Kids back at school today in Finland

[Old Vantaa Man]

Woo-hoo! A peaceful morning! Ahhh...

Not been a great summer here weather-wise this year. That's meant they've been inside a fair amount of the time demanding to be fed, etc. They weren't happy this morning as I waved them off with a big smile. Now for 4 hours peace and quiet..

[LivePsy]

I can tell you are not going to be devastated when they leave home. Although kids don't leave until their 40's these days. And they come back when they break up with their boyfriend/girlfriend/goth. Or when they return from a backpacker's trip to asia.

So enjoy this morning,
B

[Old Vantaa Man]

../ goth

Young madam here said the other day she wants to dye her hair black. Oh yes. 6 months and she's a teenager.


Btw, how's yer SG mate? Playing much? Got a refund for that Hagstrom finally and ordered a Bigsby B5 for me Tele instead of another guitar. Should be here this week.

[LivePsy]

The sacred SG must never be touched with unclean hands, and since I've had a flu for over a week I haven't touched much else either. Perhaps a bit dull in the lower couple of frets but barre chords flow like silk. I've gotten good results including nice bright single coil sounds from a cheapie Digitech RP100 pedal. And if its sounds bad, it is now entirely my fault. This thing is beautiful. I don't think the tele will be getting new strings any time soon...

A whammy bar on a tele? Is that legal? Perhaps in permissive Norway it is Your strings don't go through the body, I think you said, so it couldn't change the sound. Hope it works out well!

Cheers from wintery Melbourne,
B

[Old Vantaa Man]

Hmm. Have to move to Norway then.

Yeah, it's gonna change the sound loads. It should now go DOIiiiingggg, I hope. Plus.. The B5 Tele kit comes with a whole new bridge - being the plate and a tune-o-matic style bridge which needs serious drilling work, so, yeah, it's gonna change a lot I hope. The bridge I've had on it for the last 12 years is a piece of crap but better than the original which was a real piece of crap.

Here's how it's mounted, though the guy does a poor demo of the "after" sound <<wonders why>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN2MLRbIC5M

Check these out too:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~msengers/htm/gallery.htm

Big view of the one in the Utube filum:
http://www.music123.com/item/expande.../502065jpg.jpg

And get well soon, to you. Wintry here too. In bloody August..

[AlexHall74]

1 more week and my kids go back to shcool!

Then 1 week after that and my sorry ass is back in!

Help me please to make the most of my 7 days of freedom! Any bad ideas or thoughts of debauchery are of course welcome.

Matt, what kind of whammy bar? Are you fucking around or getting something really useful like a Floyd Rose or better? Fuck whammy bars that can only decrease the string tension. That's like only being to able to fuck with an out-stroke.