Friday, August 14, 2015

More of that thing . . . . . real life that is . . . . .

Ok so the OTHER project I was talking about was the rehab of our 'garage room', which means that until I get a new work area set up . . . . I won't be able to get 'anything' done . . . .

Which won't be until after:
          • the walls are painted (by coincidence the same color as the outside of the house - we only noticed once we entered the paint color into the 'house records' and went ... wait we just saw that) . . . we're about 70% done on that one.
          • some book cases have been moved . . . about done 60% on that.
          • the living room - were the book cases came from - has been moved around . . . and a new (larger, what else) hanger backer for the guitars has to be put in . . .
          • the new project table has been set up in the garage room (maybe some posts on that later)
          • a sitting bench is made (may post that here as well)
          • the current fan is replaced . . . by a 'non fan' light fixture
          • a beam is put in to hang a couple of hanging chairs

Yep the wife has some HONEY DO things to do before I can get back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Monday, August 10, 2015

All strung . . . . . . . out . . . . . . up . . .

Well I did have a 'free' morning this weekend so I decided to see how things fit together . . . here is the result next to it's relative . . . . .
For now it's hanging up to get the neck set before I start monkeying around with things. The HAMP locking tumers from Gotoh are nice but I'm not sold on the 'no string trees are needed' part of the advertising . . . the high E string has this annoying 'ring through' . . . then again the el cheapo plastic bridge (uhm . . . it's a NUT the BRIDGE is the OTHER end of the strings dummy . . . ) that's on it right now is almost certainly at least part of the problem . . .

The action is still pretty high but the bridge can still be lowered some ... and ... of course the neck hasn't 'set' yet ... and ... the truss rod hasn't been adjusted .... and ... that el cheapo nut is still 1 mm higher than it should be ... and . . . . . . I foresee some more work in the future.

On the plus side, it does play quite well already on the higher frets and I like the feel of the neck . . . a LOT.