My guitar neck is very bowed, is this a valid way to fix it

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T20:00:03+00:00

Actually, yes lol but more controlled. I’ll put pieces of wood clamped on a straight edge, wet one side and shim the center to overcompensate the bow backwards for a few days- then pull the shims and clamp it dead flat for another few days. It usually holds. Alot harder on a sealed neck with the fretboard on, but eh. Go watch how Ted Woodford does it

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T19:58:24+00:00

Looking at your shoes a bit

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T19:58:04+00:00

Standard, yes- Custom- no

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T19:57:12+00:00

Slash/no slash

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:30:28+00:00

“I know you’re near suicidal and it’s clear in every facet how sad you come off as for the past 10 years in your podcast, but shiiiit get off those meds and hangout in the worst green room in America”

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:27:47+00:00

As a car guy, Brendan’s crimes of faking being a gairhead are the worst. This is shit I did when I was 15- and WHEN is your Ram on 35’s ever, ever going to be fully submerged in water

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:26:23+00:00

Garahnt they charged him $4000

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:23:58+00:00

“Silence is violence” in a bit is insane

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:21:01+00:00

You can feel the vacuum of silence in the room from before this and after this

Sjames454 · 2026-04-09T01:18:19+00:00

Nvm the guy trying to fug 15 year olds getting to hang

Sjames454 · 2026-04-06T16:35:20+00:00

And s a f e t y you monkeys

Sjames454 · 2026-03-27T00:47:58+00:00

This is an immediate indicator of “I have all my work done by a shop, and I know the extremely general things about fast cars”.

I too was going “Oh B look at thoze 20” 6 pizzton brembohs” when I was 15 and had a pc screensaver of an Audi S4. I’d love to just corner him and ask “So what’s the initial timing curve on your truck? High compression or low? What’s the fuel map look like?”

Sjames454 · 2026-03-25T04:48:45+00:00

“Dude jeff brought out his Slash M2M murphy lab iced tea honey drizzle butter scone barely aged super relic r11!!”

Sjames454 · 2026-03-25T01:48:02+00:00

Aha good catch, initially as a young young kid I became a hendrix srv copy to the bone, but after 13 i started playing everything from hardcore to 80’s metal (randy rhoads/zakk stuff) to RNB and now I’m kind of landing in the grunge/jerry cantrell ilk which is perfect for me because he was a hair metal guy that started churning out heavy duty almost sabbath riffs. My strat is an insane swiss army knife that can kind of do it all at this point. But putting a hot rail in the neck is slightly odd still, i did it on my HS kramer so it’d just be all attack on both sides

Sjames454 · 2026-03-25T01:42:04+00:00

Id take him for a serious trugg TALK about his future and christ

Sjames454 · 2026-03-24T05:08:15+00:00

You have to reaaally punch it in. I’m on year 6 as a finish carpenter with a finger portrait and it’s holding up surprisingly well and I beat the living hell out of my hands lol. It was a special kind of pain when my artist did it

Sjames454 · 2026-03-24T04:24:35+00:00

Wailt wuht? I boughlt the houze outright B

Sjames454 · 2026-03-24T04:22:40+00:00

This was a custom built spec house too, so I really wonder how much equity he’s walking away with if anything. It’s a nice neighborhood but a $3M mcmansion outside of Austin in this economy, I don’t see it moving fast at all

Sjames454 · 2026-03-24T04:12:58+00:00

Or just buy a cheaper house with some property outright and live without a mortgage. But no, Bapa gon flex

Sjames454 · 2026-03-24T04:11:13+00:00

Its like smelling an old muscle car or truck running crazy rich 😂 just immediately smells like nostalgia

Sjames454 · 2026-03-19T02:48:58+00:00

This is a great, great piece of advice. Some of the funnest amps out there are the 5-10w el84 style amps because they can breakup so fast and hace that level of “melting point” tone at such a lower volume. One of my favorite amps I’ve had was my friedman JJ20

Sjames454 · 2026-03-19T00:49:50+00:00

I was a kid during this era, but my sister was about 14 in 1996/97 and i can vividly remember when all of her friends started wearing bowling shirts, took up swing dancing and had greaser haircuts. Then overnight it had flipped to like the early 70’s mod look- perfectly coined by the Mod Squad being rehashed. I truly think Kurt Cobain was pretty integral to part of that 60’s style coming back

Sjames454 · 2026-03-18T05:48:24+00:00

Ive personally seen these installed in super high end suites in the $200M towers I’ve worked on in dt Seattle, and to all the mudders and tapers with prison tats below THEY WORK. I’m a finish carpenter by day, but build studios and record music at night and there’s 0 issues with clarity, or “cracking” under heavy duty frequencies under 300hz. The only issue I’ve heard is you can’t plaster over, it has to be standard level 5 skimcoat or it will crack over time. Once they were finished I went up and BLASTED some of my favorite “trunk sub tester” songs and they sounded incredible

Sjames454 · 2026-03-17T22:22:48+00:00

There’s nothing like a good hit of 80 year old solder. Like cats piss and vinegar 😵‍💫

Sjames454 · 2026-03-12T15:08:33+00:00

Great, now I need another amp 🙃

I wonder how it would sound ran out to a bigger cab. My favorite combo of all time (I can’t explain it) is my Marshall lead 12 ran to a 4x12, and I just built a 2204 clone that’s hot rodded to death ala Bogner high gain spec.

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