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Post by Ripper on May 3, 2006 20:38:11 GMT -5
After my guitar was professionally set up, I moved the pups closer to the strings. After playing for a bit I moved up past the 12th fret for a little razzle-dazzle!....*YUCK* It was out of tune big time!!...So I took it back to the shop riding my high horse. It turns out the strings were too close to the pups. The magnets were actually pulling the strings out of tune past the 12th fret! I learned a lesson today my friends, and had to eat some humble pie along the way.  |
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Post by wolf on May 3, 2006 21:27:30 GMT -5
DeepblueWhat the heck kind of pickups are you using? I have a guitar with 2 DiMarzio X2N's ("Magnetic Monsters" as I call them) and I have no tuning trouble all the way up to the 22nd fret. Pictured below - the DiMarzio X2N:  You also stated that you had to "eat some humble pie along the way." Yes that is humiliating but, truth be told, I don't mind eating crow at all. ;D 
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Post by Ripper on May 3, 2006 22:28:10 GMT -5
Hey Wolf...
Im using Fender Texas Specials from the custom shop.
Yes, id eat Ms. Crows...ummmm pie? lol!
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Post by Runewalker on May 3, 2006 23:33:05 GMT -5
Sign at Austin TexMex ledgedary eatery after Lance and Sheryl called it quits:
"I guess Lance got tired of eating Crow..."
in Wolf's 'image posting' I believe she is sitting on a Kustom "tuck and roll." Surely someone in our little community can do something with that.
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Post by wolf on May 3, 2006 23:47:45 GMT -5
....... and Ms Crow is barefoot in that photo.  It seems she is carrying on a tradition started by Carly Simon who has been known to go barefoot from time to time. (See photo on her website www.carlysimon.com/)(Yeah, I like barefoot women) |
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Post by Runewalker on May 3, 2006 23:56:07 GMT -5
Wolf:
You may be the only man we know to combine large magnets and foot fetishes into the same being. Setting the bar high, indeed. Thanx for the pix.
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Post by jester700 on May 4, 2006 7:04:50 GMT -5
X2Ns have strong magnets, but IME "stratitis" is more common when the poles are magnets vs. steel that conducts magnetism from a magnet beneath the pickup. I mean, I've never had an X2N, but I've used several ceramic buckers and never had the tuning issues. I HAVE had this happen with strat style single coils.
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Post by wolf on May 4, 2006 9:26:28 GMT -5
jester700
PLUS, the fact that Fender single coils (as well as others) have their magnets as distinct point sources. The X2N (and probably all ceramic pickups for that matter) have their magnetic field spread equally across the six strings and the spaces between the strings.
So, I'm guessing it is more than just the magnet being closer to the surface. It is probably due to the fact that each string has its own magnet, so to speak, and that magnet has a very concentrated field on each string.
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Post by UnklMickey on May 4, 2006 11:52:11 GMT -5
...in Wolf's 'image posting' I believe she is sitting on a Kustom "tuck and roll." Surely someone in our little community can do something with that. Rune, that's exactly what i thought when i saw the image: "wow, i'd sure like to do something with that!" |
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Post by Ripper on May 4, 2006 14:21:52 GMT -5
The way Sheryl's sitting and the look on her face I was wondering where the rest of that amp is ?  |
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Post by Runewalker on May 4, 2006 22:44:03 GMT -5
...in Wolf's 'image posting' I believe she is sitting on a Kustom "tuck and roll." Surely someone in our little community can do something with that. Rune, that's exactly what i thought when i saw the image: "wow, i'd sure like to do something with that!" And Unk, you know that was for you. I just have been forced to become more subtle? in where i leave the breadcrumbs. but back to Wolf's nude foot fetish.... |
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Post by Runewalker on May 4, 2006 22:45:02 GMT -5
Rune, that's exactly what i thought when i saw the image: "wow, i'd sure like to do something with that!" And Unk, you know that was for you. I just have been forced to become more subtle? in where i leave the breadcrumbs. but back to Wolf's nude foot fetish.... Has JHewitt seen this pix? Stand back. |
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Post by sumgai on May 5, 2006 12:33:41 GMT -5
Rune, Errr, did you mean, as in to photo-chop the image, or as in to play with the text portion of your message?  <mwuahahahahaha> sumgai |
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Post by Runewalker on May 5, 2006 15:41:01 GMT -5
Rune, Errr, did you mean, as in to photo-chop the image, or as in to play with the text portion of your message? <mwuahahahahaha> sumgai I would be the last to quell creativity in all its forms. I just suspect a certain admiriation for her ..... singing. |
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Post by sumgai on May 5, 2006 23:56:11 GMT -5
Rune,
The kind of creativity I'm thinking about would be banned on 37 different forums! ;D
sumgai
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Post by Runewalker on May 6, 2006 12:02:16 GMT -5
I have 'heard' there are forums to accomodate your ... imagination. I suspect some here to have conducted sorties to that world.
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Post by sumgai on May 6, 2006 16:57:31 GMT -5
Rune, Hey, it's their world, we're just living in it! ;D True fact and figure: For nearly a decade, all of the major search engines have proclaimed that they have the most pages indexed, but at the same time, they say they have only indexed about 18 to 20% of all pages. Do you suppose you can guess which ones (what content is on them) they haven't indexed? That's right, about 4:1 or 5:1 of the innerweb is comprised of websites where imagination is accomodated.... for a small fee, of course. Me, I'm too busy harassing a bunch of newbies on a forum, there's no time left over to check out those kinds of sites. ;D sumgai |
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Post by wolf on May 6, 2006 17:06:46 GMT -5
Or maybe search engines don't bother indexing websites that have obscure, arcane or esoteric content. I mean, would a search engine really need a link to information on Indonesian topsoil management?
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Post by sumgai on May 7, 2006 0:00:17 GMT -5
Wolf,
Yes, they need to have that link, because they can never tell when an Indonesian might want to know about topsoil management procedure in his/her country. I dunno, why does Google index any websites for guitar players? I can find, right here in the very house where I hang my hat, at least one person who thinks that such sites are uninteresting, and a waste of server space and bandwidth. It takes all kinds, doesn't it?
And those "obscure, arcane or esorteric" pages? They're all pr0n, baby, every last one of them. The rule of thumb for staying out of trouble with groups like Parents Against Smut, the government, etc. is: Thou shalt not index pr0n!
sumgai
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Post by Runewalker on May 12, 2006 23:06:17 GMT -5
So the life lesson her is p()rn?
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Post by bam on May 14, 2006 1:26:42 GMT -5
sumgai : FYI, there is no known practical procedure in this country  You have money = you can violate anything. sumgai: .. but you DO have time to check out your wife(/girlfriend), don't you ;D ? .. and RW, I think it's deepblue's life lesson, about "magnetic pull" . |
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Post by sumgai on May 16, 2006 14:56:39 GMT -5
bam, Checking out is not the same as intentionally violating. In fact, if you don't check something out, then how would you learn how to violate it?  Wifey has already been checked out. Now, if I could just check her back in, I'd be all set! (j/k, honeybunch! ;D) sumgai |
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You have money = you can violate anything.