"Not Worth its own thread" Thread

[Moongrum]

I will tell you this- photog people are just as bad with GAS as guitar players. Luckily I never fell into that trench with it and have always just had one camera.

Yeah, I've been watching YouTube videos and reading reddit posts, and it's kind of painful, like I don't need another hobby to obsess about gear

But on the list of relaxing activities, it has to rate pretty high. It's interesting to try to capture things I see from different angles/get just the right amount of light and shadow in, and stuff like that.

Awesome, that's exactly what I want to hear! I want a hobby that encourages me to look around

 

[crushingpetal]

Anyone into photography?

I'm not
But for the past month, I've had a strong urge to get into it. Been thinking of picking up any older cheap compact digital camera with a detachable lens and see what sticks. I know smartphones have replaced a lot of cameras, but I only have a wimpy iphone se, and am curious to know what the experience is like with a camera with more controls

I second @nightsprinter above. Get a used Nikon DSLR. Even somthing 10 years old can be excellent. It's a fun hobby and can be very rewarding: i) it gets you out in the world and ii) your pictures are your souvenirs.

*I'd just say, don't go overboard with the gear early on. It's a bit like recording: it's a journey and you've got to master the fundamentals first.

**Just checked ebay and there are some d5100s for approx. $200.

 

[spudmunkey]

In a video for the "Danish Pete" Chapman guitar, there's a close-up of the body where it appears that you can see a little sliver of the bridge pickup route under that radiused edge of the bass side of the bridge. Is this common on guitars with ashtray bridges?



I've never owned a Tele, and while I've handled dozens of guitars with ashtray bridges, I've never really looked very closely at this one particular part.

 

[nightsprinter]

In a video for the "Danish Pete" Chapman guitar, there's a close-up of the body where it appears that you can see a little sliver of the bridge pickup route under that radiused edge of the bass side of the bridge. Is this common on guitars with ashtray bridges?

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I've never owned a Tele, and while I've handled dozens of guitars with ashtray bridges, I've never really looked very closely at this one particular part.

I recently saw a yt video of a Fender mod shop tele (it might have even been a custom shop??) where this was a thing too. It would take forever to dig through the digital waste to find it so this is a "trust me bro" situation lol

 

[Crungy]

In a video for the "Danish Pete" Chapman guitar, there's a close-up of the body where it appears that you can see a little sliver of the bridge pickup route under that radiused edge of the bass side of the bridge. Is this common on guitars with ashtray bridges?

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I've never owned a Tele, and while I've handled dozens of guitars with ashtray bridges, I've never really looked very closely at this one particular part.

I don't know if my older Squier tele has that but I've definitely seen that on other teles.

 

[CanserDYI]

In a video for the "Danish Pete" Chapman guitar, there's a close-up of the body where it appears that you can see a little sliver of the bridge pickup route under that radiused edge of the bass side of the bridge. Is this common on guitars with ashtray bridges?

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I've never owned a Tele, and while I've handled dozens of guitars with ashtray bridges, I've never really looked very closely at this one particular part.

Not all teles, but yes, very very common.

 

[gr.788]

hi, i have some questions if someone would like to answer
people who regularly play guitars with floating tremolo bridges,
was a guitar with a floating bridge your first guitar? how often do your guitar w/floating tremolo goes out of tune so you need to tune it again or set up the intonation/bridge again? do you do it for yourself or a a technician do it for you? (assuming its not a floyd rose, let say a jackson/ibanez stock tremolo)
would u necessarily recommend a guitars w/ easiest to set up bridges like tune o matic or wrap around instead of guitars w/ tremolo bridges to a beginner?

 

[Crungy]

hi, i have some questions if someone would like to answer
people who regularly play guitars with floating tremolo bridges,
was a guitar with a floating bridge your first guitar? how often do your guitar w/floating tremolo goes out of tune so you need to tune it again or set up the intonation/bridge again? do you do it for yourself or a a technician do it for you? (assuming its not a floyd rose, let say a jackson/ibanez stock tremolo)
would u necessarily recommend a guitars w/ easiest to set up bridges like tune o matic or wrap around instead of guitars w/ tremolo bridges to a beginner?

Floating trem was not my first bridge type, it was a knockoff tele.

My guitars with floating trems stay in tune pretty well and the more I play them they seem stay in tune better.

I do setup/intonation checks when I'm changing strings because it's never gone out of whack in between.

Personally, I would recommend something other than a floating trem to a beginner. (Plus that gives you a good reason to buy a second guitar with a trem)

 

[STRHelvete]

Fucked around with some dual amp setting on the Helix and found THE sound for recording. Granted it's 3 amps blended but many years in the Helix still wows me with possibilities. Damn I love this thing.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

I agree with @Crungy Unless you want to invest some time and attention to learning how to set-up and maintain the functionality of a floating trem, it might be a more enjoyable experience to go with a fixed bridge if just starting out.

 

[CanserDYI]

Fucked around with some dual amp setting on the Helix and found THE sound for recording. Granted it's 3 amps blended but many years in the Helix still wows me with possibilities. Damn I love this thing.

Yeah man, I got mine in 2018 and still find new things about it almost every time I turn it on.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

hi, i have some questions if someone would like to answer
people who regularly play guitars with floating tremolo bridges,
was a guitar with a floating bridge your first guitar? how often do your guitar w/floating tremolo goes out of tune so you need to tune it again or set up the intonation/bridge again? do you do it for yourself or a a technician do it for you? (assuming its not a floyd rose, let say a jackson/ibanez stock tremolo)
would u necessarily recommend a guitars w/ easiest to set up bridges like tune o matic or wrap around instead of guitars w/ tremolo bridges to a beginner?

If you're a beginner I would recommend avoiding a trem of any kind unless you're really willing to learn how to set one up. They tend to add extra frustration, especially for newer users. There are plenty of setup vids and tutorials out there now so it's doable even for beginners, provided you have enough patience.

A well setup floyd is generally very stable and generally stays in tune better than near any other option ime.

 

[MetalDestroyer]

I would not get a guitar with a floating bridge to start. Something I forgot about until I tried to teach an ex to play is EVERYTHING is difficult when you start, including even tuning the thing. I remember having my guitar teacher tune for me at the start of lessons because it took so long for me to do it at the time. Imagine that plus the whole guitar goes out of tune every time you get a string in tune

I say this as someone who exclusively plays floating trem guitars

 

[nightsprinter]

IMO in a perfect world, I believe beginners should start with an acoustic to build callouses and experience some classic fingertip and joint pain. I know everyone wants to start off shredding but acoustic really lays the groundwork for the wanky stuff later on and that was really drilled into me by my teacher.

Then it's time to move on to a nice fixed bridge hss/hsh strat or superstrat with 9-42 gauge strings on it where whether one likes it or not, they *will* play the smoke on the water lick unironically at least once. And of course Walk.

Fixed bridges are nice for beginners for a variety of reasons. TOM bridges are good too but I remember when I was first starting with a TOM as a youngster, I went to change strings and the tailpiece flew right off the posts and put a fat scratch in my first ibanez destroyer and it nearly destroyed me inside so I have some bad memories of that one lol.

But you know... now that it isn't the early 90's and we have YouTube, anyone with patience, allen keys, and a phillips screwdriver can understand the mythos of the floyd rose trem way quicker than back in the day.

 

[SalsaWood]

hi, i have some questions if someone would like to answer
people who regularly play guitars with floating tremolo bridges,
was a guitar with a floating bridge your first guitar? how often do your guitar w/floating tremolo goes out of tune so you need to tune it again or set up the intonation/bridge again? do you do it for yourself or a a technician do it for you? (assuming its not a floyd rose, let say a jackson/ibanez stock tremolo)
would u necessarily recommend a guitars w/ easiest to set up bridges like tune o matic or wrap around instead of guitars w/ tremolo bridges to a beginner?

Trem guitars are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. You can learn how to set up and manage a cheap trem guitar, perhaps bring it back to life from the used market. It will require great sacrifice, though. Easiest to not to start out in that direction.

 

[gr.788]

thanks all of you for the inputs, maybe it was a question that could be researched on the internet, but well, i'll try getting a lightweight guitar with a fixed bridge like a squier strat since i bought a entry level schecter before and it felt uncomfortably heavy, and i think that disinspired me to play

 

[Moongrum]

I recently saw a yt video of a Fender mod shop tele (it might have even been a custom shop??) where this was a thing too. It would take forever to dig through the digital waste to find it so this is a "trust me bro" situation lol

I had a squier cv tele like that. Everything on the internet points to it being a vintage spec: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/bridge-pickup-cavity-visible.101420/

 

[High Plains Drifter]

thanks all of you for the inputs, maybe it was a question that could be researched on the internet, but well, i'll try getting a lightweight guitar with a fixed bridge like a squier strat since i bought a entry level schecter before and it felt uncomfortably heavy, and i think that disinspired me to play

Dude you get very accurate accounts, experiences, and opinions here. This is a forum, the integrity of which you'll find, speaks for itself. This is a good place for honest answers. Oh, and extra points to you for starting this is the "not worth it's own thread"... lol.

Back on topic... skunks.

We have this skunk family that comes thru our yard and sometimes up on our porch. It's a mom and her two offspring. We don't see mom anymore.. think she got hit. But the two now grown kids are still here.I've many times run into em coming around a corner or something like "Oh fuck.. hey dude. sup? please don't spray me". But more and more I find that we just kinda pass one another and they don't even flare their tails much anymore. Usually if I startle them they slam their little feetsies down like..Hmmph!". Cute as shit seriously. We love 'em and maintain a calm and respectable distance but they're so used to us now that they get a bit closer than I'm 100% comfortable with but whatever... skunks kick ass.

And venomous snakes... My wife was playing with em outside the other night. We had a nest of em hatch I dunno when, but I counted nine yesterday evening. They're in our main flowerbed in front of the house. But the thing is that these things are tiny and pretty much harmless to humans... I think almost any mammal. They use their venom to paralyze or break-down their prey which is like bugs... not even big bugs. So yeah.. Idk how I'd feel about most any other venomous snakes having a den close to the house but these little guys are really cool and very chill. Southern or southwestern black-headed snake fwiw.

 

[STRHelvete]

Last night I gave a sympathy handjob to a 35 year old closeted gay virgin African refugee because I felt sorry for him. It was over in less than a minute and he thought it was the greatest thing that ever happened to him.

There ya go, buddy....welcome to America. I'm gonna go wash my hands now.

 

[STRHelvete]

I love my new guitar tone so much I made it my ringtone. It even sounds good on a crappy phone speaker. Feels good, man.