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struma6

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About struma6

  • Birthday 12/21/1955

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  1. Saw him often years ago. He lived right near me, a few towns away, and played the colleges in the area quite a bit. Love his stuff. For years I suspected he was Frank Zappa in disguise. I have since sobered up.
  2. Do they still use that for label making?? That's a riot....I tossed an IBM Selectric. Should have sold it to Gibson!
  3. Would be nice to add you to the jam. e-mail me from my profile page

  4. This may not be the source of the problem but: The first time I changed the strings on my 'Bird I was all tuned up and ready to wail when I noticed the EXACT same saddle situation. When I loosened the strings and looked I realized what happened...while I was changing the strings (and wiping it down thoroughly) the saddle had dropped out. I had stuck it back in and strung up. The piezo strip under the saddle had twisted a bit and shimmed the saddle up, the little amount of the saddle still in the slot caused it to go off kilter. My bad, with a Dumas award given! Even if that weren't the case, it's a very small problem that Gibson would have no doubt remedied themselves if you had given them a chance. If your tech is Gibson certified he can get paid for the work by them. If he's NOT then it's your mistake there, should take it to the shop you got it at or contact Gibson. It would have been taken care of. Gibsons of today are FAR from "shoddy workmanship" but, as was said above, mistakes DO happen. You should have given them the chance to take care of it before coming to public forums and making such statements. IMO anyway.
  5. I used the double action truss rods from stew-mac in the electrics I built. Nice truss rods, actually. They did have a pvc sleeve over the rod so you didn't run into the glue freezing situation.
  6. bone top to bottom...I've used corian to nice results as well. for strings, NOTHING, to my ears or touch, comes close to thomastik infeld. The "Spetrum" set is monster on both my Bird and 165. For a "softer" feel on an older instrument (instead of silk and steels) check out the "Plectrum" sets. They're more expensive than most but they DO last me about 3X as long! For an arch-top...the Jazz sets seem to be preferred. (never tried them though so I can't speak from experiance. In the last year or so I've gone from the orange Tortex to a heavier purple...which I couldn't quote the thickness as I sit here. May be 2.0?
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