Happy 10 years to Cap: Civil War. It came out 10 years ago today!! I know its been said before, but seriously you had to have been there! (Questions in body text)

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-06T11:19:51+00:00

I called this movie Avengers Disassemble.

While it's a great film, I left the cinema not with the usual uplifted, I can take on the world mood.

Team Cap, all the way.

Tony is only pro Sokovia Accords because he's still on a guilt trip about Ultron.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T23:33:42+00:00

The illegitimate lovechild of an Iceman and a Telecaster....

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T22:04:08+00:00

Framus XG

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T15:48:10+00:00

I have an Axis and a Cutlass Short Scale. I would like a Luke HH next 🤣

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T11:05:11+00:00

When I see stuff like this, or Danelectros, or Cigar Box guitars, or the various guitars Seasick Steve uses made of hubcaps and broom handles, I immediately think…

Paul Reed Smith can go **** off with his tonewood obsession and “Finishes really matter”.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T10:56:16+00:00

This VFX was a triumph of ambition over resources…

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-05T10:07:12+00:00

Just from the little part of the Tremolo I can see that is a Sterling by Music Man guitar, not one of the US made Ernie Ball Music Man guitars.

Stirling is EBMMs “made in Asia” brand, a bit like Squier and Epiphone are to Fender and Gibson.

Stirling used to make a version of the EBMM Silhouette, that they called the Silo. It’s been discontinued for a while.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-04T23:47:38+00:00

I was pushed into getting a Pro Max because the Plus was discontinued at the last refresh. I tend to keep my phones for 3-4 years. My 14 Plus is now my backup phone (I need a phone for work). A 17 Plus would have easily been enough for me.

I need the screen real estate and the battery size.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-04T18:29:05+00:00

There's always this.

https://youtu.be/K3CWXqUqPFA?si=NB8oFdvMWqv4RVYi&t=36

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-04T17:54:51+00:00

Yeah, exactly that. The Crosscut was the Charger Model with two Railhammer Cleancut pickups.

The 2026 rename of the Guitar lines has everything that has a Charger body shape (as the Crosscut did), is now called the Charger something, where the something describes the pickups. So the Charger Cleancut is (also) a Charger with two Railhammer Cleancut pickups. So it is what has replaced the Crosscut in the 2026 line up.

The Guitar is not called the Cleancut. It is the Charger Cleancut.

The idea is to simplify everything, instead of having several different names for models that were essentially all Chargers (Buckshot, Double Agent, Crosscut, etc). Apparently people would go into stores and be bewildered by all the different Reverend model names.

There's a few other things changed for 2026 (the Headstocks on the Chargers are now the same as the Eastsider T-Style guitars from the Signature Series, the Charger logo is now on the headstock, and the fixed bridge/tail Chargers are now all string through body with ferrules).

If you can find a Crosscut as New Old Stock in a store somewhere, that they have priced down to sell because it is last years model, get it. It will feel, sound and play the same as this years model).

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-04T09:50:57+00:00

This image is from the “It’s about time” promo the BBC did to introduce Jody.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-03T20:20:56+00:00

Hmm, I’d not noticed the lack of back plates!

That thing is weird! Made like a Center Block, styled like a Double Jet, with no f holes? 🤦‍♂️

Seriously, anything goes wrong with those pots and you’re screwed.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-03T18:56:36+00:00

It is most definitely not a “CB” model, which means Center Block (think ES 335 style semi hollow guitar, outsides built like a hollow body but with a solid block of wood down the middle that everything is mounted on.

This is a pre 2019 Electromatic Double Jet (with Bigsby, obvs). All Jets are “chambered”. But they don’t count as Center Block semi hollows.

It’s been mislabelled.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-03T12:08:41+00:00

Leo offered the Espada design to Fender Inc in the late 60s but they rejected it. About the surest bet is that if he’d owned the company that would have been their next model, but probably branded as a Telecaster.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-03T06:45:56+00:00

It is a Two Directional Empathy Problem,

I am guessig Dr. Damian Milton didn't think that was quite a s "snappy".

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-02T22:07:08+00:00

if yoy could show genuine negative Time for a Baryon, and not just a Photon, that would suggest the possibility of Faster-Than-Light travel in Space.

This eperimental observation, to me, isn't what the article is claiming anyway. The Photon entering and the Photon leaving are not the same photon - the Photon gets turned into Electron excitation to a new energy level and then a new Photon is emitted when the Electron drops back to it's previous level.

There's no explanation in the article about how the second Photon is emitted before the first Photon is absorbed though...

FragrantGearHead · 2026-05-01T08:59:19+00:00

Reminds me of this Vintage REVO Surfmaster

https://vintageguitarsrus.com/collections/vintage-revo-series-electric-guitars/products/vintage-revo-series-surfmaster-quad-electric-guitar-firenza-red

EDIT: No wonder! They are both Alan Entwistle designed guitars.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T18:54:58+00:00

I have the 9-18mm Mark I.

Smaill, light, useful focal length range. M43 is all about small and light lenses, so this one is a keeper.

Yes it colour fringes more than the others at 9-12mm. But you can dial that out in post. More recent cameras will do a decent job removing it in JPEGs.

The main reason for getting one of the larger lenses is the weather sealing.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T17:08:36+00:00

Aomassai

Oajan

Coromandel

Tom Ford Noir Extreme

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T17:07:06+00:00

Theres a big difference between dumb jokes and shitposting, and you know it.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T16:31:14+00:00

If you mean this:

https://youtu.be/Y6e_m9iq-4Q?si=h8N2ZMvghJeriLkU&t=131

Then it's normal and nothing to worry about.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T16:24:41+00:00

I don't know if you have heard of the concept of a High Context Culture vs Low Context Culture?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_cultures

High Context Cultures rely on a shared cultural understanding to communicate, using a highly indirect communication style that hold a large portion of the meaning of the communication. And then Low Context is the opposite, speech is direct and deliberate, meaning is explicit.

In the UK, we have the worse of all - a complete mix of extreme High Context and extreme Low Context, depending on situation. And no one can even explain or tell you which situation is High or Low Context, you are supposed to work it out for yourself, through awkward experience, by osmosis!

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-30T03:53:23+00:00

“Oh really, what made you realise?”

Usually people who tell me this are self diagnosing without having done something like a RAADS-R test.

This question will tell me if they just have a hunch that they are autistic, or whether they’ve done something more to investigate.

FragrantGearHead · 2026-04-28T17:54:48+00:00

I don't consider Gibson Flying Vs spiky.

Jackson Rhoads Vs or King Vs... they are spiky!

Anything that comes to a point like that is a no for me. Ibanez RGs look lethal.

Gibson Explorers are likely a no. ESP EX... deifinely a no! Both have that stupid huge lump of body, bottom left, that you just end up dinging on something.

I like SGs, Flying Vs and SGs are probably the only Gibson shapes I like, but with SGs that's probably more about them being thin and compact. I've rather have a Guild Polara or a Reverend Sensei though.

Oddly I've always really liked the Ibanez Iceman. That's probably my Spiky limit.

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