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Doubling the bars...

Gibson Johnny Smith 1969

Gorgeous L7 on Reverb

Tin Man, America 1974

Borys B120

There are lots of other videos with him on them. Miles wouldn't have him there unless he had something. Maybe it was just that particular one that didn't grab me.

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

It's fairly simple. A couple molds pressed in a hydraulic press that uses a bottle jack, where the bar and piston has been removed from the press. I basically copied the same setup that Grez...

New guy and an ES-250 inspired build

Thanks for the kind comments. I'll try get something recorded shortly.

New guy and an ES-250 inspired build

Foley is a very good musician. His blues solo was very good and with great blues feel. Foley has a very original sound. You can see that everyone feels the blues in their own way.

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

I now realize that the 8mm slop will be harmless, so that's not a big deal. I just wanted to share the oddity that stateside the size charts include m7 and globally they often skip over m 7....

What size star washers do you use?

What? LOL! :rolleyes: It'll come with time and practice. Heck, every one of the jazz masters was a novice at one time.....I think. :cool:

Frustrated Novice

Why does it take so many of you longer than 30 seconds to tune?

Clip-on Tuner

Oh, I never heard of Foley. Okay, that blue guitar was a lead bass. Got it. But it was what he was playing that I thought was noodly. Incidentally, the other two vids were interesting. Scofield...

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

When it comes to not picking you guys are all amateurs https://youtu.be/-7R4mwOOyEQ

Do we nitpick too much about gear?

For clarification, Foley doesn't play guitar. He uses the so-called 'lead bass'. Interview: Foley - The Last Miles

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

I don't think so. An accurate tuning fork is pretty expensive, and only gives one note. That's a lot of money for very little return. Any cheap tuner is accurate to one cent, and better ones are...

Clip-on Tuner

Where are you located in the US?

Campellone Standard $4,500

OK, so there's this thing I've been doing for years where I double the amount of bars to the backing track when learning to improvise against something, so to take the simplest example, expanding a...

Doubling the bars...

Wow you weren't kidding. Beautiful burst and back on that one.

Gorgeous L7 on Reverb

My TC Polytune turns off automatically, even if I'm in the middle of tuning. That frustrates me, and I don't like it. That's the first tuner I remember having that feature/bug, the rest keep...

Clip-on Tuner

Do we nitpick too much about gear?

Tube Guy Wanting to Convert to Solid State

Clip-on Tuner

Collings 470 JL Alternatives

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 82) - Mo Better Blues

Using Shell Voicings

Guitar of the Future

Heritage Carved tops

From transcribing to improvisation

What - No Gibson L4 CES?

Wood Shedding Giant Steps

JGBE Virtual Jam (Round 81) - Bluesette

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