sixesandsevens

Lol. I just logged in for the first time in a while to share this with the HFC. I hope everyone's well!

While this is still undoubtedly sad news and everyone who passes deserves to be remembered, is there a specific reason you bumped this obituary thread from 2016?

It's the knurled ring around the switch. On my monitor the color is such that I mistook it for ivoroid (or equivalent) and not gold. The poker chip was just a reference to the way you can add/swap the "lead/rhythm" indicator ring around the standard LP switch without having to desolder/resolder anything.

Wait a sec... We need to talk about the fact that the switch ring in that shot has binding on it. Is that a thing? It's definitely not on my Shishkov. Can you add that aftermarket like a poker chip or do you have to swap out the whole switch? Also, thank you again Mike.

I got two this morning: 1. The less I'm playing, the more I browse reverb.com 2. If I'm shopping for a piece of gear and I can't make a decision between the alternatives, it means I don't need it that badly.

Do they call that guitar "3M"? Because it's ... wait for it ... SUPERFINE!

New strings arrived for my Boden 8. The ones that are on there are still surprisingly fresh given it's almost all I've played for 6 months. I caved and got the recommended strings from Strandberg which are a custom balanced tension set from a collaboration with GHS. Pricier than I would have liked (no free shipping), but looking forward to the string change tho.

Them Crooked Vultures "New Fang" was the last one I listened to. Today it'll be another trip to the BDoMWM:

I never thought I'd say this, but I love playing 8 string guitar.

Nice! Maybe it's just the early morning light, but the color is hard to pin down for me. Is it sort of a raspberry quilt?

After geeking out on the Daft Punk stuff on the Tron soundtrack, I stumbled on Dynatron... Also, I'm not generally much of a prog guy, but a bandmate is really into Haken:

To be fair, it is gluten free...

RIP.

It's cool... No covering needed. It'll be rear routed for the 5 truss rods in my 30 string Djentopus(tm) model.

That explains so much about the FS section...

Is it with Brent? If so, the video clips should be soon to follow...

I think El was thinking "Chris - I swear I ordered blueburst. Are you sure this one's mine?"

I smell a Shishkov CO coming on...

I agree. Holy sh*tsnacks. Rock that in good health! Edited to add this is one of the only times in my life I've wished I was a lefty at guitar.

I'm with these guys... I wouldn't say yes or no to a guitar just because it's got a figured top. Once it's got a figured top, I judge the top by its own set of criteria, which means it's harder for a figured top guitar to catch my attention than a solid topped one, but still... very do-able.

As long as you like the guitars, I think the beauty of it is that even if you don't win, you win.

Does a deposit on a Shishkov count? If the delivery is next year, can I pick if it counts for this year or next?

Seriously? They kicked Brent out? I don't think I've ever seen such fan of Heritage guitars!

That's all, folks! I'm sure I'll regret asking this, but what happened to cause this implosion?