PrairieDog

Yeah, I get what you are saying, all I was observing is those of us who know that x injury, or x musculoskeletal factors are causing our pain aren’t going to bother trying a diet as we understand that a diet is not going to alter structure and you can’t cure pain in general by just eliminating certain foods. Our nervous systems don’t respond like that, unless there is a real diet/immune system trigger going on. The PEMFT sounds a lot like a common TENS unit (I was one of the lucky early trials when I broke my hip. I was at the university where it was being developed and tested.) It was a god send and worked great to mask the pain my knees were giving me while I did the hip re-hab. I couldn’t walk across the room without a walker. she hooked me up and I sailed across the room and then danced a little jig. You can buy them at Walgreens/CVS/drug stores now for around 50 bucks. The only concern is they work so well you have to be careful and be well healed or monitor yourself. Otherwise you can end up reinjuring or aggravating the condition you are using it for, because you aren’t aware of the pain.

Whispering so the others don’t hear, “So, whatcha got there? I can’t make out the headstock, but it looks nice.”

The school was a bit of a circus, I handled it as best a small, nerdy, creative kid could. But it took me a couple decades to stop and wonder, “umm, where the heck was my mom while her crippled kid limped around for half a year?” Wry smile. Years before, when I was four, I was going septic from limping around for weeks on piece of sewing needle I stepped on that finally worked its way into the bone. Maybe she just thought “hey, kids limp?” Eye roll. The sadist she finally took me to, first tried to cut it out cold, no novocaine. I accidentally kicked him in the face when I yelled and recoiled from the searing pain. He swore and scolded me, “stop being a baby.” Finally took surgery under general anesthetic to get it out. Apparently, he still held that kick against me when my HMO booked me into his office 12 years later. His horrified nurse who witnessed his treatment of again a very painful appointment asked, after he left, if I wanted to file a complaint. I just got the hell out of there.

Nod, it happens. I have arthritis in both my knees that started in my twenties after I smashed my knee cap in Jr high and it was never treated. The wear and tear from dragging the non-functional leg around for six months took out my good knee. When I broke my hip at 33, the doc recommended I have both knees replaced when she saw how they couldn’t handle the hip PT. If I had done it back then, I’d be on my second set of replacements. I’m still hanging on with the original equipment. My career is a physical job that requires a lot of repetitive crouching. One job, the gal working next to me finally asked to be moved because she couldn’t handle the ripping/tearing noises my knees make with every stoop. I have the left thumb arthritis from a joint break that got treated too late, again jr. high. Doc told me at the time it would eventually go arthritic by 40-50 unless I had it re-broken and reset and even then he couldn’t guarantee anything. I chose not to, as after all, at 13, that was so far off I expected to be dead by then, chuckle. Add on just the normal wearing out everything else, and yeah, it’s a hoot growing old. Really hope your helps keep helping. So far, I manage with mind tricks, and gritting my teeth, eye roll.

Well, probably because there are huge differences in joint pain and their causes. Diet may help with inflammatory related pain, where the joint is otherwise intact, but something is angering it, like an auto-immune disease. Chronic inflammation can lead to permanent damage, so yeah, you want to tamp that down before it gets to that point. However diet can’t do diddly for structural causes like lost cartilage, misalignment, bone spurs, connective tissue tears or mis-healed breaks. All the carrot juice in the world won’t set a broken leg straight, chuckle.

Really nice! And yeah, Inquiring minds want to know, “where’s the mic?”

Way to go! I found my online banjo program had “Musette in D” by Bach. One of the first things I learned on piano. Of course I had to try to pluck it out. The circle closes 60 years later 🤣

The app store details should list the available languages. As far as plans for Polish, you’d need to write Gibson. My understanding is Gibson staff no long monitor this board with any regularity.

Thanks, nod. It’s often on the tip of my tongue but when the time is right, ie not at a big holiday gathering, which is the only time we see them now. I figure the topic will come up at a proper moment, when she can actually process it, and not just get defensive. Anyway, they’re the other half’s family so I gotta be big and smile along. But yeah, I sure wouldn’t be wasting anytime with them otherwise.

Okay, thanks, that was what I always assumed, but I’m still new to “real” guitars, so I’m always nervous I’m missing some symptom I should worry about. Probably stems from the time my buddy in high school , the local gearhead, told me I could ignore the oil light lighting up my dash in my 72 Dodge Dart Slant 6. Just put a quart in occasionally. I drove around for months with a quart of oil in the case 😆 A testament to those indestructible engines that the car lot guy didn’t believe I drove it in myself, no tow truck involved. Okay I didn’t drive it in fast, but I got it there under its own power. Traded it for an even faster souped up Toyota SR5 that I had no idea had been rejiggered for racing. Man that thing was a rocket off the stop light! 🤣 But in the middle of the gas crisis it sure drained my wallet. Got like 7 miles to the gallon, but they sure were some FAST seven miles.

Hey, that’s great! Looks like they have updated the design. Sleek. I still have and use the one my brother gave me 50 some years ago. Still can’t close it without pinching my finger though 😆

yeah, it was probably tmi. Just trying to describe what it has been like dealing with this pair of emotionally indulged, undisciplined kids. We don’t have any, so when they were born we had hopes, you know. Being older and kidless, we are fortunate to have some play money to help with anything they wanted, not that their parents don’t take good care of them, we just can easily handle special extras. The mom lets us know what the desire of the moment is and we usually can make it happen. We just want to have a connection and maybe be a fun memory in their lives. We want to make all their dreams come true. (Okay, “thank you” is not an expectation, it’s just basic manners.) But the kids couldn’t care less about us. The parents are oblivious to their behavior, and rarely guide them to be kinder or more gracious. The girl openly displays her distaste to the point she has pointedly turned her back when I try to chat with her. Seriously, one time the topic was going to be about setting her up with a horse and riding lessons for the summer being at that tween-girl horse obsessed stage. She was so over the top rude, there was no engaging her, even her mom tried to cajole her to talk to me, knowing what was afoot. Faced with her pronounced disinterest, we finally lost enthusiasm for the project and didn’t pursue it any further. She never knew she coulda had that pony every kid wants, chuckle. Being the adults in the room we know it’s our job to be big people hoping they will outgrow their self-centeredness, so we take the emotional blows in stride when they deal them out. (Okay, there will be venting on the car ride home.) It’s just they are the only next generation relatives, I have no family on my side, and time is growing shorter to get to know them and be a part of helping them along. Right now, it’s looking like they may be disappointed when the will is read and the Humane Society ends up with a bigger share (half joking).

Hey, newbie question, what is an “undesirable ping sound from the B groove area?” I hear that all the time when I’m tuning my DIF. I assumed it was just the string adjusting and figured “physics”, but now I’m wondering if it is something I need to be worried about or fix?

😄 I gotta Possum, a Pisgah Possum, (banjo, baby!) Okay, to get some guitar points, does it help I bought my spouse a 1934 National Duolian square-neck for birthday/Christmas? ☺️

I waded through the whole 9 page thread on the other forum and about 6 pages in the Poster has already admitted it must be a fake and asked for his money back.

You can say that again… weird is the polite word. Hey, speaking of thoughtful personal presents, how did your handmade leather fobs/etc go over?

Just last week I signed up for imgur. You upload your pictures from your device there, then there are links with a copy button along the side that you paste in your post in the forum. I usually have to try several before I hit the right one that shows the photo. Make sure down at the bottom of the imgur page the size is “original” rather than one of the thumbnail versions. If you go to the top of the general forum here, I think there is also a pinned post that talks about how to post pics.

Well, the gloriously green guitar is going to the 14 yo niece. We didn’t do it for Christmas because we would have violated “gift value parity” with her brother, but we showed a pic of it to her and her eyes did light up and she gave us a little half smile and nearly a head nod when we asked if she would like it. Which equates to a huge acknowledgement we might have finally scored some points with her. For years we have sat while she (and her brother) literally has thrown our presents over her shoulder after unwrapping them without even looking at us. Between them, in 17 years we have yet to receive an unparental-prompted “thank you” for anything we’ve given: xmas, birthdays, out of the blue surprises. Anyway, it looks like she might enjoy the guitar, so we will deliver it later this week. Maybe next year we will get a thank you for a Christmas gift. After yesterday, we’re still batting zero. And who knows, maybe I can trade for the beautiful lap harp/zither I had made for her years ago when she said she wanted to learn to music that just got pitched aside, nearly stepped on, and never played.

Happy New Year, y’all. It’s been fun spending part of this last one with you and looking to more good times ahead!

Well, the guitar is probably is wondering, “What the heck was that?” and is glad to be back home, chuckle. Seriously, I am currently in love with our unexpected used 2019 Taylor Ltd Sinker 714ce we weren’t looking for, but just fell into. I can’t believe the sound that comes out of it. I was not a Taylor fan until this year. They can make some incredible instruments. My DIF, who is used to being queen bee, is getting a bit miffed with all the attention directed at the new kid.

Didn’t he try to use a silicon based product on a nitro finish? I hope someone else who knows chimes in, but it seemed the consensus was plain old mineral spirits type was the way to go. I’m curious if anyone has a problem with the Gibson branded version? I know it’s a huge mark up over the pennies for a can at the hardware store but I got a bottle along with my first guitar from GC. I’ve been using it occasionally with no problems. But I notice no one ever mentions it.

I don’t have any checked guitars (yet, chuckle) but assuming they are like other old wood products with broken finishes (that I do know something about) the most important thing to remember is to put the cleaner/polish lightly ON THE CLOTH! Never spray right on your target where the wet can get down into the tiny cracks and lift them. Put up some pics, inquiring minds want to admire 🙂

Congratulations on the new guitar, sounds like a good one! And fwiw, I’m glad you asked. I’d like to know too for when the comes and I need to know. The search engine here is so difficult with the silly time limits on retrying if you don’t get your answer on the first hit, I don’t begrudge anyone asking questions that may have been answered before. I never can find anything.

Well, he’s a good lookin’ fellow. I gotta admit, being of that age, the first lick I’ve learned is the opening bars to Dueling Banjos. Lol. I need to get my rolls down to get the break mastered, but it had to be done. I have now gone back in correct order and am learning Cripple Creek just like every newbie is required to from what I can tell from all the online tutorials and “how to learn banjo” books. 😄

Okay to borrow another thread title: “you know you are getting old when” when reading “the jack hole was already drilled int the guitar from before I bought it 50 years ago” your first thought is, “why the heck would someone be drilling jack holes before there were electrified guitars?!” 😆 I know, I know….back for more coffee….