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Post by PistolPete on Jan 18, 2023 10:46:44 GMT
Speaking as a tinkerer, not a luthier or a guitar tech, it should be a pretty straightforward job - certainly something I'd be happy to do myself.
I'm pretty sure both come as complete units, so it would be a matter of unscrewing the existing jack socket, unclipping the battery attachment, taking the saddle out and threading the UST back through the pinhole at the side of the bridge then pulling the whole pickup system out through the soundhole.
Then you'd just need to install the rare earth blend according to the instructions, using the existing hole for the jack socket. You might need to put a shim under the saddle to make up for the loss of height from taking the UST out.
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 17, 2023 14:52:47 GMT
I had a Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry LP, they were on one side and Lightnin' Hopkins was on the other. I didn't know much about music then and I think I bought it to see what all the fuss was about blues. I know I played it a lot - just because I really enjoyed listening to it. When you come to think about it, those runs that sounded like pure improvisation Brownie McGhee would do were technically really good - he was a really good guitar player. And Sonny Terry is recognised as one of the best country blues harmonica players - no wonder I enjoyed it and listened to it a lot. On the other side Lightnin Hopkins sang about 'white wall tyres'. I wondered what they looked like for what must have been a long time - simple pleasures I don't know if you've come across it, but there is a rather wonderful album of Lightnin' playing with Sonny Terry accompanying him - Last Night Blues
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 17, 2023 9:34:02 GMT
Well I really like it, couldn't give a monkeys about others subjective opinions No need to get shirty. I wasn't offering *my* opinion of the album, which I don't own, but relating what I thought was a mildly amusing story about debating it online with someone who turned out to be EC himself, then offering my own recommendation for something related. Other people's highly subjective opinions are are a great way to discover and explore music, which is rather the point of this thread.
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 16, 2023 19:35:02 GMT
Very glad you're enjoying it shez . minorkey as I recall Me & Mr Johnson was not well-regarded amount the internet blues community when it came out - too sterile was the general feeling. I remember being in a fierce debate on one forum about its merits and someone posting as "slowhand" came to its defence. A couple of days later EC gave us all a shout-out from the stage, which rather gave away slowhand's real identity. He did a DVD just afterwards called Sessions for Robert J which came with a CD of them doing a load of it live, which I thought was great, but then I'm generally a fan of leaving the rough edges in when it comes to music.
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 6, 2023 0:25:32 GMT
Uncle Roger holds a (predictably?) alternative opinion on the subject of fingerboard treatments; he maintains that Lemon Oil is not suitable as some versions are rather acidic, and uses teak oil instead. I have no idea what might be in teak oil, but make of that what you will. I haven’t tried it yet. I know from my (very) amateur woodworking experience that teak oil is usually mineral oil & paint thinners, plus some linseed and/or tung oil. It's usually only recommended for outdoor applications like garden furniture, I would guess because the solvents evaporating as it cures can be pretty intense for quite a while. It is very good at penetrating into hardwood, which might be why someone would consider it more beneficial to a fingerboard than other options. Personally I'm of the opinion that something that says "ideal for outdoor furniture" on the bottle is less likely to be guitar-safe than something that says "ideal for treating guitar fingerboards", but who knows, maybe I'm missing an extremely cost effective trick.
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 6, 2023 0:11:57 GMT
WD40 might clean your fingerboard, but it won't lubricate it and has plenty of solvent chemicals in it that probably aren't very helpful for the wood. Personally, I wouldn't take it any where near any of my guitars. I use Fret Doctor. It's not cheap but you only need a couple of drops very irregularly. 100% WD40 isn't even a lubricant, it's a water displacement chemical (hence the WD in the name). It was developed originally to stop ice forming on the sides of rockets, and was also rumoured to have been used by NASA to stop ice forming on the early space exploration rockets. Not a chance I'd have it anywhere near my guitars !!! I did say I haven't tried it - using it to refill Fast Fret applicators is just a thing a musician in a public house once told me they did. When I think of all the stuff musicians have told me in public houses over the years, it puts the reliability of such information into perspective (Other pieces of advice from musicians I have also not followed included curing cancer with cider vinegar, soaking harmonicas in beer, drinking my own urine, "you can't play the blues sober" etc etc)
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Post by PistolPete on Jan 4, 2023 13:05:04 GMT
I have a couple of Gravity stands and they seem very well made. Although I'm still using a mic stand I got for less than a tenner in Maplins 15-odd years ago at most gigs, so my benchmark may be quite low.
For a heavy condenser mic, I would tend to use a solid metal-based stand as they are much less prone to wobbling over - in fact the need for a solid-based stand for recording mics is what led me to start buying Gravity stands in the first place.
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 28, 2022 19:43:03 GMT
RL Burnside "Come On In". 1998. He famously said on conviction for murder “I didn’t mean to kill nobody. I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.” Some of his personality comes through in the music. R. L. is pretty much the reason I play guitar. Not sure I'd describe "Come On In" as acoustic though, what with all the Tom Rothrock electronic remixes! "1st Recordings", "Mississippi Hill Country Blues" & "Acoustic Stories" are probably the best places to hear him with an acoustic guitar. "Burnside on Burnside" is (IMHO) the greatest album ever recorded, but is all out electric with R.L. & Kenny Brown tearing it up.
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 28, 2022 19:30:57 GMT
I've heard tales of WD40 and Johnson's Baby oil being used as they are both mineral-oil based, although I haven't tried either of them (nor have I tried Fast Fret for that matter). At one time I used to de-grease the strings with a baby wipe every so often, but I've fallen out of that habit over the years, and can't really see any difference in the lifespan I get using nothing except the occasional once-over with a microfibre cloth.
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 15, 2022 14:08:06 GMT
I've come to the conclusion that resonators are not cold weather guitars, not for me at least. Like many other people we've turned the heating down a few degrees, and it isn't that comfortable playing a freezing cold lump of steel! They aren't ideal for playing in shorts either - the icy kiss of steel on a bare leg is something of a shock even in summer
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 15, 2022 14:04:06 GMT
Can't wait to see the video. Me neither - and I'm supposed to be in it!
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 15, 2022 14:03:39 GMT
The Jimmy Anderson of song-writing I'm going to say thank you for the compliment and pretend I didn't have to Google who Jimmy Anderson is to understand it 🏏
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 15, 2022 14:01:06 GMT
I may have shared this before but one of my favourite Christmas albums is Christmas On Big Island by The Blue Hawaiians. It features many of your favourite Christmas classics - performed in the style of an early 60s surf guitar group.
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 9, 2022 14:11:36 GMT
A friend asked me to write a song about dinosaurs, so I decided to make him do it 😉
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Post by PistolPete on Dec 7, 2022 16:19:40 GMT
I bought this CD when it came out, John Miller was involved its fruition. It really is an important release, as well as being a great album. I hadn't heard that - I know Gayle Dean Wardlow made the original recordings
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