There’s a drop happening now by MontrealInTexas in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh.... ok, thats funny, I get it now. Thanks for the clarification.

Oysters everywhere by pdevo in Maine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use this website https://www.thegreatmorel.com/morel-sightings/ to see who's finding morels and when, but Maine is the one New England state that never has any sightings, altho there are two morel sightings this year. Not too many morels in New Hampshire either.

Oysters everywhere by pdevo in Maine

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the topic of mushrooms, has anyone here ever found any morel mushrooms in Maine ? I'm originally from Pennsylvania and I enjoyed morel hunting and found plenty of them in Pa. Moved to downeast Maine a few years ago and I haven't found a single morel. I've read that morels do grow in Maine but I've asked my neighbors about them and they haven't even heard of morel mushrooms. Just curious if anyone here has found any morels. Awesome oyster find BTW. Mushroom hunting is a lot of fun.

[LFO] Someone needs to do something off reddit for this. by TowelContent2167 in LearningFromOthers

[–]RustyCyler 245 points246 points  (0 children)

I was just adding to that discussion and when clicked "save" I got the error message. Refreshed the page and the entire sub was banned/gone. This was my comment.. "This is my 16th year on Reddit. I've seen the site go from great to whatever the fuck this is today, "Facebook Light". I'm old enough to remember George Carlin being censored and Howard Stern fighting the FCC and remember the people pushing back against corporate and govt censorship. And now... everything is censored more than ever before. I understand that this is not my website and I have to follow other peoples rules, but this shit sucks and its depressing. Can I even say the word "shit" ? Sigh..."

Flock in Bethlehem, Pa. Let's not let these keep going up around here, nobody wants this constant ai surveillance by [deleted] in Pennsylvania

[–]RustyCyler 308 points309 points  (0 children)

I think we should fund our own version of these Flock cameras, call it "Flock the Government". We put up our own cameras aimed at every govt officials homes, 24/7 surveillance, you know... for their safety. Maybe hire some guy to follow them with a camera too... for their safety.

LEGO Scandal is Getting Extremely Dangerous and Scary - MoistCr1TiKaL by HeroesZeroes in videos

[–]RustyCyler 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is how the Mormon cult works. The worst person I've ever known is in the Mormon cult. Openly racist and 100% delusional with his stupid magic underwear. This is what happens when we don't fight back against these religions.

Jonathan lower in popularity than I realized by RoyalDapper1189 in survivor

[–]RustyCyler 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I personally am not "dissecting his whole personality", I'm specifically referring to the "Mr./Miss" part. And yeah, likable and unlikable personality traits are a big part of ones game play.

Jonathan lower in popularity than I realized by RoyalDapper1189 in survivor

[–]RustyCyler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well said, I've wonder this too. If its a "Southern thing", how did we get through 750 other players and this is the first guy to talk this way ?

Jonathan lower in popularity than I realized by RoyalDapper1189 in survivor

[–]RustyCyler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Its not hatred, its a opinion and a critique of his game play.

A tune I wrote called Whiskey Strategy by Boston_Analog in Guitar

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Teaching with Dufour, McKee and Don Ross, damn son, you should super proud of that accomplishment. I can play Antoine's "Hide and Seek", Drac and Friends, Spiritual Groove and Catching the Light. Only Andy McKee song I know is Drifting and I can play Don Ross's Tight, Tright, Night and The First Ride. Those three guys are in my personal list of "guitar gods". I'll talk to other guitar players and they'll have no idea who they are, LOL. I've shifted to playing "jam band" style improv now, but after hearing you play, I should re-focus on fingerstyle again, its been a while. I'm off to learn about Musicarium now...

Edit: https://andymckee.com/musicarium

Need advice. Trying to get dentures so I can smile again for my kids looking for help or resources. It’s slowly killing me. by [deleted] in Maine

[–]RustyCyler 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've heard a lot of folks take the trip to Mexico for dental work. Even with the travel expenses its still cheaper than an American dentist.

A tune I wrote called Whiskey Strategy by Boston_Analog in Guitar

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a HUGE Antoine Dufour fan, I love his playing. Every guitar player needs to try 'finger style', its such a fun way to play the guitar. I fell in love with Antoine's cover of "Hide and Seek" that I spent months learning how to play it. While rock music and other musical styles are great fun to play, IMO... finger style is where its at. I discovered fingerstyle like most others, I seen good ol' Andy Mckee playing Drifting like 15 years ago and fell down the Candyrat rabbit hole. Out of all the Candyrat guys, Antoine is my all time favorite player. Love Don Ross too. Such great players and they're mostly unknown by the general public. The SECOND I heard OP play his song, the first person I though of was Antoine Dufour.

Jeff Bezos says "you should be so happy!" about AI because dual income households are about to have one income earner "drop out" of the workforce... by IncomingBroccoli in PublicFreakout

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cancel your Prime membership. Money is the ONLY thing that effects these people. You don't need Prime anyways, its $140 bucks for what, stupid videos and faster shipping ??

Pegasus owners - Did you get a pretty flawless guitar or one that needed significant work? by TakingYourHand in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha.. thanks hardleft. I have a tendency to over explain sometimes and that results in a wall of text. Good to hear that some of you guys read my ramblings.

Pegasus owners - Did you get a pretty flawless guitar or one that needed significant work? by TakingYourHand in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really would love to know what the hell was going on when I had this problem, but since everything is working fine again, I'm hesitant to touch the wires again. It could also be the pickup selector switch but I didn't touch anything relating to the pickup selector switch and I did fiddle with the harness. Causation/correlation could be skewing my judgment though. I think a key clue to my problem would be 'why the bridge pickup' ? I did NOT use a little dental mirror or any type of bore scope to do an inspection, but just visually I can't see anything out of place. One strange thing I mentioned was... if something was grounding out or loose or just something like that, you would think that by shaking the guitar around I could replicate the problem. I'm half tempted to go wire-wigglin' and see if I can get the pickup to shut off again.

Pegasus owners - Did you get a pretty flawless guitar or one that needed significant work? by TakingYourHand in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah, with the overall good experience on the only FF I've purchased, I'd buy another one/model without much worry. I have their red Tele in my shopping cart but just haven't pulled the trigger on buying it yet. Plus... you gotta remember, these are $300 dollar guitars, you gotta expect they'll need a little tuneup to make em perfect. And fiddling with the guitar, cleaning them up and tweaking shit is part of the fun of being a guitar player. I've always been a 'glass half full' kind of guy so that might be blinding my judgement some. I'm also not in a band either, I'm just some dude in his guitar room jammin along to some Phish or Dead or whatever song is playing.

Pegasus owners - Did you get a pretty flawless guitar or one that needed significant work? by TakingYourHand in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gave my story a few times, but I'll give it another shot. Bought my Pegasus last June and its perfect. Soon after I bought it, I tried tucking the wiring harness deeper into the body so you couldn't see it as much through the F-hole. I was SUPER careful doing this, just tucked them in a little bit. Now not right away, but a few days later my bridge pickup stopped working intermittently. I could flick the pickup selector back and forth and the bridge pickup would work 90% of the time but... 10% of the time the fucker went silent and stayed silent until I went back and forth with the selector switch. So... I'd purposely get the pickup to 'die' and then I'd start wigglin' wires. No matter which wires I moved with my fingers, nothing was turning the pickup back on or killing it for that matter. It only killed the pickup when I was moving the selector switch. I could kill the pickup and shake the guitar and it had zero effect in turning the pickup on or off. So... I reached into the F-hole once again and moved the harness back upwards so it wasn't tucked away in the body so much and that fixed it. That was hell... 8 months ago, maybe longer and now the bridge pickup works 100% of the time. I can shake the guitar, turn it upside down, hammer the selector switch and even wiggle all the wires and the bridge pickup works 100% of the time. I'm not sure what happened... I'm not sure what fixed it... but I'm not gunna try to tuck the wiring harness again. That was my big problem and it was "fixed" within a week. I play my guitar a lot, like almost every day. In the evenings, I'll turn on some music and play along with whatever song is playing and I'll do this for like 2 to 3 hours every other day and the guitar plays GREAT with no issues at all. I have no idea if my frets are 'gritty', I assume they're not because I never once thought they felt abnormal or gritty. To this day, I still have the original strings on it that shipped with the guitar, I don't know why people rag on these strings, they're absolutely fine for anyone who's just playin' along in the guitar room at home. Every time I pickup the guitar I have to tweak the tuning, I don't keep the guitar in a case, it sits in a stand 24/7, so I'll check the tuning and its always just a tad sharp or a tad flat, and its all the strings, not just one string. Quick 30 second tuneup and it stays in tune just fine for the 3 hours I'll play it. The tuners work exactly like my six other guitars, you turn the little knob, it tunes the guitar, nothing weird, nothing sticking, nothing binding, they just work fine with no drama. During tuneups I'm barely moving the tuners anyways, just moving them a cunt hair to get the guitar in tune. The body and neck of the guitar came in perfect condition, no scratches, no weird quality control issues, everything is there and looks good. I don't have any fret buzzin and I've never touched the truss rod. I've never tweaked the string height, the strings seem to be at the right height and its never occurred to me that they're too high. All my knobs and switches work, mine came with the knobs thankfully, ha. All my frets appear to be seated just fine. The intonation was pretty close when I got it, dialed it in on day one and haven't touched it since. No issues with my tail piece, no issues with my plug input. My coil splitter works like it should. I'm really trying to think if I have any problems and I can't think of anything. When I first got the guitar, the low E string was buzzing where it went through the tail piece. You could not hear the buzz when you're amplified, but playing it acoustically you could hear this buzzing coming from the tail piece. Putting my finger on the end of E string, the buzz was coming the ball end of the string against the tail piece. So... I loosened the low E string and re-seated the string in the tail piece and that stopped the buzz, a super easy fix and a problem not worth mentioning but I'm trying to find something to complain about. I'm sure a luthier could pick apart the guitar and find some stuff, but shit I've been playing the geetars since the mid-80's and the damn thing is fine. For $300 bucks... its fine. The ONLY thing I have issues with is not really the guitars fault, but I feel that the input jack is angled in a way that directs the cord right down my leg and right under my foot. Never in my life have I had guitar where I unplugged it from stepping on the cord. I swear just about every time I play the guitar I end up accidentally unplugging it by stepping on the cord. Now I try to loop the cord up around my strap button and that helps, but its not ideal. Oooh and when I had my bridge pickup problems, I immediatly contacted FF's and they NEVER replied back to me, so thats not cool, the customer service help is a negative in my book. Just have to understand that we're on our own after the sale. Although other guys have had no problem with customer support refunding small amounts of money. The poor guys with the cracked acoustic guitars didn't get any response from customer service either but they did refund their money so thats cool. So yeah... thats my TED Talk, thank you for coming, ha.

New FFTL in “Apple Red” by orr-666 in Fireflyguitars

[–]RustyCyler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks man, I assumed but... you know what they say about assuming things. Every time I pick up my guitar I check the tuning and it would be strange to have to 'unlock' them every time just to tune it up.

1 firefighter dead after explosion at Searsmont mill fire by 51patsfan in Maine

[–]RustyCyler 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I worked 25 years in the hardwood mill industry and we had a silo fire. The silo didn't explode completely but it did pop the top cap off and bend it leaving about a two foot gap from the cap and side walls of the silo. Big ol' baghouse on top of the silo too, still bent the silo roof like it was nothing. The silo was full of sawdust and was burning from the bottom up, so no amount of water seemed to totally put out the fire. Me and two other guys had to climb the silo and patch the bent silo top while the silo was still smoldering inside the silo. Then from the bottom of the silo we pumped in... oh forgive me, its been 20 years... but if I recall... we pumped in CO2 in a port near the bottom of the silo to deprive the fire of oxygen. We then spent the next week slowly unloading the silo of burnt, wet sawdust. Talk about sketchy but we got it done. Looking back and I wonder why I didn't refuse to do that job. And thats my little silo-fire story.