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retrosurfer1959

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  1. I jave a McCarty, a lawsuit single cut and a custom 24. All good guitars a pleasure to play and own Edit - should read pre lawsuit single cut
  2. Action Needs a Audience - Jimmy Eat World
  3. Nice work I enjoyed reading through all of these since i have not been on here in quite a while.
  4. Two comments first why the hell would anyone put a magnet on a guitar pickup in the first place? Then secondly I'm not buying it - why would putting a magnetic on a guitar pickup ruin it? a Tele don't have active pickups so you could not have damaged anything electronic so what would it damage? It won't play right with a magnet there that's for dam sure but as soon as you removed the magnets the guitar should play fine again. The only way you could damage the pickup is if you magnetized the metal case by leaving a really strong magnet there long enough to magnetize some metal component and at worse you would have to degauss the pickup. Or if you had a really strong magnet like and electromagnet that could demagnetize the pickups own magnets but that would take a pretty good sized magnet. More likely you magnetized the strings which can happen easily but that's a simple fix change the strings. I know that because if you fool around enough with a ebow or other electronic magnetic toy you magnetize the strings, not ruin the pickup. Ive kept stack's of telecaster pickups in a shoe box stuck together for years and they work just fine. So somebody please explain how they think this could ruin a passive pickup. I was sure enough about this I just stuck a magnet onto my tele and played it as suspect sounded like total crap with the field distorted pulled the magnet off and the guitar was fine no issue at all, somebody need to send this to the Mythbusters TV show. Ive found that unless you try taking them apart of you damage the windings in some way guitar pickups are tough. Ive literally found old ones in luthiers junk drawers covered in all sorts of crap with screws and other stuff stuck all over the megnets and it the cases are in tact pull the stuff off clean em up and they work fine usually when a pickup is damaged it's because somebody was trying to work on it or something like that.
  5. Estrada acoustic low end asian made but usually sound all right. good beater to drag around to classes or pass it on to a kid somewhere that wants to learn

  6. Warren Haynes new album "Man in Motion" it was released on may 10th.
  7. How about a Pro there still a Traditional?
  8. My wife is like that a Benadryle or Excedrin pm. and she's out. I can take Ambien CR a prescription muscle relaxer and a painkiller and not even feel it. Guess I might of had a few too many controlled substances in me over the years. Probably a good side to it though just like everything in life - just think I don't need to donate blood anymore, now my blood has street value
  9. Sleep depravation and insomnia are very common in todays complex world where physical exhaustion from work is almost gone. I had a sleep specialist tell me that almost everybody has issues sleeping sometimes how often it occurs and how long it lasts is what determines if it's a problem or not. The doctor told me that only kids and idiots never have trouble sleeping. So for those that said they never have problems well let's just hope your young
  10. I typically post on here between midnight and 4am so I obviously haven't beaten insomnia in fact it's pretty much whupped my butt for years. I usually sleep 2-3 hours a day and that's with Ambien CR, Muscle relaxers, anti crazy pills and pain meds.
  11. Hey Dave the Vodoo weighs in at 8lbs 7oz according to a digital luggage scale which isn't too bad for a solid body even if it is swamp ash.

  12. Yep it's mine i got it a few years back on a trade it was unplayed - I don't remember thinking it was overly heavy but I play a couple heavy guitars my recording model is almost 13 pounds. I'll throw it on a scale and get a weight on it tommorrow.

  13. I don't think she deserves to be made fun of just because she is McDonalds challenged maybe she has a beautiful inner person. Although I wonder if she got counted as two people in the 100 most beautiful list just to be fair you know.
  14. Because we can? This question and the pickguard on or off are kind of like dividing by zero...
  15. Honestly don't care at all which one I get I divide pop into brown pop (Coke, Pepsi, rootbeer etc.) and clear pop (Seven-up, Sprite, Mountain Dew)
  16. I'll come back to this post later when I'm not sober it might clarify the message?
  17. Gorgeous guitar - love the Ebony top on a natural body and I would have guessed that I would have thought I would hate it from a description or thinking about it. Overall it's clean and nice looking a real keeper.
  18. Lot's of good advice here stay focused and work hard but have fun they are both important. A GPA of 3.6 and a 28 is a pretty good score (since 20 is the 50% mark) but will that get you into the school and program you want to attend? colleges are getting more competitive all the time and they want a median score there proud to post, you can research the median scores of current classes and see where you stand. It always helps to really stand out in some way so make sure your score is substantial in the critical area's you plan on studying. I ended up taking the ACT and SAT several times based on the scores I wanted and needed for acceptance. Good Luck.
  19. Is it a new guitar or new case where the glue could be uncured or ??? I've never seen that in recent cases I had seen older cases bleed color if wet especially the pink cases onto light colored guitars but not what your describing.
  20. Gotta agree with Surfpup looks like a Cortez but theres a million no name like that floating around...
  21. I guess I don't move fast enough to build up all that static. never had that issue at least not sober when I pick my feet up Don't play n wool socks? If shielding doesn't work maybe a static strap could be hooked ti the pick-guard, don't know if it would help but it's a hell of fashion statement. :D/ Sorry I know sarcasm doesn't help I just couldn't help it with this question, guess it was just shocking!
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