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Kaitlin snuggled with her Valentine Buzz Light-year before school
And worked really hard on her valentine for Kory
Ready for school and so excited!
Kaitlin RAN into school and gave her teacher Mrs. Erika a huge hug! They had a party and Kaitlin decorated her own bag for all her goodies! She got a ball, bubbles, and all sorts of snacks. We have talked about bubbles all afternoon.
While Kaitlin was at Mother’s Day Out Kory and I had a lunch date at Abuelo’s. It was so fun being out of the house on a real date again. I printed out a date cheat sheet that Parent’s magazine sent me. It had questions like “what countries would you like to visit” and “what dream job would you want for 1 year”. I thought it would be LAME but it was really fun. Here is the link http://www.parents.com/parenting/relationships/staying-close/date-night-a-cheat-sheet/
Here’s my Valentine at lunch!
We figured out that Kaitlin’s “love language” is Chick-Fila so that is where we are taking her tonight for her big night out. She will be so happy. We will be home by 7:00! A perfect date night with a toddler.
Happy Valentine’s Day from our little Love Bug!
Posted by Amy at 2/14/2011 07:17:00 PM
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How "Sweet" it is... February 14, 2011 at 9:20 PM
Precious! What a fun day! Glad you had a lunch date!
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: New Stainless Steel Evans Pull String -
With my ever-deteriorating back (and a pile of other medical problems) I'd been trying to think of a way to play Pull String but not stress my neck/back so much. When I picked up a Japanese '69 Thinline reissue in a trade I talked to Dave about a Pull String installation...mainly concerned about whther or not the hollowed-out areas would cause mechanical problems (or flat prevent ANY installation. The "raw" guitar weighed only 6 pounds on the strap, far less than anything except my '54 Custom Shop (mostly) Strat, which even beat my '64 Mustang!
I've weighed a lot of guitars, especially over the last couple of years when I've been doing primarily finsih and guitar/amp tech work, and this particular Thinline came in lower than any Tele (I've read claims for years of "4 1/2#" or "5#" Teles and they've been bunk).
Anyway - it seemed like the perfect candidate, and tonal potential was excellent - pretty meaty for a Thinline and nice complexity.
Kicked it around with Dave and he upped the ante - not just install a Pull String, but develop a new ultra-lightweight design without sacrificing strength - using specially-machined stainless steel and Delrin.
We came up with the requirement that it'd have the standard Pull String features - adjustable throw, adjustable spring tension - but add only a small amount of weight, if any. End result - +11oz! And that includes a few maple blocks added for strength in couple of key positions. And with a big, fat, Warmouth Broadcaster maple neck.
The mechanism is not only a match for the smoothness of the regular Pull String - it has a certain surgical precision to the feel that's hard to describe. And with the weight of the guitar there's almost no pressure on the shoulder or back when engaging it (but there's full control throughout the length of the pull - I have it set at 1" right now) - yet it pops right back up, in tune, every time. The "lightness" of the pull can't really be described properly
And there was absolutely NO change in tone, so I decided to really hop it up - removed the '68 bridgeplate, boost-coil Fralin bridge and Harmonic Design mini-Strat neck pickups, and my even more convoluted version of the Velvet Hammer wiring harness (with push-pull boost coil running directly to the output, push-pull phase switch that causes all kinds of fun chaos, .068 tone cap and 500k pots) - It gets close to the sweetness of the VH tone plus the boost "snarl", Strat #2 & #4 switch position sounds with no volume drop, a raw P-90-ish sound and a pure Strat neck pickup blues tone.
It overdrives the front end of my '67 Deluxe Reverb turned up (down?) to "3". So I set the default (switches down) mode to full-bore. It is downright mean, nasty and will downright gnaw on a bass player's leg.
Enjoy the pics - (Full front shot taken before I swapped the electronics - my original Pull String #002 is on deck to be refinished and may get an entirely different electronics scheme).
The mechanism reminds me of "Arnold" and the line "I'll Be Back"
So it had a name before it was done - "The Terminator"
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:29 pm Post subject:
My original bender tele (1977) is 9.8 lbs on the bathroom scale (and feels like it). As yours is very light does the body of the instrument stay put when you activate the bender? The mechanism appears to be completely self-contained. Looks like it drops into a well carved out of the back. The string ferrules appear to be part of the self contained mechanism. Do you have to remove the acrylic back plate to restring? (Out of curiosity, does anyone know what Clarence's instrument weighed?)
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject:
I don't know how much the original CW Tele weighs, but having strapped it on several years ago it's got to be 10+ lbs. It is heavy! Perhaps others who have had the pleasure of playing that guitar have an idea?
Jim, don't you love it when a plan comes together?! Is Dave doing any bender production work?
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:51 am Post subject:
Bill - yes, Dave's doing the standard steel model Pull String and the ultralight stainless model now.
Ron - Good eyes! One part of the stability (and ability to get a light pull with a positive "popup" return) is the very tight structural relationship between the stress-bearing parts; it's almost as if the Pull String is the "instrument" and you're moving around the wood with pickups attached. With a couple of extra rods connecting bellcrank-to-hub, tuner stop to bellcrank and spring tension unit to bottom strap button and hub the whole thing would be extremely close to "free-standing".
But no - the cover does not need to be removed to change strings - the ferrules protrude through the cover. And Dave used machine screws with threaded inserts so the body wood doesn't get stripped from cover removal.
You can actually remove the back with a powered screwdriver, remove the two rod screws (which are just lightly-snug-tight) to shift the rod to another set (or one end or the other to another hole), set it to any one of 9 throw length from (roughly) 5/8" to 1 1/4" (upper bout shapes vary, and that affects the bellcrank "rest" position, which affects the short or long end of the throw...testing indicates some may be 9/16"-1 1/4", others 5/8" - 1 1/8..but it also depends on wher you measure from, so it's not that critical at the upper and lower reaches), tune the stop and put the cover on in about 5 minutes.
With my old one I played live with the cover off a few times and because of certain songs on the setlist actually changed throw between tunes.
Weight wise - and this was a prototype/one-off that required some custom-made wood parts and other "tweaks" - the unit itself including screws and back cover added somewhere pretty darned close to 8 ounces. Changes your playing as the center of gravity shifts forward - you can set a much lighter spring return and learn to reply on it to pup up like normal (I had to adjust my posture a bit so it didn't catch on a button! That's how light the spring can be set).
Comparatively - `the Clarence Clone Brian and I just built for me out of lightweiht Chinese pine or alder (not Pawlonia, but still very light) weighs in at a little over 8 1/2 pounds with the extra back, cover etc. My Nashville West is close to 10 1/2#. My gold Pull String, with an Ash/Walnut body weighed in at 9.5#. Clarence's original, as I reall, is around `10.5#.
The Mahogany Thinlines are light, but by no means the lightest Teles built. This one's around 6 1/2# after I added all my goofy electronics. Even my '64 Mustang weighs more!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:04 pm Post subject:
I guess adjusting this model for a light pull would address any changes in regard to the center of gravity. A couple of years ago I had Gene install his acoustic bender in a Santa Cruz. Because of the lightness of the instrument I do have to grip the body of the guitar a little bit when I engage the bender while standing.
Yes I guess that would be an issue. Normally the weight of the body works in conjunction with the spring tension to get the right balance and leverage for proper and comfortable bender action.
Even despite the bender concerns....a super light body with a normal weight neck will make the Telecaster feel 'headstock heavy' and off balance
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:
There's absolutely no change in the way you hold the guitar or the operation of the bender. The only change is a good one - lighter spring tension, meaning it takes less pressure to engage (also putting far less pressure on your shoulder and lessening neck muscle tension) while popping back up exactly like any other Pull String that's set up correctly.
No, Brian - it's not an issue. The "normal" action you desire is exactly what happens - but with less tension because the entire instrument is lighter. And respectfully, you have your weight assumptions bass-ackwards, possibly due to a mistake in my initial post regarding the "center of gravity" - which doesn't shift forwards, it shifts rearwards. And based on the placement of the heaviest parts of the assembly the actual balance point change is nominal.
(and what "bender concerns" are you talking about?)
And as far as making a guitar "headstock heavy" (commonly known as "neck dive") there's exactly zero effect. There isn't any with a standard Thinline either, and installation of the ultralight stainless steel Pull String would cause a minor reduction - not increase - but the math is simple so I'll just supply some basic numbers and the results will be obvious.
The 4 "Tele" necks (3 maple-board and one ebony) that I switch around most average in weight, with tuners (klusons) 1.6 pounds (FWIW average enclosed mini Schaller-types weigh around 0.5 pounds; Klusons/knockoffs about 0.25 pounds).

Kaitlin snuggled with her Valentine Buzz Light-year before school

And worked really hard on her valentine for Kory

Ready for school and so excited!

Kaitlin RAN into school and gave her teacher Mrs. Erika a huge hug! They had a party and Kaitlin decorated her own bag for all her goodies! She got a ball, bubbles, and all sorts of snacks. We have talked about bubbles all afternoon.

While Kaitlin was at Mother’s Day Out Kory and I had a lunch date at Abuelo’s. It was so fun being out of the house on a real date again. I printed out a date cheat sheet that Parent’s magazine sent me. It had questions like “what countries would you like to visit” and “what dream job would you want for 1 year”. I thought it would be LAME but it was really fun. Here is the link http://www.parents.com/parenting/relationships/staying-close/date-night-a-cheat-sheet/

Here’s my Valentine at lunch!

We figured out that Kaitlin’s “love language” is Chick-Fila so that is where we are taking her tonight for her big night out. She will be so happy. We will be home by 7:00! A perfect date night with a toddler.

Happy Valentine’s Day from our little Love Bug!

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Precious! What a fun day! Glad you had a lunch date!

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Following Stephan’s idea, we’re announcing the first (of what we hope will be many) international get-together for Fellows.

We will have the opportunity to use as we see fit meeting space in Bolzano at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon) on Saturday, November 11. There will be space for workshops, conferences and plain fun.

We are looking forward to hearing your proposals for Fellow time on the new mailing list and on the Fellowship jabber channel.

Keep in mind you are welcome to participate in the whole SFSCon2006, too (special lodging/meal packages are being arranged).<eot>Lemons by alexandrasalas on DeviantArt

Can't burn life's house down with that lemon, if you get that reference.

Hobbyist Traditional Artist Is lemon pie good?

Hobbyist Digital Artist Nobody's used lemon pie in that one before! This is very creative, cute, and makes a nice point.

Professional Digital Artist Thank you! Reply Mr-Glaceon

Hobbyist Digital Artist You're welcome. ^o^ This is adorable and inspiring at the same time. Reply iLantiis

Hobbyist Digital Artist If this was a print, I think I would seriously have to get it to hang in my kitchen lol Love this!! (and lemon pies XDDD)

Professional Digital Artist I have it up as a print on RedBubble www.redbubble.com/people/kasum… but also on Gumroad where you get a downloadable pdf to print at home. gumroad.com/l/NNHa If none of those work, I can set it up as a print here too. Reply iLantiis

Hobbyist Digital Artist AHH! Those work just fabulously! Thank you! Reply alexandrasalas

Professional Digital Artist No problem! Reply Gemini000

Dang it, I want some lemon pie now... D :

Professional Digital Artist So do I. Reply icefire8521

Hobbyist General Artist Better make that a damn lemon MERINGUE pie. Because I said so.

Professional Interface Designer yum Reply alexandrasalas

Professional Digital Artist I love lemon pie. :3

Professional Interface Designer It's awesome or even better lemon merengue cake Reply fangelsi

Professional Digital Artist Thanks Reply Noktowl

Professional Digital Artist I'd rather give life to the lemons Reply alexandrasalas

Professional Digital Artist That would be too scary. Reply XGBlue

Hobbyist Writer *lemon cake. Good GOD it's so good!

Reply Kahisys

Hobbyist Digital Artist This...this is all I can think of : chrispasley.com/wp-content/upl...

Less effort than making lemonade, that's for sure."But making a lemon pie takes more effort!"I meant less effort for ME.

Professional Digital Artist Exactly! Reply Random-Manga-lover

Hobbyist Writer When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! GET MAD! 'I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WITH THESE?!' Demand to see life's MANAGER! 'DO YOU KNOW I AM?! I'M THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS! I'M GOING TO GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON, THAT BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!' C'mon, you had to expect it. One does not simply post a 'when life gives you lemons' joke without getting a Cave rant.

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New Stainless Steel Evans Pull String -

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: New Stainless Steel Evans Pull String -

With my ever-deteriorating back (and a pile of other medical problems) I'd been trying to think of a way to play Pull String but not stress my neck/back so much. When I picked up a Japanese '69 Thinline reissue in a trade I talked to Dave about a Pull String installation...mainly concerned about whther or not the hollowed-out areas would cause mechanical problems (or flat prevent ANY installation. The "raw" guitar weighed only 6 pounds on the strap, far less than anything except my '54 Custom Shop (mostly) Strat, which even beat my '64 Mustang!

I've weighed a lot of guitars, especially over the last couple of years when I've been doing primarily finsih and guitar/amp tech work, and this particular Thinline came in lower than any Tele (I've read claims for years of "4 1/2#" or "5#" Teles and they've been bunk).

Anyway - it seemed like the perfect candidate, and tonal potential was excellent - pretty meaty for a Thinline and nice complexity.

Kicked it around with Dave and he upped the ante - not just install a Pull String, but develop a new ultra-lightweight design without sacrificing strength - using specially-machined stainless steel and Delrin.

We came up with the requirement that it'd have the standard Pull String features - adjustable throw, adjustable spring tension - but add only a small amount of weight, if any. End result - +11oz! And that includes a few maple blocks added for strength in couple of key positions. And with a big, fat, Warmouth Broadcaster maple neck.

The mechanism is not only a match for the smoothness of the regular Pull String - it has a certain surgical precision to the feel that's hard to describe. And with the weight of the guitar there's almost no pressure on the shoulder or back when engaging it (but there's full control throughout the length of the pull - I have it set at 1" right now) - yet it pops right back up, in tune, every time. The "lightness" of the pull can't really be described properly

And there was absolutely NO change in tone, so I decided to really hop it up - removed the '68 bridgeplate, boost-coil Fralin bridge and Harmonic Design mini-Strat neck pickups, and my even more convoluted version of the Velvet Hammer wiring harness (with push-pull boost coil running directly to the output, push-pull phase switch that causes all kinds of fun chaos, .068 tone cap and 500k pots) - It gets close to the sweetness of the VH tone plus the boost "snarl", Strat #2 & #4 switch position sounds with no volume drop, a raw P-90-ish sound and a pure Strat neck pickup blues tone.

It overdrives the front end of my '67 Deluxe Reverb turned up (down?) to "3". So I set the default (switches down) mode to full-bore. It is downright mean, nasty and will downright gnaw on a bass player's leg.

Enjoy the pics - (Full front shot taken before I swapped the electronics - my original Pull String #002 is on deck to be refinished and may get an entirely different electronics scheme).

The mechanism reminds me of "Arnold" and the line "I'll Be Back"

So it had a name before it was done - "The Terminator"

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:29 pm Post subject:

My original bender tele (1977) is 9.8 lbs on the bathroom scale (and feels like it). As yours is very light does the body of the instrument stay put when you activate the bender? The mechanism appears to be completely self-contained. Looks like it drops into a well carved out of the back. The string ferrules appear to be part of the self contained mechanism. Do you have to remove the acrylic back plate to restring? (Out of curiosity, does anyone know what Clarence's instrument weighed?)

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:31 pm Post subject:

I don't know how much the original CW Tele weighs, but having strapped it on several years ago it's got to be 10+ lbs. It is heavy! Perhaps others who have had the pleasure of playing that guitar have an idea?

Jim, don't you love it when a plan comes together?! Is Dave doing any bender production work?

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:51 am Post subject:

Bill - yes, Dave's doing the standard steel model Pull String and the ultralight stainless model now.

Ron - Good eyes! One part of the stability (and ability to get a light pull with a positive "popup" return) is the very tight structural relationship between the stress-bearing parts; it's almost as if the Pull String is the "instrument" and you're moving around the wood with pickups attached. With a couple of extra rods connecting bellcrank-to-hub, tuner stop to bellcrank and spring tension unit to bottom strap button and hub the whole thing would be extremely close to "free-standing".

But no - the cover does not need to be removed to change strings - the ferrules protrude through the cover. And Dave used machine screws with threaded inserts so the body wood doesn't get stripped from cover removal.

You can actually remove the back with a powered screwdriver, remove the two rod screws (which are just lightly-snug-tight) to shift the rod to another set (or one end or the other to another hole), set it to any one of 9 throw length from (roughly) 5/8" to 1 1/4" (upper bout shapes vary, and that affects the bellcrank "rest" position, which affects the short or long end of the throw...testing indicates some may be 9/16"-1 1/4", others 5/8" - 1 1/8..but it also depends on wher you measure from, so it's not that critical at the upper and lower reaches), tune the stop and put the cover on in about 5 minutes.

With my old one I played live with the cover off a few times and because of certain songs on the setlist actually changed throw between tunes.

Weight wise - and this was a prototype/one-off that required some custom-made wood parts and other "tweaks" - the unit itself including screws and back cover added somewhere pretty darned close to 8 ounces. Changes your playing as the center of gravity shifts forward - you can set a much lighter spring return and learn to reply on it to pup up like normal (I had to adjust my posture a bit so it didn't catch on a button! That's how light the spring can be set).

Comparatively - `the Clarence Clone Brian and I just built for me out of lightweiht Chinese pine or alder (not Pawlonia, but still very light) weighs in at a little over 8 1/2 pounds with the extra back, cover etc. My Nashville West is close to 10 1/2#. My gold Pull String, with an Ash/Walnut body weighed in at 9.5#. Clarence's original, as I reall, is around `10.5#.

The Mahogany Thinlines are light, but by no means the lightest Teles built. This one's around 6 1/2# after I added all my goofy electronics. Even my '64 Mustang weighs more!

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:04 pm Post subject:

I guess adjusting this model for a light pull would address any changes in regard to the center of gravity. A couple of years ago I had Gene install his acoustic bender in a Santa Cruz. Because of the lightness of the instrument I do have to grip the body of the guitar a little bit when I engage the bender while standing.

Yes I guess that would be an issue. Normally the weight of the body works in conjunction with the spring tension to get the right balance and leverage for proper and comfortable bender action.

Even despite the bender concerns....a super light body with a normal weight neck will make the Telecaster feel 'headstock heavy' and off balance

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:

There's absolutely no change in the way you hold the guitar or the operation of the bender. The only change is a good one - lighter spring tension, meaning it takes less pressure to engage (also putting far less pressure on your shoulder and lessening neck muscle tension) while popping back up exactly like any other Pull String that's set up correctly.

No, Brian - it's not an issue. The "normal" action you desire is exactly what happens - but with less tension because the entire instrument is lighter. And respectfully, you have your weight assumptions bass-ackwards, possibly due to a mistake in my initial post regarding the "center of gravity" - which doesn't shift forwards, it shifts rearwards. And based on the placement of the heaviest parts of the assembly the actual balance point change is nominal.

(and what "bender concerns" are you talking about?)

And as far as making a guitar "headstock heavy" (commonly known as "neck dive") there's exactly zero effect. There isn't any with a standard Thinline either, and installation of the ultralight stainless steel Pull String would cause a minor reduction - not increase - but the math is simple so I'll just supply some basic numbers and the results will be obvious.

The 4 "Tele" necks (3 maple-board and one ebony) that I switch around most average in weight, with tuners (klusons) 1.6 pounds (FWIW average enclosed mini Schaller-types weigh around 0.5 pounds; Klusons/knockoffs about 0.25 pounds).