New Members Q&A and Greetings

[reTrEaD]

Hello Fellow GuitarNut,

We're glad you decided to register and join our forum. Hopefully you visited our Welcome Center and took a quick look at the rules. Knowing all the rules isn't possible immediately but please try to make yourself familiar with them as time goes on.

In an effort to make getting started a less daunting process, feel free to ask questions here. Or you can announce your arrival and tell us a little about yourself, if you're so inclined. A typical question might involve which board you should use to start a thread on a certain topic. Or where to find information about a particular feature.

Whatever the need, we're here to assist you.  Staff and experienced members will reply.

[tony9081]

I'm trying to figure out how to post a question or new thread? I havent found any help to my question anywhere

[reTrEaD]

Hello tony9081 and Welcome to the Guitarnutz family!

To post a question in a new thread, the first thing to do is to choose the appropriate board in which to start your thread. If you need help in choosing the board, you can give more details in another post here in this thread.

Let's take the example that you might want to ask something about the Guitar Wiring inside your guitar. Go to the Guitar Wiring board and click "Create Thread". I've provided you with an image to help explain that process.










That will open the posting page where you will:
Type in the title of your thread.
Type in the text of your thread. (your question)
Click "Create Thread" at the bottom of the page to complete the process.



Does that get you where you want to go, or do you have more questions about the process of making a thread?

[sumgai]

tony,



Hi, and to The NutzHouse!


reTrEaD has given you the mechanics of it above, but I'm thinking you're more into wanting to know where to post your question. 'TrEaD notes that you "choose the appropriate board", which is your quandry, am I correct?

Well, whether I'm correct or otherwise, you (and any one else reading this) can rest easy - put it where you believe it'll fit, and if it doesn't work, one of the Staff will move it. Note this important part: we won't beat you up for not getting it "right" the first time! IOW, you get to keep your Gold Star for posting with us.

Hopefully that's all you needed, but if I was wrong, then reply back here, and we'll get you headed down the Yellow Brick Road.

sumgai

[Bloozcat]

Member of the original GuitarNutz forum now back from a hiatus...

It's good to see that the forum is still alive and well in it's new format! 

[JohnH]

Aug 1, 2018 8:39:19 GMT -5 Bloozcat said:

Member of the original GuitarNutz forum now back from a hiatus...

It's good to see that the forum is still alive and well in it's new format! 

Hi Bloozcat, and welcome back to GN. 13 years is quite break between sets! Did you put your amp on standby?

[leifnz]

Hi all

I had signed up to the original GuitarNuts about a month before it no longer worked. I was gutted! I tried looking in internet archives but couldn't find anything. Real sad face, as I was all poised to do some wiring mods.

I'm very very happy to see GuitarNuts2 for two reasons...

1 - I'm just happy to know it still exists, albeit in another incarnation.

and

2 - I honestly thought the original fell out of existence as a result of the owner having died. What a relief to hear he's not dead.

So! That's it!

I'm looking forward to rifling through the forums and contributing a little when I can.

Thanks for being there, everyone!!!

Leif

[newey]

leifnz-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

John Atchley, who started the original GuitarNuts site, was never a member here, and we don't have any information on him. RandomHero, who had been a contributor on the original forum, started this forum after the original site was hacked, and several of the active members of the old site began contributing here. But we don't know anything about Atchley currently, alive or not.

But we're happy you got here, however it came about!

[jimly]

Hi! I've been tinkering with the wiring in my no name, yard sale special strat like guitar, which I intend to replace all the parts on eventually, and name it Theseus, in honor of a paradoxical ship.

When I found this forum earlier today, I thought, now here's a place for me!

I've browsed lots of forums before, but this is my first time to join one. I've seen some places complain about "zombie threads" - where someone comes along and posts a response to a thread from years earlier. Is that frowned on here?

I found a thread from 2018 wherein there is a diagram that does the thing I've been imagining and I have a couple questions - so can 8 just ask them there?

Thanks so much!

[thetragichero]

forums are funny because on the one hand you'll get chastised for reviving an old thread while at the same time complain that people are starting too many threads on the same topic. silliness! we like dolly here but not that kind of silly

yes you are more than welcome (even encouraged) to ask questions about a scheme posted on a previous thread in that thread. keeps things tidy

and hey welcome jimly ! few years back i saw it my mission to buy up all the strat knockoffs from the local Craigslist for forty bucks a pop and dump three times that amount in pickups in em and take em to gigs. great way to learn how to do any number of repairs/tweaks/mods without having to sacrifice something potentially worth money

[reTrEaD]

Hello jimly and to Guitarnuts2 !

Apr 22, 2020 21:04:01 GMT -5 jimly said:

I've browsed lots of forums before, but this is my first time to join one. I've seen some places complain about "zombie threads" - where someone comes along and posts a response to a thread from years earlier. Is that frowned on here?

We're more tolerant about that here and even if you were to post in the wrong place, you wouldn't be chastised. But you would be advised about preferred thread usage.

Also, we are very pleased to see you are already thinking about such things. If you'd like to take some time right here, in this thread, to further discuss where and how to post your questions, we'll be glad to advise you.

Apr 22, 2020 21:04:01 GMT -5 jimly said:

I found a thread from 2018 wherein there is a diagram that does the thing I've been imagining and I have a couple questions - so can 8 just ask them there?

It depends on the situation and as they say "Everything's a situation".

Post a link to that thread and list many of the questions you considered posting in that thread. Then we'll look at whether any or all of them belong in the old thread. Or perhaps you would be better off posting your own thread. Or perhaps more than one thread, and include some of the questions in the one thread, other questions in another thread.

Rather than answering any of the questions here, we'll direct you on how and where to place those questions.

Does that sound like a good plan to you?

[sumgai]

jimly,


Hi, and to The NutzHouse!


As it happens, I haven't kept close track of anything for a long time, but if memory serves, the longest resurrection we've seen was a little over 10 years. Your question about a thread being only 2 years old.... no problem, my friend, no problem at all.

My fellow Staffers are leading you down the path towards your goal, all you need to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.  And don't be afraid to ask questions, that's why we're here.  This place would be a mausoleum if no one wondered "what would happen if...." or "can I do this X, Y, Z...".  And I'd fall asleep, waiting for someone like you to come along and save this place from all the cobwebs taking over.    For confirmation, just take a look at another recent newcomer, ourclarioncall - over 350 posts, and 95% of them being questions of some sort.  If he's happy, you're bound to become ecstatic!

HTH




sumgai

[jimly]

Apr 22, 2020 22:09:16 GMT -5 reTrEaD said:

Post a link to that thread and list many of the questions you considered posting in that thread. Then we'll look at whether any or all of them belong in the old thread. Or perhaps you would be better off posting your own thread. Or perhaps more than one thread, and include some of the questions in the one thread, other questions in another thread.

Rather than answering any of the questions here, we'll direct you on how and where to place those questions.

Does that sound like a good plan to you?

That sounds great!

Well, I'm wanting to wire a guitar with three single coils, each with an on/off/phase switch, either in series or in parallel. And it looks like this thread has it all figured out - just what I'm looking for!

guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/8350/brian-series-parallel-mod

Now, it's difficult remembering my questions exactly while not looking at the thread, but they had to do with choosing the switches, which brands of switches and such, a couple questions about the circuits (there are two on that thread that I'm looking to choose between). I'm also curious - if you've got two pickups in series, does it matter what order they're in - say, which one is closer to the volume pot?

I also had the version of a circuit that I'd come up with that I wondered if I could get someone to look over, because I don't think they worked but it was a fun puzzle for me, but I think I'm going to drop them anyways because I like Xerox and johnH's circuits much better.

I dropped out of circuit analysis and changed my major to computer science, after all.

[thetragichero]

the puzzle is 75% of the fun for many here! they usually have better attention spans than i... if the scheme is too complex i start looking for stuff around the house to do instead of trying to trace it all out (somewhere along the lines i became more hands on learning than pen and paper)

[reTrEaD]

Apr 23, 2020 12:28:54 GMT -5 jimly said:

That sounds great!

Well, I'm wanting to wire a guitar with three single coils, each with an on/off/phase switch, either in series or in parallel. And it looks like this thread has it all figured out - just what I'm looking for!

guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/8350/brian-series-parallel-mod

Now, it's difficult remembering my questions exactly while not looking at the thread, but they had to do with choosing the switches, which brands of switches and such, a couple questions about the circuits (there are two on that thread that I'm looking to choose between). I'm also curious - if you've got two pickups in series, does it matter what order they're in - say, which one is closer to the volume pot?

I also had the version of a circuit that I'd come up with that I wondered if I could get someone to look over, because I don't think they worked but it was a fun puzzle for me, but I think I'm going to drop them anyways because I like Xerox and johnH's circuits much better.

I dropped out of circuit analysis and changed my major to computer science, after all.

Those all seem like appropriate questions to post as replies to the existing thread.

Or you can post in the thread provided by the original author of that wiring diagram, whichever one you prefer:
guitarnuts2.proboards.com/thread/4855/brian-series-parallel-switching-sss

[pasqualino]

Hi, I'm the worst guitarist in the world, seriously.  I am a good engineer though and after the COVID quarantine I dusted off my guitars and realized I had nothing through which to play the electric.  after building a little practice amp to play through headphones I realized that this is a great opportunity to do all these guitar amp/effects projects which have jumped in and out of my head over the last 30 years.

In 1981 I joined the Navy as an ET.  I learned how tubes worked (beyond the basics my dad taught me when we would tester the TV's tubes at the complimentary tube tester at Woolworths.) The Navy was a good place to get lots of experience, but they didn't teach you a hell of a lot, so you need to really dig into the material they gave you.  Particularly back then because good instructional material was not the easiest stuff to find.  When I got out of the Navy I worked around as a tech and took the advice of one of the Engineers and got a BSEE from UMASS  @amherst.  It was there i started my struggle with guitar, (and other instruments on which I have long since given up.)

I got directed to this page from a reddit post in a DIY guitar sub reddit where I was inquiring about finding specs for pickups so I could better model the as a voltage source for micro-Cap simulations.  So someone directed me to the :modeling of the Electric Guitar" post here which was just beautiful!  after kicking myself in the butt for working on a generic model  (I got L = 2H,  C = 120p,  R_DC = 5K as an estimation of a 6000 turn coil in a pickup.  Of course there are losses in the coil magnets which cause a frequency dependent resistance that increases with frequency as you might imagine, it sure wouldn't go down now, would it? 

The R_AC I put in microcap was  R_AC = R_DC + R(f) where I have yet to curve fit a function for R(f), but R_AC ≈ 10* R_DC at mid-band, so there are a few ways to go. One way I tried which is not the way to go is a linear increase RDC + (K_c * f)  which was way too much.  I'm thinking it's probably logarithmic, so I'll try R_DC + (Kc * ln(f)) or maybe two constants  for the AC resistive component Kc1 * ln(Kc2*f) which is probably the winner if I was going to bet.  I'll do the simulation a little later and post it in that thread.

I got off on a tangent there, sorry.  The reason I wanted to get the source model for the pickups correct was so that I don't waste my time tweaking things which don't behave anything like the simulation once plugged in.  I've got a bunch of Russian AC128 Ge PNP transistors and am  struggling to get a correct model for them in Micro-Cap.  The SPICE model floating around seems to be accurate, but Microcap has many more parameters, half of which I don't know.  I only know my Fuzz Face simulation can't be correct, it just can't be.  I'll post the results of that a little later too once I find the proper thread.

While this analog stuff is not new to me, it has been a very long time since I actually did any of this.  For the last 20+ yrs i've been doing DSP work and now it's a all strictly FPGAs which have hard embedded DSP blocks.  I really want to digitally model the effects i like while twiddling around and make and make HW realizations for them in an FPGA.  This is really my goal.

So I will close with a question:  What is a good place to get ckt cards fabricated for the "hobbyist"?  I've used PCB-1-2-3 in the past at different jobs, but there's got to be something better around at this point.  They were only doing through hole until about 8-yrs ago.  Once I figure out what I want I'd like to spin some boards.  that's not happening for a bit, but it's good to know.  I know there are a bunch of DIY knockoff kits where you can just get the ckt board.  reworking those is probably a good start.

Hopefully I didn't violate any rules.

[edit]

i keep running off on tangents on the other threads, so i'm going to continue to edit this post when it comes to "get to know you" kinda information.

You guys have set the bar high. I'll see what I can contribute to the group, but you guys seem to have the topic of modeling the pickup and rig covered in spades. Maybe I can get some of the data from that awesome Excel project into Micro Cap for a parameter or two, but that's a mere pittance compared to the work already done.



Hardware realizations of DSP algorithms on FPGAs is my thing these days, that's what I do for a living, so maybe I can contribute there. This is an amazing site! It's hard to come away from this COVID thing with anything positive, but I probably would have never dusted off my rancid Les Paul knockoff and would have never discovered my amp was gone and never gotten back into the DIY guitar thing and landing on GN2. Finding this group has motivated me and is giving me hope for the future.



That being said, I still haven't played a lick on my electric other than through this minimal practice amp made out of a TL072 dual op amp. Next to the electric in the attic was my Fender Acoustic DS 8 NAT (Manufactured in China) which turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would be when I gave my junkie brother-in-law $50 bucks for it. "Pat, it's a $200 guitar and I'll give it to you for $50" Glad I did it now.  Picking and bending the living snot out of it getting ready for the electric though. After playing this cheap-butt Fender Acoustic, I have to say that it's a probably a better guitar than the Epiphone Les Paul knock off.  (LE Special II)  To be honest, I'm more impressed with the cheaper Fender acoustic.  Then again, I have never played the epiphone through a proper amp.  When my amp still existed (still a mystery and my wife looks away and changes the subject every time I bring it up.) I had a pretty nice Strat. (2005 American Deluxe) and a fender knockoff amp which sounded great.  Just a vanilla 3 x 12AX7 and 6L6 power, no reverb, but an effects loop I never used.  usually played just clean, but if you wanted dist you had to crank that thing, so for some butt and drive I went into an Ibanez Tube Screamer knockoff then into a Ross compressor knockoff, both made by yours truly on generic project board and then straight into the amp.  I loved this thing.  Plywood cabinet with fiberglass insulation and a 12" Celestion the guy told me was straight out of his Deluxe Reverb since he just swapped it out for something different. controls were just Vol, Treb & Bass.   That's all I want.  i don't need al that power though. 

Figured a 15W Sloclone with 2 6V6 and some tweaks might get me there and  won't have to file for divorce  to play it.  I also want another Strat, I'm just not a Gibson/Marshall guy.  Love Jimmy Page and the lot, but unless you're playing those things loud they just don't impress me like a strat into a classic Fender Amp.  Tweed, Deluxe Reverb or even, no especially the Fender champ original which was like 3 W and you could get crunch out of it without noise complaints from the neighbors or my pain in the butt wife.  Jimi Hendrix and SRV and neighbor friendly levels sounds good to me.

[thetragichero]

pasqualino hey guy, welcome!
all the rules violated!

nahhh just kidding. ashcatlt does a lot of the stomp box modeling in reaper, check out some of his posts in computer-aided guitaring. that kinda stuff is beyond my pay grade, i just make fuzz go BRRRRRR
i haven't looked into pcb fabrication just yet as most of the effects i build are on perf. i think frets maybe has had some pcbs for onboard effects made

[ashcatlt]

Oct 22, 2020 14:53:21 GMT -5 thetragichero said:

ashcatlt does a lot of the stomp box modeling in reaper

Oh heck what I do isn’t really “modeling” so much as approximate emulation. Mostly I just string together essentially generic filters and nonlinearities based on my understanding of the way a circuit works and/or just by ear. I sometimes use SPICE modeling to inform some of it, and sometimes sort of make calculations using “component values”, but there is not really anything like component modeling happening in my plugs. That’s close enough for me because I’m not really trying to fool anybody into thinking it’s a real analog thing, just to make it sound good and work well. If that’s also good enough for you, I’d be happy to discuss, but if you’re looking for super accurate models of the minutia of specific components, I’m afraid I can’t help much. I honestly don’t know what micro-cap or FPGA even mean, so maybe I’ll learn something from you!

[frets]

I am the onboard pcb Queen !! Always creating passive and active face boards. Also, building miniature effect boards on small micro pedals. Anyway I can help, I’m here and ready to trace.

[pasqualino]

I'd love to check out your algorithms.  i have a few Xilinx dev kits and jut dying to try out some effects.  I have a beautiful maxim daughter card as a D/A converter and have to build my own PMOD board for the A/D.

My website is a work in progress, but I have some pics up there. I need to sit down and put a whole step-by-step project up there.  Hate actually working on webpage development

www.trailingedgetechnologies.com/xilinx-fpgas/ 

[pasqualino]

I'm interested!

I have a few FPGA boards around and I have a particularly nice one which I'm dying to try out.  I even have a smokin' Maxim D/A converter FMC daughter card for this thing.  It's begging me to build something.  The Maxim board has a part has an SPI interface, so I'm putting the final touches on an SPI Master so I can at least talk to it. I need to wire something up to get my guitar straight into the Maxim card, clean.  A quick op-amp circuit will do, but still have to make sure I don't mess anything up on that Maxim board.  It wasn't expensive, but it cost more than either one of my axes.

[sonikelectrik]

Greetings Nutz. Finally signed up. Long time reader of GN and found it to be a great resource. GN2 likewise. 

Im a Brit living in SoCal. Have a MIJ Fender Strat from ‘86 with some basic mods/upgrades (copper shielding, CTS pots, switch, jack etc). I also went from 5 way switch to 3 way. And now have one master volume and one master tone pot. 

Im an old punk, a crusty old goth. When I get to plug the old twanger in, I usually resort to old 80s punk/metal/new wave tunes. I produce a lot of synth music that has guitar in it. Or is it guitar music that has synths in. 

Been looking for a mod mod to make use of the now redundant third pot, reading a lot of the schematic threads. Figured it might be quicker to just sign up and ask a question or two than commit to endless reading that goes nowhere other than confusion. 

Ill have questions about replacing pickups, and adding switches, and changing capacitors. All in due course.

thanks for having me
Sonik

[newey]

sonikelectric:

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

Nov 9, 2020 11:24:37 GMT -5 sonikelectrik said:

Figured it might be quicker to just sign up and ask a question or two than commit to endless reading that goes nowhere other than confusion. 

Probably a wise idea to sign up. You can post those questions in guitar wiring. One thought for the third pot would be to use it as a blender, to blend either the bridge or neck p/u into whatever the 5-way selects. This then gives the extra 2 missing combos (N + B and N + M + B). You might find the "all three pickups" setting to provide a bit more low-end grunt for Goth stuff. But there are plenty of other options as well.

a crusty old goth

So, a blackened crust, then?

[thetragichero]

Nov 9, 2020 14:00:31 GMT -5 newey said:

a crusty old goth

So, a blackened crust, then?

no that is completely different genre

[sonikelectrik]

Nov 9, 2020 14:00:31 GMT -5 newey said:

One thought for the third pot would be to use it as a blender, to blend either the bridge or neck p/u into whatever the 5-way selects. This then gives the extra 2 missing combos (N + B and N + M + B). You might find the "all three pickups" setting to provide a bit more low-end grunt for Goth stuff. But there are plenty of other options as well.

Thanks newey that was kinda where I was thinking. Have some ideas of where I wanna go but need a little map to get there. Been looking at the wiring diags and I’ll ask some questions in there.

a crusty old goth

So, a blackened crust, then?

Yes kinda, I like the term “pan seared” 🙂

[blusey]

Hello everybody!
Just thought I’d do an introductory post. I am a member of a couple of other forums on the subjects of Light duty diesel trucks and appliance repair and found them to be entertaining and helpful. After searching around a bit I found this site and figured it would be a good fit for my interest in guitar repair. After looking around this forum I see reasonable rules, tons of info and some good folks. Hopefully after I learn my way around, I can contribute some as well.

on the personal side, I grew up in a musical family and did my first “performance” at about ten years old, usual high school bands, joined the Air Force and jammed with other Airmen and played downtown a few times. In the late 90’s some co-workers and myself got a band together and we played local bars until 2012. I’ve been jammin on the couch since then. Lol

The early “kid” years were bluegrass and classic country stuff, high school and military years were rock (Aerosmith, AC/DC, Zep, etc.) and a little hair metal. The “Band Years” started as classic rock (Grand Funk Railroad, CCR, Thin Lizzie) by the time it was over, we played everything from modern country to Van Morrison and Jimmy Buffet. Lots of good memories but it was time to quit drinkin and my friends weren’t as much fun when I was sober (and they weren’t).

After a couple of years of playing very little, I drug out the old electric guitars and realized how bad their condition was. About the same time, my Mom gave me my Dads old TrueTone guitar (he had recently passed away) and it was in terrible shape with the neck coming loose from the body. I watched a lot of YouTube videos and my interest grew. I also posted a few videos of the repairs as Angry Red Banjo after I got up the courage to try and tackle the job. All that lead to polishing up my old stuff and I have began doing work for other folks as well and of course that’s lead to spending more time playing again as well. My musical interests have changed over the years also, current favorites are Government Mule, Blackberry Smoke, and The Steel Woods kind mixing my country and rock with the emphasis on the rock side and a generous portion of blues from Joe B. To BB.

Currently, I’m working on a TV yellow Tele that I bought in pieces with a brand new (undrilled) neck that I have few questions about. That’s what brought me here but I’ll post them up later.

I hope this wasn’t too long of a post or too boring and I look forward to getting to know the forum and members better in the future.

[newey]

blusey-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

Your story is pretty similar to those of a lot of us here. My 8th-grade garage band (circa 1970-71) did CCR and Grand Funk covers as pretty much our entire repertoire. You'll fit right in.

Please do post any questions about the yellow Tele project, and stick around!

[ziggystardust723]

Hello guys!
I'm New on this Forum,
but not in Life:
- I'm a french guy, 66yo, living in France, near Paris,
- & not speaking English every day,
& left School in '72:
= like said Alice Cooper (than I saw at Olympia in Paris at end of '72):
> ''School's 0ut for Summer, School's 0ut for Ever.!''
(so please don't be wrong to my language.. thanks a lot..)
- I started to Need to play when I'd heard 'Whole lotta Love'/Led ZepII in June of '70, after a french 'Examen', at School..
(before I was just listening many Rock Music on BBC, since I was 9yo)
- Tryed to play on a kind of Folk guitar than a cousin laid at Parents appartmnt..
- But 2 years ago I finally got my 1st Electric 'second hand', but like New, for $50..
- & my Amp was a mini Radio..
> I'd an other bigger.. then a 50w & an other guitar, & a bass..
- But I did't leaened to play,
I was just playing some Riffs etc..
- I took myself in my hand & learnt hardly in '83 to '87: many songs & every day in public..
- I've been learnt a lot to play in front of people 5years..
- But it was enough..
- I'd choiced to change, cause living with a really nice girl who wanted to sing more (& was playing many instruments like Drums, Piano: her Father was Concertist.. but not guitar) & looking for a guitarist..
- I've been playing with her..
- Less than 1year,'rich experience'..
- & been working with bikes (near 15) for many years..
So I stopped to work with motorbikes.
& Gave Lessons Guitar..
- Then, 8y ago I got my Windind machine: a little Schatten with 2'Arms' for Winding 'Clock Wise' or 'Counter Clock Wise'..
(Now they've only one Arm, but you can change the kind of winding..)
- Windind & winding: in 8y I've learnt many things & got 4 kind of wires (the last one received this day: an Awg44 = 0,050 mm diameter),
& 3 kind of Coat around the wire for 3 kinds of Sound Characters..
+ I got many many different pickups, some than I'd never played:
> just to See how they were made..
- I'd learnt many many things..
> Si I can answer to many questions..
- But, after my 'Help to find Awg45 wire',
> I don't Ask for doing something:
- I'd always time took me by the hand & to Customise' became normaly for me
- As I can do for pickups..
- See your latter Alligators,
- Bye bye Butterfly,
- Ziggy (not gay, but Fan of Glam-Rock.. Space-Rock.. from The Shadows to Iron-Maiden.. so much: Yardbirds, Led Zep, J.Hendrix & Experience, Pink Floyd, & ZZ Top with 'King Billy'..)

[Jack TriPpEr]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years and starting about 2 years ago or so, began learning about how guitar schemes work. I'm now at the point where I've developed custom wiring diagrams for myself and others in some other online groups I am a member of. I learned about this forum indirectly through the excellent Youtube tutorials by a former member of this forum, Phostenix.

I am looking forward to meeting and engaging with members of this forum about novel and interesting guitar circuit wiring schemes, as well as sharing summaries and demos of some of my own experiments.

Thanks!

[newey]

JTPE-

Hello and Welcome to G-Nutz2!

(You've posted before and I couldn't recall whether I had properly welcomed you or not. If this is the second time, well, condider yourself doubly welcomed!