NSD: New Shredder Day!

DLM

As I was saying in Speakers' Corner:

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4476/37556621142_7bc28c04f2_z.jpg

There's so much redevelopment going on here that the tradespeople can pick and choose, and often choose to do nowt. I've given up trying to hire a gardener for heavy jobs and am buying tools and doing them myself instead. I'd get @Sambostar in, but I don't think the Transit would survive the journey. Also, he'd not survive the boozing here, I just discovered that you can get a crate of glass-bottled/swing-topped lagers for the equivalent of under 90ct a litre at Lidl. So if anyone needs ghetto rubber straplocks...

... that said, I've noticed a disturbing trend recently toward glued-on rubber washers. Will no one think of the guitarists?

thomasross20

I got a Bosch lawnmower which died on 3rd attempt so hope that lasts longer @DLM.....!

Also... I've been trying to "SCARIFY" (hohoho) - however I used a pitchfork to pierce the ground instead of buying a scarifier/aerator. I agree - a tool is so much easier!

DLM

@thomasross20 I've had a scarifier for a good while, but it's crap. I think we got it from Aldi, so only got ourselves to blame. This shredder will basically amortise itself with the one job I reckon.

bluechargeboy

Here's a pic for all the disappointed people in this thread. HTH.

DLM

@bluechargeboy I'm all about bare wood finishes, but I need a back route for the wang bar, would prefer 24 frets, a blade switch, probably a humbucker in the neck... Not that I'd put that Charvel through the Bosch, like...

bluechargeboy

I quite fancy a wood shredder now! Don't think I would have a lot of use for it though, I can already fill my green garden waste bin until it has the density of a neutron star.

On the subject of guitars, I love the access of an RG but prefer the twangy 22 fret neck pickup sound...

DLM

@bluechargeboy I was using a whole pile of concrete paving slabs (about eight) and a ladder to put my own weight on top of that and still couldn't get all the compost in...

The bin is one of these (though not in Trier, this pic just has the handy universal size reference of a banana): http://www.volksfreund.de/storage/pic/ftpxmlios/cciios/nachrichten/welt/themendestages/themenderzeit/3210433_1_biotonne.jpg.1-G5257K0IE.1-ORG.jpg

It was ending up this way, and if you get a shirty binman, they'll not take it:

https://www.tz.de/bilder/2011/07/04/1308947/1908170121-muell_privat-Wa7.jpg

I've given up and bought a plastic compost heap kit.

I've been feeling like getting a hardtail recently for in-tune compound bends and have just found this:

http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/YQ0zZYTY3MwzNc/8575972.0/1100/p/DSC_0421.jpg

bluechargeboy

The name of that bin implies you can get a tonne in there if you really try.

That guitar you pictured will be lovely. I note that it has Dimarzio-specific pickup holes so future tinkering with Seymours etc would be out unless you bodged them up.

Anyway I do believe it's time for my obligatory RG1451 hardtail pic! I've had this since 2010. To be honest I have never really liked the neck pickup sound (it's had millions of 'em in it) but everything else is sweeeeet!

DLM

Unfortunately that koa RG is a one off. Not much chance of snagging one.

I love your RG, man! Reminds me of mine, but in hardtail, sparkly, and not-knackered:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6662521325_73209bfb32_b.jpg

bluechargeboy

Cool setup, what pickup do you have in the neck there?

I fitted my RG with black RG550-type knobs to replace the knurled metal things, it seemed the right thing to do.

DLM

@bluechargeboy Yeah, that was the original footswitch, I've got a Columbus now. Even more shiny blue lights!

http://www.diezelamplification.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Product_Details_Columbus_00000.jpg

That's a Seymour Duncan Distortion, SH-6N, originally named the SH-7 Seymourizer (people always confuse it with the Super Distortion). I fall in and out of love with it all the time. Every time I wonder about replacing it I play something that sounds amazing and forget my plans to dump it.

Did you have to change the pots over to accommodate the Strat-style knobs on grooved shafts, or could you use the smooth ones? I've got an odd mix of one of each shaft type on my RG1550MPBL that I'm going to have to do something about because the chromed metal tone one is all wobbly – and no one likes a wobbly knob.

bluechargeboy

I have grooved shafts already (matron) so it was a straight swap.

My Charvel So-Cal has a SH-6N that I want to change for a 59, so I might try that in the RG. Endless tinkering!!