sixesandsevens

Congrats polara! I think your guitar made me an Eclipse fan at the last jam that Nathan and El Duave's threw at Rocketeria a while back. Rock it in good health!

Happy Thanksgiving Mike!

HBD!

Sorry to hear you missed it. I'm more sorry to hear that it will haunt you. Sounds like a good time to take a day off, mourn, and rock out on the gear you do have. May your recovery be a speedy one.

Isn't that just, like, dos aardvarks? For me I think it's my placeholder Shishkov air guitar.

You're not alone: It's called "impostor syndrome" among other things. I read an interesting post about it the other day. I'm very familiar with imposter syndrome. It may be one of the most common anxieties you see among college profs; I certainly went through it when I had my first class that was totally mine.Off topic a little, but when you went through that with teaching, what got you out of it? And I hope the job hunt has improved!

My big recommendation is to get your hands on a few before buying one just to see which one works for you. A boomered maple-body Cali is a classic example of a guitar I (and apparently many others) would buy with my eyes, but that my hands would likely be lukewarm about. Fortunately for me, my eyes can't log into paypal and my hands are wise to their controlling position in the matter these days.

You're not alone: It's called "impostor syndrome" among other things. I read an interesting post about it the other day.

Naw. He just posted it yesterday. You can probably paypal him the $800.

Playing electric bass unplugged is way more of a pain than playing electric guitar unplugged.

I've got a few in white, but I think the covers are available aftermarket in other colors. DP182W - Fast Track 2 DP181W - Fast Track 1 DP188W - Pro Track

That's ok. The real challenge of designing that is getting it so the horn still hits you in the solar plexus regardless of which neck you're playing.

Way to make an entrance! Welcome to the HFC!

I guess I'll save "Will Mike make me a five-necked Parker Fly?" for another day then...

Just talk it out in terms of your own experience... Use "I" language, like "Something I noticed when I started to listen back to recordings of myself is ... Blah blah." Then take a minute and show him with your rig, esp. if you acknowledge that more gain often FEELS better, but it doesn't sound better. You can link him to some blog post by one of his heroes saying less gain works better too. If his hero hasn't posted it yet, send his hero email and explain the situation and I'm sure he'll post a two liner on Facebook about it. It's 2014 and I'm sure he'd do you a 30 second favor. In the event that Guthrie Govan is his hero, he already put that into one of his creative guitar books.

What request?

Naw... It's just MUCH farther away from the camera.

That is a fine color. I guess it's more of a red-to-orange than a typical red-orange-yellow fade?

That's not stoopid. Wait til you get past that and start asking yourself if it should be dot inlays (as with some of the earliest, a la Chris' sig), or bound and crowned...

Ooh, so who'd you decide on: Serial or Jol?

I heard that when other brands rock, rocks Shishkov.

I for one am headed straight to TGP to start a "Can anyone get a hold of Shishkov?" thread that starts with something like ... "I would never want to call someone out in public, but ..."

Another question: What's the difference between the options for "neck binding" and "neck and fingerboard" binding?

"It sucks as it cuts!"

Don't quote me, but I swear there was an option for a classical guitar with three P90s and a Bigsby on the form somewhere...