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Aw, how sweet!
Unreal! Won't be long until she is playing it!
Thank you Simon and Andy, he she is already getting the hang of performing shredding ! Hehe.
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Ahh, how sweet they are at that age.
Great starter kit and the way these are wired does the same trick on the EX-5 too.
Thank you Waz. Yeah, i compared the wiring diagrams and will be using this one along with the RD-4 wiring diagram as a guide.
All good Naim. See how you go and shout out if you get stuck as someone usually drops by to lend a hand from time to time.
Thank you Waz. You all have been so great and helpful. I am glad Adam told be about this community forum. I love it here. It feels like home, counselling therapy so to speak to help you get thru, to look back and to be proud of yourself and to see what you have achieved !
OMG! She is adorable and those pictures are too cute! So cool of you to share that daddy daughter moment mate, it's really lovely.Quote:
Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
I want to build a teeny tiny little V now. @Adam, is there a kit for that yet?
Look out! I can see a mini scratch build coming up!!!:p:pQuote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
It might have to be on the list. It may save some of my other guitars from being "Played" by Miss 3YO at home! I bought her a little Ukelele but one of her little accomplices, footsoldiers, known associates "friends" Townshended it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zandit75
Bugger! You could do the opposite of what the boys at 4D are doing, halve all the measurements. Mind you, that could end up being too small, especially considering the giant model they are building is actually 4 times the size of a standard guitar just by doubling all the measurements!
Yeah it'd probably be a 3/4 scale eh? If I remember rightly there were a couple of fairly recent threads for these.Quote:
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Edit: Madam can have anything she wants, as long as it's a Flying Vee and it's Black. Knowing my luck she'll want a fluffy pink bunny or Daisy shaped monstrosity straight out of one of my nightmares.
I think they might still make the Hannah Montana daisy shaped pink ones. Should we post a copy of it as a reminder or will that become the catalyst for far too many therapy sessions haha!Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
She's a very clever little girl.
There isn't enough "Therapeutic Amber Lemonade" in the world for that required level of therapy Waz.Quote:
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Wicked:cool:
You could compromise and build a pink skull shape. ;)
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Haha...Thanx guys,,,much appreciated.
Attached is my Son with his Dean V Jr. I am so proud of my kids, love them very much.
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Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
That's awesome, it's great to see all the young ones getting into building their own guitars, who knows, they might end up pursuing it as a career when they get older, a lot of the young kids here in Darwin end up in trouble with the law, there was an article in yesterday's newspaper about three kids, aged 12, 13, and 15, who stole a car and used it to destroy a sports oval at a local school, they destroyed it by doing burnouts on the oval with the car they had stolen, your kids are lucky because they have some direction in life with the skills they learn while building their guitars.
The Metal is strong in this one!Quote:
Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
Is there a chance she might offer ME some lessons then? I just end up mashing fingers on the fretboard :(Quote:
Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
Agreed Dr. Nomis...These kids who get into trouble are bored and want to lash out to stand out. Children need our guidance and positivity. They are easily influenced, whether positive or negative. It is our duty as parents to stress the positive and make them feel good about themselves and to be proud of what the accomplish and achieve. Let it be building guitars, finish a level on a game, schoolwork and so on.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
I remember my Son picking up one of my guitars and playing the intro riff to one of the song's of my band. I was so proud that he played and remembered the notes and rhythm.
Who knows, she may become a teacher. She can go to Uni where i am going at the moment when she is older. Haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by depictedminds
It does in this family FrankenWashie. \m/\m/.Quote:
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Too awesome! I salute you sir!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
Heavy Metal music is something that I think is pretty unique, for something that has the power to take us away from all the things that get us down as we live our lives, and takes us to a better place, it has to be a good thing, Heavy Metal music has played a big part in my life as I was growing up, and it has always been there for me, through all my good times and bad times, it has helped me through it all.
Well said Dr.Nomis. I agree whole heartedly...Metal music has saved my life a number of times before having kids, now they are one of the reasons i am still alive n kickin'. Any genre of music is always there for you to suit your mood at the time. I chose Metal since hearing Saxon, Maiden, Wasp, Slayer and Metallica back in 1986. 30 years on, it is still by my side...ONLY MUCH BIGGER !!! \m/\m/. Now i share that with my kids and Fiancee who was already a MetalHead when we met. Now i am channeling that positive energy into my University studies as i am doing a Bachelors in Music Composition and Sound Production and now building Basses.Quote:
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Thank you FrankenWashie...I can only do my best.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
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Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
I credit my mum as being the one who got me into Heavy Metal music, one of the first bands I got into was AC/DC, my mum is in her 60's now and she still is a big AC/DC fan, I also got into some other music genres, one of them is Blues music, which is where a lot of the sub-genres of Heavy Metal came from, Black Sabbath is widely acknowledged to be the first true Heavy Metal band that started it all off, there were some other bands that came before Black Sabbath, that were regarded as Heavy Metal pioneers, I got introduced to the big four Thrash Metal bands (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth), by my younger brother, Megadeth is the one I like the most out of the big four, but I am also into the other three too, they all have their unique take on Heavy Metal music, I like checking out the other bands that were a part of the history of Heavy Metal, one band that I like a lot is Australia's Mortal Sin, next chance you get try searching for Mayhemic Destruction by Mortal Sin on youtube, it's off one of their earlier albums but I reckon it still rocks to this day.
There are a lot of good Metal bands still touring these days, one in particular has a female singer that blew me away when I heard her, the band is Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow, she really surprised me , check them out.
I should add that I'm a big fan of alot of the 80's Metal scene, since the 80's was my teen years.
Saxon and Iron Maiden are definitely two bands who were pioneers of Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden and a few other bands, like Judas Priest, started off what was called the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which also included bands that influenced Metallica, the Big Four ( Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth), started off as a reaction to Metal bands from the LA Glam scene (Motley Crue, and their contemporaries), then we had bands like Sepultura ( from South America), who took Thrash Metal and made it heavier, eventually we ended up with the Metal bands we have today, along the way new Heavy Metal sub-genres were created, about the most extreme Metal band I have heard so far is a band called Bestial Warlust.
Yes Dr.Nomis...I have heard of Mayhemic Destruction, i got it on cassette when it first came out. I used to hang out with Mortal Sin during those times at Bell St. Rock. Arch Enemy, i have all their stuff. Have you heard the latest Arch Enemy with Alyssa ? She derives from The Agonist, check em out if you havent.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
Just checked out Arch Enemy's last album, Alyssa pulls it in well, she doesn't seem to be as raw as Angela Gossow? I always got the impression with Angela that vocally she was at her absolute limit, almost pushing past it at times. Alyssa seems less totured to do a similar job. Different artists, quite like both in how they perform and I don't think AE suffers with the change, it seems a tad more polished vocally with Alyssa to me. No bad reflection on Angela, she did a great job, that just the way I hear it I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by METAL Rulez 4ever
You are right FrankenWashie, Alyssa is classically vocally trained and has more of a range than Angela.Quote:
Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
You need to remove Judas Priest from that list. They were going long before TNWOBHM hit the music world, which was somewhere around 1980-1981. Judas Priest were very much of the old school of rock, more on a level with Thin Lizzy than Sabbath. They later reinvented themselves as more of a metal band, but they were never officially part of TNWOBHM. TNWOBHM was a convenient music press label to give to bands that had generally been started and going unnoticed through the late '70s, when labels were generally just signing punk and new wave bands (because 'rock was dead') and then when the punk phase ended, the labels still found that there was a big demand for loud rock music, so TNWOBHM became the new bandwagon for a while. Certainly Saxon, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard were in it, then there were some of the lesser known bands like The Tygers of Pan Tang, Samson, Girlschool and Witchfinder General. Maiden was the most metal of the lot, the others were really no more than heavy rock. Even Ian Gillan (with his band Gillan) was included within the TNWOBHM label.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
...And also my fave bands...Tokyo Blade, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, Motorhead, Angel Witch and Grim Reaper.Quote:
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Some great classics there, Diamond Head, Motorhead, and Angelwitch, are all influences of Metallica, I seem to remember James Hetfield saying that he was into Angelwitch when he was younger, there's also Mercyful Fate too.
I've been getting into building guitar amplifiers, there's one that's a work in progress, I'm in the process of building it into a fully-working Soldano SLO 50 Head, still got a fair way to go before it's functional though, my main guitar amp is a 100 Watt Marshall MA100C 2 X 12 All Valve combo amp, it recently got serviced and I've been really happy with it ever since I got it back home.
Nice Dr.Nomis. Good luck with that. I may get into building bass cases. With all these kits...i need 'em !!! Haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
Nice bass Metal and great to get the kids involved - a much more wholesome activity than screen driven passive entertainment activities that seem to consume too many young kids mind's
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Thank you Andrew. And agreed...bloody Minecraft the kids love !Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewdosborne
Haha yes... we have a Minecraft ban on this week!
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