rugburn

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[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago

I still say she's Napoleon Dynamite in drag

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 month 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.

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why stop at just one?

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 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.

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 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

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (14 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

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 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

 
[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago

I'd just search YT or the regular interwebs for tutorials on designing compliant mechanisms in CAD (pick upur favorite software). I know Teaching Tech has done a couple videos on this

[–] rugburn@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

I usually click the icon on my phone and it opens, but ymmv...

Just kidding. Click search, find a topic that interests you and hit subscribe. Then you should be able to go to your settings and make only your subscriptions show up on your landing/home page

 
 

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