weekend projects

Re: weekend projects

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>I'm working on a bar or two or three this week, both new and restoration of an old one. After yesterday's fiasco, I wish they were done, so I could just walk up and use the bar for its intended purpose, but it'll still be a few weeks before the restaurant opens.

Saturday, I'm going to Ft. Washington WoodWorks Show, where I hope to rub shoulders with some important woodworking people. I'll be wearing one of my WC hats, to make sure I get the additional Ellis discount at the door. Hope to see some of you there.

Sunday, I'll probably do some maintenance on my electron eaters, and then I have a whole lot of leaves to rake and lawn to mow, and fall bulbs to plant.

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I've decided to make a lap steel electric guitar, slab version; and the pickup arrived today. So I've got enough to start on it, should be fun.

Then the unfun stuff: piles of laundry, yard work, etc.

Pam


Lap Steel Guitar

That looks cool.

Steve Kubien

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Brad in Ottawa

>Do you play or are you going to learn?

Looks like a cool project, have fun with it!

Brad

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I've played piano and acoustic guitar since childhood, but never electric. What's more, the frets on these lap steels are merely markers, you never press the strings down to the fingerboard. I plan to take lessons after I get it built.

It is cool, not much difficulty woodworking wise; but if all goes as planned, I'd like to make an electricfied acoustic, just not sure which type guitar yet.

Pam

Let us know how it sounds

Ellis Walentine

>I'd love to make one of those, Pam. I always admired David Lindley's sweet riffs on the old Jackson Browne albums and wished I could do that.

Send us a WAV file and we'll upload it.

Ellis Walentine

Re: Let us know how it sounds

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I'll be happy to, Ellis. Of course, it will be a week or two, awaiting more parts and the book.

Pam

Re: Let us know how it sounds

Patrick Gibbons, Bayou City, TX

>Pam, It's not hard to make some nice sounds if you already have some finger styles (right hand). Cotton picking works just as well on the lap steel as it does on an acoustic. I have an old Gibson one of these and it's made of a very dense particle board about an inch or 3/4" thick. The electronics are shot now. Maybe I'll imitate your efforts. The best form of flattery, by the way.

Re: Let us know how it sounds

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Cool; although I suspect the 90� offset orientation will cause a little initial clumsiness. Hmmm, I could practice this by playing my steel stringer on my lap. Thanks.

I hope you do renovate your Gibson and/or make one, it will be better to have someone to talk with when I run into problems.

Pam

Do you play Pam?

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in Florida Exile:~(

>Looks like a nice project. Dp you play guitar or is to be a gift or something? How my Dad loved to hear the steel guitar. Let us know how it come out eh?

Todd O.

Never mind Pam

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in Florida Exile:~(

>Had I bothered to read the rest of the thread I would of seen that all my questions had been answered already. I thought that it was so cool that I wanted to respond immediately before I forgot too, which I do sometimes.

Todd O.

Re: Never mind Pam

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>No problem. I remember a lot of general interest in lap steel performance years ago, probably fostered by the Ed Sullivan Shew [sic]. Since I figure we're now returning to the '50's, it's high time to learn how to play it.

Pam

Returning to the '50's?

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>In what areas are you seeing that in?

Hwere in the area of Fl which I am currently residing I see no signs of it.

Went to a quick mart type of place last night to buy a lottery ticket and a young s##thead walked in just in front of me. Waist of his pants almost to his knees, talking on a cell phone, threw a $5 at the cashier and said Pump 6 turned and walked out, back to his tricked out Honda that he has more money into than anything I've ever been able to afford, without ever ceasing to continue with his moronic "whatzup dog" conversation. Sickening. Are these tomorrows leaders? In the last few years of my Navy career the kids that I saw coming in where pathetic for the most part. the thought that kept going thru my head was "God are we ever in trouble".

I'd like to see things go to the '50 style, but I'm not seeing it here.

Any others seeing it in their parts of the country?

Todd O.

Have more faith...

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>Every generation turns out its share of losers and no-hopers. My generation has also (I'm 43) contributed to the sum total of stupidity but has also managed to turn out enough smart people and future leaders to keep us going for a while yet.

I look to my nieces and nephews and I am heartened that their generation will turn out just fine also.

However, there is no need to feel that you should resist a curmudgeonly urge to pay out on our succeeding generations. That is not a right but a duty :-)

Absence of "spin"

Bob Hackett

>When I was working as a DI I got to work with those folks on a day to day basis.On thier first day of basic training I would fall them in and tell them to "look right,now look left.One of those people is incapable of making the jump from I to WE.That person will not be with you when you graduate because I will have found them and sent them home".

I also worked as an instructor at West Point and if anything it`s worse there.The most disciplined new cadet I came across while there was a cadet who came thru one of my basic training companies at FLW prior to arriving at the Point.A fine example of proper training coming to the forefront.

The majority of the upper classmen were pampered and spoiled and were adept at working the system.They knew there were a different set of rules for them and they took advantage of that fact.I came away with a better understanding of why they call the NCO corps "The backbone of the Army".

Leaders are everywhere and they are rarely the folks at the top.There are countless people who quietly go about the business of making things work for the rest of us because they believe it`s thier duty to do so.It`s those folks we need to recognize and develope.They completely understand what it takes to make that important jump from "I to WE" that is critical to enbracing the core value of selfless service.

If we`re to stay the strong and united society we profess to be we need to find more of those quiet leaders and put them in positions where their skills can make a difference.

I`ll get down off the soapbox now.

Mainely,Bob-Who`s reminded of the two basic rules of leadership one of his old 1st Sgts told him,"Say what you mean.Mean what you say."