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The Combo Club

Parts for my 1st Build finally arrived. Here they are in position. Time to mark and rout for neck, controls and pups. Wood will remain unstained. Sealer will amberize it a bit, clear nitro will be brushed on. Test scraps of the maple front and Mahogany back look great this way.

Single cut jazz! Got my eyes' attention :hyper:
 
When I grow up, I want to be one of those bassists who doesn’t twitch a whisker and just lays down a killer groove.

Well, I've got at least 1/2 of that down.

So, Goner, you just can't keep still when laying down a killer groove? Bet your audience can't either! ;)
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Uhhh, other 1/2.


Nope! Nuh, uh! I've seen and heard your videos. I know what you can do, and you do "twitch a whisker"! Maybe not much, but some. So, you ain't f___ing* with me!








*fooling
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Nope! Nuh, uh! I've seen and heard your videos. I know what you can do, and you do "twitch a whisker"! Maybe not much, but some. So, you ain't f___ing* with me!








*fooling
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Thanks, but. The most recent videos(8/25/2019)show me with my keester firmly attached to a stool. (not a production stool-a sample) :smug: ETA:'95 Les Paul 5er>'15 R200C
 
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Thanks, but. The most recent videos(8/25/2019)show me with my keester firmly attached to a stool. (not a production stool-a sample) :smug: ETA:'95 Les Paul 5er>'15 R200C



Ok, so, no Verdine White or moonwalking, but I saw yer foot a-tappin' and head a-bobbin'. (Mine was, too!) And singin' backup counts as more than "twitchin' a whisker"! :thumbsup:
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Speaking of Verdine White, it is in the time we call the 70s I own a kalimba Mbira - Wikipedia. Owning a kalimba and playing a kalimba like Maurice White is like owning a bass and playing a bass like Verdine White. Which is pretty much what the 70s felt like to me all around, now that I think of it. ;)
 
Parts for my 1st Build finally arrived. Here they are in position. Time to mark and rout for neck, controls and pups. Wood will remain unstained. Sealer will amberize it a bit, clear nitro will be brushed on. Test scraps of the maple front and Mahogany back look great this way.

The ultimate summer project, JPD. Have fun as you begin your building. I love the body shape. Please keep us up on it’s progress. Enjoy!
 
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Tomorrow I begin my contract obligation, 190 days of various duties. Next Monday is the actual first day with the kids, 14 on-site and 2 online in my room. It’s the the same number in our other two classrooms that I teach too.

Our county, today was at 17% positivity rate and ranked the fourth highest in Iowa. If we hit 20% without student absences we go online. It’s down to 15% with the addition of 10% student absences.

So the staff begins this crazy school tomorrow knowing that each day we’re there and no one gets sick is a victory. Sadly, schools in our area are already canceling on-site instruction just after a few days. Iowa State University, after only two days of school has had 175 new cases!

With that, my summer is over and it’s been a blast hanging here at all times of the day and night talking music and everything under the sun. I’ll be floating in and out and will keep you up on how things are going.

May your quarter notes never rest and your strings remain flat. Keep things interesting around here and I’ll be talking to ya soon!

Your Fearless (and currently Covid-free) Leader :thumbsup:
 
Tomorrow I begin my contract obligation, 190 days of various duties. Next Monday is the actual first day with the kids, 14 on-site and 2 online in my room. It’s the the same number in our other two classrooms that I teach too.

Our county, today was at 17% positivity rate and ranked the fourth highest in Iowa. If we hit 20% without student absences we go online. It’s down to 15% with the addition of 10% student absences.

So the staff begins this crazy school tomorrow knowing that each day we’re there and no one gets sick is a victory. Sadly, schools in our area are already canceling on-site instruction just after a few days. Iowa State University, after only two days of school has had 175 new cases!

With that, my summer is over and it’s been a blast hanging here at all times of the day and night talking music and everything under the sun. I’ll be floating in and out and will keep you up on how things are going.

May your quarter notes never rest and your strings remain flat. Keep things interesting around here and I’ll be talking to ya soon!

Your Fearless (and currently Covid-free) Leader :thumbsup:
We start next week, with classes starting the following week. Primary and secondary are doing face to face, and protocols and funding varies province to province. Post-secondary with be online for the Fall, and likely the Winter. Folks are nervous here, but luckily we are in a better position overall than the US.
 
Decided to share the rig my new original project lets me use. Still gotta figure out what some of these controls do...

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Tomorrow I begin my contract obligation, 190 days of various duties. Next Monday is the actual first day with the kids, 14 on-site and 2 online in my room. It’s the the same number in our other two classrooms that I teach too.

Our county, today was at 17% positivity rate and ranked the fourth highest in Iowa. If we hit 20% without student absences we go online. It’s down to 15% with the addition of 10% student absences.

So the staff begins this crazy school tomorrow knowing that each day we’re there and no one gets sick is a victory. Sadly, schools in our area are already canceling on-site instruction just after a few days. Iowa State University, after only two days of school has had 175 new cases!

With that, my summer is over and it’s been a blast hanging here at all times of the day and night talking music and everything under the sun. I’ll be floating in and out and will keep you up on how things are going.

May your quarter notes never rest and your strings remain flat. Keep things interesting around here and I’ll be talking to ya soon!

Your Fearless (and currently Covid-free) Leader :thumbsup:

"And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason."​

— Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
 
When I was back in college in the 80's at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI (nod to RodRy), there was a local bar called The Library.

"Hey, where are you going? To the library...."

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No idea who they're singing about