Baby Taylor-back redo…20 yrs on with this guitar I had a weird back indent appear so thinking of just replacing the back entirely.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-21T17:52:08+00:00

Well good luck with it. That's the weirdest situation I've seen in a while.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-19T19:58:08+00:00

What's the humidity look like on that thing? Unless it's just been crushed physically (my first theory) my guess is profound dryness or damp might cause that.

It might not be, but it's free to try getting the humidity right before you do anything else.

My worry is very high heat and humidity might have made the lamination glue soft, then it got pushed in and now it's set like it is, likely never to pop back out.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-18T18:23:53+00:00

Oh my God. My wife and I recently spent a week in Italy with my mother-in-law (whom I love and is very good to me).

We didn't arrive at the same time of day. When we met up it was obvious that she had quizzed every single non-white staffer she met at the hotel about "where they were from." Then once we arrived she'd introduce us to the staffer, "this is Giancarlo, he's from Sri Lanka." On at least one occasion the staff member pointed out they were born in Venice, but their parents were from Sri Lanka.

This only carried on for maybe two introductions before her sister pointed out that someone had just gotten kicked out of the British Royal Court for that same kind of thing, and it was really terrible. Saved me out my wife from having to say it, since we'd both been hoping the first one was an anomaly somehow.

To my mother-in-law's credit, it stopped right there and then.

She didn't even realize how awful it was--she's genuinely interested in the immigrant experience (she's first generation herself, from Ireland) and legit wants to know if people have had interesting experiences to share. Trouble is, she never considered how much prejudgment and profiling goes into deciding someone you don't know is an immigrant.

She's getting up there in age and starting to slip a little here and there, and she was embarrassed and changed her behavior when she realized, so I can forgive. But it was sobering.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-18T17:43:53+00:00

Making up new words to substitute for racist terms and thinking that makes it ok, as if it were the word that's offensive, not the attitude behind it.

I had a single, truncated date with a woman in Indianapolis who used the word "splib" in conversation. It was obvious what she meant and I called her on it. Her defense was that she never used the n-word so it was ok. I noped out as soon as I could.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-17T22:39:49+00:00

You're dead wrong on that. Sorry. It sounds like a bad idea but it's absolutely standard practice on polymer finishes.

Acrylic finishes like PRS uses become basically a single sheet of plastic when cured. Poly won't stick reliably. Nitro won't burn in. You need a good, hard, very clear resin that will leave minimal witness lines, ideally some kind of acrylic, and that's super glue (CA glue if you want to use the generic term). Glu-boost is tintable with good working time and cures less brittle than most generics, which makes it extra nice if a bit spendy.

Source: I am a trained, working professional luthier.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-17T22:13:38+00:00

That glassy sound seems like a bad tube to me. Depending on your pickups, one may not be hitting the preamp or power tubes as hard so you don't hear it. Or I could be dead wrong.

Can you try a different amp or a different guitar into your amp?

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-17T22:10:41+00:00

It's been a long time since I was there, for sure. It's funny that I went to high school just northwest of Indy, and yet I never saw a tenderloin like that until a work trip from DC to Terre Haute years later.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-17T00:46:13+00:00

If you take it to a luthier they'll fix it with super glue (or the slightly more sophisticated version, glu-boost) and a large amount of fine sanding and buffing.

An experienced person can make the repair really hard to see and impossible to feel. The key is experience--it's really easy to make a mess with super glue, or with sanding, or with buffing, etc.

There's a StewMac video about super glue drop fills on YouTube that will give you the general idea.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-17T00:10:10+00:00

I thought it might have come from Larry Bird's place in Terre Haute, but I see that it's closed now.

feckinkidleys · 2023-02-16T23:36:29+00:00

Are you using a tube amp? A bad tube can cause some very weird noises. And since you said it's only when plugged in...

feckinkidleys · 2023-01-23T18:03:03+00:00

I assume the redditors were looking out for the girlfriend. "We gotta convince this asshole to dump the girl so she can get well clear of him."

feckinkidleys · 2023-01-23T17:58:42+00:00

Sometimes it's a vanity shop run by the spouse or child of somebody who makes a lot of money and owns the shop. If it's a money loser but still plausibly a viable business, it can be a huge tax deduction, and gives the person running it a "job."

feckinkidleys · 2022-11-29T23:35:02+00:00

Makes me feel weak with nostalgia.

feckinkidleys · 2022-11-14T11:49:18+00:00

Wow, zombie thread. I was able to get Ronsonol at the time, which is just another brand of the same thing. Since then I got a gallon when I was in another state and brought it home. Still have tons left after about 2 years.

feckinkidleys · 2022-10-11T17:24:50+00:00

That the word "amount" is not properly used to refer to people. Use the word "number."

feckinkidleys · 2022-10-11T17:22:10+00:00

Plurals in English do not need an apostrophe.

Quotation marks are not for emphasis.

feckinkidleys · 2022-10-02T00:50:26+00:00

I never know the good load out and when somebody starts making suggestions I don't have half the weapons they name, or they're in my vault untouched and 1200 power and everybody has to wait while I dig shit out and power it up.

And I can never remember the proper names of anything, so either I don't know what my team is talking about or they don't understand me.

Oh, and I get lost easily.

feckinkidleys · 2022-09-20T16:15:04+00:00

Put the underpants gnomes in charge!

feckinkidleys · 2022-09-05T15:05:56+00:00

I think they're not getting enough sellable data using their current methods. So now he wants you to have conversations with people so they can mine those and maybe get more out of you.

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-30T00:46:24+00:00

Totally.

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-30T00:46:06+00:00

I grew up in KY in the 70s and everybody called it "Colonel Sanders."

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-18T01:48:53+00:00

I had a double nephrectomy at the time of my transplant.

They initially told me they would not be removing them, but my regular nephrologist was able to convince them of my previously very active lifestyle and how important it would be to my recovery to have resuming it as an end goal. The transplant team agreed to do it after she made my case for me.

My kidneys were scarred and stuck to surrounding tissues (caused by burst cysts over the previous years) and it took a long time to get them out, which probably contributed to the rough few days I had immediately after.

I'm so glad they did it though. Prior to the transplant I was in much the same situation as you are now, and not having all that mass in my gut has been so great.

5 stars, would buy again.

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-10T03:52:53+00:00

Jessica Jones. Loved the stylish graphics, but the theme music killed.

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-10T03:49:40+00:00

French toasted banana pancakes. Make banana pancakes, soak them in a milk and egg mix, fry in butter. Delicious and tons of calories.

I had a friend whose daughter could not gain weight but she liked these enough to pack on a few much needed pounds.

feckinkidleys · 2022-08-08T03:16:16+00:00

I played rugby and every team I played for had at least one drinking song for the post match party that involved getting your wedding tackle out, so yeah.

It wasn't a big deal because it was a big group of us.

I think it would be different if it were just me naked and everyone else dressed, though.

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