
by plopswagon
Every time it goes from 30% humidity to 35% humidity, I have the fretboard pleked.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:48 am
by taylornutt
rahbro wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:45 pm
taylornutt wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 5:39 am
rahbro wrote: ↑Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:04 pm
i got it christmas 1995
I picked up one of the New Mexican Jagstangs and was amazed how much lighter it was compare to the Sherwood Green Jagstang I used to own.
If it was sherwood green, maybe someone used their own piece of wood on it.
I think it was refin.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:55 pm
by rahbro
Doog wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:03 pm
rahbro wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:43 pm
Can't wait for the cork sniffing bl00z3 L@wer replies
Screenshot_20221214_124144_Reddit.jpg
I know you don't actually care, but truss rod adjustments and
proper nutjobs aren't about TOAN and M0J0; it's about making the guitar perform properly and stay as tune as possible across the neck, in the way that you'd configure and maintain
any tool.
But I know that you don't care so it doesn't matter
You could do all that, or you could just toss your guitars in a bathtub after you get home from the gig. What would teh kurdtz do?
I can just see ernie bailey right now meticulously shaving microns off of teh kurdtz nuts so he could put piano wire on there and then smash it into a million pieces 2 hours later.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:00 pm
by Doog
Yeah, but he probably did because he's a professional guitar tech who makes his living and reputation doing this, and not a rock star
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:02 pm
by Doog
http://www.kurtsequipment.com/guitarspage.htm
The March 1995 issue of "Guitar World" magazine mentions Kurt sent out 4 new, stock, Mustangs to be routed for humbuckers (32). Three were sonic blue and one fiesta red (41). The way Earnie modified these guitars is as follows:
First, the nut had to be cut for heavier strings, then the neck shimmed for a better bridge angle
oh wow, wouldya look at that.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:09 pm
by sunshiner
Kurt was ADHD as fuck and him destroying guitars was rather a manifestation of his condition than his conscious choice, and the habit cost them as a band a lot of trouble in the early days as left handed guitars are even now few and far between and back then they were almost nonexistent. Trying to convert a newly bought shitty right handed guitar to play it left handed every other night had to be a giant PITA, as most electric guitars need a lot of modding to make them any playable. Even when they got big, replacing the smashed left handed guitars was still a PITA
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:31 am
by henkstroem
Took some more of the -71 MM
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:34 am
by henkstroem
…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.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:10 pm
by Pens
sunshiner wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:09 pm
Trying to convert a newly bought shitty right handed guitar to play it left handed every other night had to be a giant PITA, as most electric guitars need a lot of modding to make them any playable.
I can confirm, converted right-handed guitars are dogshit. My first guitar was one of these:
There were no lefty guitars that I could afford back then, and when I first started I was just trying to play right-handed as that's what absolutely everyone always suggests. Plus I was 13 and didn't really know that left-handed guitars existed. I read about Paul McCartney needing to flip his guitar over to left handed and it allowed him to finally be able to play, so I tried it on this guy, and found out that was what I needed to do also.
Man, this guitar basically made me hate so many things about guitars. Maple fretboards, strat style, single coils, tremolo bridges. It had them all, and I still hate those things today. Playing an upside down righty fucking sucks.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:53 pm
by NickD
henkstroem wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:34 am
…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.
One of mine does that even indoors in the winter.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:33 pm
by sunshiner
Pens wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:10 pm
sunshiner wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:09 pm
Trying to convert a newly bought shitty right handed guitar to play it left handed every other night had to be a giant PITA, as most electric guitars need a lot of modding to make them any playable.
I can confirm, converted right-handed guitars are dogshit. My first guitar was one of these:
There were no lefty guitars that I could afford back then, and when I first started I was just trying to play right-handed as that's what absolutely everyone always suggests. Plus I was 13 and didn't really know that left-handed guitars existed. I read about Paul McCartney needing to flip his guitar over to left handed and it allowed him to finally be able to play, so I tried it on this guy, and found out that was what I needed to do also.
Man, this guitar basically made me hate so many things about guitars. Maple fretboards, strat style, single coils, tremolo bridges. It had them all, and I still hate those things today. Playing an upside down righty fucking sucks.
Yes, being a right handed, I've tried to convert some guitars to relearn left handed and they were the epitome of uncomfortable.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:57 pm
by rahbro
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Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:56 pm
by henkstroem
rahbro wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:57 pm
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Great match, shiny green and sun tan brown bronco.
Re: pictures of your shortscales
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:35 pm
by plopswagon
Toilet paper is hung backwards.