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Quote from: aldousburbank on January 21, 2014, 07:59:19 PM
I think I am
Therefore I am not
I think

http://youtu.be/fmQXG7ABMuA

The company I was working for was called AXL guitars. Some of the models were really good guitars. I also worked on some of their "Recording King" acoustic guitars, some arch top hollow body stuff branded "The Loar" Here's a video of me playing one of the Loars:

http://youtu.be/Hq5L8BUtij0

Lloyd Loar worked for Gibson in the 1920s. He designed a bunch of shit that's still around today. You never really hear people go on about him. More of a mandolin guy I guess. I always thought that those Loar Archtops had a cool heritage and wanted one badly. Never pulled the trigger, got to play them too much and lost interest. They are dirt cheap too.

Here's another question. How much fretwork is too much? I worked in a guitar factory for about a year, and got to the point where I was doing about one neck every hour. All of the necks had awful flat spots on the fretboards and needed heavy radius correction, which led to me inhaling lots of rosewood. After this of course there would be barely any fret slot left, so I'd end up cutting those deeper and I'd have to crimp frets by hand after cutting them to length otherwise they would pop up. These little steps would add up to sore hands. And then flush filing the fret ends, is so difficult for the first few strokes because it's  so bumpy and makes your wrist bones rattle. And if you slip, the freshly clipped fret ends leave the outside of your fingers looking like a half-eaten pastrami. That shit hurts! I have to say it was a really satisfying feeling to start leveling frets and see a perfect uniform line across each fret. But then would come the beveling. And if you'd slip once at this point, it would be time to rip frets out and start over. And then the crowning and crowning and crowning, and ruining my wrist some more, and then dressing wasn't so bad after I figured out what the hell I was supposed to be doing. And polishing, your wrist gets screwed some more. And scraping glue off between frets kills your thumb and index fingers.

It did not seem healthy working there or doing that many fret jobs. I knew it was the beginning of the end of my time there when wrist pain started to wake me up at night/some mornings. A friend that stayed there longer is now on medical leave with issues from doing frets. The shitty thing is that everyone there was a musician of some sort, and a good number of them were throwing their hands away. I wouldn't ever imagine that someone doing repair work would need to do this many jobs in a given time period. They didn't have us bussing frets, they were making us do every little extra step. And it didn't seem fair that we were doing work that would normally cost people hundreds and barely getting peanuts for it.

Is this normal to you?! And just how poisonous IS rosewood when you sand on it?

Thanks

PS glue ate holes in all of my shirts that year

Quote from: The General on January 19, 2014, 02:39:15 PM
And, also, because I've really outed myself here by starting a podcast, I suppose it doesn't hurt to post this... one of my most cherished pictures... The day Jimmie Vaughan was in town and needed some emergency work done on his Strat.  Jimmie is probably my favorite living guitar player.  What a class act, that dude has more feel and tone in his little finger than what's in most guitar players entire bodies.  His phrasing and note choice are top notch.  I've always much preferred his playing to his brother's.  I love Stevie Ray, but I can only listen to so much of it before I feel like I'm getting beat over the head with a guitar.  We had a great conversation, it was like we were old friends.  He talked me into trying flatwounds again, and I haven't changed back since.

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That's awesome!

I've always wondered if he used a telecaster at all on the first thunderbirds album. He's holding one on the cover but everyone tells me it's a strat on the recordings.

One time I was on a plane flight over Paris. It was night time and I was looking out through the window at all of the city lights. Suddenly, just outside the window I noticed, of all things, a man, flying alongside the plane. He was wearing crisp night clothes. I rubbed my eyes, looked again and noticed that it was ART BELL. Suddenly he snapped back towards earth. I wondered if he was having an OBE.

I have Art Bell trapped in my spare bedroom. I'm using four modified bug zappers to keep him psychically stuck in there. Is there a medium here who can contact me?

HALE YEAH, G SHIT, WOULD U FUCK A GHOST?!

Great way to get out of a "chick flick"

First show was awesome!

Here's a question: how do you feel about using insta-set on CA glue when gluing in new frets? I've had someone tell me that it's better to let the glue cure by itself. Someone else told me to just spray it so the glue cures before the frets can pop up.

ALDOUS BURBANK

is a cool dude

I think that the episode where Ray Wise keeps calling him "The Picard" is really funny. Smoke a bowl and watch it.

"I have SEEN the Picard!"

Ok, ok. Art Bell didn't come to my house to use the bathroom. BUT HIS SISTER DID!

I went to the corner to get some fresh arugula and tomatoes, and shit on my curtains, The King walked out just as I was walking in. That's right, fucking Elvis. Almost didn't recognize him on account of he was disguised as Art Bell. Then he muttered something about cigarette butts in his garden. I turned to look at him and he slowly faded away.

G SHIT: WOULD YOU F@#* A GHOST?!?

Quote from: jazmunda on January 10, 2014, 02:42:58 AM
I haven't toked since Feb 2012. I found this today in a vacation apartment shared by my mom and her two sisters and their families.

Do I dare? Think of how high I'd get after nearly 2 years of abstinence?

Do it!!!

If you take.
Three days.
Off from smoking weed.

You get really ripped when you start again.

BellEnd.com

I saw "Art Bell" playing on my iPod, early before the sun came up this morning. Then my wife woke up and said "TURN IT OFF."

Quote from: aldousburbank on January 09, 2014, 09:08:46 PM
Yeah but what about the tacos dude?

They was delicious

Just got back from the Taco truck, and lo and behold, who was it standing in line in front of me ordering eight Lengua tacos, but Art Bell himself. He took his order to stay, so I followed suit. We struck up a conversation.

One question led to another, and Art Bell proceeded to tell me and the rest of the patrons at the Tacos La Juanita taco truck the entire story of his Ouija Board Experience. He orated in such great detail that I noticed an elderly man nearby who was almost in tears as he clenched his hat in his hands, transfixed on the master storyteller before him. After finishing his story, the group of patrons stood up and applauded. Art Bell gave a nod of acknowledgement to the crowd as he bit into his last Taco.

The group of men dispersed, and the parking lot beside the truck was now nearly empty. Art Bell walked over to the trash can, threw out his empty plate of Lengua Tacos, and pulled out half a sheet of paper from his back pocket. He proceeded to wipe his hands clean with the sheet of paper. Then instead of throwing it in the trash, he simply dropped it on the ground and walked off around the corner.

I walked over to look at the paper because it seemed to have something written on one side. I was halfway to the garbage can when a gust of wind picked up and blew the paper to my feet.

"ART, PLEASE DO NOT WIPE YOUR HANDS ON THIS COPY OF MY BIGFOOT MAP. THESE BODIES ARE REAL IMPORTANT TO HISTORY AND BESIDES THAT, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE HELD LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE IF THEY ARE IN FACT NOT BIGFEET. STILL HAVE NOT HEARD FROM MY NEIGHBORS.  - BUGGS"

Underneath this was a map of Northeast Texas with a red "X" on it.

PM 4 deetz

Quote from: ItsOver on January 09, 2014, 12:02:37 PM
I saw Art reading this thread.  He just snickered and mumbled "vaguely lovable" and then went back to his Ham radio, chewing on  some pepperoni pizza doused in pizza punch.

I call BS, he don't eat pepperoni.

Quote from: Seraphim27 on January 08, 2014, 10:32:16 PM
Anybody know this guy? 

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I'd be really surprised if someone with that tattoo is not a member of this forum.

Quote from: aldousburbank on January 09, 2014, 09:38:20 AM
I don't buy it, the part about you were asleep.  :

I should have stated, for clarification, that I use more commas than necessary in certain instances sentences. I also should have stated, for clarification, that I was feigning sleep when Art Bell entered the room.

I I I I I I HAVE TO% GO

Art Bell came down my chimney in the middle of the night and ate some cookies. Then he snuck into my room while I was asleep. He suddenly flashed the lights off and on while yelling "TURN DOWN YOUR RADIO!!!!"

I leapt from the bed, foaming at the mouth (as usual) and moved to strike him. When my fist was near making contact with Art Bell he disappeared in a flash of light.

Found her...

The lady who played in the piano bar in an episode of TNG, had the worst makeup. Looked like she had a plastic pig nose on and pipe cleaners glued to her face. Anybody remember her?

Quote from: jazmunda on January 07, 2014, 10:14:02 PM
Talk about bigger on the inside.

There are some obvious exceptions.

BIGGER ON THE INSIDE

That was brilliant, made me laugh hard

If Galaxy Breast Quest is on the table, here's my first vote, in all seriousness.




Here's my alternate:

Quote from: jazmunda on January 07, 2014, 09:42:19 PM
I find any females who travel in the TARDIS to be sexy.