Bridge of Dooooooom....

[Steve_Karl]

I like b3guys idea of a fine tuner being part of the string ferule.

Yea. Finally the guitar can impose revenge for belt buckle rash by simulating appendix operation scars on stomachs.

 

[Jeremiah]

This doesn't seem to be a string-through-body bridge. I'm guessing the idea is you would tune it from the tail end of the bridge where the string goes through.

 

[B3Guy]

actually both are correct  :icon_thumright:

I was expressing to ideas seperate to each other, but I guess they got muddled because of similarity.

the first was for fine tuners on the R6. (doesn't have to be allen wrench, but it could. I was thinking turn them into thumb screws, but why not both?)

the other idea was the ferrule one. I just thought of it, and thought I'd throw it out there as something to try, because it seems like it would be pretty simple to prototype and test out. (certainly much simpler than a whole bridge!)

 

[Nando Vallart]

I wasn't really following the thread, been busy... But what do you think of locking the string on the ball-end? never liked to have to cut it on floyds...

 

[jay4321]

I want a whammy that bends wood

 

[Cagey]

I want a whammy that bends wood

Reminds me of a guy I knew some years back who had a Gibson Firebird, no whammy. But, he liked whammy effects here and there, so he'd just reef on the neck a bit and that would give him what he needed. Very long, thin neck on this thing. Practically swayed in the breeze.

Then, one day he was playing the intro to Heart's "Barracuda" and got cured of that habit. If you're unfamiliar with the tune, there's a chunky, muted, percussive chord series that rides up the neck, and ends with a series of ringing open string harmonics, the last of which gets the wang bar treatment. At that point, he gets a good grip on the body and grabs the headstock to yank it back and forth, and SNAP! Off comes the neck. Snapped like a fresh celery stalk.

Dingbat.

 

[jay4321]

Then, one day he was playing the intro to Heart's "Barracuda" and got cured of that habit. If you're unfamiliar with the tune

Come on lol

 

[DangerousR6]

Then, one day he was playing the intro to Heart's "Barracuda" and got cured of that habit. If you're unfamiliar with the tune

Come on lol

Really, who plays barracuda..... :doh:

 

[Cagey]

One, it was a long time ago, and two, I said he was playing the intro. Nobody plays the whole tune. Who could sing it?

Another one like that from them was "Crazy On You". Nice bit of acoustic work to start with, then you really need Anne Wilson.

 

[pabloman]

Fergi can do it. YouTube it. Her n Slash.  :headbang1:

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, she's got a nice pooper voice. Not Ann Wilson clean, but nice nonetheless.

 

[stubhead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738&feature=related

Wooo! Gretchen Wilson, and Martina McBride, grew up singing rock but found that for a "chick", country was a better (read: better-paying) home. "Rock chicks" for some reason don't do so well, with the rare exception they turn into pop tarts - anybody remember No Doubt?  :sad1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BkSavZX-4E&feature=related

Benatar's hubby Neil "Spyder" Giraldo played some of the strangest, most distinctive solos on the radio back then - definitely not just the rearranged blues licks that were the common vocabulary.

 

[Cagey]

"Rock chicks" for some reason don't do so well, with the rare exception they turn into pop tarts - anybody remember No Doubt?  :sad1:

'Strue. Not sure why that is. Maybe they're too distinctive to use as an instrument, kinda like standard Teles, Rickenbacher basses, and voice boxes? Sort of one of those "if you've heard one, you've heard 'em all" things. Or, maybe they're too threatening, although that's unlikely. Everybody's welcome, right? Or, maybe since rock is such a boy's sport, nobody wants to hear the shrill shrewish screaming of yet another angry bitch? Could be more men have Oedipal issues than Freud ever imagined? I don't know.

 

[swarfrat]

Nowdays if you wanna play good ole rock n roll you have to do it with a cowboy hat on anyway. It's not as bad as it was in the 90's, but still... Country took over what Rock abandoned.

 

[Cagey]

Oh... no. No country, thank you. You ever catch me playing country, you just go ahead and run my wrists over the table saw with the blade set high. Then, shoot me in the head with something very large caliber. Do it more than once, and maybe put a couple in the chest and lungs; you don't want any chances of me becoming a zombie country player, like Elvis or Garth.

 

[DangerousR6]

Then, one day he was playing the intro to Heart's "Barracuda" and got cured of that habit. If you're unfamiliar with the tune

Come on lol

Really, who plays barracuda..... :doh:

O.k., my bad, she made that song her bitch....That was kick ass...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738&feature=related

 

[Cagey]

Glad to see you come around. That's a nice piece of work.

 

[DangerousR6]

Glad to see you come around. That's a nice piece of work.

Ya, the song was too... :icon_biggrin:

 

[Cagey]

There was a song?

 

[bagman67]

Oh... no. No country, thank you. You ever catch me playing country, you just go ahead and run my wrists over the table saw with the blade set high. Then, shoot me in the head with something very large caliber. Do it more than once, and maybe put a couple in the chest and lungs; you don't want any chances of me becoming a zombie country player, like Elvis or Garth.

Depends on how you define country.