Some of you may know that my Edwards, while it plays amazingly, has a slight intonation problem, and the low E'd locking screw hits the back of the bridge route and is also up a little higher than I'd like it on the actual bridge. I actually have all but the low E intonated now, and everything is in ship-shape. however...
I used to think that the bridge was just routed too close to the neck. But I realized after intonating the other strings that such a thing could not be possible. A closer look at my wound strings reveals that they curve a bit to the left (when facing the guitar straight on). Interesting... So, since I was using calipers to measure everything else (action, etc), I used it to measure the distance between the bridge posts and the pickup route.
Bass side post: 4.2mm from pickup ring. Treble side post: ~5mm from the pickup ring.
I took into account that the pickup might simply be crooked. Bass side of pickup ring from end of fretboard: ~87.2mm Treble side of pickup ring from end of fretboard: ~88.5mm
O.O So... wow... I would think that routing and hardware placement would be a tad more precise than that. I'll get a ruler and check the bridge posts-end of fretboard later (although it won't be nearly as precise).
tl;dr: Instead of thinking my bridge routing is too far back, I now have reason to believe that the routing is simply crooked.
1) Everything can be broken down into Boolean:
True or False
Examples:
Blasting classical music in your car is true.
Wearing leather pants at a show is false (unless you're an 80s rocker)
Children of Bodom are true.
Nu metal is false.
Waffle House is True
Midgets are true
Mr. T and the A-Team Van are True
2) Know the essential vocabulary and use it frequently or be dubbed false. Each
word has general rules of usage and examples.
Obtain
- You don?t buy something at the store, you obtain it.
- You don?t get good tone on your amp, you obtain good tone.
- "Dude, I obtained a bad ass CD today."
Administer
- You don't play a Children of Bodom CD in your car, you administer it.
- The "play" button on your CD player needs to be changed to "administer" or
you will be dubbed false.
- "Check out this new riff I wrote." *administers riff*
Supreme (or Ultimate)
-Can be used interchangeably with "ultimate." Supreme is used to describe
something's supremacy.
-RULE OF GRAMMAR: Once something is proclaimed supreme, then it is known as
ultimate. You can not proclaim something ultimate, but you can proclaim it
supreme.
-Today I obtained a badass CD. It was then administered. The horns were
upped. Then I proclaimed it supreme.
Penultimate
-2nd to ultimate (supreme) or almost ultimate
-"Check out this riff, I think it is penultimate to the chorus riff."
Proclaim
-At all times you must be proclaiming things. (see above description of
supreme)
Deem
-Deem is a supreme word. Example: I deem Limp Bizkit false.
Hail
-Upon greeting a fellow brother of metal you say "hail." All other greetings are false. Upon greeting a fan of the band Manowar,
say "Hail Kill Hail."
Forge
- Metal is forged, not written.
Wield
- You don't hold your guitar, you wield it.
Badass
- Badass is the most badass word in the metal
vocabulary. Can also be interchanged with "bad as f*ck."
- Any time that anything even remotely cool happens, you must proclaim it is
bad ass.
- Example: Pissed off old ladies crossing the street with canes are bad ass!
- "I wrote a bad ass riff today." "Dude, that is bad as f*ck!"
Cancelled
-Cancelled is true. It is done in conjunction with flexing. You can cancel
anything that is false.
Rules of administration:
-If you see something false, flex your forearm and proclaim
"cancelled."
Examples:
-You come home. Your little brother is blasting rap. You walk in to his room,
punch him, flex, then say "cancelled," turn it off, and administer
Children of Bodom. If he mouths off to you, proclaim him canceled, flex, and
then proceed to beat his ass.
-You see a kid in a Limp Bizkit shirt walking down the street. Flex at said
poseur and proclaim "cancelled."
Essential
-Anything that you can not live with out.
Example:
-You must print these rules and post them on your wall. This is essential
-It is essential that jamming takes place today
3) Flexing of the forearm or triceps.
Everything in life can be solved by flexing your right forearm or triceps.
Flexing the triceps is penultimate to flexing the forearm. When flexing make
the sound "pfffffffffffffffffffff" with a cocky look on your face.
Examples:
- You are driving a car. Some old person cuts you off and drives slower than
you. You honk and flex at them.
- Something bad ass happens. You proclaim it true and then flex.
- Someone in the grocery store looks at you funny, flex at them.
- Several times a day you must just randomly flex your triceps for no reason at
someone.
- Every time you see a squirrel must flex at it.
- You live in Florida. A hurricane is coming. You flex at it. It is instantly
owned and leaves you and Waffle House unphased.
4) Visit the Maximal Collision Website frequently:
Valgorth is the supreme true metal warrior. If you
are uninformed in the ways of true metal, he will
educate you.
5) Basic List of things that are True:
This is the essential list. Print it. Carry it in your pocket. When others
question the trueness of something, administer this list.
- Waffle House
- Jamming
- Tone emitted from a Mesa Boogie amplifier
- Flexing
- Hot foreign girls with accents
- Metronomes and Scale Books
Okay, here's the stuff I WANNA get, but can't for a loooong time
ESP Custom Shop V ESP Custom Shop SV ESP Custom Shop Horizon III 6-string ESP Custom Shop Horizon III 7-string ESP Custom Shop EX ESP Eclipse Full Thickness Jackson J50BC pickup MM04 preamp booster TDM PAFs Taylor Custom Shop Dreadnaught. 12-string acoustic of some sort. Warwick Infinity NT Traben Array 5 String. ENGL SE ENGL E 840 50 power amp Lee Jackson Perfect Connection GP-2000 Randall RM4 preamp case Randall SL+ module with the JCM800 switch mod. Randall Top Boost module Randall KH-2 module (with Grailtone mods) Randall Grail module Any ENGL or Mark IV modules Randall may or may not release soon Randall Power Amp (may compare to ENGL and decide which one I like better). Randall Lynch Box cab with 150w Super V's Vader 4x12 with aforementioned speakers. Custom 2x12 based on a Framus 4x12 with G12T-65's ISP Decimator MXR Graphic EQ BBE Sonic Maximizer Sweetwater Creation Station Tower+ Some kind of desk/station to go with all this shit. Bass amp of some kind.
I'm writing a black metal Christmas song. It's based around my keyboard thing on my MP3s, which was originally going to be Christmas oriented. It's kicking some ass so far, but there are parts that piss me off, and I can't think of how to advance it. Hopefully I'll have it written, recorded, and submitted by X-mas. I'm gonna attempt to record the guitars and keyboards with a Power Tab bass track, since I have no bass on my own nor one I could borrow. Also, I only have 4 tracks to work with, and I'll need 5 for this. It'll be a bitch to sync it up without recording software, but I'll try!
EDIT: It's done! Now I just gotta get it down on my guitar and piano and I'll get to recording as soon as possible
It's here... My Edwards Arrowhead arrived this morning!! I'm almost done tning it up form shipping, and my god... the neck is soooo silky smooth... the inlays are beautful.. the gold hardware makes me all warm and sticky feeling....
Yeah I'm totally ordering one within the next week
EDIT: Well, it took a while, but I've finally got my Edwards ordered! I'll get the pickup swapped out later, though. I'd have to convince my mom that the HZ isn't as versatile as what I need, and that I could probably sell it on eBay for about the price of the DiMarzio I intend to replace it with. Either way...
... that your profile completeness bar goes higher when you get more friends? I think it should just go up some when you get one or two, then only go up when you add other aspects of the profile. In a way, yeah, I suppose it's good to get more friends and stuff, but it just makes me think of myspace, I dunno...
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So... wow... I would think that routing and hardware placement would be a tad more precise than that. I'll get a ruler and check the bridge posts-end of fretboard later (although it won't be nearly as precise).
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