Nerd Alert

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I've got to stop my habit of writing like a teen texting, abbreviating everything like a few extra key strokes are too onerous for the sake of clarity. I realised later how much I condensed that post. Sorry.

Practically speaking, it was a reminder lesson for me in needing to use good machining practises within normal limits. I get a kick out of big machinery equipped YT guys who occasionally actually bump into the limits of machine and toolpiece rigidity and cutting edge performance. Makes them less like supermen with unattainable skill when you see the common limitations kick in, albeit at a much higher level of operation.

 

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I've got to stop my habit of writing like a teen texting, abbreviating everything like a few extra key strokes are too onerous for the sake of clarity. I realised later how much I condensed that post. Sorry.

Practically speaking, it was a reminder lesson for me in needing to use good machining practises within normal limits. I get a kick out of big machinery equipped YT guys who occasionally actually bump into the limits of machine and toolpiece rigidity and cutting edge performance. Makes them less like supermen with unattainable skill when you see the common limitations kick in, albeit at a much higher level of operation.

No worries, I sometimes condense posts as well and realize later that what I wrote made no sense at all to anybody but me. And every once in a while, even I have trouble making sense of what I wrote!

And that actually makes sense, thank you for the clarification there. I am no machinist, but my father used to be, so I understand a little bit of the basics. I haven't ever watched any videos on YouTube though of guys showing off what they can do. I just know that some of what is out there today is really impressive.

 

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Total cool nerd alert. For others this never happened and can't happen.

 

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Amp-ed sound effects built inside the guitar! Youtube served this up to me. Cool!

 

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Saw a yt vid interview of Fender's ceo prior to the stratocaster copy cease and desist issue and they were talking about the 75th anniversary of the telecaster. Story. In high school I got a 63 jazzmaster but wasn't happy with the neck (still, a cool guitar) so I ended up at a guitar collector's house where we wrangled a trade - I got a 67 345 stereo varitone gold hardware - beautiful, set up to shred before shredding was a thing. me + humbucker = no. Plus it was so easy to play I was losing the strength in my hand which ruins playing acoustic. I eventually traded that for a strat. But the story was the guy pulled out an actual Broadcaster which he claimed was 1947. Now with web info I think it existed in 1949.

Punchline - he would let me see him holding it, but I wasn't allowed to even touch it!

note- Fender was stopped by a drum? company from using the name broadcaster, so there was prototype, broadcasters, name-left-off "no-casters" and then telecasters in 50 or 51(?)