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Horn Draoi

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  1. Fascinating topic.  My Schrade/Old Timer 3-blade Stockman, 1966. In my pocket now. A Frederick Post slide rule from 1969; no, I don’t use it every day, but I damned sure still know how to-just tested myself.  Miscellaneous tools from 1968, when i bought my first motorcycle-Dad didn’t have anything metric.

  2. That Paterson is a beauty!  I’ve never seen a Paterson repro in stainless-is that in the white?  My father had a Cimarron Navy conversion in .38 Special-great “feel” and pointed like a forefinger. “Sights” were useless to me.  Definitely a point and boom interface.

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  3. On 3/3/2023 at 4:39 PM, jimmyjazz said:

    Billy Gibbons is notorious for using any amp in the studio, including Pignose and Legend pieces of crap.  I doubt he's ever going to give up the secrets.

    FWIW, I bought a couple of drinks for a (venue) sound tech-not a roadie-a few years ago after a ZZ show.  He claimed the Reverend was running completely through a cooking 5W Fender Champ miked into the venue PA.  Said those amps and stacks onstage were all show, no go.  He also mentioned that neither Billy nor Dusty could hear it thunder.  I last talked to Billy G in a hotel bar 30+ years ago, and he could hear fine then.  Shrug.  Who knows?  Billy G is notorious for talking and telling us nothing.

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  4. 4 hours ago, G650 said:

    Wait, you bought another guitar? I thought you were selling guitars.

    You talkin’ to me?  I don’t sell guns, guitars, or fly rods.  My kids can sort all that out………………

  5. Hah! I can barely pick the guitar; it looks like every other ‘52 Tele, natural finish and maple neck.  I may try when I get some grubby neck wear and perhaps a Keef cigarette burn on the headstock………………..

  6. NGD here!  We recently bought a second home, and I convinced myself it was a better idea to buy a practice guitar so I could just pack headphones, headphone amp, and tuner back and forth instead of a bulky case.  I went for a Harley Benton TE-52, being cheap and all.

    Sat the HB next to my 2004 Fender AVRI 52; the HB is a wee bit darker in both neck and body.  The HB is, as far as I can tell, only a 2-piece body, and not well matched.  The finish is deep polyester, probably wouldn’t chip off a bowling ball.  Heavy beast, over 10 pounds, but it’s ash and maple and I’m a couch player anyway.  Neck is satin finished and fat.  Neck edges are slightly rolled and some sharp (a little) fret ends-I’ll take care of that when I restring.  I’m not impressed with the tuners.

    The electronics are smoother than I anticipated, and everything works.  Pickups sound really good: the neck has plenty of that woody Tele jazz sound I wanted and the bridge has all the spank and sparkle I could ever want.  Action is set nice and low, intonation is as perfect as I can determine with 3 tuners on 4 of the strings, I’ll tweak the other 2.

    Only flaws I can find are a couple of tiny pickguard scratches next to 2 of the 10 (!) pickguard screws.

    $229 plus tax delivered.  Not bad for a very playable Indonesian or possibly Chinese knockoff of a classic guitar.  Now where are my Ted Greene books…………

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  7. Satisfaction—you know who, and crank it up!

    Fire and Rain—James Taylor

    Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground—Willie

    Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door—Dylan

    probably many more to be added to this list, but I think these are songwriting perfection for their moment in time

  8. As an ex-owner of a TR-6, an MGB, and an Elan, I can happily opine that a Miata is the most reliable, most fun English 2-seater ever built!  Don’t look bad, and bring me all your weak hairdresser jokes.

  9. On 3/5/2023 at 2:57 PM, AUinHsv said:

    You have to be kinda crazy to drive at anything resembling speed limit with that racing windscreen.

    In other news my MGA is somewhere in the body shop getting prepped for paint

    That is a beautiful little car, but they were intended for spirited drives on low-traffic roads or I guess maybe track use; I know, I have a wonderful Miata reserved for Hill Country zoom-zoom.  Makes me anxious to drive it into Austin or DFW cell phone obsessed/weaving 18-wheeler traffic.  Hope your paint job is perfection!

  10. On 2/4/2023 at 10:42 PM, Henry Hill said:

    Square toes are sacrilege. And spare me the “my feet are wide and I need the extra space” spiel. No, you’re fat and have fat fucking feet and shouldn’t be buying boots in the first place.

    Uh, hold on there, HH. I won’t debate taste, as I’m sure not excited about the looks of the square toes, but they’re actually historically authentic. Most of what we wear today as western wear is a product of the dude ranches and horse operas from the 1920’s to the ‘50’s.

    40 years ago I wore 9.5 Tony Lama in a nice “R” toe; today it’s a square toe 12.  Your ears and nose aren’t the only things that grow as you age!  At least I can still pull on a pair of boots and wear ‘em all day.  And at 6’3” and 205, I don’t really qualify as “fat.”

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  11. 1 minute ago, Longhornstampede said:

    I heard the trick was to cut 2 slices out of the onion and put them in your socks so they rested against the bottoms of your feet all night

    Sweet dreams.  Probably wake with a craving for onion rings.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

     

    We're just going to let this one go?

    I appreciate all kinds of alternative health practices that have some sort of even modest benefits; cut up red onions sitting around the house is so ridiculously ignorant I can only shake my head………….

  13. OK, I just can’t resist weighing in on this-  CoQ10 does NOT enhance statin effect; it replaces the CoQ10 that statins deplete.  Replacement means the patient is much less likely to experience the the under-reported but exceedingly common muscle aches that drive people off of statins.  Fish oil helps change the HDL/LDL ratios that clinicians like to examine, not related to CoQ10 at all.

    in case your MD/DO/NP/PA/pharmacist is just not well informed (only too common), statins should ALWAYS be taken at BEDTIME.  Better effect that way.

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  14. 4 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    Do you not see the irony sir

    No, I don’t.  I grew up poor in Texas myself; I avoid the scumbags as much as possible, but I don’t ignore them, either.  Probably why I choose to live a hundred miles from anything that might remotely be called a “city.”

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