rjones28 

Me neither.

rjones28 

WalksOn2Wheels

This is exactly why rodents as pets for children seem to have a huge chance of becoming a horrifying life lesson. Everyone I know, myself included, that had such a pet has some awful story about waking up the next day to blood and fur.

WalksOn2Wheels

It occurs to me this year that as I mature (get old), the new year is essentially meaningless to me. If anything it's a let down because it means the holidays, which have become my absolute favorite time of the year, are over. I'm sure things will change as my kids get older and the wife and I have a chance to slip out to some NYE parties. My NYE was putting the kids to bed, spending some time with my wife who had zero intention of staying up, and then toying with the new guitar until I happened to notice it was 12:15 a.m.

Still, it was a hell of a good time from Halloween till now. Life just seems a little more mundane outside of the holidays.

jtaylor996

Putry. I like teles. My tele is the only electric I haven't completely worked over at this point (forgive the ancient instagramy pic]:



I was real picky on that one, and was going to build myself, but then this one just was "right" even in the store. I did some minor changes: bridge plate and saddles, and locking tuners, but the meat is the same.

Next up would be fret work, because I really like the PUs on it already. I'm actually quite good at doing fret level/dress/setup by now, but I only do work for friends and myself. Fretwork is something I can do waaaay better than most factories, apparently.

Velo Vol 

If the people in this thread are a guide in a few years you'll be going to bed at 9 p.m.

RPK79

I was up until 12:15 on NYE.

WalksOn2Wheels

I really only need to add some custom switching to get the classic bridge+neck combo. The 5-way switch is wired exactly like a Strat at the moment. Other than that, I'm looking into perhaps painting over the satin poly finish on the neck to get a gloss laquer with an amber tint like I have on my Strat. I don't know that I will do it, but I want to. It has a six saddle bridge, which is preferable to me because my ears are really picky with intonation. It also came with locking tuners.

And as far as frets go, this one seems really good. My Strat was a mess and needed a full fret level to be playable, which is probably why it was on sale for 33% off when I picked it up. Factory work is really hit or miss with frets apparently.

Ramona_W

Roughly 83A in the summer and the heater kicks on at 64A in the "winter". The thermostat is at the other end of the hallway though and right now the thermometer says 63°. Luckily, we have flannel sheets, five layers of blankets, coffee, and the cat. And frankly anything is better than when it's 120° outside and humid.

Velo Vol 

Whippersnapper

Jadesfire 

Good job.

Sounds about right.

+1. Though I will say, rats are pretty friendly when they're singly housed.

RPK79

Mice are cute though!

jtaylor996

I'm running one of these (brass) to get it to intone correctly, but I still wanted the vintage sound. The metal surrounding that bridge PU changes the magnetic field a lot, so this was as little change as I could get away with while still getting perfect intonation. If I didn't love the sound that I had already, I might have gone with a 6 saddle bridge.

https://www.callahamguitars.com/tele...el_catalog.htm

The wiring on my tele is a little non-standard (but still factory... they call it greasebucket). I actually like it a lot. The tone knob is way more useful. It's 3 way, but with only 2 PUs that makes sense. You're going to need 5 way unless you want to remove the middle PU on yours.

As for the neck, the current trend with the "hot pickers" I know is the Speed Neck(tm), where you just sand all that **** off. I generally don't, but I can see the appeal. The violins/fiddles I play are all 100 years old and have unfinished maple necks, and over time your hand oils create a unique and durable protective coating that is not tacky/slick. People swear by this, but I don't think it makes any damn difference while playing.

The only time a neck finish gave me any real issues was with oil-finish necks in humid florida where that crap refused to cure. You will never see that type of finish on any guitar (takes 2 months to cure in the correct climate, and won't in FL at all, and costs a fortune compared to nitro or even spirit). Oil finishes went out of style 150 years ago, although scientifically they are measurably the best.

Edit: If you do want to respray your neck, I've got the sprayers/equipment necessary, and probably nitro, too. You would need to tint, etc. Oddly, I refinished my pool table exactly like you'd finish a guitar, just so I could learn the process. Results were awesome, but I may have been lucky on the weather conditions when I sprayed it.

BillyD

Go back and read the last few pages to get a feel. Just another forum pissing contest, also called trash talk among athletes and, um, clearly some non-athletes too.

Interesting post though.

Velo Vol 

In one of my grade school classes we had a gerbil.

wipekitty

In the real world (and not my idealized ultra-cold dream world) I start with 78 (day) and 72 (night) in the summer, and 64 (morning), 66(afternoon), 60 (night) in the winter. It used to be 55 at night, but I worry about pipes freezing.

Sometime around July I get cranky and turn the AC down to 76 during the day then go around and shut off vents to the living room and bathroom at night so that cold air magically shoots into the bedroom at night. By the end of summer, I'm turning the AC down to 68 at night.

When it's not excessively cold, I've been known to shut off the heat to the bedroom in the winter or keep the window open just a crack.

But I've learned that it's the dewpoint that gets me more than the actual temperature, as I did just fine in arid climates without AC. I'm considering getting a large dehumidifier for the bedroom this summer.

wipekitty

The only contest I ever won was in 3rd grade, when I got to take the class guinea pig home for Christmas break.

It was awful. It started squeaking up a storm every night around 11PM. My parents put it in the guest room.

indyfabz

I went to a real crunchy granola elementary school. Over the years we had gerbils, hamsters and guinea pigs. One time we had a female guinea pig with a couple of babies. We used to handle the babies a lot. One morning we came to school to find that the mother had killed the babies. Ripped them to shreds.

Velo Vol 

This is a hazy memory, possibly unreliable, but I'm pretty sure we took one of the gerbils home over break and it died.

LesterOfPuppets

Spotted a BB-8 out on the MTB the other day. Luckily not another bottom bracket standard this time.

Velo Vol 

Don't discount the athleticism necessary to make it through a season of senior softball.

indyfabz

Was it creaking?

LesterOfPuppets

No creaking. I did see an empty tube of Green Loctite in the dirt, though.

Ramona_W

When I was in sixth grade, my classroom had two gerbils. Kimi, who was allegedly my best friend, convinced me that a) they like their tummies rubbed and b) I should be the person who held the gerbil during this experiment. A) No, they don't and b) they will bite the person holding them. We went down to the school nurse and she cleaned up the bite. My mom was volunteering in another classroom and the nurse called her and told her what happened. She was a little concerned by the word "bitten" until she heard it was only a gerbil.

Ten minutes later, Kimi and I were back in the classroom beside the gerbil container and for the sake of repeatability- I guess cuz that's the only thing that makes sense- decided to see if the other gerbil was more amenable. No fool I, I insisted she hold the gerbil this time while I rubbed it. We discovered that a) this gerbil also objected to having its belly rubbed, b) gerbils don't care who they bite, and c) it's a good thing gerbils aren't gila monsters because Kimi was afraid she was going to get bitten this time and let go of the gerbil just as its teeth closed on my finger so it was effectively hanging there.

We went down to the nurse's office where a teacher called my mom. Mom said she was already aware I'd been bitten by a gerbil. The teacher explained this was a different gerbil and Mom said "Tell her to wash her hands and GO OUTSIDE." And that amazing compassion is the reason why I'm such a model of mental health today.

jtaylor996

Y'all seen the CFB championship game tix prices? UGA will be basically playing at home in ATL, so the cheapest I've seen so far are $2300/ea (for a quantity of 4). Like the boxes are $102,000 per seat for this game. That's not a typo!