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Disaster leads to learning experience...

...that I hope never to have to do again! LOL



Last Wednesday I was working on the head piece for my first CBG build. Drilling holes for the tuners that had just arrived. I was feeling pleased with the knowledge that I would soon be done with my first build and that I would probably have it ready before the new year and present it to my lil boy.



After looking at and measuring the tuners I realized that I was gonna have problems with the action/height of the strings over the… Continue

Added by marcianx on January 7, 2010 at 7:57am — 3 Comments

Adventures in first build land... 101?? no, 011 is more like it.

So I'm nearing the end of my first build and with it's many flaws, I'm still proud of it and I will hand it with much pride to my youngest son -- and hope with all my heart that he doesn't turn and swing it at his brother's head -- LOL, think I'm jokin'?.



I'm learning a lot w/ this build... like, how hard it is to work with purple heart(!!), damn shit is only slightly softer than concrete and will splinter whenever it damn well feels like it!! Now I remember why I have so much of… Continue

Added by marcianx on December 20, 2009 at 11:41pm — 2 Comments

Tools?? I got tools! Just no where to put 'em!

Today, while I was sweating away using a microplane to trim out a recess on the neck that will be under the box lid, I kept thinking to myself, "Damn, if only I could pull out the mini router table I could be done with this in no time."



The thing is stuck in a closet and I dare not bring it out just yet... not after taking over the dining room for the first week of my CBG build-- and feeling the wrath of the lil' lady (the silent kinda wrath, with knowing glances and… Continue

Added by marcianx on December 15, 2009 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Sometimes... things just happen that way

I signed up with Ning 2-3 yrs ago, right around the time it came out. In fact, if I remember correctly, I created a couple different Ning accounts for separate purposes. Seemed like a good idea for a site and they had some big ideas.



I used it for a couple of days and left because it was so buggy and laggy that I couldn't even create a site, could barely play around with it. I had hoped to come back to it at some later time but never got around to it.



A couple of weeks ago… Continue

Added by marcianx on December 11, 2009 at 10:22pm — 1 Comment

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