Britney Spears debut single '...Baby One More Time' is 20 years old this month
Now I really feel extra old today
Britney Spears debut single '...Baby One More Time' is 20 years old this month
Now I really feel extra old today
Goofy (10-24-2018)
Well, it's been almost 2 years now and I'm done with DSC. Seems that lately things were going down hill with them. More nicks and cuts, razor burn, and just not great shaves. Not to mention shipping issues that delayed them enough that I ran out of blades and had to go buy some at the store. Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but the DSC was bought out by Unilever, a giant conglomerate for a billion dollars not too long ago. Could just be a coincidence, but I doubt it.
So that officially ends my time with DSC. I still have blades left, but I am probably just going to pitch the rest of them now.
DemonGeminiX (10-22-2018)
A while ago, I was thinking about buying a set of high output humbuckers from them, but I can't remember which set I was thinking about. Needless to say, I never pulled the trigger on a purchase from Bare Knuckle.
I have a few DiMarzio humbuckers in my Ibanez EX370 that I absolutely loved the sound of. A Tone Zone in the bridge, and a Fred in the neck. The TZ had harmonics galore and the Fred was thick as hell. Beautiful sounding clean, and wicked either overdriven or heavily distorted. Really responsive pickups. Everybody wanted to steal that guitar from me. LOL. There was a hot rail style single coil in the middle position, but I wasn't too fond of it. I never really used the middle coil on that guitar anyway. Seeing as how the neck is trashed now, I may just rip those pickups out of the EX and throw them in the RG when I get the itch to do it. But then again, DiMarzio has a metric ton of different pickups that are tuned to a whole wide range of tonal possibilities. I may give a set of the new ones a try, again, if I ever get the itch to do it.
I still haven't installed the Fender hot noiseless pickups in my Strat. I just haven't felt like doing it yet.
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Dropped my ballot off at the collection box yesterday, so got that out of the way. One of the biggest ballots I remember seeing, it was 3 pages long (front and back of one page and front of another page).
Candidates or referendums, or both?
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That's insane. This year we have 5 proposed state constitutional amendments and 2 state referendums. I've read everything I can regarding these 7 separate issues and I can't see a good reason to allow the majority of them to go forward. So I'll be voting no on most of them.
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Oh, get this: One of the constitutional amendments would give the local school board the power to levy a 1% local sales tax for different educational reasons.
Why the hell would you allow a school board to wield the state legislature's power?
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KevinD (10-22-2018)
Yup, the whole thing is that they are whining about not having enough money for schools for roads for whatever. Even though because of the housing market, the number of new homes and new people here, and the booming economy, Colorado is sitting on a budget surplus. But they need more tax money.
Yeah, but that's probably on hold until the kid graduates, so not for a few years more now. Subject to change without notice if something does come up though.
What's wrong with the neck in the Ibanez? Aren't those bolt on? New neck? My only experience with dimarzios is their 36th anniversary set that came in my LTD ec-401. I really like the way they sound on that guitar, basically same as les paul as far as woods and shape go. I really dont like the combo of the 490/498 in the les paul tribute I just got. Each sounds good if dial tones and amp in, but they aren't a good matched set to my ears. Contacted Bare Knuckles, and some others. They reccomend the black dog set for what I want out of this LP. After Christmas I'll order them.
Sounds good. Let me know how you like them.
Long story short: Yeah it's a bolt-on. The Ibanez EX was in a stand, the rubber piece that secures the neck was dry rotted and broke, the stand got bumped, the guitar fell forward and hit the ground head stock first. It was a really bad day. I'll never forgive myself for it. The neck's cracked in several places, and compound on it the fact that it's slightly warped from years of my abuse. It's a '92 model and the EX line was discontinued in '93. Ibanez always redesigns everything about their guitars from one year to the next and they never look back, so it's difficult to get replacement necks for their guitar lines that are still in production. Now factor in that my model's been discontinued for over 2 decades... no way in hell. I can't get a replacement neck for the '92 EX. If I had any wood working skills, or knew somebody that does, I could probably get one made, but I neither have the skills, nor do I know anybody that does. I bought the RG as a replacement. With my shitty luck, I'm thinking maybe I should get several. Anyway, the RG's a good guitar, but... that EX was my baby. I replaced all the electronics in it, a bunch of the hardware... it went from being a stock off the shelf low cost Ibanez to a well-respected shredding/thrashing ax that was completely and utterly mine. I was completely heartbroken when the accident happened.
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Awe man, that sucks balls. Have you taken the neck to a luther? Its surprising what they can fix. I've seen some horribly messed up gibson necks repaired. Perhaps there's a different model with same neck? I found this:
http://ibanez.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_neck_types
Maybe worth buying a junk ex with good neck and swapping?
I honestly don't know where I could find a luthier around my parts.
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KevinD (10-23-2018)