Welcome! I will enjoy hearing about and hopefully seeing pics of your project(s). You should be able to find a lot of good practical help here.
Hello all
My name is navvid (aka nick), I study astrophysics at SF State U, and guitars are better than women. If you are reading this and you are a beutiful red head, I retract my statement. But I digress...
First amongst my beloved ladies is my 87 MIJ 3 tone strat. I also have an 80's Ibanez RG (also nippon) and a korean fender acoustic. My amp is a Marshall TSL100 and a 1960A cab.
I got on this forum looking for help solid modeling a Strat for my first lutherie project. I am using a friends MIJ lefty strat to make a template so I can build a lefty and string it righty. Obviously, I am a Hendrix fan. Greatest guitarist of all time, followed very closely and sometimes overtaken by SRV.
I am an amature machinist, I modify and upgrade electronics and I believe that one of the biggest problems with the world today is there are not enough skilled craftsman.
I am glad to be here.
Welcome! I will enjoy hearing about and hopefully seeing pics of your project(s). You should be able to find a lot of good practical help here.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
Welcome, Nick! I think you are our first astrophysicist here at TheFret! So does that make your favorite Hendrix tune Third Stone from the Sun?
Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes....
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welcome Nick....this is a great forum....i think you will like it here....
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Guitars: Gibson 1998 Les Paul Special : Peavey Predator (Early 90's Fat Strat Copy) : Ibanez GAX30TROriginally Posted by just strum
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Hey Nick
Welcome aboard.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Welcome Nick, good to have you here!
The Law of Gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.
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Hi Nick,
Welcome to the Fret Net. I remember the solder articles that most likely got you here. We discuss many topics here at the Fret Net. Some are guitar related, others are not. Hence the Open Mic category.
Guitars:
Electric: Washburn HB-30, Squier Tele Custom Deluxe, Jay Turser Strat.
Acoustic: Seagull S6.
AMPs: VOX AD30VT, Peavey Envoy 110.
Modelers: V-AMP 2, Digitech RP-100A.
Pedals: Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, Digitech Bad Monkey, Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo, DOD VFX40B 7-Band Graphic EQ, Ibanez CS-5 Super Chorus.
Welcome Nick, looking forward to hear what you have to say.
Welcome Nick!
Looking forward to hearing some triple super lead! Fantastic sounding amps!
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
Welcome Nick! You are right about..... the lack of craftsmen - that's because no one teaches kids to work with their hands anymore. In our high-tech world it is seen as valueless, and besides, there's always a machine to do that (whatever) somewhere, right? Right?! Or if not, just throw it away - it's not worth fixing. Don't get me going!
Now as to your other assertion - I love guitars (and anything else that makes music) but IMHO we couldn't get along without women; we'd be in a worse mess than we already are!
TJC
"GAS never sleeps" - Gil Janus
"Now you got to pay your dues. Get that axe and play the blues." - Spudman
Gear: Epiphone Sheraton II, Epiphone Wildkat, Epiphone Emperor Joe Pass, Fender MIM Strat, Tacoma DR-14, Johnson JR-200 resonator; Fender Super Champ XD amp
One more Hendrix fan can't be that bad Welcome Navvid!
Welcome aboard Nick!
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Welcome Nick I like your avatar LMAO.
Guitars/Bass - MIM Fender Classic 50s Strat, MIM Fender Standard Strat, Squier Classic Vibe 50s Tele, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Epi '56 Gold Top Les Paul, Martin DSR acoustic, Sigma Martin Auditorium electric/acoustic, Squier Jazz Bass.
Amps/Cabinets/Modelers - Model 2558 50 watt Marshall Silver Anniversary Jubilee combo w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 4x12 Marshall cabinet w/25 watt Greenback Celestions, Fender Blues Junior w/ a couple of Billm mods, Line 6 POD 2.0, Roland Micro Cube
Pedals/Effects - Cry Baby Classic Wah, Boss TU-2, Boss NS-2, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Ross Compressor, MXR Micro Amp, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Danelectro Chicken Salad, Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Marshall Echohead, Duhvoodooman's Zonkin' Yellow Screamer, Digitech Digiverb, Digitech Bad Monkey, Dunlop Fuzz Face, Homemade Loop Bypass pedal, Duhvoodooman's Sonic Tonic (Maxon SD-9 clone +), Voodoo Labs Superfuzz
Welcome, Navvid-
Good luck with the Strat project. Keep us posted.
Pickngrin (also new here)
TJC
pardon my cynicism, but the last year and a half of my experience has left me embittered, and it seems that my fiddles are about the only thing that fills the void in anything beyond a fleeting way. They don't freak out irrationally, they don't run off on a whim looking for greener pastures, they're always happy to be touched and appreciate any attention you give them...
Obviously, I am generalizing, and very pessimistically so. I don't honestly believe we could exist, let alone be better off without women. At least I wouldn't want to live in a world without them, any more than I would want to live in world without music or flowers. I'm just tired of seeing and hearing how guys are jerks and they don't treat their women right, while the best, most decent men I know get their hearts ripped out and can't get a date to save their life.
But again, I digress...
Oh boy you do digress lol
Just wait until you find a really good one. Just like a really good guitar...sometimes they sound so incredibly sweet and sing every song you love to hear, but other times just like a guitar they can be a pain and nothing right seems to come from them...that is when I like to start my relic treatment. It has worked to get the mojo back where it belongs.
Of course I don't really do a relic treatment. Good people are good people no matter what sex they are. Sounds like you could use a good people. That's why we have thefret.net. Rock on bro.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Somebody oughta write a song about that!Originally Posted by navvid
Wait a minute, there are several thousand of them already....they're called DA BLOOZ!
DVM's Ever-Expanding Gear List:
Guitars - W-A-A-A-Y-Y too many to list. Check 'em all out HERE
Amps & Cabs - "Kap'n Kerrang-aroo" BYOC 18W TMB kit amp head; Mojave Coyote head; Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Lacquered Tweed Ltd. Ed.; Allen Sweet Spot kit amp; BYOC Tweed Royal kit amp; Epiphone Valve Jr. combo + mods; Drive 2x12 cab / Celestion G12M Greenback + G12H30; AB Custom Audio 1x12 cab / Celestion Alnico Blue
Pedals/Effects - ZILLIONS, including DVM's Home-built Pedals - See some HERE and HERE, TOO!
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Originally Posted by duhvoodooman
You are correct absolutely VooDoo. There are so many blues songs which discuss all the "things she has done wrong". She done this wrong, and she has done that wrong, she forgot to do this, she forgot to do that. Does she do anything right?
Maybe Navvid should write another song about the difference between a woman who does me wrong and my ever loving sweet guitar.
Guitars:
Electric: Washburn HB-30, Squier Tele Custom Deluxe, Jay Turser Strat.
Acoustic: Seagull S6.
AMPs: VOX AD30VT, Peavey Envoy 110.
Modelers: V-AMP 2, Digitech RP-100A.
Pedals: Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, Digitech Bad Monkey, Ibanez DE7 Delay/Echo, DOD VFX40B 7-Band Graphic EQ, Ibanez CS-5 Super Chorus.
I hear ya, Nick. I've heard the same thing in reverse from some great women I have known - just gotta hang in till you find the right one... And keep hanging in afterwards! Even when you've found a good match, there's always stuff that troubles the waters from time to time - good luck on your search. In the meantime, as you know, "Music hath charms to soothe the troubled breast", thank goodness.
TJC
"GAS never sleeps" - Gil Janus
"Now you got to pay your dues. Get that axe and play the blues." - Spudman
Gear: Epiphone Sheraton II, Epiphone Wildkat, Epiphone Emperor Joe Pass, Fender MIM Strat, Tacoma DR-14, Johnson JR-200 resonator; Fender Super Champ XD amp