What's your current headache?
- Thread starter Pauleo1214
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Current headache.
Attempting to decide how to join pieces of wood for the all important neck joint on the archtop.. sounds easy - just do a dovetail joint I hear like every guitar maker in history I hear - but when you have a internal body spar, more string tension etc, laminated woods in the neck etc.. it becomes a question of how do you support that load (a) without the wood splitting, (b) without the joint splitting, (c) and not look like it's complete hash up.
I have a cunning plan Blackadder.
The original idea was to have a neck through.. but the neck angle required for the archtop means it's not a single piece of wood - a neck, and a spar instead intersect at the required angle. You can then load the string tension without the body present (just have a bridge in place) creating a "bow" neckthough with a joint.
The body is then slid onto the "bow" and onto the neckblock/tail block. The body only sees the tension from the sound top/bottom and itself rather than the strings like every other guitar/volin.
It then <insert vice grip garage impression> works.
Attempting to decide how to join pieces of wood for the all important neck joint on the archtop.. sounds easy - just do a dovetail joint I hear like every guitar maker in history I hear - but when you have a internal body spar, more string tension etc, laminated woods in the neck etc.. it becomes a question of how do you support that load (a) without the wood splitting, (b) without the joint splitting, (c) and not look like it's complete hash up.
I have a cunning plan Blackadder.
The original idea was to have a neck through.. but the neck angle required for the archtop means it's not a single piece of wood - a neck, and a spar instead intersect at the required angle. You can then load the string tension without the body present (just have a bridge in place) creating a "bow" neckthough with a joint.
The body is then slid onto the "bow" and onto the neckblock/tail block. The body only sees the tension from the sound top/bottom and itself rather than the strings like every other guitar/volin.
It then <insert vice grip garage impression> works.
falco_femoralis
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My furnace was cycling on and off going in and out of lockout so I called out the oil company to check it out. They guy said my flame sensor was bad and that it would be 700 dollars. Okay lol. Then he said I also need an oil pump and a filter. How much is that? It's part of the 700. Yeah I gotta think about that one, here's the 150 for the diag.
He told me he legally wasn't allowed to switch on the furnace before he left as it was "over fired." I said I like to learn, what do you use to get those measurements - nothing. Guy broke my oil feed line and it sprayed oil out as soon as they scurried out the door and I went thru the reset procedure.
A new furnace went in today from a diff company but the technician doesn't have two fittings needed to connect the pump to the filter so it's becoming a tomorrow job. At least it gets up to 50 degrees during the day.
He told me he legally wasn't allowed to switch on the furnace before he left as it was "over fired." I said I like to learn, what do you use to get those measurements - nothing. Guy broke my oil feed line and it sprayed oil out as soon as they scurried out the door and I went thru the reset procedure.
A new furnace went in today from a diff company but the technician doesn't have two fittings needed to connect the pump to the filter so it's becoming a tomorrow job. At least it gets up to 50 degrees during the day.
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Erik S
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I've heard good things about emailing the guy. Hugo? Worth a shot.I just placed a large Tayda order and I forgot to order the drilling service for the 5 enclosures I got!
giovanni
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It just shipped.
Man I feel you- especially painful these days. I think this is common enough for people that it warrants a “I quadruple checked” acknowledgment at checkout.I just placed a large Tayda order and I forgot to order the drilling service for the 5 enclosures I got!
giovanni
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I know. It’ll be like 30$ more dollars just for shipping
Erik S
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Time to get a drill press?I know. It’ll be like 30$ more dollars just for shipping
giovanni
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I have been thinking about that for years but I can’t really justify that purchase. I have gone to a makerspace in Brooklyn that has one, I may have to do that.Time to get a drill press?
Erik S
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Makerspaces are great. Especially if you're not trying to fill your apartment with machines.
CheapSuitG
The TubeSchemer
It’s been a wild month. Headaches and heartaches.
The good:
I crushed Q4, hit my full year quota, the first in the market. Grabbed some ok bonuses and I’m currently in the running for President’s Club.
The headache:
Since a restructure in June, they put a clown in charge. In the last 30 day my job’s been threatened three times, I got threated with a 60 day performance improvement plan (a polite way of saying you have 60 days, get your resume up to date) and HR even flew in to discipline me for a mistake that turned out to be my boss’s fault. In our company wide "town hall" it was mentioned sales pay structure will change 1/1/26 BUT we won't know the details until end of the year. "It will reward success" That is LITERALLY commission sales. I have been part of pay play restructures and never have they benefited the sales person.
I was hanging on because I had a new role with a Canadian company expanding to the US. but as of this morning that went from guaranteed 1/5/26 start to a 10% chance of happening overnight.
The heartache:
My former counter part of nearly 10 years and good friend I traveled with all across North America (75+ business trips) took her own life. I talked to her two days before. I keep thinking if I missed something or could have done something to prevent it, as I think everyone in that situation does.
Ready for the thanksgiving break, eat some turkey and build some pedals!
The good:
I crushed Q4, hit my full year quota, the first in the market. Grabbed some ok bonuses and I’m currently in the running for President’s Club.
The headache:
Since a restructure in June, they put a clown in charge. In the last 30 day my job’s been threatened three times, I got threated with a 60 day performance improvement plan (a polite way of saying you have 60 days, get your resume up to date) and HR even flew in to discipline me for a mistake that turned out to be my boss’s fault. In our company wide "town hall" it was mentioned sales pay structure will change 1/1/26 BUT we won't know the details until end of the year. "It will reward success" That is LITERALLY commission sales. I have been part of pay play restructures and never have they benefited the sales person.
I was hanging on because I had a new role with a Canadian company expanding to the US. but as of this morning that went from guaranteed 1/5/26 start to a 10% chance of happening overnight.
The heartache:
My former counter part of nearly 10 years and good friend I traveled with all across North America (75+ business trips) took her own life. I talked to her two days before. I keep thinking if I missed something or could have done something to prevent it, as I think everyone in that situation does.
Ready for the thanksgiving break, eat some turkey and build some pedals!
Erik S
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So sorry.
One of my best friends took his life just before Thanksgiving last year and he's been on my mind a lot this week. I do wish I had talked to him more. Not because I could have fixed or prevented anything, just because now I can't anymore.
Talk to your friends!
CheapSuitG
The TubeSchemer
Thanks -
And great advice, I spent the weekend after to call/text/email people I haven't spoken to in a while just to say hi. Didn't explain why, just that I wanted to touch base.
I tried a singing telegram for one, but they weren't available on short notice.
gtfields13
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Oo. I just blew an order. I accidentally clicked 1590B instead of 125b enclosures for one color so I have two xtra 125b drills and two cases with no drill. I will eat the cases but need to cancel the drill jobs I can’t hseI just placed a large Tayda order and I forgot to order the drilling service for the 5 enclosures I got!
gtfields13
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Not one, but two seized tension idler pulleys in both dryers. Just in time for everyone to bring laundry home for thanksgiving.
But I only need to figure out one repair technique
(FWIW, one has been dead for maybe 6 months - our home came with second upstairs laundry)
But I only need to figure out one repair technique
(FWIW, one has been dead for maybe 6 months - our home came with second upstairs laundry)
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jessenator
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Speed Queen commercial series 
falco_femoralis
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My furnace debacle was finally resolved Sunday morning and once the house warmed up I took a 6 hour siesta to recover from the trauma. Feels good to have working heat and be an actual human.
The dryer went out in the house I was renting during Covid. Rebuilt the old beast just because I was bored, was tired of my wife turning the thing on during Zoom meetings, and Amazon had the belt/pulleys for cheap. Rebuilt it Christmas day if I recall. One of the better gifts I've given myself. Landlord dropped off some outrageous Virginia peanuts and some beer so yes...I do work for peanuts...