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The guitar with the bare pickups looks cool but with those covers (been said a lot on this thread) it is so cool. So cool.

Very sad, condolences. Pancreatic cancer is such a bad actor. My dad died 32 days after his diagnosis in 1988.

Wow you dog. Congrats. I want one too, seriously. In fact every time you get a guitar I decide I want one. Pretty creepy huh.

8 electrics 2 acoustic Drum roll.......1 amp - Tone King Imperial 2 Combo. Technically 10:1

I completely remember Michael Hedges from the 1980s when I was in school and listened to Windham Hills artists, he was one. Aerial Boundaries was a classic in my collection. I still love it. This guy reminds me of him big time in a good way.

scribing awl, radiused caul , brad point....... You've got the terminology down. Impressive job you are doing, very pro. Going to be fantastic.

Really beautiful. I visited a St. Marys near Leeds. Had the same overall feel and I bet it had a yew tree.

Congrats M-E for averting the overwhelming desire. You didn't fall into learned helplessness and give in. I, on the other hand, have figured out a way to get away with getting a new one but not make it look like I am. I'm slowly ordering Warmoth parts. Nearly done with a chambered zebrawood on mahogany stratocaster that will get Kinman pickups and a raw goncalo alves neck. I think my wife is just pretending to not notice what I am up to.

Thanks M-E. Just kind of happened and I was glad I had my phone. I can tell you in one word: food.

The moon, the setting sun and a b!tch all in one panoramic. 5 minutes later. She really likes to look out into the valley when the sun is setting. Pretty much every night.

Very impressive Dub! Please let me supply the strap when it's done, it would be my pleasure.😃

I've adopted a positive attitude (especially with an antidepressant on board). Btw I am going to go through a course of TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation). Drug free treatment that my wife is an expert in. Here is this morning 10/22/20 or for the non American world: 22/10/20. Continuing to dig the holes for foundation stabilization. The contractor told me the foundation will be complete next week.

Thanks Karloff. You are exactly right though and that is a great (necessary actually) way to reframe it. Cheers!

Here is a drone photo of the property after the fire. LA county used this photo to tell us that we had an unpermitted building on the property that has to be destroyed (the concrete bunker that actually survived). The destroyed building at the top of the photo next to the old driveway was our house. We rebuilt the driveway and here is the photo I think you may be referring to? btw these checkered types of driveways may look cool but they are a pain on many levels.

We're hoping for a gusher. Black gold, Texas tea. Wouldn't that be cool. Pay for the whole damn thing and a Les Paul shaped lap pool!

Building began last night. Brought this massive drill up to our place to drill 19 holes for rebar and concrete footings to stabilize the foundation. An engineer made a mistake in the report to the state which placed us in a serious review that resulted in us having to build like it was the empire state building. Oh well, at least it is started. 🙉

You are spot on. Different story if it was their house. Laws get passed when things inconvenience lawmakers right? Thanks M-E. Finally turning a corner. Attitude is getting better We were so spent and living in the learned helplessness narrative when that happened. Still in a state of disbelief honestly. Thanks Todd, Next time you're around please stop by. Hopefully we can show you a frame! With a glass of wine. Thanks RCT. Moving on is now the goal. I'm looking forward to starting a thread actually about guitars and not this. I see it in the near future. :-)

You'd think, I agree with you. Is it just me or is it really something that has gotten much worse in the last 10 years or so? I've been in CA for close to 30 years now . Maybe it's because it directly affected us that I think that. What part of Sacramento? I used to live in the Bay Area and would drive through Sac all the time in Winter. We would stop past you in Auburn and eat at Cafe Delicious. My daughter called it a "tradition". Mandatory.

Thanks so much Kelly. How have you been?

I love that idea (Firebird) and as happy as she is right now I could probably slip it by! I'll post photos. Right now it is a semi excavated plot from the demo. A lot of dog poop which I need to clean up this weekend. I'm actually looking forward to it. Thanks jdgm! My resolve is dissolving quickly. I was going to wait until the 26th (trying to do a month at a time) but what the hey, I think you're right!

1977 Arkansas 2011 a birthday party. Zebrawood Strat

About a hundred miles. Luckily there is a lack of fuel at our place so we should be somewhat protected but maybe not. Apparently the current fire is the largest in L.A. County history.

Not guitar related and not the center of anyone's universe except me and my wife. It's been 709.047548 days since the fire, that I've complained about on this forum, that took our material possessions (most of them anyway) - L.A. County's Woolsey Fire of November 9th, 2018. Trying to get a permit has been pure hell. The last year and 11 months have certainly been stressful. Fire rebuilds were supposed to be expedited. 709 days seems long to me. A ban on gading (first step to building a house) goes into effect Thursday 10/15/20 and is in effect until April 15th, 2021 (rainy season in California). If we didn't get our permit by noon today we would have had to wait until April to start because of the time it takes to get it done. Apparently they are very strict in enforcing the ban. Since about last summer, I have been experiencing the psychological phenomenon of "Learned Helplessness". I'm the electrically shocked dog in the experiment. If not familiar, look it up, not kidding. Antidepressants are a good thing, at least temporarily. One county official, a woman supervisor that bonded with my wife, took us under her wings and got it done at the last minute even though she was off today. We got the permit at 10:02 A.M. (the math at the beginning of the post should be pretty close). Psychologically I feel like a balloon that was filled to capacity and let go. Why am I posting here? I don't do other social media (not a judgment on anyone but me). btw still not drinking although I thought about it for tonight but am working until 9 so the wife unit and I are going to forgo. Cheers anyway, Phillip btw Milod (RIP) taught me to space any long post so people will read it. He was in the journalism business.

I was playing in a band (late high school) when I heard the first album. The other guitar player called me up and said hey I have this new album I'll bring to the lake (weekend trip). You gotta hear this guy. We were constantly b!tching about disco which we played a lot of because that was popular. Listening to something new and not Lynryd Skynard or Molly Catsh!t was pretty damn exciting. We had a portable record player and he said listen to this (Eruption). We were both speechless (and clueless). Thus began an era. It's been very sad to think about his death not only because it was him, an icon guitar player, but also selfishly because it means the passing of another era associated with my youth. RIP Eddy

It's the whole reason why we didn't just say screw it and move on after the fire (as well as we would be completely upside down on the mortgage). 😠 Thanks for asking jdgm.