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Post subject: Mandostrat get a coffee, beer......
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:07 pm
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So i'm sit watching the marsh come alive, hearing the arm chairing of ....the horrid loss for us last night on MSNBC (i took care of their servers i have an affinity....not always in agreement).

Mando strat
SO, my wife started mentioning things she may like.... for christmas but NEVER implies it as such. MANKIND must do some form of friggin mind meld to determine a woman's true wants on her "days" (where i don't pick my butt, or nose, say nice things to the mother in law and otherwise act like a human....the rest of the time she lets me slide). Ok so somewhere i the summer i hear a "pandora" WTH? is a pandora other than a box-o-trouble they are called DELL/HP/Compaq (old days) servers WOOKEY...

so i google pandora and come up with all sorts of weird arsed stuff. So i decided i am doomed what in the hell is a pandora? SO i have some real non nerd geek, NRA loving Republican friends (my opsite on some of those issues)....but my most trusty friends within a scream from me. OK so they hip me up to that pandora stuff and i tackle his wife and hold her down until she promises to go shopping with me to save my butt.....ya see after 35 years i have bought everything a man can buy a woman....except obviously a pandora.

FLASH forward a month (BTW if hollywood needed a stand in for Igor from young frankenstein she's the one)....once after a few weeks of having her by for coffee and chat i asked her "which eye do i look at when talking to you (i have a friend at a redmond company like that too) it can be confusing. she says ..."uh, the one that is looking at you

i being a smart $@!...pause and while slowly drinking my coffee and she is doing same i say....and what eye would that be? and she says "the one looking at you dumbaXX"......."and that would be"?

she locked my $@! out on the front deck (23nd floor) and not even my damn wife....i tell ya they all have a mind meld that men know nothing of

SO I HEARD MANDOLIN

it's August 2014
So in passing my wife says once again in "that" tone "maybe i should get a mandolin) i said sure if ya take me to go buy it.

"why?" (ME) Uh you are clueless (never tell a woman who helped start the largest dot com companies in the world and is co owner of one....it irritates the &^%$ her -hey man...i am a hardware guy...in 35 years of unsupervised (by children or adults) we have had some fine fine.....fun annoying the heck outta each other....why...keeping the chops up have you EVER seen a pink panther movie....same damn thing...so i heard mandolin...now i am cool with mandolin cuz i KNOW what the hell an MANDOLIN is.....pandora nope

SO in search of each (won't bore ya with pandora but i got my NRA friend baked, took her to kill chinese fed her a few mai-tais and got her eyes looking mostly the same damn direction and we found a cool pandora thingy (my wife loves) and trinkets and crap to jingle and jangle (only when the red recording light is on though...annoying) now SHE has gone out and bought trinkets for it -cool

NOW comes the mando...i had to backfill the story :P

So i decide i am getting her at top of the line Loar with a fishman looked like my byrdland i construction and an F5 clone very nice piece 8 strings. so i get with some leather artist on one of the sites, and send pic of a purse i snagged for the "keeper" once for christmas in a snowstorm in a vintage Porsche...hey VW eh?....oh the un knowing (it just a VW) drove to downtown seattle in a raging storm, had beers and chow at the german joint on the third floor of westlake

anyway, so this leather person could make a nice perfect padded leather strap and gig bag.

then when looking for a Jaco for me to add to the shack and i stumble on the mandostrat.....DING wham bang ....bling bling aooooooooogha

there ya go the solution 4 strings first then if she gets good i'll get her gibby F5 and a mando 8

so that bad boy shows up (sweetwater i love working with them), i decided since she is an iOS freak to get her the Line 6 sonic port also and a levi leather strap

OK i am clueless about mandolins but NOT at the potential i was looking at....SO HERE IT COMES and i will post pics when i do a string change soon ...and disassemble to make a template for the PUP for a config i want to do in another.

So i smoked some Northern Haze and got to thinking..i worked at a redmond data center biz server the crititcal server at graveyards for years with 2 other dudes so we surfed, xbox or watch F1 live as the sun rose over the cascades.....if the servers were all behaving. SO most of my thinking of note is passed through my mind during the day but at about 2am i jerk awake and get to it...install dishwasher, i do not care...it's me time) (don't do router upgrades when wife needs to VPN into work...not good mojo when you started at 2am and it's 8am workie time for the wife when doing it at home.....(just warning you younger more intelligent folk)

now the wife is totally confused by this mando, more important i am tearing it the hell apart on the kitchen island her......"holy space" and that worried her all after 35 years she has seen me tear apart some fine guitars.

OK but clueless to what i had in my mind....cuz i was clueless needed to gut it to create this beast...and it kills.

SO

in a Supersonic22 (my rodies cuz mine is in Austin and here....gutted) plugged into a VK cab

STOCK Mando....killed....but had issues if Fender did what i did and added some cost (upgrade version Esquire to Strat type of thing) anyway

SO the bridge was not placed right and cranked in a noticeable way, the nut had no work at all done as far as smoothing and rolling it a bit to take away the edginess that can distract a player.....look at a fender custom shop nut....perfection depending on builder

It has a great BELL tone just nice and bell tone, plugged into the eleven rack for gigile HILARIOUS man hilarious...OK so now the northern haze and Black Butte porters started kicking in....BWAHAHAHAHAH

she unlike me sleeps at night my oldest snauz doesn't either he likes beer and weed also so he is my "follower" while his bros sleep teats up all frigging night we are partying jamming on eleven rack or playing with "chicken".....while the marsh is silent so does the rest of the hood...sleep

We are the weird ones.

OK (iteration uno) was to make it stock everything with new parts

So I put a CTS no load 250K in the tone pot location with a fine on the money real old sprague oil filled .047uf,

switchcraft jack (slightly bent to tighten up, and coated in deoxit D + gold)

put solid shaft CTS 250ka in the volume spot

and used vintage pushback wire

same test was done SOUNDED much better fuller, open same factory pickup nothing else.....BUT i own a 2010 custom shop Esquire with BG-1400 i keep on a stand plugged into the eleven rack. it is now just before new years i still have not "christened the mando and handed it over to the owner yet" now the owner having ruled corp roost was laying the UCLA logic on my booty. But baby, i have been playing 45 years, an EE, and know what the &^%$ i am doing you on the otherhand are clueless.....and i paused and handed the carcass for to her to put back together.....words were uttered she left me and the dog (the non sleeping one) alone....about that time all pissed off playing blues on the esquire on phones....morning Joe's about to come on....it hits me, load another bowl...see if a beer is in the fridge ...me and the snaky one go up the stairs VILOLA two beers are there 3am aw hell...why not.

back to the dungeon, it hits me

ESQUIRE make it into a frigging esquire......DING! blam wham.....whoopie the fix is in - immediately i go through my parts BUT will the switch fit and look right

an unopened 4 way conversion switch (fender kit)...ok so i yank the 3 way from y 2012 namm, slam in the 4 way took a half hour (thanks Leo) dropped a no load tone pot in it and a .047uf 715 OD NOT 716 sounds good and spanky (took off string tee went to old style round (always do)) and to old style knob on sth switch i hat the top hat and i go to dome knobs early 50 style...i like the feel if the machining is good enough on the diamond finish.

so the old lady is frantic so i buy her a mando for dummies book.....she reads :mrgreen:

BUT, it is driving her nuts and me too because i have a feeling it would be a ball buster of a fun little mando...just could feel it DEEP in my tortured soul....did i fail she was frantic that i was "messing" with her mando

NOW none of you hubbies, or wives doing what you do have NEVER...."schooled the superior member of the family unit"? Using time honored SLOW, arduously, LONG and with much unneeded drilling noises and hammer hits and stuff (sound effects....when in the garage) it was killing her....and she is clueless about mandolins....but knows me too well. And ya gotta cuss and make noises like you REALLY messed up the object of instruction/destruction/imagination (i pulled a joke on a very famous billionaire i shall write about some day that will have geeks crapping themselves) (while you and the weed eating and egg sucking dog are laughing your asses off in the .....cave) because the ......all knowing one that has no idea you are creating a master piece...cuz all she is hearing is cussing and hammer hits and a dog and crazy hubby choking on our laughter

OK- so now i see i have all i need....and i d some ciphering and WaGG'n (my dog doesn't have a tail he can't,only his $@! wiggles)....

so the CS 2010 BG-1400 is a grease bucket plus ne added cap .0033Uf the only film they used of the three caps i will put up a print with my specific as it came from the factory wiring in a few weeks. So a while back i bought film .0033, .1 and .02 (not .022) and both cabron 5% and metal film 1% 4.7K resistors at ONE watt.....increases surface area less noise (although only killer test equip would notice)

and a 3 way switch. soi had the garbage laying around
SO i filled the misdrilled bridge holes with hickory toothpicks and number III
installed the new moongrazer bridge flush and tight to the pickguard (i had to minor trim one side of pickguard to get nice tight and right fit. (however i know a tweak machinist and am having him make an uber bridge for it, CAD it and then i will sell them as part of a package if i get off my butt and do it)

anyway, s the bridge was NICE addition, added the almuse pup dropped in shielded wires one pair

gutted the work i had done, and used all new parts same pot values and type, NO .047 (that is now in a strat)

USED pushback wire for all connection BUT for the output to the jack (same with my teles etc) i use the type of pushback shield you see with gibby guitars. and i had the new drop in almuse pup

i live by the beach so we have a rule we can't or contractors can't make noise until 9 am+....i'm cool

so i crashed....woke up to the horror HOW am i going to do the tortoise pickguard and not melt it and make look like crap with tooling i had on hand....

BWAYHAHAH i a making an awesome parts teel (never order a master grand neck at night sleepy, weeded beered up or ya end up with a strat neck instead of tele neck....oh well i did say parts guitar.

SO i have a tele control plate (will have three pots when done) si determine a nice non DORK looking way to install the switch and duct tape...drill the screw holes in the tortoise pickguard that goes well....then i find a 1/16" drill will do the slot..so i painstakingly drilled a million holes...then took it to my drill press made the drill into a mill and milled the slot

took off the tape and tele plate PERFECT DUDES PERFECT i was jazzed...

but still had the wood to gut to fit the switch in the mando so i thought forstner bit i have an apped router i need a new one....so i used a smaller forstner bit and cut away all i need with 1/8th spacing...and no mistakes


wired it all up and man it is KILLER....works like the Esquire, it has a bell tone, quiet (still have not ELECTRICALLY balanced the oup slugs but will then fine tune.....

so i got chrome drop in tuners for it also spent 40 mins on the nut....

NEXT

Dome knobs
real new reissue Klusons...and one cap needs a good version (i have a crappy.02 disc in there now oteh the greasebucket)

SO get a mando in a few days i'll put this up in pics and have a damn riot


so i hooked it up to her ipad via the line 6 sonic port and my Bose over the ear wireless.....EYES need to be put back in place

now let's talk Karma -for the same christmass 2014 se bought me an ipad miniII retnia, and a IK multimedia interface.....


been married 35 years i guess a mind meld occurred -eh?

that mando is a KILLER fender build em that way!!!

wait until you hear, see it AN it play int tune all the way ip and pack...NOW



my goodness perhaps hubbies do know a thing or two


i will record it this week also but remember i am NOT finished yet just mostly

oit has 68 style real brass knobs no but i want domes on it.


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Post subject: Re: Mandostrat get a coffee, beer......
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:25 pm
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Post subject: Re: Mandostrat get a coffee, beer......
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:08 pm
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OMG it's longer than War and flipping Peace!

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