muttley600
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It's the only way to go..
It's the only way to go..
Chili
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Muttley said:
Cool. A beautiful flaming maple top with matching maple neck. Neck inlays made from maple grain that are 90° to the neck grain. Subtle, yet distinctive. What else?? Hmmm... Hey I can dream, can't I?
No!!!! That's the color they chose to paint the insides of submarines. I associate it with all things evil. It left a deep emotional scar.
muttley600
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Piece of piss. What you want it to sound like?
mshilarious
Banned
Amps?
Mic amps . . . I stared pretty hard at doing a guitar amp a year ago, but blinked. My ideas are just too strange for market.
Although . . . they weren't quite as stupid as putting a variable capacitor in a guitar plug:
Experience Neutrik - With heart and soul.
Chili
Site Moderator
For real???
You're just toying with me.... 
At one time, I had an old 1965 Gibson ES-120T. Student model semi-hollow with one soapbar pickup. It was a one trick pony, but that one trick was so awesome, smooth and creamy. I had it for many years and finally sold it for a lot lot more than I bought it for. I rarely played it because it was before I started recording and didn't have much use for it.
I would love to have that one tone back. I can't describe it, but I'm willing to bet you know it.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
you were a submariner?No!!!! That's the color they chose to paint the insides of submarines. I associate it with all things evil. It left a deep emotional scar.
I have a pest control guy that was on one for several hitches. He tells me about life on a boomer ...... I find it pretty damned interesting.
Chili
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Yeah, except I was on a REAL submarine, fast attack. Boomers would just run away and hide. Poke holes in the water hoping not to get found. We went out of our way to find trouble. (Can ya tell there's some intra-fleet rivalry?
) I got to do some cool stuff. I was in during the 80's so it was cold war mentality. Since the berlin wall came down, sub missions have changed significantly and now they get to do completely different cool stuff.
mshilarious
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Did you get to meet Alec Baldwin? 
Dad was in from '68-'76, started on a diesel boat . . . Mom said she just threw out those clothes when he came home :ee:
Dad was in from '68-'76, started on a diesel boat . . . Mom said she just threw out those clothes when he came home :ee:
Chili
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Did you get to meet Alec Baldwin?
no, but I did meet Cheney when he was SecDef. I was suppose to do a presentation for him. Practiced for a week and had to audition for the captain. When I finally got my chance I didn't get more than 3 words out before the capt jumped in and stole the show. asshole.I mean, I know it's not much to say you met Dick Cheney, but hey, he went on to shoot somebody. That's saying something.
I still have my foul-weather jacket and it still smells of the amine used to scrub CO2 from the air.... 21 years later....
fuzzsniffvoyage
Well-known member
I'm happy about my Seagull, it was cheap, not built very well, have had to take to luthier several times to be re-glued. but sounds pretty decent for 400.00
muttley600
Banned
For real???
At one time, I had an old 1965 Gibson ES-120T. Student model semi-hollow with one soapbar pickup. It was a one trick pony, but that one trick was so awesome, smooth and creamy. I had it for many years and finally sold it for a lot lot more than I bought it for. I rarely played it because it was before I started recording and didn't have much use for it.
I would love to have that one tone back. I can't describe it, but I'm willing to bet you know it.
Those are a pretty standard archtop build. I use a similar thing on all the Jump Jive gigs I do. Just pick your soap bar and go from there or are you looking for that sound from a tele? If you are then a four way switch will get you close with standard tele pick ups, position 2, a decent Fender amp clean sound roll off the treble on the amp and leave the guitar bleed full on. I go 3, 7, 2 on the amp, treble, mid, bass. Fender Princeton.
mshilarious
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I mean, I know it's not much to say you met Dick Cheney, but hey, he went on to shoot somebody. That's saying something.
I went to school with Ollie North's kid, and Ollie came in one day to give a talk to our World History class. This was pretty much the exact same time he was arranging the whole Iran-Contra deal, but it hadn't broken yet.
None of us had any idea who he was, why he was talking to us, or what he said
Probably including his kid Later in HS Colin Powell stopped by for an assembly. I'm a bit vague on that too, but he did look good in his uniform
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
mshilarious
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The main problem with boomers is that it's boring, you sit and wait for the order to launch your missiles. The main problem with attack subs is that it's also boring, you sit behind an enemy boomer and listen to see if they open their missile bays so you can torpedo them.
My dad will be by later today to kick my ass for pointing out that obvious truth
Anyway, you get so bored that you start doing emergency blows to take out Japanese fishing vessels--they were probably illegally whaling, so they deserved it!
Also, six months underwater with no outside contact on a cramped, sweaty boat with no females. You do the math . . .
My dad will be by later today to kick my ass for pointing out that obvious truth
Anyway, you get so bored that you start doing emergency blows to take out Japanese fishing vessels--they were probably illegally whaling, so they deserved it!
Also, six months underwater with no outside contact on a cramped, sweaty boat with no females. You do the math . . .
Chili
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No, I wouldn't expect that from a tele. I do have an Ibanez archtop, but it isn't the same. For a long second there, I thought you were hinting at building me a guitar. Oh well
LOL ....... I am SO gonna tell him that when I see him again.
Ha yeah, except he already knows. bwahahaha poor guy.
Chili
Site Moderator
The main problem with boomers is that it's boring, you sit and wait for the order to launch your missiles. The main problem with attack subs is that it's also boring, you sit behind an enemy boomer and listen to see if they open their missile bays so you can torpedo them.
My dad will be by later today to kick my ass for pointing out that obvious truth
Anyway, you get so bored that you start doing emergency blows to take out Japanese fishing vessels--they were probably illegally whaling, so they deserved it!
Also, six months underwater with no outside contact on a cramped, sweaty boat with no females. You do the math . . .
We did more than just follow russian boomers. Some of the stuff we did wasn't boring at all. I was fortunate that I was in the hot seat during all the cool stuff. Back when I got out, I had to sign a paper agreeing to what i wasn't allowed to talk about or where I could not travel to. Even though I see some things in books, I'm not sure what I'm allowed to talk about today. ha haha
For the emergency blow plowing through a ship full of students; I remember seeing the periscope video and the captain was wayyy too low in the water to do an effective surface scan. What an idiot!!! He should have been at least 5' higher to extend his horizon.
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BrentDomann
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Muttley,
What's your opinion about the durability of stratabond necks? I don't own one, but I imagine they'd be pretty stable and quite resistant to changes in temperature and humidity. Not carbon fiber stable, but more so than solid wood. What do you think?
What's your opinion about the durability of stratabond necks? I don't own one, but I imagine they'd be pretty stable and quite resistant to changes in temperature and humidity. Not carbon fiber stable, but more so than solid wood. What do you think?
mshilarious
Banned
Just tell us if you actually got to torpedo anything other than target buoys . . . or kill dolphins with sonar! 
Hey, maybe that was why that fishing vessel was so close, maybe they follow the trail of dead dolphins floating in the ocean . . . . mmmm, sushi
My dad got to go to the North Pole. He has a picture of Santa reading a Playboy, which I guess was pretty racy for 1974 . . .
Hey, maybe that was why that fishing vessel was so close, maybe they follow the trail of dead dolphins floating in the ocean . . . . mmmm, sushi
My dad got to go to the North Pole. He has a picture of Santa reading a Playboy, which I guess was pretty racy for 1974 . . .
muttley600
Banned
It's plywood so yeh I guess it's pretty durable and stable. Looks crap and sounds like plywood too. Repairing them is a PIA as the glue line is poly resin and not much bonds to them well. I've seen a few of the necks pop off HPL bodies.
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stevieb
Just another guy, really.
Not built well, eh? Hmm. I've had three Seagulls, all well-built. One actually fared better than my Martin when I lived in a house that over-humidified my guitars.