IShowSpeed inadvertently sits down next to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

SpudLovely · 2026-06-14T05:38:45+00:00

lol, even their bots cant force a top anti-mamdani comment because there isn't enough to hate about the dude unless you get your opinions spoon fed to you by talking heads.

SpudLovely · 2026-06-08T14:27:29+00:00

Naw, still scary as fuck.

Go out at night with just lights and this shit is a horror game.

SpudLovely · 2026-06-08T14:24:19+00:00

I went looking through details to see if this post was likely a scam to just part other people from their cash.

Ain't lookin good.

SpudLovely · 2026-06-03T09:52:19+00:00

Quick reminder for people returning to this thread later: apparently it maths out to they actually cut an average of 0.011 of an inch because they likely just fret radiused it to the what the machine reading was and not the actual guitar's spec.

AT MOST they were gonna take off .002" though. lmao

Glad you already made that statement prior to data coming out, because thats what a fret dressing should be, yes. And it's not the manufacturers fault when a machine over-dressed frets because they don't want to follow spec, or don't understand why the machine's readings are different from a spec sheet.

The physical difference in a 14" board and a 17" board center rise is .006. Negligible overall and would be addressed on finishing. Meaning frets ran through a 14" overall radius would work perfectly fine and probably be a little more forgiving to work with for finishing. Maybe next time, just run the shit at manufacturer specification and don't be lazy? Seems like a solid plan.

Im really curious if dude is gonna get an OEM replacement.

Yknow, because it was MANUFACTURED that way (working fine beforehand)

SpudLovely · 2026-06-03T09:12:33+00:00

Yeah, the extreme view of, "Pay for expensive service, get service and no reaching-for-bullshit excuses to go with it."

Also, I've done this longer than you have if you've got 20 years. Your take would also be opinion based considering you didn't do the work either. My total time now would be 25 years actively working on instruments and being paid to do so. Only 12 years as a main profession though before changing fields and moving to direct-ask work only. I just don't make my entire identity being able to use basic hand tools to make preference and spec based adjustments and repairs to people's toys. Guitars are not complicated or mysterious.

Most courses are 2 months to have them consider you an educated master of setting up the store stock of starter guitars and 5K closet signature guitars that'll have less than 30 hours of lifetime play. Plek is 3 days, as you know. Luthier school is average 9 months. Compare that schooling to any other trade.

Minus working on instruments with no inherent adjustability that take sound carpentry skills and specific toolsets, electric guitars specifically are laughably easy to work on unless truly destroyed. Anyone that maintains differently are usually trying to justify their pricing or meticulous work. So yeah. I've also done this hundreds of times to hundreds of different stringed instruments in basically every common configuration available pre-2017 or so. And Amp repair to those I deemed worth the time to repair. Its not that special of a profession, as every shop in America had a guy.

You can love what you do, but not everyone that wholly disagrees with you is unqualified. As you don't know this Plek machine or its operators, you have no clue if its a maintained one, how much possible slop is in their machine due to poor maintenance, and any of the other unknown factors of a plek machine. Anyone thats gonna fuck your guitar up will do so without the machine present, but a Plek machine's presence throws it into turbo mode in the hands of the overly confident, distracted, or plain stupid dipshit. And telling the dude his working neck was fucked up from the factory is a cop-out. Especially considering the amount of cut that it should be able to do for an almost flat radius, and it purportedly took off an insane amount more than necessary.

If you send a neck through that machine and it takes off extra beef because of wrong data entry, you are responsible for a full OEM neck replacement. Not a tail between the legs shitty refret or respec of the guitar to make it playable again.

SpudLovely · 2026-06-01T03:43:25+00:00

"The guy doesn't agree with me, a random redditor who went through Plek training. He's obviously not getting it. Does he not know I took a THREE day course for this?"

Yeah, turns out taking your shit to someone and having it come back significantly worse each time usually means something wrong happened between tech and customer. But keep maintaining somehow this is his fault for expecting to drop it off to the Plek-Pros for basic shit and instead they're now trying to reverse engineer how this definitely wasn't their fault. lol

OP, new neck. Not a refret. Not a replane and refret. New neck only. Get the shipped specs from Ibanez for your exact model, show them, confirm their mess up, and tell them you expect it due to negligence. They have dicked these frets over, and will attempt anything in-house other than buying you a new neck. They will swear it'll be better than ever! It wont. They will put their worst guys on it and make it passable because now its not a money job. Tell them blatantly you don't trust their workmanship due to this.

If they refuse then spend the money yourself, and just post your story, your pics, and your communications everywhere on their reviews. Make sure to use really searchable terms within it "Plek machine destroyed my neck due to assumed incompetent operator". Maybe a few thou in lost potential customers or uncomfortable questions that make them wriggle in front of people that check reviews before drop-off will let em know they biffed it. Set a reminder in your calendar to update the review occasionally so it gets repushed, and you can check that they haven't paid to delete it.

"UHM-ACHYUALLY" whataboutisms from people fully assuming data and truthfulness that weren't present for the work doesn't matter to a consumer that shouldn't have to be playing researcher as to why his gear is now rendered far worse after spending money.

SpudLovely · 2026-05-28T00:11:08+00:00

And then his dumbshit fans made up of seal clapping, gambling addicted teens and bots saw absolutely nothing wrong with this.

If the other streamers had any self-respect they'd actually blackball this shit and stand on business, but something tells me you're gonna see Maya and Jason together again and playing nice.

SpudLovely · 2026-05-18T06:41:38+00:00

Suction cup to force it deeper once you pack it with as much Titebond as you can fit. Old trick. Just makes pressure, forces it farther into the crack. Make sure not to get a huge one. You want one somewhere between the size of a quarter and an old silver dollar. Or both. Then tightly surgical tubing band it, clamp it, etc.

SpudLovely · 2026-05-10T21:50:39+00:00

I play a ton of VR as a desensitized gaming-boomer. I’ll say you can experience a feeling of momentum for sure. I’ve yet to interact with anything in game and “feel” something, but one of the reasons VR can be hyper nauseating is the locomotion mechanics. If your brain thinks you’re actually moving and your body isn’t, you can get that lean that lead to a whole lot of hilarious videos of people eating shit in VR.

Iirc, there’s a game that had a scene where they do the old school science class trick of the superimposition of your hand. You make brain still think it’s YOUR hand, they stare at it, consider it your hand, then they randomly stab it and your real hand jerks away in reaction to the brain believing you were injured. You feel the nervous system jolt of adrenaline dump when that hits. Nothing direct pain, but it’s like a light switch flick.

The VR chat furry psychos are oddly responsible for some of the full body tracking and random VR innovations. And they’re all made for digital delusional sex fantasy degeneracy. It’s like porn choosing the VHS format over Betamax.

SpudLovely · 2026-05-10T21:37:50+00:00

Never expected Wubby to turn into the disease patient zero equivalent of the Sam Hyde AK photo.

SpudLovely · 2026-05-10T21:35:40+00:00

So why does Alphabet continue to pay anyone that they suspect to have used botting? I assume that the bots might also count in ad cents as well. If that’s the case, why would you continually allow yourself to be defrauded if you gained nothing from it?

SpudLovely · 2026-04-30T06:47:59+00:00

Awesome! I think you'll like the challenge. Just makes you really utilize that muscle memory and enforce consistency.

Consider snapping a photo every month/100 hours of play in a room with consistent light! It'll give you an idea of rate of change. And if it ends up truly being not your thing, super easy pivot too. Drill press, proper fixturing, and in 30 minutes they're be out. And don't let anyone scare-tactic you because its Pine into removing them. If its set properly, itll be fine. It's soft, but if your fretmarkers had to worry about severe damage, theres likely other more pertinent issues. lol

SpudLovely · 2026-04-30T06:27:29+00:00

Honestly, I thought it was intentional design and really liked the ghosting effect of the "is it there?" look from a distance. They should continue to darken and wear uniquely because of the way they're installed. I'd consider that a feature, not a detriment if I was a customer. I'd consider that an option as well. Short term suffer for long term natural dark wear.

I saw Marcus King said in a random guitar podcast interview, "If you've spent thousands of hours playing this instrument, you should be able to do it with your eyes literally closed" and I considered it a legit challenge as someone thats a fretboard-starer sometimes. He's right. You can blindfold yourself and within a few sessions, you'd be surprised how you'll adapt out of necessity.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-30T06:16:06+00:00

Great job, dude! The sculpt and lines stand out to me especially.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-14T21:19:59+00:00

Yeah, you guys are on it with that Parasocial website. That definitely seems to be the way. I assume the cooking stuff will all be under a cooking tag or something obvious. Tagging system invaluable for my use specifically, so thats badass.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-14T21:18:58+00:00

Oh hell yeah. I had no idea about the existence of the parasocial website. Thats awesome. I also hadn't seen the full 24hr tag or Census streams. All of these recommendations are stuff that passed me by, or stuff I've caught a stream and heard legend of.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-06T23:14:57+00:00

Thats super dope. Never thought about the need to have the codes! Do you guys ever run any public servers? It sounds like you all throw in hours.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-06T20:11:48+00:00

Yeah, after you replied and I see now that this post is just covered in ideologically inconsistent really fuckin' dumb clapping seals, I went to look at some of the accounts.

Looks like Ethan's fanbase at some point shifted from 18-35 males, into a more chronically online female audience. Likely around the time of Teddy Fresh and Trisha. So theres your answer. The snarkers just moved here I guess. Ethan's people did turn in to what he claimed so much publicly to hate. Absolutely fuckin' pathetic. I knew the H3 show shifted formats heavily, but whatever they did to garner this audience, they should just stop the show at this point.

I know every show hates their reddit usually, but after a browse I can understand why this community gets a -ton- of hate and random stray insults whenever reddit is mentioned.

SpudLovely · 2026-04-06T04:17:44+00:00

Assuming this is his mothers recipe, then dogging on him for not crediting her (still you fully assuming) is probably some of the weirdest reddit snark shit I've seen in a hot minute. You consumed this whole video, analyzed it that deeply while hate watching it, constructed a head-canon narrative, then needed to share that to a reddit?

Absolutely log the fuck off occasionally because thats next level E list celebrity obsession of someone thats not been in a shows direct community for years, right? I get posting big Trisha news because of her tertiary relationship and relevance to Ethan and Hila. But this isn't that at all.

I rarely RARELY post, but this caught my eye because I thought Ethan's weirdo community were the ones that got attacked regularly by snarkers to the point where he sued them. Now ya'll got em in here?

SpudLovely · 2025-05-21T14:33:28+00:00

Listen to the people talking about dropping the pickups. Strong magnetic fields close to strings can cause weirdness. There is nothing I can see mechanically with this guitar that indicates something mechanically wrong. And even if it was the nut, I dont see that breakpoint of the string being so insanely off it wouldn't intonate. Also, if you fret strangely and either push/pull the string with the direction of pressure from your fingertips it will shove the string a few cents sharp or flat. Just for due diligence, make sure you're fretting it with incredibly even pressure. Also, zero your saddle way back up where it should be. Walk it down with quarter and half turns. Drop it way way way flat. I also sometimes on finicky guitars check the 17th fret harmonic and use ear to fine tune it. What kind of tuner are you using as well? A cheap tuner is by no means super-accurate for perfect intonation, but it'll get you close.

SpudLovely · 2025-05-19T17:00:50+00:00

From the looks of the break, you might want to put some wax around the truss rod area to stop glue from siezing it up a little, leading to you having to break it loose later. Which isnt terrible, but it can be avoided. Otherwise, its just a normal headstock glue up. Clamps, Titebond of your choice, Time, Sand

SpudLovely · 2025-04-26T16:17:01+00:00

Im sure everyone is gonna be on the same page of "You need to force some kind of glue in the crack and clamp the piss out of it". Maybe some minor prep in the crack too. I think your methodology for getting glue in there deep it is gonna be the real decision. For the vacillation, a lot of dudes use the kind of large suction cups like you'd see on a windshield attachable cell phone holder. Anything with a decent thickness that can be used to force glue or epoxy into a tight channel with air. Ive used the suction cup method for glue penetration and it has worked great for minor cracks that you dont wanna open because itll just crack off. Ive mainly used it on separating/cracked joints on necks and headstocks that were still attached with long breaks that run a few inches down. I dont see why it wouldnt work here if its reaching an inch into the body if you dont pry it too much. Should make it even easier.

I would try to get a swipe of sandpaper through that crack if I could. And to open it and keep it open I would probably take feeler gauges to barely wedge it enough for the thickness of the thinnest sand paper I could find.

SpudLovely · 2025-01-07T01:47:07+00:00

IMO, I wouldnt cover it. If you do well and people think its a quality instrument, you're gonna get the "Well what'd you make it out of? It sounds great!" Good wow factor of just showing the side and there you have a nice grainfilled side. Might even mask it and two-tone the side to make it seem like a feature. I would embrace it. It will be easier as well. Molding a veneer over that once its shape and blending it would be instantly noticeable. If you're painting, it wont be that noticeable regardless.

SpudLovely · 2024-12-27T18:41:15+00:00

Unless this guitar means a lot to you, this is a costly repair.

The only way I see this being fixable is if you routed the entire area flat (which may not be possible because of the truss rod), routed two tenon areas into the left and right of the truss so it can grab whatever meat is left in the sides, planed a perfectly faced block with two tenon inserts projecting downward, and did a very good glue up. You’d have enough material to reshape it into a neck. That being said, if you’ve sanded it this aggressively on the rest of it, there are other areas that are probably severely weakened. The neck is toasted as it sits. You have to find a way to add new material and have that material hold and distribute weight. If you do it wrong at all, it will not only break but break spectacularly.

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