badbluesplayer

The 2018 models had the compound radius fretboard. It was at the end of the phase where they were changing the specs around every time somebody had a "better" idea. The problem is that the string radius varies from 10 in. at the nut to 12 in. at the bridge and the fretboard radius goes from 10 at the nut to 15 somewhere up the fretboard. The upshot is that the strings aren't at the same radius as the fretboard, so the strings are about one and a half 64ths of an inch out of radius at the 12th fret - the 3rd and 4th strings sit higher. And it's very noticeable on the higher frets. They missed geometry class, I guess.

👍👍 I sold a 2019 Les Paul on the Sweetwater used gear site. Everything worked out pretty well. It seems like it got pretty decent traffic. It took a month or so to sell. I reduced the price a hundred bucks a week or so. I sold it to a guy in Washington State. There was a 5% seller fee plus a 2.5% transaction fee. I think they waive the fees if you take a store credit instead of taking the cash. They use Hyperwallet to pay out. They hold the cash until the thing gets delivered on your first transaction. Sweetwater gets you a big savings on the shipping and insurance too. I paid like 40% of full price. Anyway, it worked out well. Maybe didn't get quite as much traffic as it would have on Reverb, but a little more seller friendly. I don't think I'd sell any gear on ebay any more. Here's the listing - https://www.sweetwater.com/used/listings/93597-used-gibson-gibson-les-paul-standard-2018-model-early-2019-production

Allparts has the kind with the flat top and curved bottom - https://reverb.com/item/14015696-allparts-humbucking-pickup-rings-curved-bottoms-cream

Bo -

Hercules makes these - You put the cases in between the yokes -

Dude. Where you been? You keep jumping lower and lower on the sensibility totem pole around here. Why not dig a hole and jump under the footings. One thing northeners are really stupid about is how ingrained that garbage is in southern society. You hear that stuff every day in TN. This is not the place to move if you're, well, you know. Like they told me when I moved here, it's n*****s, j**s and Yankees. N*****s, j**s and Yankees.

Hey Surf! Nice to have you back. I just use the knobs that come on the guitar. I don't go by numbers. It's either all the way off, all the way on or backed off a hair.

I got some Dunkin Donuts coffee beans and noticed that they used at least two different kinds of beans. So I started mixing different beans and now I use 5 parts 8 O'Clock Columbian to 4 parts Sam's Club Columbian beans. I mix all the beans up in a bag and put them in the grinder. Mmmm.

Yay, Gibson!

I made a Klon kit. Eighty bucks or something. It looks good in my box of pedal kits that I made and don't use.

I run a Mr. Coffee burr grinder into either a Bunn-o-Matic or the new Crackuccino machine my wife gave me. Drink three double Cracks and you'll be up awhile....

My wife went to the Orange Peel for that Margaret Cho show the other week. Cho said something like "I hope there's no gay people in here!!!" and the place was going wild, with 'em humping the curtains and licking stuff. And she's like "Yeah, and shout out to the straight people too." and everybody's laughing. She goes "If there was a dyke on that submarine they'da never died 'cause she'd have the boots and the cargo shorts and whip out her multi-tool and fix everything." Something like that.

Remember when Craftsman would have the deals where you could buy a whole set of wrenches or whatever for really cheap? Like a hundred bucks for like 48 wrenches or something. 11 screwdrivers for $19.99 or whatever. That's how I got most of that kind of stuff.

I went to top off the power steering fluid in my wife's '18 Forester and it has electronic steering. No fluid, no steering gears, no nothing. The thing steers each wheel independently. When I accidentially pushed the lane maintainer button thingy, the thing was steering all over the place. When the thing got next to a truck, it got scared and jerked the wheels around a little.

It was an SK brand, which was good stuff, but it never worked that great. You had to pry the sockets off it with a screwdriver. I got sick of that. Made me grumpy. I picked up a new one with the angle thingy and the senior-friendly socket ejector button at Ace Hardware.

I have the 61R & T pickups in my SG. They're kind of hot and a little trebly. My bridge pickup is at about 2.5 mm on both sides, pretty level with the strings. My neck pickup is at 3.5 mm and 3.0 mm. Just a little closer on the treble side. They're not super articulate sounding. More of a chunky, creamy sound. I like them backed off a little to a lower height.

I think it was being used in 1959, just in countertops, not fingerboards. If they still called it Formica, it might go over really well on some retro Fenders with the car-based colors, no? They had to call it Richlite, like, because, hey, I want to be rich and light...

Mo and Bo -

Two new boy kitties! No names yet. #1 - #2 -

Got it pretty bad here in East TN today.

I have friends who are police. I've have clients - people who come to me for professional advice - who are cops. Surely more than anybody on here, lol. So go ahead, make my day!

Sorry to hear that.

Lighten up, Francis. Cops are fine. So are you. And the lot of you can be PITA's, and that's the point. You pose like them?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnndddddd here's where I ditch the pull-brights and stick a 47p cap on the bright channel. That sounds good for the bright channel. Ditched the grounding bar. It was making some kind of slight oscillation at times and I figured it was the pull brights that were picking up something. Prob too close to the board.