braveheart!

i hope u have backups!

knows how Parsival feels. There isn't as wide a selection of skilled luthiers in Singapore compared to overseas.

use who u trust, trust who u use

agrees with ahlamb. Good maxim.

actually, we have no choice. i don't trust who i'm using but I don't want to send to Oz or US so...

that sounds familiar..

usually pass to passionate bass frends to help repair / setup her bass

a friend who's making guitars. might want to check out this (www.dans-handmade.com/) daniel's site

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lucky cuz electric guitars & basses are easier to care for than acoustics, and I can therefore do anything short of a fretjob myself.

trying to hyperlink with ( ) but it didn't work: www.dans-handmade.com/

yeah muser this is fairly major. binding's loose and some student had cracked my lower bout after dropping another guitar on it.

that is indeed major, urgh. I feel your pain.

good thing it wasn't the Kohno. This is the D-35.

lucky indeed it wasn't the Kohno! D-35's tougher too. But still hurts the heart.

somehow i have this weird attitude toward my steel strings - they're like tools whereas the classicals are like works of art. weird.

this is a swee lee or guitar 77 thread

is there one ahlamb? or any other guitar threads u know about?

no la... just saying this is Becoming One! wahahah machiam forum eh?

this is forum 2.0 I say it's about norms; nylons are just treated like high art. But steels are often built tougher. Esp the necks.

agrees! nylons are "High" art

why ahlamb wrote it as "High" instead of high.

High as in tension high...

actually steel strings are about 30 pounds pull more than nylon.

adds especially if you use super-thicksteel strings with the high-E string at 0.014.

wow, that's a bit extreme. who does that?

Django Reinhardt used to, and people aping him do it too. Not terribly uncommon in the jazz world of flat-wound steel strings.

what's flat-wound

flatwound.... on the double bass

explains that flat-wound steel strings differ from typical round-wound ones by being smoother to play on and having a mellower, darker tone.

ah, didn't know that. 14s are almost a 2nd string for most packs, must be a tank of a guitar to take that.

a tank of a guitar neck, in particular, to resist warping. That explains how chunky the necks of many jazz archtops are.