New Era

Ini dia, 3 new picks I got recently. The rightmost completes the trinity of our picks. As I can remember Wheen you got a dull-toned golden one. Hooi, you got a black one but it ain't metal is it?

Yeah.

Mayhem.

Compiled of 3-4 sets of strings, a total of about 20 strings.

MRO

MRO - Maintenance Repair and Overhaul
---stolen from aviation field terms.

Yeah. It's my turn.

I stripped my guitar off its strings. And even undress its bridge construction. Not to every inch. I wouldn't dare to remove the coil and magnet. Or try cut the wires off. I would be left with weeks or months with no electric but never mind.

Let photos do the work.

The new set of strings: D'Addario Light Top/Heavy Bottom

They are in thousandths of an inch.
From the 1st to the 6th string: 10, 13, 17, 30, 42 and 52.

The 0.052inch or 1.32mm heavy gauged string sure ain't no joke to the fingertips. It's almost as thick as a usual classical guitar thickest string. I think it's almost similar, comparing mine. But of course the classical guitar has less tension in the build and less tension held on the guitar I guess. Furthermore, electric guitar does not have a sound hole to amplify the natural acoustics produced by the vibration of the string. That explains why electric guitars has a much tighter tension by standard tuning. But erh...the amplification by electric pickup seals the case away. I have no more say...not technically well-versed in this field.


My bridge pickup. I freaking screwed it. Literally also. I was screwing the screws around it. The height of the pickup suddenly fluctuated from side to side. In the end, it lost its position. No matter how fixing I tried the orientation and position was just messed up. I was so worried if it would affect the signal pickup when electric is plugged.

yet There was no string to test.

The next day. I braved myself. I removed the outer two bridge construction components such as the springs and screw. I am not quite sure what the spring and screw are for. I thought initially they are to adjust height by varying the degree lengthwise from the bridge. But I just found out there are another set of screws which require a mini allen key to be adjusted. That is for the height, more practical and can be seen the difference in the height adjusted.

The two sets of screws I mentioned, one is horizontally fed to the bridge plate lengthwise to the guitar body. Another is vertically, standing on the bridge plate.

Yeah removed them. So I have access to all 3 large screws which are actually the only fasteners of the bridge construction to the body.


There. Only to find out that the mess of the bridge pickup was caused by the screws and springs underneath them. They screwed. No picture of it. Cos I was so happy to fix it the instance I rectified it.

And so I repaired all of the positions and screws and screws and screws.

That is the core between the screws, maybe iron core which is the core for the electromagnet of the pickup. Can't see the winding. Telecaster bridge pickup man yoohoooo...

Clean. Bright. New.

Colourful ball ends of the strings.

The sound. Great. Not much review on the sound. Depends on what kind of tone and sound you want.

I don't have the precise vocabulary to describe them anyway. But I think I can say they are quite crunchy. The 4th, 5th and 6th strings are new gauges so changes in the tone should be affected there. Quite balanced the sound produced when I strum them altogether. Broad sounding. Ghostly.

Kesusahan Teknik.

a teaser for Jared.'s technical prob.XD

Once Upon A Time The Top Solo

Guitardude84's youtube video. It's cool.


..and then one of the greats doing it. Give it up to Mr. John Petrucci...


Our fingers should be comfortably numb.

D.Addario 10s Check : Don't Say Lazy Improvisation

A little bit of Improvisation.

Love my new strings.

Smooth.

But they look like they rust easily.

Pinch harmonic isn't easy on the bass strings too (especially the E string).



my comments :

Yes I love K-on. Any problems? Video was on the spot improvisation so I kinda messed up on certain parts. At first I thought of solo-ing along the vocal melody then it got weird and I was like "screw that" and things got out of control. Explains the overused pentatonic lick, but it fits so well into the song > : )

*Note: Guitar Porn.* Restringing a Floyd Rose.

I'd usually take my guitar to the shop when anything's screwy for maximum care, but unfortunately today I had the urge to do it myself.

The thing with floyd rose guitars is, the tuning. One fucked up string and there goes the whole guitar.

And the process of restringing a floyd rose, redundant and boring.

The strings used are D.Addario 10s. Great gauge and strings for hybrid blues/metal playings.

Upon reaching the G string; I realised I couldn't cut the string. Fuck. How the hell am I supposed to cut the rest of the thicker bass strings now? ( To start off restringing a floyd rose, you must cut the string ball off. Yes, balls. Apparently not for all guitars.)


Stuck now with half stripped guitar. Poor Stephy. Gonna get me a string winder and cutter tomorrow, hopefully.

Stripped head of Etiennette. Jackson. Beautiful isn't she?

Stephy stripped. Ah.

For the E and B strings I used yes, a nail clipper.

At the start.

Passion

"Note for YW: I feel like my improvisation doesn't fit in to the 12-bar blues rhythm we did. Doesn't sound in-mood. Or maybe it's not. I didn't try it with the backing track."

Elaborate on that a little...


by the way, hardwork IS passion. Waited damn long liao to jam. So don't go around giving excuses like " aiya he everyday play guitar mah of course pro". Since when do you become good at something the moment you like it? mmm

something to get out of my mind.

btw anything you want me to print i have 400 pages left to use as far as my free printing goes in college.

Pick a Pick so Pick it & Pick off

Hey, the readers/bumpers/stalkers/fans and founders of this place. Thanks for keeping up to date for updates here. Amusement starts here. As given a deal through the cbox for reviews on gears.

I'd start on my picks. Beloved picks. Why would we wana compare so much about the sword and the pen and let the academicians be the judge. I give you a fart and then I'm off to get my picks.

Nah, I dun go diggin' rappin' y'all niggin' freakin' asses. Imma show u ma homies. Ma babes..
If precise and without mistakes, they are arranged chronologically clockwise. Inset, the other side of that last white pick and the other side of J.Garcia black pick.

The more I look at them, the less they look like. Am I losing some? Or they are actually just as few as that...heh.

They are:
Dean Markley .84mm
J. Garcia (YW's gift)
Dunlop Tortex 1.2mm
Fender Heavy
Fender Thin
Proline .5mm (metal)
ESP .8mm
Ibanez M (transparent)
Planet Waves ?.9mm
Kozik Tortex 1.0mm

One Fender pearloid Medium gauge was lost actually. I could remember this. Lost at Ye-Wheen's place. Must be John "jigSaw" Kramer and Tenacious D lent it and never returned.

That's all folks.


Note for YW: I feel like my improvisation doesn't fit in to the 12-bar blues rhythm we did. Doesn't sound in-mood. Or maybe it's not. I didn't try it with the backing track.

Flying Little Wings

I foresee..maybe someday when we all improve and learn the techniques properly. We will do Little Wing jam.

As Ywheen has been starting already on the Little Wing blues. It sure sounds so good. Especially the blues tone that is produced by his Roland Microcube (RM430).

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