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"Pants"? What kind of colorful-speak is this? Funny.BLING! BLING!
Swapping out the bridge was surprising easy. A little work was required:
1. removing the piezo gubbins so bridge would sit flat
2. the new screws were too small so I reused the original screws
3. the height adjust grub screws were pants, so I reused those originals too
Last I heard the new tuners were in Jamaica NY, which is near the airport in Queens is it not?
Great. Love the UK vernacular! Like calling cops " The Old Bill"... funny stuff.
Plod!
New England is like that. Lots of dialects, some of them quite disparate. My friend in Miami remarks on it being a lot like England in that way.
You probably said what that bridge is, but I must have missed it. So, what is that bridge? It looks great and it looks like it works well, too.BLING! BLING!
Swapping out the bridge was surprising easy. A little work was required:
1. removing the piezo gubbins so bridge would sit flat
2. the new screws were too small so I reused the original screws
3. the height adjust grub screws were pants, so I reused those originals too
Last I heard the new tuners were in Jamaica NY, which is near the airport in Queens is it not?
The shiny boxes I use are the wireless receiver, an fDeck HPF, and an Aguilar Tonehammer. Wireless is to keep me from getting tied in knots like a dog with its leash wrapped around its legs and a tree. No comments about how often that happened or what the results were. Nothing broken, let's leave it at that. The fDeck and Tonehammer came about because the Piezo pickup on my upright sounded awful through the little Carvin combo I got for small shows. Now that I have those shiny boxes, there's not much reason not to use them. Nothing else, although I have fuzz and wah that I almost never use.
Just starting out so I got a TC Electronics amp head with Tone Print. It seems to be the gateway effect to pedals.
BLING! BLING!
Swapping out the bridge was surprising easy. A little work was required:
1. removing the piezo gubbins so bridge would sit flat
2. the new screws were too small so I reused the original screws
3. the height adjust grub screws were pants, so I reused those originals too
Last I heard the new tuners were in Jamaica NY, which is near the airport in Queens is it not?
7ender fanbois wonder about a lot of things - like what it's like being kissed by a girl, or how cool it would be to have a house or apartment vs moms basement, or if they can get a butt bow made from tort, or what it would be like to play a bass with real balls vs a neutered jazz bass clone.
I've heard Rozzers before and thought it had a neat ring to it. My wife's family all hails from Derby (pronounced Darby for those of you outside the UK) and when they get together it's a blast trying to follow the conversations. The more they drink the more the slang pops up and the more slurred the speech gets, can be a bit of a challenge to follow the conversation. I'm usually about a half sentence behind them all the time. I also spent a lot of business time in Newcastle (great party town) and some time in southern Scotland. Loved the dialects up there but much harder to follow than Derby or London. I regret never getting over to Wales or Ireland while I was in the UK but it's on my bucket list.
They are a seriously odd lot, an effin bunch of banjo players! (as in the "Duelling banjos", "squeal like a piggy boy!")7ender fanbois wonder about a lot of things - like what it's like being kissed by a girl, or how cool it would be to have a house or apartment vs moms basement, or if they can get a butt bow made from tort, or what it would be like to play a bass with real balls vs a neutered jazz bass clone.
If you ever get to Wales try going through Snowdonia say up the A5 from Telford to Bangor then head south to Porthmadog and follow the coast road south to Abertefi (Cardigan) then go north to Dolgellau then to Bala. It's an unbelievably scenic run that will take a couple or five days, Wales at its prettiest.
