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Sort of hard to forget with people constantly reminding us. 😀 Also hard to forget that the procedure Chauvin used was approved by the Minneapolis PD, and that was why the city paid out $27 million to Floyd's family a couple of days before Chauvin's trial began.
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Strings - consider looking for a cheap, used acoustic at Guitar Center. The first step to recovery is the hardest. Having a guitar, if you have the time, might fill that hole you feel inside. Lots of 'how to' guitar lessons on the internet that weren't there in the 80s to speed you along. G'Luck.
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Sweet. You'll love it ! Might have been priced based on being a lefty?
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Millions excitedly plan to watch something "turn off"
fortyearspickn replied to Sheepdog1969's topic in The Gibson Lounge
Yep. Been through a couple of near misses - but aa Total in the late 60s on the Virginia. coast. "Is that all there is?" comes to mind. BPP - if the sun gets in front of the moon, I think we'll need something more than special viewing glasses. -
Millions excitedly plan to watch something "turn off"
fortyearspickn replied to Sheepdog1969's topic in The Gibson Lounge
SOME political hacks!? You’re being too charitable! Will the bats under the bridge think it’s nighttime and fly out? Maybe they’ll get ahold of some of those politicians! -
Agree. Paper, or card stock would not transfer sound, very well at all, I think. i've got shims that appear to be made out of those extremely thin 'gift cards' and similar plastic cards that sometimes come in the mail attached to a letter with a blob of glue. But, I opted to just get a new saddle and fit it. Costs only a little more from the same source!
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Yep - I manually pick weeds only. Three dogs who occasionally eat grass, I don't want to kill them. Not even risk just getting herbicides on their paws. I read they can only regulate their body temps by panting (tongue) or through their paws. Plus, of course, they lick their paws. Last year I had a small invasion of rye grass, complements of a neighbor, and spent hours picking it. But it seeds real fast and, altho I got 90% of it - it's clear it lay in wait for 3 seasons to comeback 10x stronger. Back to bugs - 15 years ago at my sons low income student apartment in Waco - they had an invasion of crickets. Those little suckers stink too. There were literally millions of them.
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Flora, not Fauna - but for the first time in 11 years, our yard has been overwhelmed by weeds. Mostly rye grass, but a dozen other types. I've kept the front clear - but the back looks like a shyte-storm.
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I would not kick that one out of bed for eating cookies. Would hope the face, given the small burst, has some depth to the grain though - some translucence. Otherwise - it is different enough from my wee three guitars - to really give me something new and exciting. But, as with ZW I'm in new guitar exile.
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Alfred E. Neuman
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I think because you can't take shortcuts when making a musical instrument. If you're more interested in Sales Volume and Margins than leaving a 'legacy' - you'll build the guitar differently.
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You know you are getting old when........
fortyearspickn replied to Rabs's topic in The Gibson Lounge
.... and can't remember half of them by the time you finish your coffee. -
After centuries, devolving from the 'First Guitar' which was probably in Spain and probably had nylon (catgut) strings - professionals who play Classical (or it's evil twin Flamenco) would probably cringe at being called 'finger pickers'. They've tweaked and enhanced their 'Classical' guitars to something foreign to what we generally think of - take a J45 for example. The strings are REALLY far apart and there is no fretboard radius. Often different woods top, back and sides. Even hold them weird. So, in the context of someone starting out on the road to fingerpicking, I think there is a wide range of acceptability between a Classical guitar and a steel string guitar. If, and when you get to the point you need and want and deserve an upgrade so you can play - IE. fingerpick- better, you'll probably know what you want. You might see a video of Molly Tuttle or Billy Strings and take a 180 !
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I represent that !
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Not sure what 'getting it fixed' would entail in AUS. But, for me, if it were covered by warranty and I didn't have to ship it - I'd get it fixed. If those didn't apply - I'd get a very small 'artist' paint brush with 4 bristles and a little bit of brown paint, so I wouldn't see it every time I picked it up.