Beautiful new strings.

queerly quite quiet
…

busy renovating kid' play room and the server farm..

i've not spent more that 10 mins with a guitar it almost a month. ;( Yes it was Amber!.

I envy you have time to actually ^{change strings!}!!!!!!!

I bought some new strings (Strings and Beyond was having a sale,) and some new picks to try (read some good things about Delrin, thought I'd try some picks made out of it.) I hope they come before this weekend when I may get a chance to play a bit.

CTGull ,

  Be careful of that electric guitar, don't plug it in, they are very addictive.
 Congratulations on the new Yamaha Guitar, what no photo.
 That milling machine looks like great fun, I would like to have my own work shop, but unfortunately no room.
 Are you still recovering from the operation or are you back at work ?

The electric guitar isn't mine.  It's my wife's friends bosses son's.  He took it all apart, messed up the wiring and lost parts.  Had to make a new nut, buy screws and resolder stuff.

I'll get to posting about the Yamaha eventually.

Maybe a post about the milling machine.  The initial cost is only the beginning.  I'll need many accessories to be able to use it.  I've been buying them a little at a time.  Earlier this week I finally made some chips with it!!

I was back to work on 10/1.  Feeling great!!!  Mostly.  There's still a many month recovery period as scar tissue forms and my body gets used to the device and not taking the meds I've been taking for 20 years.  Every day is a little different.

And of course all the drama at home.

And everyone in my office quit!!!  I'm alone in the fishbowl!!!  I was very stressed yesterday and was cranking some Beatles!!

Lots going on!!

AND I FORGOT!!  I got (2) SETS of beta strings!  One from D'Addario, which I put on my favorite Yamaha FG-110 and like very much.  I need to send in a final report on them ASAP.  And a 80/20 set from Elixir that came the day of my surgery.  Poor timing, and I don't know what to put them on.  I have so many guitars that need work and I only play the FG-110 and FG-180 (now tuned to DADGAD).

AND, I finished an article on vintage Yamaha FG frets a couple of days ago.  They changed to a different fret for 1969 & 1970 only, then went back to the previous one.  ODD!! yamahavintagefg.boards.net/thread/106/vintage-yamaha-specs-replacement-options

BUSY!!  BUSY!!  BUSY!!

Our home laptop was on the fritz, half the keyboard stopped working. I plugged in a usb keyboard for a while, but it was a pain. Bought a new laptop this weekend. Maybe I can get on more.

We are also doing a lot more baby sitting for the grand kids! I will trade that for internet time any day.

Fall has finally arrived here in southern Indiana, no more skinny dipping after work. So maybe things will pick-up on the forum soon.

  Aaaaaaah!!!!  TMI!!!!    TMI!!!!!!  

So I got the new picks, I bought some Wegen 1mm, some Delrin .71 and .96mm, and some PickBoy (whitish with a gold marijuana leaf on it.) I usually use (for one guitar) PickBoy grey with the green marijuana leaf on it, and wanted to try something different from them. I A/B'ed them with my favorite pick, a blue chip TD 35. (I usually use the Blue Chip on guitar and mandolin, unless I am playing classical on mandolin, then I use a Sekova (NOS off eBay)). The Delrin .71 is closest to the Blue Chip to my ears, no pick noise and glides nicely off the strings. The Wegen was acceptable with a tiny bit of pick noise but much more volume (if I wanted to "drive" the guitar for volume I could.) I did not care for the Delrin .96 as much as the .71mm. The PickBoy I did not care for on the guitar I was trying picks with, but I might like it on another of my guitars. And the Delrin are MUCH cheaper than the Blue Chip, but I don't know how well they will hold up (the Blue Chip is nearly indestructible!) I tried the picks on my Simon and Patrick.