LukeFRC

I’m betting the neck @funkle is currently using is a typical flatsawn fender style…. im guessing if you end up making him a new neck it will be closer to Wal stiffness

I was going to ask - a maple neck with softer wood laminates would be stiffer than a maple neck if the grain was arranged correctly?

Look, the email made specific promises on the lengthening effect and the man’s gotta check he’s getting his moneys worth

Facebook would have a "care" emoji

I just had the thought that a yamaha bb might make a good platform for experimentation as there are some similarities in neck construction… maybe.

You can divide it into two camps though... there are some players who typically will make their income from playing and know *exactly* what they want. I've a guitarist friend and any new guitar would go to a luthier to get the neck reshaped to his preference and his preferred pickups put in. It's similar to a builder preferring Makita over Dewalt or a designer preferring a Mac to a PC - not nesessrally "better", but their preference... Then you get the GAS fuelled gear monkeys (erm most of us lot?) who want to try things, might buy and sell a fair few instruments and have justified to themselves that £400 on pickups makes a big difference. The phycology of it seems to be both posting on forums telling other people how great their £400 pickups are, and then want others to agree with them when they come to sell.

@three is comparing to his own collection...

less than a neck with no headstock!

There is audio similarity between John East's uni-pre and the ACG EQ-01 pre, there's something in both preamps which is a brilliant clean, clear and lovely sounding... it's one of the nicest preamp out there by my book, I loved the ACG in my streamer and the Uni-pre has transformed my Lakland... There was something on some really geeky audio forum I heard where they were comparing their bass passive into a load of high end preamps... and they threw the recording with the Uni-pre ... and a few people commented that it sounded as good (if not better) than some of those fancy preamps... However it does not sound like, say a Sadowsky preamp which feels less polished and to my cloth ears at least the Wal's I have tried preamp were closer to this kinda sound. My theory of the LPF Wal sound is something todo with a slightly more primitive preamp than ACG, and also something about how the resonant peak at the cut off point gives some kind of phase or group delay around that point making it sound rich and almost like a very specific slight chorusy thing going on. My ACG equipped Streamer in recordings had a similar thing going on if I boosted both resonant peaks to the righht amount... but interestingly I didn't notice it when playing and it was only when recorded I noticed it. Be interesting to see how the Lusithand does - my guess is it will be closer because it's more likely to be a closer electronically, and not being dismissive on whoever makes them, but John and Alan knew what they were doing when they designed the ACG pre and designed something lovely to fit that need, using all of their combined skills... and they probably went beyond the Wal preamp in some ways...

For testing purpose raising the strings will give you the same test without routing the body. Be a pig to play but hopefully tell you if you do need to rout lower…

it sounds odd, but I had 3 for ages and had a similar problem you describe, I always had the runt that was up for trade or sale or whatever... got to try a load of cool stuff so not a problem. With 4 you have a selection of flavours to try. So if you've got two rays, a limelight P go buy a jazz. You might not use it much, or the P but you've got those flavours there.

Have four. then you have two that don't get played as much and relax a bit about it.

I have no idea if it’s any good cos I’m not far along my learning … but I picked up a Korg SV1 off someone on here with my bonus last year. Fully weighted keys and NO screen at all!

You will be fine

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Then you will need to stop some things to make it sustainable. any you read the ruthless elimination of hurry by John mark comer? I can recomend

A good thing I’ve used for in the past is divide your time up between times you are giving (playing, preaching, making the teas and coffees, whatever) and times you go to receive, worship, and erm sabbath on your sabbath … both are important. 50/50 is about the maximum healthy I think - 66/33 is possibly but starts to get draining

Rotas and don’t end up doing too much- giving time, skills and energy volenteerring to make the church work is good… to much and it’s not at all