acoustic setup complete

quite some time back

I named this thing

long division

(wreckers will get it)

because it was a royal pain in the ass

well, now it's done

whodat?

channeling srv...

big laugh follows

acoustic beautiful backside

ready to be strung up an fine tuned

lineup

apparently I'm a fan of the tobacco burst

go figure

sattaday nite is made for fighting....

but it's fridey

fridey nites are made for wrockin'

westone dimension IV

despite looking goofy to put it nicely

this is a whale of a guitar

available in '85 and '86

indicates that it is 28 years old

and in damn fine shape

when I got it it was covered in stickers 

which I removed

revealing the gaudy body decoration shown above

all original components

save the six screws I added to the tuners

two MMK45 humbuckers w/ single coil middle pickup

push/pull pots coil tap the neck p/u

activate the middle p/u 

phase switch the bridge p/u

I did a full fret job on it

i.e. removed and replaced the old frets

sanded the rosewood neck down to buttery smoothness

lemon oiled it and leveled crowned and polished the new frets
finally replaced the graphite nut w/ a bone one

this thing is a howling beast
one guy refered to it as
"one of the sweetest guitars ever"
and my brother said it was
"twice the guitar" of the strat pictured below

pretty high praise

strat

snarly dawgs

they bark and bite

rio grande muy grande pickups

highly recommended

really? REALLY?

oh I looked at my stats today

found out no one's reading

that sucks I guess 

though everything I say and do is all about me

and not about you

so it's time to 

RAMBLE ON

I've been far too busy and spent to fuck w/ the intertubes

so I haven't
but guitars are kinda cool, aren't they?

someday once again I'll go fishing

and tie some flies

build a rod or two

sooner

right?

wherein wishes are fulfilled or something like that

the other day in wrock school

a kid asked me

where's my arty picture you took of me

like the one you gave alex?

I answered that happens when it happens

and it hasn't happened for you

it's largely a matter of fate

karma serendipity luck

so yesterday I shot a few pics of him

one of which I liked

not arty but still kinda cool...

you tell me...

that's justin and his hagstrom