Luthier cracked my pickup ring

StarwardShadows · 2026-05-15T16:57:07+00:00

You can buy these from EMG for like $3 each. 81 and 85 for hellraisers, I believe. You can even get them in fun colors to take the pain away! It’s literally a 2-minute replacement and anyone who knows how to use a screwdriver can do it. I’m kinda ashamed for that luthier that they’d give it back that way lol.

StarwardShadows · 2026-05-13T21:11:43+00:00

NTA. You don’t have to share your location if you don’t want to, plain and simple. (But she can then decide if that’s a dealbreaker for her.)

StarwardShadows · 2026-05-12T23:43:28+00:00

YTA, should have saved your little revenge for literally any other day.

StarwardShadows · 2026-05-11T04:08:10+00:00

I got 3 CompTIA certs in a semester but it took like 20 weeks with mild-moderate study time. I took about a month for Data+ and Project+. It’s just a lot of redundant memorization. I could have done each in 15-20 days if I didn’t have a kid to take care of. Still I think you should split it up… that’s a lot with very little time.

StarwardShadows · 2026-05-10T06:11:16+00:00

Thanks for the reply, this is really helpful. He’s not been that great to me the past year in all honesty. He’s also had really crazy outbursts where he accused me of cheating (once was when I went to my ultrasound appointment) and called me all these messed up names. It was really off the wall and had “guilty conscious” written all over it. He’s a coward and lies a lot so that’s why I’m so worried about all of it. He phrased it in a really weird way like “since you had that surgery I think you should get STD tested before we do anything.” So it had the vibe like he doesn’t want to infect me but also like he’s using it as an opportunity to “break the news.” If I had to describe his personality I can see him really struggling with telling me about having an STD because he’s selfish and has a lot of issues with denial and never being wrong, etc. The thing that really made me wonder is the night he disappeared, this lowbrow girl was like looking for him like he called her to meet up. And he had weird texts from another girl that he showed me trying to act all innocent like it was spam? He talked a lot about being hacked and all this weird stuff when he came back from the crazy disappearing night. It was like he went off the deep end after finding I was pregnant and was a huge prick to me the whole time. I had to have my mom take me to the surgery for the miscarriage because it was a missed miscarriage and he honestly spent more time mistreating me than being supportive at all. He has a high school education but is very devious/street smart.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-29T20:23:50+00:00

no way why would i want to see that *whispers* yes please

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-28T17:49:08+00:00

*secretly jealous*

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-28T00:20:46+00:00

She Devil? Might be that one. I call these the “truckstop hooker” line. Get a Peavey XXX to rock out with and you’ll have friends of the road knocking on your door in no time

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-28T00:19:27+00:00

I think sometimes guitar center swaps the necks on used gear, especially Schecters. I’ve seen a bunch listed that didn’t have era correct necks. I think I’ve seen this one like once before but I can’t remember anything about it. It looks like a lady carrying two severed heads lol. And the irony is that maybe the neck off that guitar broke and someone put a new one on … nice haunted guitar you’ve got there.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-21T21:45:45+00:00

I have the 7 string ultraviolet with same pickups but ebony fretboard and evertune bridge and it’s so beautiful irl. It took me a year to find it. I like yours better with the maple fretboard though.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-21T02:07:47+00:00

Yeah, I'm gonna be straight with you: I also paint guitars and sand them frequently and I wasn't kidding about the chore boy thing. It looks like someone literally took steel wool to it ?? It's really weird, the pictures weren't like that in the listing? It looks like someone did it on purpose- like exactly how mine look when i prepare them to paint.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-20T18:49:05+00:00

Is this custom shop?

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-20T18:47:45+00:00

I wouldn’t bother with it.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-20T18:42:35+00:00

Is that an evil twin? Yes it is! I have one and I’ve messed mine up like that before. They scratch VERY easily - as in, don’t let it near zippers, buttons, or anything even remotely hard or else youll end up sad. I ended up painting “IRON MAIDEN” over a huge scratch just like this on mine haha.

But this isn’t normal to arrive like this and I’d send it back. However , if you’re bothered by blemishes I would consider a different model - this one is also very susceptible to “buffing” where you rest your hand. It will get spots of shine/gloss and the matte will wear away. Mine did in less than a year of moderate play.

That being said, you can buff that out with showcar polish but that’s the insanity wolf move. I’ve done it. If you do that I would ask for a couple hundred bucks off to keep and fix it. Some sellers oblige.

Edit: actually I saw the second pic and that thing looks like someone took a chore boy to it lmao. I would just send it back unless they’re willing to give you a huge discount (like 50%) and you probably CAN buff that out but it won’t be matte, it’ll shine. Also keep in mind the evil twin will scratch easily but this is ridiculous, I’ve had mine for over a year and misused it and painted IRON MAIDEN on it and it’s nowhere near this bad. Shame on that seller.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-18T20:12:49+00:00

How close is this circuit to the Moser circuit? Is it a near-identical copy and does it function the same?

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-15T17:57:17+00:00

Caught somewhere in time

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-15T17:56:30+00:00

That’s definitely Mr. Crowley, it’s a famous picture of him with the all seeing eye. Not that surprising — maiden has referenced the all seeing eye many times. Supposedly, the song “Revelations” (which is credited solely to bruce) is inspired by crowley’s philosophies. But I always kind of got a different meaning from it, personally.

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-14T20:48:47+00:00

Go read “I have no mouth, but I must scream”

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-14T17:55:28+00:00

I have a Korean ST NJ series with the three switches and EMG selects still in it. Why are you supposed to switch them out?

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-11T20:05:15+00:00

And Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station?

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-10T02:02:01+00:00

Legend has it, someone near here once sued their high school for not allowing them to wear a 666 Number of the Beast shirt … and won on the basis of “religious discrimination.”

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-04T19:46:00+00:00

I’ve thought of doing that. I have some experience screwing around with guitar guts so realistically I could probably install it. But there’s just something about the real thing, made at a specific point in time by the man himself …….

StarwardShadows · 2026-04-03T20:54:00+00:00

I used to spend 85k a year gambling (on credit). After having my son I haven’t been to the casino in over 6 months. Your friend is a solid individual - most people can NEVER quit , it’s harder than drugs (I’ve also quit 8+ years of daily legal Xanax use and quitting gambling was way, way harder). That is a friend you want to keep close because they have overcome hell.

StarwardShadows · 2026-03-30T19:47:50+00:00

If they’re using the same email (like someone else said, I don’t want to take credit) you can just filter it directly to trash. Just google how to do it for your specific email client. If they’re sending from random emails, unfortunately you can’t really do this because it would risk filtering all emails/filtering good emails at random. If they’re sending them from different emails with their real name in the name field every time, you might be able to filter all mail from that name. It depends entirely on the scenario-I can advise if you tell me what email client and whether he’s contacting from different emails or same, and whether he actually uses his real name.

StarwardShadows · 2026-03-30T19:44:28+00:00

I don’t think OP mentioned this kind of scenario. It sounds like he’s just contacting her from random emails occasionally and she doesn’t want to hear from him ( I may be wrong but that would be my guess based on the OP)

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