December GOTM

[Simon Barden]

Don't under-sell yourself, Arzi, you've done a great job! You knew what you wanted it to look like and you've certainly achieved that. I'd be very happy if I owned that guitar.

My only negative comment would be that the bridge looks a little awkward, with some of those adjustment screws sitting very proud on the saddles, and screws on the same saddle being of different lengths. You might be able to move them round so that their heights are more appropriate for the saddles they fit in. Or you could simply replace some of them. You should be able to get shorter length grub-screws by looking on eBay (I'd expect with that saddle they would be a metric rather than imperial size), which would help stop the ends digging into your palm.

You'd also probably benefit from both ends of each saddle being the same height. I find that if the saddles are even slightly angled, then all the downward force is on the lowest-end screw and the other screw doesn't make good contact, is often floating above the bridge base, and can even buzz slightly at times.

[HatchA]

I love the fretboard finish, Arzi.

[Arzi]

Thanks for the kind words Simon and you're right about the saddle screws. I'll fix that. I had to make a small shim to the pocket to get them to that height but it still is what it is. Easy enough to do later.

The neck was a nice surprise with the fretboard figure and the back of it looking a bit like birdseye with the many spots/dots it has.

[stan]

nailed the old barn wood look Arzi, great job

[urhop]

On todella hieno kitara Arzi. Ja on muuten upee kaula ja mahtava väri.
"Really pretty guitar Arzi. Awesome fretboard and spectacular colour."

[Arzi]

Kiitti Urho. Eipä ole todellakaan hassumpi tuo sinunkaan keihääsi. Mukavaa, että löytyy kotimaasta muitakin tässä yhteisössä.

Thanks Urho. Yours is definately not any less of an axe. Nice job. Good to find others from Finland in this community.

[FrankenWashie]

Kiitti Urho. Eipä ole todellakaan hassumpi tuo sinunkaan keihääsi. Mukavaa, että löytyy kotimaasta muitakin tässä yhteisössä.

Thanks Urho. Yours is definately not any less of an axe. Nice job. Good to find others from Finland in this community.

Tell me how rough my Suomi is guys, its been a while:

Se on Suomen Kitara arvostus society, Pitbull luku! Arzi, rakastan maalaismainen tunnelma olet työskennellyt Barncaster.

Onnea teille molemmille.

[Arzi]

Hi Frankenwashie

This time it went fairly well but... do yourself a favour in the future and don't use the translator with Finnish. It just never works although I appreciate the effort. If I used google translator to english I'd loose everyone of my foreign friends within a few days - the message staying the way it's meant to happens maybe once in five times.

It actually sounds better in english but in finnish the same as finnish rally drivers' english interviews early on their careers - have to really pay attention to fully get it. Most of the time you just end up insulting someone's mom while you were only trying to ask for a latte at the cafe (an extreme example).

That being said - still appreciate the gesture very much.

[FrankenWashie]

Hi Frankenwashie

This time it went fairly well but... do yourself a favour in the future and don't use the translator with Finnish. It just never works although I appreciate the effort. If I used google translator to english I'd loose everyone of my foreign friends within a few days - the message staying the way it's meant to happens maybe once in five times.

It actually sounds better in english but in finnish the same as finnish rally drivers' english interviews early on their careers - have to really pay attention to fully get it. Most of the time you just end up insulting someone's mom while you were only trying to ask for a latte at the cafe (an extreme example).

That being said - still appreciate the gesture very much.

Yeah, I was afraid of that. I know when I was working in Jyvaskyla it was never all that reliable, but it was better to try it and have a colleague correct me, than to not try at all. I worked with many English and other Australian colleagues who never made any effort to understand or speak the languages of the countries we worked in. I saw it as a missed opportunity for them. But if you are not speaking it constantly then you get rusty and forget and have to rely on web services.
I will have to get my Finn friends to re-school me, or go back for a secondment to our offices there.

[WeirdBits]

Looks great Arzi, fantastic result.