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How long do you have to leave a jar of pickled eggs before the yolks get that colour?

An eclectic assortment of a few narrow furrows.

Is Jane's Addiction's comeback album Strays any good, or is it just that it really does it for me? Kinda not trusting my opinion on this one. I get the impression that JA fans don't care for it too much. But I love it.

It certainly deserves it .... but I'm thinking just handing it over to a Westone enthusiast is probably the best thing to do - I can't see its looks appealing to the kind of guitarist who would find the electronics useful in 2021. No point spending money on having it cleaned up and returned to full functionality if no one wants to buy it. Does @Bassassin 's limitless knowledge of Matsumoku et al cover guitars as well? Hopefully he could tell me that the world, or at least the UK, is awash with these guitars, that would help me wave it a fond farewell. But maybe the memory of the 2½ years it made me very happy likes that it's still sitting under my bed, decade after decade.

They always remind me of Ned Ryerson

I'd been saving up Master of Puppets, apparently the undisputed greatest metal album of all time, for decades. In February of this year, I thought the moment for this massive treat to myself had come. I got myself nicely excited by reacquainting myself with Kill 'Em All, and getting to know Ride The Lightning, and then..... meh. I mean, it's okay, I suppose. I listened to it 7 times in a row* and haven't touched it since. So to get back to the thread's topic, albeit a little facetiously: Ride The Lightning, a properly exciting album** * yes, I was counting, there was a lockdown and I was desperate for things to do. No regrets ** ...which I've listened to 25 times*** since mid-February *** yes, I am still counting despite the end of the lockdown. Bite me

Take a P bass, reverse the split pickup, add a J pickup, add active electronics, have it built in the same Mexico factory, give it a roasted maple neck, paint it a fantastic colour, get it almost-new from BC, pay £700

When I wrote that^^^ I was thinking of the one on my guitar - lots more opportunity for switch-flicking and knob-twirling when flouncing around on a six-string

I've been thinking about the knob that gives a treble boost forward of the detente and a bass boost backward from it, and wondering if it might have been useful for a tasteful player making slight adjustments in a large ensemble. When I was a teenager with no interest in any kind of subtlety, it just plain got on my nerves, two different ways of ruining a perfectly decent sound.

No need to tap hairs

Just realised this thread could have been better entitled Inactive Guitars

30 years since they were last asked to do anything

To what degree can decrepitude like this be cleaned up? There is a Westone forum, I once got in contact with the admin there; he gave the impression that amongst the Westone enthusiasts it would have no bother finding a welcome home in some large collection. But would an instrument like this, if nicely restored, be of interest to modern players?

The very low action and crazily ground-down frets

Although, when I bought it, I was just a kid who didn't know much about nothing, I do appear to have been able to recognise decent quality.

You made me feel obliged to go and take a look.... yes this looks like the same thing

Now this bit would have been of interest to me back then:

Good news would deserve a fresh thread, I think?

My joke was so unfunny as to be imperceptible

When I was 13-15, very skinny, easy to bend strings were exactly what I wanted, they were right then. Now I'm wondering if the coil taps and phase switch would benefit from having a richer tone coming from the strings.

Thank you, I'm beginning to build up a picture of its capabilities now. Since the neck is such a dream* I would love to get this in the hands of a someone who would actually play it, and am trying to decide if restoring the electronics would be worthwhile. I'm hoping the circuit board is still in it. Though given the stupid ideas I had in my midteens, heaven knows. iirc I had a plan for replacing the preamp with a distortion unit..... *despite its many many years of sitting in its box, playing it now feels exactly as it did back then

All I wanted was a bridge humbucker and a volume knob. And all the distortion.

Feel free to spell this out for me - does this mean active pickups and no preamp? I presume my Westone was the other way round

I've looked up the specs for the knobs - I was wrong about them being like a standard 2 band EQ. I cant say I understand the terminology: Switches: coil tap, phase, active circuit on/off Knobs: master volume, passive tone, equalizer tone

When I was 13, I bought a gently used Westone Thunder I-A guitar. Two humbuckers, a 3-way selector, three knobs and three switches. I'm going to have to look up what the switches did, but I'm pretty sure that the knobs were vol plus a 2-band EQ which in a bass would be totally unremarkable, but which on a guitar....I can't recall ever having seen another active guitar since. So, simple question: just how short was the history of active guitars? For what it's worth, the active EQ drove me nuts, so when I was 16 I attempted to rewire it bypassing the entire preamp.... Yeah, that went well. I still have the guitar. The previous owner had got the action so low, they had been able to grind down the frets. With 008 gauge strings on it, playing it was so so easy.