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    breathe, relax. smoke a cigarette.
    find a hobby, something you're good at that other people can't do, find an area of expertise.
    One of my friends made a guitar out of a two-by-four and all the other shit needed for the neck scraped off a broken guitar, and it was actually in tune and played good. He had all the math down behind things like the spacing between frets and made it his own. It impressed the fuck out of me; all I'm good with is drugs and words, not exactly a gift.

    He's the kind of person who takes electronics apart just to see what's in them and then puts them back together again and somehow managed to improve the device in the process "yeah the soldering was shit so i re-did it" or "i bypassed the volume knob because it was making the sound cut out a little" and just shit like that
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    Quote Originally Posted by Plug Drugs View Post
    breathe, relax. smoke a cigarette.
    find a hobby, something you're good at that other people can't do, find an area of expertise.
    One of my friends made a guitar out of a two-by-four and all the other shit needed for the neck scraped off a broken guitar, and it was actually in tune and played good. He had all the math down behind things like the spacing between frets and made it his own. It impressed the fuck out of me; all I'm good with is drugs and words, not exactly a gift.
    mike thats realluy cool he just made marks off an old neck and got the dimensions within 1/8 inch (you fix the rest of the intonation on the bridge, got harmonics?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by www.whatthefuck.com View Post
    mike thats realluy cool he just made marks off an old neck and got the dimensions within 1/8 inch (you fix the rest of the intonation on the bridge, got harmonics?)
    how do you fix the intonation of a 2x4, you just made that up
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    Quote Originally Posted by Plug Drugs View Post
    how do you fix the intonation of a 2x4, you just made that up
    no if you look at lower model Fender™ indonesian breidges or even early model telecasters you'll see intonation screws.

    there are lost of ways to complicate intonating a guitar, this is the least painful (notice i totally avoided painless because its a lot of work)
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    i am listeni g to this right now:

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    The notes it made were perfectly in tune but they were completely bland and sounded like they were coming from an electric keyboard, which wasn't too odd I guess since it was made out of a 2x4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Plug Drugs View Post
    The notes it made were perfectly in tune but they were completely bland and sounded like they were coming from an electric keyboard, which wasn't too odd I guess since it was made out of a 2x4
    ahh resonation frequency, pine isa more porous this a lower resonation everywhere, which is why guitar necks are always made of harder woods and im no0t talking about oak even the AFRICAN BANJO (bet you thought i thought it was a 'murican thing from hillbillies) had a fret board made of eucalyptus or rosewood, or ebony. 9EBONY was preferrewd)
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