rugburn

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ordinarily I'm all for doing your own work on your own guitar, but unless you've done major work to a guitar before, I'd take it to a good luthier. Even a minor alignment error and you've got holes in your guitar that will ruin any resale value it has. That being said, if you're willing to take the risk, a bigsby shouldn't be too hard to install if you've replaced a bridge, shimmed a neck or slotted your own nut before. It's all about getting it located and mounted correctly the first time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I still say she's Napoleon Dynamite in drag

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4mvK2FW78

Plugging the cord in the same outlet isn't dangerous itself, but the prongs will be live on the end that's not plugged in, I'd suggest not touching them. Where it IS dangerous is when people try to use them with a generator to back feed their panel. Don't do that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why stop at just one?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

High bass, low treble versus no bass and no treble?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gotcha. Semantics lol. My understanding is if two pieces of wood used to be the same piece of wood (crack or break repair) use hide glue. If they've always been different pieces of wood to use titebond/pva wood glue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I also should have noted I fixed this exact same issue with hide glue, hence why I recommended it. It's not hard to find and will do the job correctly, like @foggy said

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (15 children)

This. But I'd use hide glue and then after filling the crack with the glue, use a suction cup to pull it through both sides

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome. It's great to hear that a piece of equipment didn't make it's way to a landfill and is back in use!

My former employer, for... reasons... had a bunch of old guitars, mostly acoustic, in various states of disrepair that they were literally about to throw in a dumpster. Some were actually quite nice, a Breedlove and two Alvarez's, but there were cracked headstocks, chips, body cracks and other issues. I was able to convince them to give them to me and so far I've rehabilitated the Breedlove, and I'm still testing one of the Alvarez's (headstock was cracked between two of the tuning peg holes) with a little glue and some love. I plan on donating them all once I get through them, as I'm an electric player and really have no room for 8 more guitars, but I couldn't stand the thought of them just being tossed in the trash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And that's what I appreciates about yous

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