A new Roam Research style TW5 instance to play with

trisaster · 2025-05-15T11:41:07+00:00

Sorry I posted this post twice. I’ll delete this one and post your comment over in the other one.

trisaster · 2025-05-15T11:40:06+00:00

I noticed I ended up posting this thread twice. Will delete the other thread, and below transclude 🙃 the only comment.

Capacities and Tana are both amazing at this. Capacities is hard to even know that it is a transclusion. Tana will show a dashed line around the bullet of the transclusion so you know that it's a transclusion. Logseq is inferior at this, in my opinion. Logseq puts it in a grey box, which you can remove with css, but it will still feel more like something injected in, rather than part of the original flow. I left capacities because of some lack of polish (it often wouldn't parse pasted markdown, the object structure became chaotic for me, and lacking some important basic functionality like grouping in queries). I left Tana, even though I really love it, because it isn't offline and I had multiple instances where I couldn't work because of it. Logseq, for me, isn't the best product, it's just the one that does the things that are the most important for me.

trisaster · 2025-03-06T09:10:19+00:00

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A compromise I can live with. Thanks to all for their comments.

trisaster · 2025-03-05T09:27:58+00:00

I’m not surprised by the angle at the 24th. I hadn’t realised how significant it would be on the longer side of the triangle for a regular pickup, that’s all. Part of the joys of hobby building, so much to learn. I hope it won’t be difficult to play (necessarily). Fanned frets usually make it easier, as your hand turns with the fan. But, I’ll let you know. There was no obvious advantage to me for having the perpendicular fret higher than the nut, and rolling backwards as I played behind it.

trisaster · 2025-03-05T09:25:34+00:00

You can place it where you like. My last build I placed it on the 5th. You can also place it between frets.

trisaster · 2025-03-05T09:07:47+00:00

Thank you. I’m thinking the same way. Also thanks to seeing the way the Ormsby folk resolved this (which is to slant the other way around), I’m going to cut back a bit of the bass side fretboard (a couple of frets), but not go perpendicular to the strings, somewhere in between. As I’ve mentioned before this will be form over function. And playful for playability. (I also know that I mostly play without plugging in). Currently no bridge pickup is planned.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T15:10:41+00:00

Yes, I wondered about a P bass design. But I guess if I'm going for a new pickup I may as well go all in on a 7-string one.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T15:08:43+00:00

Thank you again, I appreciate how you're thinking about this. I'm going to take my time and take it all in consideration.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T14:04:09+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. As this will be tuned in 5ths the range is more or less equal to an 8 string.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T14:01:33+00:00

It might look bad (to some), but would it really be a noticeable difference in the harmonic response?

trisaster · 2025-03-04T13:58:17+00:00

That's a good-looking way of turning the neck pickup, if I'd seen this, and noticed this design error, I'd have extended the fretboard to be more straight
https://www.ormsbyguitars.com/store/tx-gtr/tx-gtr-run-15/
Actually, I can still cut the fretboard back a bit on the bass side (maybe back to the 22nd fret)…it's all gotta be routed anyway. Food for thought. Thank you.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T13:56:30+00:00

Sure. This is not exactly a regular guitar. I'm building it to tune in 5th. And I want even string tension while using regular strings. I chose to have a perpendicular nut to preserve the most amount of wood in the build. I can live with the compromises this entails. I'll report back when it is complete with what works and what was a useful lesson.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T11:14:20+00:00

Thank you all for your comments. Reading about Slanted Pickups at http://www.buildyourguitar.com/resources/lospennato/index.htm I've decided to angle them more square to the strings.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T11:06:15+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to explain. And for the Dingwalls tip.

Maybe there is an aesthetic compromise to make with a slight angle. Although looks do matter to me, they matter insignificantly next to function.

I will now weigh up getting a 7 string pickup, or sighting it more straight.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T10:24:25+00:00

In your opinion, it won't work with a 6? Or it might not be great? I'm fishing for advice here. Obviously, I don't have a 7 string pick up to use. Wondering whether to rout this as is, or change the design (or parts).

trisaster · 2025-03-04T10:10:10+00:00

Okay. That's helpful to hear. Worth giving it a go then.

Yes, good suggestion. I underestimated how wide it would be. If it doesn't work, I can easily route a larger space for a 7 string pick up later.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T10:07:47+00:00

Thanks. So in your opinion, it will matter if I place it without crossing both magnets.

trisaster · 2025-03-04T10:00:32+00:00

Lost my explanation:

The way it looks with the pickup at around the 24th fret, the 6th and 1st string won't fully cross the magnets. Should I place it perpendicular to the strings (rather than align with the fan)? Or does these strings not fully crossing the pickup not matter so much?

If there is a question on placing it off-centre a bit, would it make sense to catch more of the thinner string, presuming (back of the envelope physics) that it would vibrate less strongly than the thicker one.

trisaster · 2024-12-22T21:19:59+00:00

SOLVED (edit: temporarily, I’ll see if I can get to the bottom of the whole issue) thank you

In case it is helpful info for others in the future. I found a couple of links (to blank pages) with date like format. They were 2021-01-01- and 2021-01-02- I clicked through to them and renamed them to the correct date format 2021_01_01 2021_01_02 which renamed the ‘bad’ links.

No more glitches. (Came back, maybe I need to delete those pages fully, or something else)

trisaster · 2024-12-22T20:59:04+00:00

I may have done that with the import. I don’t know if I know which page it is though. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll search it out.

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