Anyone up for a challenge?

gball said:
I kind of do this pretty regularly anyway. I keep a guitar by my desk to grab anytime and I’ll often have the same one there for a week or two. For me its my SG Standard this week.
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Yep...I’ve been playing this game for a few years now. I really enjoy all of my guitars for lots of reasons...although there is one that I have been on the fence about lately...but I haven’t had it in rotation this year, so if I spend some time with it, things may change.
I can’t play this week though....I’ve damaged my left index finger tip in a work related mishap, and there is some crushed and torn flesh that needs to heal before I pick up another guitar, or bass. It has only been a couple/few days, and it seems to be coming along really well so far.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Yep...I’ve been playing this game for a few years now. I really enjoy all of my guitars for lots of reasons...although there is one that I have been on the fence about lately...but I haven’t had it in rotation this year, so if I spend some time with it, things may change.
I can’t play this week though....I’ve damaged my left index finger tip in a work related mishap, and there is some crushed and torn flesh that needs to heal before I pick up another guitar, or bass. It has only been a couple/few days, and it seems to be coming along really well so far.
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Sorry you got injured bro Don.
I still remember seeing clips of some shows Alex Lifeson did with his one finger all jacked up. See the link, MAN imagine playing La Villa Strangiata with a purple nail. I know how bad they freaking hurt.

www.guitarworld.com

Watch Rush Shred Through “La Villa Strangiato” at the Pinkpop Festival in 1979

Guitarist Alex Lifeson celebrates his 64th birthday today.
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And for my Rush buddy Gball. In all the clips I posted recently, I was seeing his LP's 335, 355 and double necks. I knew he had the ES 345 in some video I had seen,. HERE it is in all it's glory. Sure do love all of Alex's ES guitars,
 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Sorry you got injured bro Don.
I still remember seeing clips of some shows Alex Lifeson did with his one finger all jacked up. See the link, MAN imagine playing La Villa Strangiata with a purple nail. I know how bad they freaking hurt.

www.guitarworld.com

Watch Rush Shred Through “La Villa Strangiato” at the Pinkpop Festival in 1979

Guitarist Alex Lifeson celebrates his 64th birthday today.
www.guitarworld.com www.guitarworld.com
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I hear that Mark! This was ugly at first, but has cleaned up well. There’s a bit of swelling, and discoloration, but the previous nerve damage to that finger just has me feeling kind of puffy-numb with a pins and needles thing....so it’s not really painful, just in danger of opening up and tearing away. The gangrenous look has subsided...bled away.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Thanks John, so did you cut for the truss rod under the finger board and then install the fingerboard? I don't see a skunk stripe. Also, what angle is the head stock for a V?
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Exactly. I slotted the neck, and after the truss rod was set in, I glued a strip of maple into the slot. Then I cut down the maple so that it was flush, and glued on the fingerboard. You can see the maple strip in this photo.

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For the Flying V neck angle, I think I went 3 degrees, and wish that I had gone only 2.5 degrees. The bridge is a bit higher than I would have liked.
 
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Thatbastarddon said:
I hear that Mark! This was ugly at first, but has cleaned up well. There’s a bit of swelling, and discoloration, but the previous nerve damage to that finger just has me feeling kind of puffy-numb with a pins and needles thing....so it’s not really painful, just in danger of opening up and tearing away. The gangrenous look has subsided...bled away.
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Don, It sounds like you and I have had a number of hand injuries that has our original parts a bit compromised.

Other than SLOW fingers on my left hand, it is good to go for chords and single note stuff and bends etc. In High school I broke my middle metacarpal but it never bothers me. Also about 12 or so years ago, the left index finger took a trim nail thru it from a nail gun one day at work. Now my right hand has had the most lingering damage. A Log Splitter could have taken a weird angular end off it, but I was lucky and only got the jam/puncture type wound across the joint just below my nail ( 4 stitches) Then the most annoying injury is the result of when my drill was falling off an exterior window ledge and dummy me went to catch it. The 5/64th bit punctured my palm and I got infected basically back to my wrist. It also left me with less strength and range of motion in my first 2 fingers. Believe it or not, gripping a pick between it and my thumb sucks. Heck even spinning it into playing position is cumbersome sometimes.

Anyhow, don, I sure hope you heal up and no lingering issues from hand wounds.
 
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SG John said:
Exactly. I slotted the neck, and after the truss rod was set in, I glued a strip of maple into the slot. Then I cut down the maple so that it was flush, and glued on the fingerboard. You can see the maple strip in this photo.

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For the Flying V neck angle, I think I went 3 degrees, and with that I had gone only 2.5 degrees. The bridge is a bit higher than I would have liked.
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I had whole thread on my broken Truss rod repair on an '89 Strat neck I did. See that little area in your wood filler strip just above the anchor? That is how my stroke of luck began. I discovered that where my rod broke was just as it entered the anchor and when I began taking a 1/4 inch chisel to the stripe, the anchor appeared to pop up slightly as if it might be coaxed out of the socket it rested in. The exact scenario unfolded as I went about extracting it.

Once the anchor was out, I could begin at the head stock to remove the walnut plug. Then the fun started. Getting a tool inside the anchor pocket that I could drive the t rod up and out of the head stock. Luck had it that as I had chiseled out a 1/4 x 1/4 inch notch, I was able to put a allen wrench in and tap on it over and over and over till the rod eventually poked out thru the head stock hole. Once able to grab it, I had it out and then the process of cutting a new rod to length, installing it through the head and on down to the anchor pocket, and then inserted anchor, drove the rod home, and then secured down the new set screw I had drilled and tapped the anchor to secure the rod from turning.

So needless to say, learning how one installs or what type rod etc goes a long way to a good strategy for future necks.
 
RVA said:
It is a worthy challenge, and a one pickup guitar makes it even more challenging.

My challenge comes in the way of changing my guitar every night, so I never get used to anything!
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Same here , i keep swapping them so I dont get use to one guitar. I mean i dont have lot of guitars to start with but , whatever i have i rotate them :)

All my guitars necks feel different, some fat, some skinny, some small, some big. :)

only hard time i have is with acoustic, needs set up its really hard to play. I need clamp down so hard to get the notes ringing. it almost unplayable
 
First Sunday morning Jazz Noodles WITHOUT my Les Paul Recording Guitar.............................in YEARS
I must admit --if I actually drag my lazy arse OVER to the amp--fiddle the knobs a bit----the Vanilla Gorilla does a damn FINE jazz tone

Currently running through the Marshall Master LEad 12 combo (which ALSO when everything is NOT dimed) gets a VERY VERY nice jazz/clean tone
Discovering all sorts of NEW and exciting things this morning thanks @Ebidis
 
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