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I've been on vacation for a few weeks and felt bad with how little I've made (I've been riding my bike and working on some recording). I wanted to finish a guitar but my garage is really hot and full of flies. So I decided to build some pedals after an ~10 month hiatus. I did that, but my knobs...

I built maybe a dozen in 2011, really liked the process, stopped because of grad school and started again in 2022. I go through obsessive phases. I'm pretty happy with my pedal boards right now, so that's definitely hurting my motivation to get at my backlog. I had been trying point to point...

I was trying to PR a trail a few minutes ago. Had a pedal strike and almost missed a log. Almost. I'm pretty sure I ditched my bike and tried to roll over the log. I think I was successful - it happened very quickly. I have a large, angry stripe of road rash down my left side that very closely...

I'm a big flat pedal fan. When I was trying to learn how to ride a bike with clipless pedals I kept falling over at traffic lights. A bunch of times in front of people I knew. One time I fell over so slowly my wife had time to ask me what I was doing. I just panicked and forgot to twist my foot...

This is rad. Are you going to keep the flat pedals? How common is a higher stack height becoming in road cycling? It seems to finally be taking off in mountain biking. I've got like 30mm of spacers under my (50mm rise) bars. I'm finally not having back pain. I've got a ten year old CC bike that...

I had a sentence that I ended up deleting about their stupid saddle grub screws. Whatever is going on with the classic bent steel saddle thing. It does not work for me. I lost more blood and skin than I would have cared to on tour to one of those bridges. Also, a 41mm nut width is miserable for...

I was trying to buy a guitar for my universities makerspace a few months ago. There's a recording space. Students are using it and requesting instruments. Fender has some interesting, modern takes on old models. Nothing over-the-top, maybe a humbucker in the bridge of a strat with a coil-split...

I haven't posted here for a while because I've been spending my free time on my bike (and I need to replenish my supply of pots and I've been putting it off because the exchange rate is bumming me out). I was pretty casual the last couple of summers with my fitness, not really doing much volume...

A friend of mine has a xeroxed copy of one of his journals. Bits and pieces of lyrics and random thoughts. I vaguely remember seeing early versions of what eventually made its way onto Magnolia Electric Co. I loved The Lioness. One of the most stark albums I've ever listened to.

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Thnaks! Neither? I didn't follow a guide but I spent a ton of time planning, so I don't want to say that I winged it. I love the grain pattern on most (swamp) ash. Seemed like a shame to cover it up with a massive pickguard like most jazzmasters. I had mocked up some different designs just...

I made a pickguard for my baritone. I was a bit nervous working with roasted maple (I'd only ever finished it and drilled a couple holes for string trees), especially such a thin piece (0.14"). I've read some complaints that it can be brittle and tear out easily. I went slow and didn't have any...

I got a plunge router base for my router. It has changed everything. Feels way safer. Definitely more efficient than having to manually reset the depth with the standard base. I've got a bit of jank to clean up with a spindle sander on body #2 (left) plus some cavity routing. I'm thinking this...

Almost all of my building time has been dedicated to this for the last eight weeks or so. I glued up a body blank for a tele project and decided to level it with hand planes to force myself to learn to use and sharpen hand tools. I thought it was going well until I remembered I'm bad at math...

One of the things I really appreciate about this forum is how it stands in contrast to a lot of other spaces dedicated to equipment. Reading posts about pedals on the Gear Page is like reading a treatise by an 11th century monk on sorcery and magic. Reddit's guitarpedal sub is slightly better...

I think the string break-angle is better with the string-through body. I have a top-loader telecaster that I drilled out a few weeks ago. I didn't notice any appreciable difference in intonation before and after. I think there might be less buzz, but that's probably because I set it up after I...

I wanted to make sure that it was mentioned in this thread. I like it because the tape is easy to remove afterward and it doesn't leave any residue that might clog up sandpaper. You also don't need to buy additional materials to mask off a fretboard or whatever else. I'm also nervous about my...

About taping the template down. Not sure if you've seen the luthier masking tape/superglue trick. You lay down a couple strips of masking tape on the surface you're cutting and a couple strips on your template. They need to line up exactly. You then put superglue on the tape (I usually use gel...

I had covid early last month. It was less brutal than when I had it the first time a few years ago (I didn't get searing headaches and my cough only lasted 3-4 weeks rather than 8) but I could not shake the muscle fatigue. I have been told that one of the varieties going around attacks red blood...

Is Linkin park considered classic rock now? I was trying to remember the first time I heard them and realized it was almost 25 years ago.