Quote from: Elanore joey on June 06, 2014, 04:20:05 PM
i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck

Holy crap, are all of us transchicks luthiers or something?   I mean, seriously.  NOBODY DOES THIS. WTF???

Quote from: V M on June 06, 2014, 02:29:34 PM
Looks like it's coming along pretty good    What kind of wood are you using for the body?

What wood?? A kitchen table! LOL!

Quote from: Elanore joey on June 06, 2014, 04:20:05 PM
i have a stratocaster, fender acoustic, gibson flying v and a body that i made out of rose wood that i have call the shark bite surfboard mated with tellecaster neck

So cool!!  Have any pics?

Quote from: Jill F on June 06, 2014, 04:29:12 PM
Holy crap, are all of us transchicks luthiers or something?   I mean, seriously.  NOBODY DOES THIS. WTF???

I guess us trans chicks sort of make ourselves.  In the process we end up making our guitars too. ^.^

I've just started learning Acoustic, I really want to pick up base guitar though.

That's how started, first with an acoustic guitar, then played bass because that was the position available at the time but then ended up on guitar and vocals later on

Now it's just a hobby again but I would like to find a group to jam out with

Going to play my vintage Maui Blue Strat today and once again trying to be Tony Levin on a fretless bass. (fail)

*Sigh* Unlike a real drummer, a drum machine only needs programmed once, shows up on time and never gets wasted.

i have a faith neptune hi gloss semi acoustic, amazing to play

but finding it harder to play now i am trying to grow my nails longer :/

Quote from: Jill F on June 17, 2014, 05:33:21 PM
*Sigh* Unlike a real drummer, a drum machine only needs programmed once, shows up on time and never gets wasted.

Yeah, but that kind of takes away from the spontaniety and unpredictablilty and fun of live music*Sigh*. I miss it more than I though I would.

Quote from: billiejane on June 17, 2014, 06:14:51 PM
i have a faith neptune hi gloss semi acoustic, amazing to play

but finding it harder to play now i am trying to grow my nails longer :/

I hate to tell you but those nails gotta go unless you just play power chords or just strictly bottleneck. Look at Orianthi's nails. You can still paint them though.

i play finger-picking style, which is great with long nails on one hand, just not on the other ;(

Quote from: billiejane on June 18, 2014, 09:01:25 AM
i play finger-picking style, which is great with long nails on one hand, just not on the other ;(

I use a pick since I don't even touch acoustic guitars anymore. I did have 1 fingernail, the ring finger on my right hand, longer for hybrid picking and just never figured it looked right. Plus it would mess me up somehow doing heavy palm mutes that needed to be really clean. So I cut that one too.

Quote from: Jess42 on June 18, 2014, 06:47:28 AM
Yeah, but that kind of takes away from the spontaniety and unpredictablilty and fun of live music*Sigh*. I miss it more than I though I would.

I hate to tell you but those nails gotta go unless you just play power chords or just strictly bottleneck. Look at Orianthi's nails. You can still paint them though.

My slide playing has improved over the last year or so for this reason.  Some weeks I like 'em long, but I do cut them back once a month so I can really dig in.   Lately I've been really into playing Jeff Beck, so I need to do both.

Quote from: Jill F on June 18, 2014, 12:24:50 PM
My slide playing has improved over the last year or so for this reason.  Some weeks I like 'em long, but I do cut them back once a month so I can really dig in.   Lately I've been really into playing Jeff Beck, so I need to do both.

That is one thing that I cannot do no matter how much I practice, try to learn or any freakin' thing. I have tried and tried and tried again and over and over, ya' get the point. I'm just not a natural at it. I have tried with glass and I have tried with metal, so I pretty much claimed defeat on that a long time ago. It's not really my style anyway but I would still like to be able to do it. So if I play Freebird I am pretty much stuck on the rythme part, which is fine by me anyway.

wow. my playing has quite suddenly improved a lot.

I'm at wit's freaking end over my massive pedalboard.  I had everything (11 pedals) velcro'd in place, just as I wanted, then the sticky failed, sending them all over the place when I last had to roadie it.  Has anyone tried disassembling a bicycle chain, taking the links apart and using single links as mounting brackets?  I figure you take a chain cracker, pull the rivets out and harvest flat single links, take the screws out the back of the pedal, screwing it through one hole in the flat link and then screw a self-tapping wood screw through the other hole and into the board.  I remember hearing something vaguely about this years ago in my guitar tech days from a deceased seasoned roadie friend, but I've never needed to do it until now.  I wonder if there's an easier solution, or if the pedal backing screws might be too big for the holes in the chain, requiring hours with a reamer or drill press.  I do admit using a pink chain for this appeals to me.

Armand, you awesome f***ing bastard.  Why did you have to die?  I could have used some good advice today.  Does anyone have a Ouija board handy?

you know, I am thinking of throwing my acoustic guitar out, or perhaps throwing it in storage and getting an electric again. I am terrible at guitar, but I like to make music from time to time and I find I don't usually want the sound of an acoustic guitar.

I find, that when I think about the sort of sound I would want that an acoustic is close to, I find a sound on my synth or a piano sound I like more.

I used to build stompboxes from schematics I downloaded from the internet, and I built some amps too, maybe I could pick up a cheap electric and build my own amp again, that would be kinda neat. I think I would just use a headphone port though, I have a tiny little room and before I designed things for a 1x12 setup and that is way too much for my little room.

Quote from: Jill F on June 19, 2014, 05:57:29 PM
Armand, you awesome f***ing bastard.  Why did you have to die?  I could have used some good advice today.  Does anyone have a Ouija board handy?

Yeah, I do. But there is no guarantee you will talk to the person you want to. You may even invite a demon into your life.

BTW, that is the reason that I have only one pedal, a wah wah, anything else just confuses a simple mind like mine.

@Hikari. Don't throw it out and don't put it in storage. That is definately a waste. Find a young person that wants to learn but can't afford one. That's what I did but unfortunately that kid plays in a country band now. I really had high hopes for a new metal shredder, but oh well at least he's having fun and I had a part in that.

Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 19, 2014, 01:52:48 PM
wow. my playing has quite suddenly improved a lot.

I have tried to teach family members how to play. The most important thing that I stress is it is an everyday ordeal. If I go a week without touching the guitar, songs I have played since the beginning I find I am sloppy and uncoordinated on and it takes a few hours to get that coordination back. I also lose a lot of speed and fluidity too.

I take my cue from the simple term 'Play' as in a child at play, it was when I tapped into this concept of not taking the instrument too seriously I began to enjoy playing a lot more and my playing improved by leaps and bounds

Quote from: V M on June 20, 2014, 08:26:21 AM
I take my cue from the simple term 'Play' as in a child at play, it was when I tapped into this concept of not taking the instrument too seriously I began to enjoy playing a lot more and my playing improved by leaps and bounds

Oh yeah. I find if I concentrate too much on the song it always feels forced and and sounds sloppy. When I just let it flow out and just concentrate on playing for the fun of it it is a lot smoother and the  solos are a lot better. If I concentrate too much on the solos I will screw them up everytime, if I don't think too much about them they sound so much better. But after about four or five drinks it gets a lot more fun but sounds like crap. But it's still fun though.

Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 07:17:31 AM
Yeah, I do. But there is no guarantee you will talk to the person you want to. You may even invite a demon into your life.

BTW, that is the reason that I have only one pedal, a wah wah, anything else just confuses a simple mind like mine.

@Hikari. Don't throw it out and don't put it in storage. That is definately a waste. Find a young person that wants to learn but can't afford one. That's what I did but unfortunately that kid plays in a country band now. I really had high hopes for a new metal shredder, but oh well at least he's having fun and I had a part in that.

I have tried to teach family members how to play. The most important thing that I stress is it is an everyday ordeal. If I go a week without touching the guitar, songs I have played since the beginning I find I am sloppy and uncoordinated on and it takes a few hours to get that coordination back. I also lose a lot of speed and fluidity too.

my playing sounds much more fluid now and i've regained my sense of timing.

Quote from: Zóôt Threepwood on June 20, 2014, 09:57:06 AM
my playing sounds much more fluid now and i've regained my sense of timing.

Yeah, I'm going a little darker and heavier and speed and accuracy especially on the low E and A string is definately the one thing I have to keep up on the left and right hands. The left pinky finger Ughhh. That little piggy really tries it's hardest to curl as far from the fretboard as possible. And I really need it for those far fret stretches.

Quote from: Jess42 on June 20, 2014, 10:13:58 AM
Yeah, I'm going a little darker and heavier and speed and accuracy especially on the low E and A string is definately the one thing I have to keep up on the left and right hands. The left pinky finger Ughhh. That little piggy really tries it's hardest to curl as far from the fretboard as possible. And I really need it for those far fret stretches.

my pinky fingers are getting better but they've always been my biggest weakness.