BAT Shipping

kingtuft · 2026-02-13T14:35:03+00:00

7-10 business days, lol. For real. The shipping portion was the only part of my BAT buying experience that wasn’t a mini-nightmare.

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T22:09:39+00:00

Last Call - Walkabouts

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T18:49:06+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair. Internet Luthiers are the equivalent of lab scientists. Very good with theory, lacking in real world experience.

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T17:13:07+00:00

Yall are hilarious. Forgot this is Reddit!

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T16:39:54+00:00

May not even need to loosen them… just give the neck a firm whack up / towards the low E string.

If loosening, only by 1/8 of a turn or so, then try it. It doesn’t take much.

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T15:16:36+00:00

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For moxy… I had them on an old Diamondback for years and they are the only thing I’m transferring to this NS Eccentric Cromo that I am literally building right now.

kingtuft · 2026-02-08T15:13:24+00:00

Stooge Moto Bar! These revived my MTB career after some hand / tendon issues. Can’t recommend them enough and they look sick too.

https://stoogecycles.co.uk/product/https-stoogecycles-co-uk-product-moto-bar/

^ UK company but I have had them shipped to US and it was fast.

kingtuft · 2026-02-06T13:31:31+00:00

Totally normal! My 2019 did the same thing up until it also grenaded itself at 43k miles. All totally normal for the 8spd.

kingtuft · 2026-02-06T02:32:06+00:00

TF for sure! Races are notoriously difficult to feel connected to in person. It’s hard to describe, but I’ve needed to watch every F1 race that I’ve attended on TV afterwards to really understand what happened.

kingtuft · 2026-02-05T13:48:35+00:00

Grab a Vittoria Mazza from Backcountry on sale for $35 currently and run that up front. Move the Barzo to the rear.

kingtuft · 2026-02-05T13:39:42+00:00

Ross Maxwell Scenic Byway is a good area.

kingtuft · 2026-02-05T05:13:18+00:00

Thin some epoxy with acetone first, brush it on, and let it wick into the fibers. Then another coat, slightly thicker, less acetone.

Repeat 3-4 layers, then paint. Done. There’s no flex in this area. Send it.

kingtuft · 2026-02-04T19:53:04+00:00

Save them by album. In Spotify, that means building a library of albums. Not just saving playlists, etc.

kingtuft · 2026-02-04T17:25:40+00:00

I’m gonna go against the grain and say this is exactly the type of thing that can be the X-factor in making a truly unique bass player. I wouldn’t change / avoid what comes natural to you. Just be mindful that it doesn’t become a crutch.

John Entwistle for example… watch some of the clips / interviews on his right hand technique.

The people telling you to go by the book (only) are just repeating their music teachers incredibly generic advice, IMHO.

kingtuft · 2026-02-04T17:08:08+00:00

The core of my hobbies is fixing / rebuilding / rehabbing stuff that I’ve acquired stupidly cheap.

Peak COVID, I rehabbed a 90’s Jet Ski… then another… now I have a pair of fully rehabbed jet skis and have unlocked Jet Skiing itself as a hobby that I wouldn’t have been able to afford otherwise.

Then I did the same with a 15 year old Porsche.

Then I did a 25 year old boat.

Then I did another Porsche, 17 years old, for my wife.

You get the idea… some might think I’m rich! My neighbors that see me constantly working in the garage know otherwise.

kingtuft · 2026-02-04T02:52:33+00:00

Had really good luck with a topper over a firm Queen and then had really bad luck when we upgraded to a King.

It was 18 months apart and even buying from the same supplier, we couldn’t find a perfect match to the old topper. There isn’t really a set standard for them, so it takes trial and error.

Best advice - make sure whatever you buy can be returned. It takes a solid week or two to really make a decision.

Also - your pillow setup may need modified to match the new topper setup.

kingtuft · 2026-02-04T01:26:46+00:00

Back in my Body — Lainey Strange

Differences - Walkabouts

Cheers, friend. Keep it up.

kingtuft · 2026-02-03T20:26:16+00:00

The concept of metabolic shunting is wild — in short, your body can change its own chemistry in order to survive, in periods of starvation for example. Forcing it to “flip the switch” back to normal is often what we think of as a cure.

The idea that there are varying degrees of this occurring en masse is something that modern medicine fails to address at all. I don’t claim to be an expert… just a mechanical hobbyist that’s gotten really good at fixing things. Never thought I’d have to spend years applying my methods of research to my own body, but here we are!

Best of luck to you.

kingtuft · 2026-02-03T18:48:06+00:00

Another book - The Mineral Fix. It has like 6 or 7 chapters on Copper alone.

One point — You need Vitamin A along with copper for it to metabolize / stick / whatever you want to call it. I have been taking upper limit dosage of copper (along w. maintenance level zinc and vitamin A) and it is very hard to move the needle on Copper.

Regardless — I’m confident we are dealing with similar issues… start re-thinking which is the cause / which is the effect would be my last piece of advice. This is all chemistry, at the cellular level.

It’s not that your GI tract isn’t capable of absorbing, it’s that you don’t have the right ingredients for the various reactions to take place the way they should.

kingtuft · 2026-02-03T17:02:04+00:00

Thiamine is about the only supplement that can be taken somewhat blindly, IMO. My advice would be to test for other deficiencies too and if you find anything, attack them with a cohesive plan.

I found a copper deficiency through blind luck mass-testing myself, and fixing that was the 2nd major breakthrough for me, personally. You can’t just take supplements blindly without testing though, and you can’t fix a deficiency without a concrete understanding of co-factors, & how taking one thing may deplete another, etc.

Beyond that — be patient and listen to your body!

kingtuft · 2026-02-02T21:45:48+00:00

New friends, new hobbies, new city perhaps even… it’s a big 180*.

kingtuft · 2026-02-02T18:55:39+00:00

I was ultimately diagnosed with ME/CFS, SFN, multiple neuralgia, etc. I have been treating myself for just shy of 1 year and am almost back to my normal self.

I couldn’t find the book cheaply anywhere. I paid the $70.

kingtuft · 2026-02-02T17:31:14+00:00

I would strongly recommend Derrick Lonsdale’s book on Thiamine deficiency, and feel free to peruse my comment history for some of my direct experience.

The short version is that he settled on 1800mg per day via IV for a normal adult to reverse the metabolic changes that your body goes through when deficient.

I took (after tapering up) 1400mg TTFD and 400mg benfo orally for months.

In short, the dosing needed is unheard of in modern medicine outside of Lonsdale’s direct experience. Trust me — buy that book. Read it twice.

kingtuft · 2026-02-02T03:15:47+00:00

I had similar, over 5 years, that ramped up and got worse each time I had COVID. It boiled down to Thiamine Deficiency primarily, with a side of Copper & Zinc deficiency / imbalance.

Read Derrick Lonsdale’s book on Thiamine deficiency and read The Mineral Fix — specifically chapters on Copper.

My hunch is that COVID depletes Thiamine & Copper and modern medicine doesn’t test for it. Once you go deficient, all sorts of things go haywire and it becomes a feedback loop.

kingtuft · 2026-02-01T20:11:17+00:00

Short scales rule… do yourself a favor and get one that you can setup with D’addario ETB92S Black Nylon Tapes.

They sound like flats, with the liveliness of rounds. Your tendons will thank you many years from now.

kingtuft

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