Recent content by JennySuzuki

I hope mama-sama recognizes how lucky she is to have an extraordinary craftsdaughter.

I can't believe how well those tuning pegs turned out! Wowsers! Your plectrum will be interesting to watch, as well. I'm not familiar with the Okinawan version you're building, but the traditional Japanese plectrum is longer than that.

The summer I was three, I went to an older cousin's wedding (my mother was the youngest, after a lapse of several years) and my mother dressed me in the American dress she'd packed in my suitcase. I remember being mad because I wanted a Kimono like Auntie's.

In Japanese, plurals are provided by context, not by modifying the word. So one Sanshin is a Sanshin, and two ore more Sanshin are also Sanshin. :cool:

I dig your pegs.

Does the buzz go away when you touch the strings? If so, you're looking at a shielding issue, and need to put shielding in the electronics bay of the guitar.

Well, we're starting to see robotics pop up in things like Legos, and I think Robotics are one of the big coming trends. Robot dogs and cats are popping up from time to time, and there's that robosapien thing. I think it's more accurate to say that the first iteration of a new technology is...

The surprising thing is that I've seen worse crap go for a lot of money on eBay. Of course, that's generally been because the poster had a good story, and got people's imaginations involved. This guy? "I, uh, frakked up a bass neck, and now I want to sell it." Yeah... no.

It looked nice. I didn't handle it, so I can't say how it sounded, or its weight or anything. But the neck looked... unweildly wide.

Thanks. :cool:

Whiskey tango....

I stopped in my town pawn shop (mostly because it's right next to the Subway where I bought lunch) and they have an Ibanez Soundgear 6-string on the wall. It was behind the counter, and I wasn't interested enough to ask the clerk to get up off his stool and hand it to me. But thinking about it...

When I was a Babydyke, I had a haircut a lot like that. That period lasted about six months, and then I grew it out to a pageboy, and then just let my hair grow again.

Michelle Pfeiffer. Hey, I might not learn much about the bass, but I'd get to spend time with Michelle Pfeiffer!

Here's the thing about Bieber: I think a lot of the antagonism pointed at him is actually misogyny. Read me out, here. No; I don't care for Bieber's music. But there are a great many artists of international stature whose music does nothing for me, but against whom I do not see the mountains...