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[wazkelly]

Hi Doc, good to see you are feeling a bit better and making some progress with one of your projects.

Just wondering if you need to spend any more money on hardware as it would seem that you probably have plenty hanging around from most of the brand name axes you have and possibly the quality may not be so bad and allow some to be recycled? Hear you pain with tuning issues and hope you can find a decent set of tuners amongst what you already have, and just like yourself, many of us have only limited budgets to pursue our musical interests. Maybe using the tremolo is contributing to things going out of tune as they are notorious for that. Would feel bad to see you throw more money at it for very little gain.

I sense you are a bit like me and always strive for perfection, which is a good thing. In fact those who know me well would probably label me a bit OCD but over time I have come to realise that perfection is sometimes near but can also be just out of reach thus forcing you to reassess goals, achievements, and outcomes where compromises to those high standards may be required. Sometimes near enough is way past good enough for many others in that pursuit of continuous improvement where just a small amount of fine tuning something might be all that is required.

Hope you see this as words of encouragement and to help you give yourself some strokes for the big things that you have already achieved and accomplished.

[DrNomis_44]

Hi Doc, good to see you are feeling a bit better and making some progress with one of your projects.

Just wondering if you need to spend any more money on hardware as it would seem that you probably have plenty hanging around from most of the brand name axes you have and possibly the quality may not be so bad and allow some to be recycled? Hear you pain with tuning issues and hope you can find a decent set of tuners amongst what you already have, and just like yourself, many of us have only limited budgets to pursue our musical interests. Maybe using the tremolo is contributing to things going out of tune as they are notorious for that. Would feel bad to see you throw more money at it for very little gain.

I sense you are a bit like me and always strive for perfection, which is a good thing. In fact those who know me well would probably label me a bit OCD but over time I have come to realise that perfection is sometimes near but can also be just out of reach thus forcing you to reassess goals, achievements, and outcomes where compromises to those high standards may be required. Sometimes near enough is way past good enough for many others in that pursuit of continuous improvement where just a small amount of fine tuning something might be all that is required.

Hope you see this as words of encouragement and to help you give yourself some strokes for the big things that you have already achieved and accomplished.

Hi Wazkelly, I will admit that I can get a bit OCD with perfection too mate, i blame that on me being a Virgo (well known for their pursuit of what they believe is perfection), especially when getting a guitar in tune, if a guitar is even the slightest bit out of tune it tends to irritate me, anyway, I probably do have hardware on some of my other guitars I could use, but as some of the hardware is definitely getting a bit worn out and I actually have a limited amount of good hardware in stock, sometimes I don't have many other options other than ordering stuff online, I'm going to try and reign-in my spending a bit over the Christmas season cause I want to do some house-cleaning during the Christmas holidays so I can get rid of some stuff I no longer want/need, I'll need to do it anyway prior to doing the move to Cairns, cheers for the words of encouragement mate.

[Zandit75]

Hi Wazkelly, I will admit that I can get a bit OCD with perfection too mate, i blame that on me being a Virgo (well known for their pursuit of what they believe is perfection),

Are you still a Virgo? Just recently, NASA re-instated an old 13th zodiac sign, and now, apparently 85% of people are now under a different star sign!
I am one of the lucky ones who stayed with their original star sign!
http://fox59.com/2016/09/23/nasa-rev...-have-changed/

[DrNomis_44]

Are you still a Virgo? Just recently, NASA re-instated an old 13th zodiac sign, and now, apparently 85% of people are now under a different star sign!
I am one of the lucky ones who stayed with their original star sign!
http://fox59.com/2016/09/23/nasa-rev...-have-changed/

Hahahaha....my birthday falls on the 31st of August, so according to the revised Astrological chart, my Starsign is Leo, just what I need to make me that much more confused, and we all know just how easily confused I can be....haha.

[Simon Barden]

Hahahaha....my birthday falls on the 31st of August, so according to the revised Astrological chart, my Starsign is Leo, just what I need to make me that much more confused, and we all know just how easily confused I can be....haha.

Glad you're making progress with at least one guitar!

[DrNomis_44]

Glad you're making progress with at least one guitar!

Hahahaha....good one, who isn't a big fan of Deep Purple?, classic 70's hard rock, I've lost count of the number of times "Smoke On The Water" has been played by various cover bands, I think it's right up there with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven".


Good to see that the ancient art of thread-jacking is alive and well.....hahahaha.