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I spent most of the week in the panhandle of Oklahoma again, near Black Mesa at the Okie-Tex Star Party. These are some of the deep sky images I took on Wednesday night, which was a great night for shooting. Some of my best pics yet. These are all shot at 6400 ISO. The exposures were 2...

Happy Pi Day, everyone! May the circumference of the day surround you. :D We've got pizzas and all kinds of pies to eat tonight. We might be a bit nerdy. :D

Yep, many import and "no-name" partscasters. Even scratch build ones, but this is my first genuine Fender USA partscaster. I got the D Allen Dovers in tonight, so all the parts are here. I will update the build process over the next few nights. It usually does not take that long, but I got a...

I decided it was time to sell all the parts I removed from various guitars, and use the proceeds to build a couple of nicer strats. Most of these had Floyds, from a time when I wanted all my guitars to have them. I like Floyds, but I've decided only on Super Strats. This is the first...

We do have a Bass Place. :lol: I thought I post up some pics and vids of the mods I made to my MIM Jazz Bass. I bought the bass back in 1999, and it has seen little use. I mean it was fun, but until the Rocksmith Bass expansion, I just never played it. I always intended to mod it up; the...

This was posted on MLP, and it kinda blew my mind. It is a video demonstrating the "ba? fa!" McGurk Effect. It shows how our brain effects what we really hear. Bad Astronomy - Ba? Fa!

My old one was kinda shot. Plus I needed some motivation to get going. So I got this thing: Now I got 2 weeks to get ready for a 27 mile ride. That is probably a warm-up ride for some, but it is a lot, for me. After a few miles on the hills around my house I am toast. That and...

:shock: I hope I did not miss another thread about this, but wow. YouTube - ‪NASA SDO, STEREO & SOHO - Mythbusters goes to the Sun‬‏ More Eye-Popping Video from the June 7 Solar Explosion Huge Sun Eruption of June 7, 2011

I've really jonesin' for a Fireburst Crackle Charvel, since way back in the 80s. I found an pretty beat up Fireburst Crackle Model 4 body on ebay. I cleaned it up and put a new clear coat on. I was thinking about just swappin' bodies with my black Model 4, but I just found another Model 4...

I am wondering, 'cuz the back of mine are warm enough to be uncomfortable to touch. I've never felt of the them in the past, but I was pokin' around tryin' to stop some rattles, and noticed they were warm (kinda actually hot).

I've been watching CL and ebay, for a long time. Finally 2 really clean amps came along. So I grabbed 'em. First, off of CL, I got this C30. I've got to mod it, before I can play it. I am going to add a second speaker out, that disconnects the internal speaker. I played around with it a...

I had a Vox AC4TV I had bought for my wife, and she did not play it very much. She took to the Roland Micro Cube better. Also I don't use 5 watt amps very much, so what to do with the Vox. Then I saw an add on CL, where the guy wanted to trade his Epi LP for a tube amp. He agreed to trade...

I am finally getting around to starting on my new pedalboards. I decided I liked the pedaltrain design as well as any, so basically I am copying their frame. There is no reason not to just get a pedaltrain board, except I am cheap and I won't be taking these on the road. Here is all the...

I have been dying to try this, since I watched the challenge last year. At the TDPRI forum, they have a scratch build challenge each year. There are currently 95 contestants, and I have thrown my iron in the fire. I really don't have a chance to win, because there is some amazing talent...

I just got my hands on one of these tonight. YouTube - Dunlop Rotovibe I will need to put it behind a true bypass switch, as it is not transparent when off. But it sounds indentical to that video. Yep, very awesome.

I've recently had a birthday, and so I decided to add to my BMP collection. Like I really needed a reason. :razz: Here it is, my Version 7C First Edition Green Russian. It just might be as good as the V3 USA. But maybe I am just stoked by the Military Surplus Cold War feel of the case...

Well I just got my Pedal Power 2 Plus and figured out I need a Y cable to power my 18v pedals. :roll: Actually I'm really underwhelmed by the PP2. I had to steal my One Spot daisy chain to use to power my other pedals. :roll: x2 I cannot find a Y cable in stock, so I want to build my own...

This was just posted on TDPRI, and it is great! :lol: YouTube - Is The Government Spying On Schizophrenics Enough? :twisted:

Hope this ain't against the rules, but I thought it is a decent buy. These guys took my $275 offer for one of these amps. If anyone is interested, there are 3 more. Only 19 minutes left, but they may repost (they did not, I'll update if they do). BH15H

Just got my working copy of an Egnater Tweaker. It sounds great! It is a tiny little thing, about 2/3 the size of the BH5H. I was surprised that it was not noticabley louder than my 5 watt amps, kinda really very surprised. I was very happy that there seemed to be a lot more clean...

I guess UPS ran to day. I was kinda surprised. I had Grabbed myself a vintage-esq Big Muff to try, and it showed up on the porch today. This ain't one of the "real" Big Muffs, but it is a version 6, which should get me a little closer. It has been well used. It is a model EH3034...

Took my chance on a cheap DL4 on Ebay. The seller said that the 3rd switch was broken. He said everything else worked, and for $75, I could not pass it up. I got it, and he was right, the 3rd switch did not work. So apart it came. I was surprised to find the switches, were not...

You know for most things I check reviews before using a service or buying a product. With FTD, I did not. I figured they do flowers, they can handle it. I was wrong. Yesterday was our (my wife and myself) 25th anniversary. We were not going to do much special, since it is the holidays, we...

I like to use tube amps at normal playing volume. This is too loud for home, so I have been using a speaker isolation cabinet. This will be my second cabinet biuld. I looked around the web for some ideas, and I found this called the Box of Doom. It will be the model I ues for this one. Of...

I was attacked by an impulse to perform a CL buy. ... and I came home with these: Yep two more, GAS is a hard master... :roll: