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Dec 31, 2023 14:06:01 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Dec 31, 2023 14:06:01 GMT -5
When we were in Yellowstone, a couple bus loads of Asian tourists unloaded at the Prismatic Springs. And several of them stepped off the boardwalk to get a close-up selfie with the springs.
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Dec 31, 2023 14:26:23 GMT -5
Post by John B on Dec 31, 2023 14:26:23 GMT -5
People don't understand that the ground around some of those thermal vents may not be real solid. Just because the vent opening is 10ft away doesn't mean there isn't boiling water 3" under your feet. It would be like dropping a live lobster into a pot of boiling water. I would like to visit Yellowstone but I would be fairly scared the whole time I was there. That place is a ticking time bomb of volcanic activity. When it does go off it will most likely be the biggest eruption since 536 AD. I really enjoyed visiting - on our trip out West, we spent most of our time in Yellowstone (vs. the Rockies, Grand Tetons, Glacier, etc.). As long as you stay on the boardwalks (which is really easy to do) you'll be fine, and there's a lot to see even if you're ridiculously out of shape like me (definitely like I was when I was there). Plus, if it blows when you're there you won't know it. I was tempted to pick up one of the big chunks of solid obsidian to bring back to Darryl, but (1) pretty sure I couldn't have lifted it - they were bigger than bowling balls and (2) pretty sure I would be arrested. Plus (3) it would be very wrong, and my conscience would wrack me until I undid my deed.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 1, 2024 21:24:57 GMT -5
Back to the main problem at hand: I thought I'd start sanding down the replacement nut for the Enya; getting ready to swap it out. So flipped the Enya on its side to see how easy it might be to remove the existing nut. . . . , and it's NOT ! In act the nut is not even a separate element. It's integrally formed with the entire synthetic neck itself. Hhhhhmmmm. Looks like that nut swap out is not going to happen. The only option would be to fill the existing slots with epoxy and black dust (Tusq material) and to refile the slots to my liking. Which means investing in nut files. And trying to grind up some black Tusq material as fillers. - Much more complicated than I'm interested in doing; all for about 1/16" more spacing across 6 strings. Oh well. I did slop some Bondo, some plastic wood filler, and some epoxy wood filler onto a sample board in the basement. I'll let that all cure for a day, and then I'll see how easy or difficult each would be to work with for the hex fill. In the mean time, I'll try playing out once more with the Enya UST and my NUX pedal and IR (probably Wed) to see if I even want to try any of this crazy undertaking.
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 1, 2024 22:43:39 GMT -5
Jeezum, Marshall you have a great J45. Stop fucking with it. Write more songs instead.
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Post by Marty on Jan 2, 2024 0:05:06 GMT -5
Back to the main problem at hand: I thought I'd start sanding down the replacement nut for the Enya; getting ready to swap it out. So flipped the Enya on its side to see how easy it might be to remove the existing nut. . . . , and it's NOT ! In act the nut is not even a separate element. It's integrally formed with the entire synthetic neck itself. Hhhhhmmmm. Looks like that nut swap out is not going to happen. The only option would be to fill the existing slots with epoxy and black dust (Tusq material) and to refile the slots to my liking. Which means investing in nut files. And trying to grind up some black Tusq material as fillers. - Much more complicated than I'm interested in doing; all for about 1/16" more spacing across 6 strings. Oh well. I did slop some Bondo, some plastic wood filler, and some epoxy wood filler onto a sample board in the basement. I'll let that all cure for a day, and then I'll see how easy or difficult each would be to work with for the hex fill. In the mean time, I'll try playing out once more with the Enya UST and my NUX pedal and IR (probably Wed) to see if I even want to try any of this crazy undertaking. Clean and slightly rough up the nut slots. Mix baking soda with a little powdered black aniline dye and fill the slots. Then hit them with thin superglue and cure. I'll do the mixing in a small container and add superglue to that but filling the slots becomes difficult and messy. I do this for chips in an ebony fingerboard, dang near inwizable. On bone nuts I just use the baking soda or bone dust. I get plastic shot glasses from the party supplies at a local store and just keep a short stack of them near my bench for mixing glue or touchup work. Good for mixing epoxy and aniline dye too. Never mix epoxy on a porous surface like paper or cardboard. It will absorb catalyst needed for curing the epoxy. Always mix on a non-porous surface.
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Post by drlj on Jan 2, 2024 11:01:41 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan starred in Bedtime for Bondo.
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Post by Dub on Jan 2, 2024 11:36:46 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan starred appeared in Bedtime for Bondo.
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Post by drlj on Jan 2, 2024 14:03:49 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan starred appeared in Bedtime for Bondo. True. I guess the chimp got top billing.
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Jan 3, 2024 7:29:19 GMT -5
Post by howard lee on Jan 3, 2024 7:29:19 GMT -5
True. I guess the chimp got top billing.
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Jan 3, 2024 11:22:26 GMT -5
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 3, 2024 11:22:26 GMT -5
Bonzo is running lines for Ronnie.
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Jan 3, 2024 11:48:01 GMT -5
Post by Dub on Jan 3, 2024 11:48:01 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan starred in Bedtime for Bondo. Am I the only one here who actually saw BTFB in a theater in 1951?
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Jan 3, 2024 13:49:27 GMT -5
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Post by coachdoc on Jan 3, 2024 13:49:27 GMT -5
Very likely. Sorry.
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Jan 4, 2024 14:28:46 GMT -5
Post by Marshall on Jan 4, 2024 14:28:46 GMT -5
Ronald Reagan starred in Bedtime for Bondo. Am I the only one here who actually saw BTFB in a theater in 1951? I was a couple years old at the time. I remember my parents would go to a drive-in movie on occasion and I would sleep in the back seat. But I don't remember any monkey movies. (I really don't remember any of the movies. Just the popcorn.)
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Jan 4, 2024 14:51:28 GMT -5
Post by Dub on Jan 4, 2024 14:51:28 GMT -5
Am I the only one here who actually saw BTFB in a theater in 1951? I was a couple years old at the time. I remember my parents would go to a drive-in movie on occasion and I would sleep in the back seat. But I don't remember any monkey movies. (I really don't remember any of the movies. Just the popcorn.) I was 9 years old at the time and one brother was 7. In those days of yore, it was considered safe to drop two such children off at a movie theater for a matinee show. At that age, we’d sometimes walk the mile to a neighborhood theater on Saturday afternoon to see an old Hopalong Cassidy movie and one reel of a serial such as Flash Gordon or Commander Cody. As I recall, the movie was a dime and a small box of popcorn was a nickel.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 4, 2024 16:52:43 GMT -5
Back to the main problem at hand: I did slop some Bondo, some plastic wood filler, and some epoxy wood filler onto a sample board in the basement. I'll let that all cure for a day, and then I'll see how easy or difficult each would be to work with for the hex fill. In the mean time, I'll try playing out once more with the Enya UST and my NUX pedal and IR (probably Wed) to see if I even want to try any of this crazy undertaking. I plugged the Enya pickup/preamp into my guitar amp at home. And got a very good sound out of it. And then I downloaded the Enya Music App on my phone and played with EQing the sound. It turned out quite good. So much so, that I'm considering foregoing any pickup re-work (including soundboard fillers). I'll have to take it out to a stage somewhere and see how it performs in the wild. But I might just keep the thing as is and remove my other pickup.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 5, 2024 11:52:14 GMT -5
The Enya with its UST did quite well at the open mic last night. A little edgy sounding. But quite workable. It's fun that I have an App that lets me do EQ thru blue-tooth with the built in preamp.
But I'm still leaning towards doing the bridgeplate fill, because the 2 different pickups won't physically interfere with each other, and I can do a true A & B comparison, and decide which is best.
Fun and games.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 8, 2024 11:35:32 GMT -5
Well, I did it. And it worked out quite well. Before picture Some masking before adding filler: Epoxy wood filler added. My hands are sore from all the awkward positioning to sand down the over-fill of epoxy to get it down to a flat surface. Hours of work. And the Skysonic SBT added. I just plugged it in and it sounded great through my Genzler amp. About as good of an outcome as I could hope for. Turns out when I plugged the SBT into the Mag way back at the start, I had plugged it into the jack upside down, so that might have been part of the reason the SBT didn't give a signal sitting on the hex plastic bridgeplate. Oh well. All's well that ends well. And this turned out great. A LOT of work. But worth it in the end.
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Jan 8, 2024 12:00:34 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Jan 8, 2024 12:00:34 GMT -5
Thank God for 3M I have some 3M sandpaper with a sticky back for use with machine sanders. I was able to cut off many, many little pieces and stick them to my fingers as I reached into the guitar to rub/sand down the overfill of epoxy filler. Very tedious work. But with patience, it worked quite fine.
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Jan 8, 2024 14:01:05 GMT -5
Post by david on Jan 8, 2024 14:01:05 GMT -5
Thank God for 3M I have some 3M sandpaper with a sticky back for use with machine sanders. I was able to cut off many, many little pieces and stick them to my fingers as I reached into the guitar to rub/sand down the overfill of epoxy filler. Very tedious work. But with patience, it worked quite fine. Sometimes corporations create good products. Sometimes the corporation produces them even though it is aware that the production is unhealthy: TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and a host of consumer products, the company said Thursday. Described as “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to a variety of health problems, including liver and immune-system damage and some cancers. apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-3m-drinking-water-81775af23d6aeae63533796b1a1d2cdb
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Jan 8, 2024 14:29:33 GMT -5
Post by Marty on Jan 8, 2024 14:29:33 GMT -5
Minnesota Mining & Manufactoring has so many products it is staggering. They are a major employer in Saint Paul and the main product development complex is not far from my place. Most of us use some sort of 3M product every day. Scotch Tape or cleaning pads, Post-It pads and tape, 3M abrasives.
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