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How do you get around daily?
  • Car, though I have a plug in hybrid and fill up the tank once every 2-3 months. Public transit is a joke in my city, and while I do bike to the few places I can safely get to (work is actually one of them, weather permitting), it’s just not something I’d feel safe doing for most commutes.

  • What's everyone's thoughts on split or tented keyboards?
  • The Microsoft Sculpt keyboard is my perfect keyboard. They discontinued it a couple months ago, but you can still find them in Amazon. Tented and split (though it’s one solid unit, so no customization) with a separate wireless numpad for exactly the reason you described. Typing on anything else makes my fingers go numb after about half an hour.

    Still thinking about trying a fully customizable one someday though, but I’m not sure it’s worth the expense for me

  • What undertakings are you currently doing to improve your playing?
  • I’ve been working on transitioning between barre chords and major 7th chords (specifically the voicing that uses just the top four strings with fingers arranged in a diagonal).

    Going from the 7th to the barre is easy enough, but transitioning back with confidence and accuracy is proving challenging

  • Great to see this community starting up on Lemmy. After years of lurking on Reddit, here is my main guitar!
  • Oh good! My first opportunity to point out that Jazzmaster pickups aren’t P90s! They look very similar, but they’re wound very differently and have a distinctly different sound.

    But they’re both pure sex, so you’re not wrong on the fundamentals, lol

  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml AbstractLinguist @beehaw.org

    She is beauty, she is grace. She hates this thing that’s on her face

    Don’t worry, she took it off like 2 seconds later

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    Testing the waters here
  • It sure is! Haha, our culture lives on outside of Reddit!

    I’m glad you like this one. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Tele look, so once I saw my first offset version, I knew I had to have one. Then after a couple years of modding other guitars, I decided to just build one. Turned out super fun to play

  • Offset tele build
  • Usually I’m more of a fan of solid colors, but the classic butterscotch color on a Tele feels right, even if it’s a Jazzmaster shape.

    And yeah, this is white pine. Super light, I love it

  • Testing the waters here
  • Oh, and yeah, whatever prevails, prevails. I tried to make one myself a few days ago, but beehaw just kept failing out on me. Not sure if they just let anyone make a community or if it’s more of a process.

    Whatever. R/guitars was my favorite place on the internet, and I just want to help rebuild that here

  • Testing the waters here
  • lol, don’t we all?

    If you ever do another build, I strongly recommend Bootstrap. Super affordable, hand wound, and they sound fantastic. Only downside is you may have to wait a couple of months for them to be shipped.

    Bootstrappickups.com

  • Offset tele build
  • Thanks! I’ve just been teaching myself how to do setups and mods and soldering and whatnot over the past few years, and that all culminated in this project.

    Super fun. I want to build more now

  • Testing the waters here

    So there appear to be two brand new guitar communities, one here and one at midwest.social. I think we're all probably getting used to how the fediverse version of this kind of social media works, so maybe two aren't necessary?

    Anyway, posting to both to see what kind of traction/interactions I get

    This is a recent build I did, and it's super fun to play:

    • Warmoth neck
    • Nomoonlaser body
    • Bootstrap pickups
    • Hipshot tuners
    • Fender hardware otherwise, though the pickguard is from some random dude on ebay, and it thankfully fit perfectly.
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    Offset tele build

    Mostly trying to figure out the best way to post here. Tried a direct upload of a photo yesterday, and it just ground to a halt.

    Anyway!

    This is a recent build I did, and I love it

    • Warmoth neck
    • Nomoonlaser body
    • Bootstrap pickups
    • Hipshot tuners
    • all other hardware is fender. Though the pickguard is some random dude on ebay that thankfully fit perfectly
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    Offset tele

    pxlmo.com RyanHyde shared a post

    Recent guitar build I did. Offset tele. I didn't create any parts here, but I assembled and set them all up myself.

    I'm mostly trying to figure out the most efficient way of posting pics in these communities. I tried a direct upload yesterday that failed.

    Anyway, this is a recent build I did, and it's become one of my top two guitars.

    Warmoth neck Nomoonlaser body Bootstrap pickups Fender hardware

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