Groove Slots... What... Why?

[PaulThePlug]

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Edited December 16, 2022 by PaulThePlug

[Grimalkin]

I ain't not never seen nothing like it.

 

I don't know why you would want to...

 

 

[yorks5stringer]

I hope to God a certain Luthier does not read this ad...!

[SteveXFR]

That would go nicely on a perfect balance guitar 

[Dan Dare]

Unless I'm misunderstanding this, they appear to be offering to charge you for ready worn/grooved frets. Am I missing something?

[Dom in Dorset]

As I understand it, he's taken a $79 guitar and added $50 to the price because he's butchered the frets?

While I haven't had the privilege of trying this innovation but I have seen a Glarry guitar up close and I can't say I was impressed.

[musicbassman]

There's a link to a Youtube clip showing him 'playing' the guitar fitted with this.

Sounds like an 8 year old who's got hold of his big brothers electric guitar and is trying to impress his Mum.

Utterly deluded. I really don't think other opinions are available.

 

 

[Hellzero]

Sounds like me trying to play with a tendonitis: I even can feel the electrical discharges.

[Dom in Dorset]

Having now watched the video I'd say it was completely pointless, however it did make me laugh so not entirely pointless.

 

[Cato]

I went through a phase on skinny stringer where when I played barre chords I'd often inadvertently pull the top e string over the edge of the fret board.

 

Never once did I think 'Ooh, that sounds good'.

[SteveXFR]

Watching that video hasn't made me want to take an angle grinder to my bass frets.

[Maude]

It's not even early but it's too early for this. What's going on and what did I just watch? 

Perhaps I'm just not awake yet. Maybe I'll try again later. 

[itu]

...during April 1st?

[SteveXFR]

If you've ever had a conversation with someone who is on cocaine you'll know they talk rubbish and have dumb ideas for things they think will be great. These groove slots must be what made Mr Escobar a billionaire. 

[warwickhunt]

Will someone PLEASE let him know you can achieve all of that shyte he was playing on a regular guitar!   

[Frank Blank]

I'm going to lay my bass in the road, reverse my car over it, gather up the wreckage in a pile and set fire to it. Then I'm going to toast marshmallows in the flames while Bobby Crush plays an easy listening version of Thunderstruck on the piano in the background.

 

I know it's an odd response but it's what came into my head whilst watching that insane video so I'm sticking with it.

 

[Beer of the Bass]

Reminds me a little of the Nitewalker preamp guy, if anyone remembers that. Not so much the product, but the general flavour of fervently pushing their eccentric homespun invention that nobody seems to entirely get the point of.

[yorks5stringer]

Leaving aside the clips showing him playing semi naked in his boudiour, would it still sound as carp without the delay effect which seems to overwhelm every example?

 

BTW, I'm Out....

[Grimalkin]

It reminds me of Gulliver's visit to The Grand Academy of Lagado... 

 

"I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy. Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms.

The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers." I made him a small present, for my lord had furnished me with money on purpose, because he knew their practice of begging from all who go to see them.

 

I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink. My conductor pressed me forward, conjuring me in a whisper "to give no offence, which would be highly resented;" and therefore I durst not so much as stop my nose. The projector of this cell was the most ancient student of the academy; his face and beard were of a pale yellow; his hands and clothes daubed over with filth. When I was presented to him, he gave me a close embrace, a compliment I could well have excused. His employment, from his first coming into the academy, was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, by separating the several parts, removing the tincture which it receives from the gall, making the odour exhale, and scumming off the saliva. He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.

 

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

 

There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation; which he justified to me, by the like practice of those two prudent insects, the bee and the spider."

 

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels, 1726.

 

 

[tauzero]

I'm not much cop as a guitarist, but I would find that incredibly restrictive if I could only bend notes less than halfway to the next string. My normal vibrato would get me right to the edge. The only purpose I can see for it is to play those pull-offs which sound like somebody who can't fret a string properly slipping off the edge of the fretboard, and if you actually wanted to reproduce that sound, it would be far simpler not to fret the string properly and to push it off the edge of the fretboard.

[Guest]

Marvellous! That's just what I need, seeing as I've always wanted to sound like I was having some kind of serious medical episode while playing a stringed instrument.

[miles'tone]

I've got a groove slot in the back of my head.

Must need another 50p putting in as it seems to have run out.

[dieseldalziel]

7 hours ago, musicbassman said:

There's a link to a Youtube clip showing him 'playing' the guitar fitted with this.

Sounds like an 8 year old who's got hold of his big brothers electric guitar and is trying to impress his Mum.

Utterly deluded. I really don't think other opinions are available.

 

 

Great. Wonderful. Niice. Suuuuuperb👌

[Grimalkin]

Sans body it could make a novel guitar neck back-scratcher I suppose, or a deluxe length kitchen grater, that would provide a good run for ginger and such.

[steve-bbb]

noice

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