you turn your workspace over looking for a lost part, then you resolve to scratch it, and you go to measure what it needs to be, and realize you already glued the part in place?
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she says, “You’re so good at finding those tiny parts you lose under your work table all the time, could you help me find…”
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To the contrary,she has come to my assistance and has located quite a few of my missing parts.
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My current part losing process goes something like this:
- Part goes flying
- Attempt to find part.
2a) Part is found. Yay.
2b) Part is not found. Will try again later. - Days pass. A different model is worked on. More days pass.
- This room really needs cleaning. Better run the vacuum.
- Huh. I wonder what made all that racket getting sucked up.
- More days pass.
- Work on model again. Huh. There seems to be a missing part. Wonder what happened to it. Weird.
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Instant anxiety.
Open the vacuum cleaner and start inspecting the bag.
Found quite a few ear “ornaments” and the little plugs that hold them in place.
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Whaaaat? Where did you find this “she?”
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She is also real supportive,comes to most of my shows and endures the military museums, besides finding lost parts
For 43 years
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That’s way beyond the call of duty Anthony, my SWMBO has likewise been steadfastly supportive (or at least tolerant) too. Maybe there should be a dedicated thread for Partner Roll of Hono(u)r, I could provide a perfect example of one of her valuable contributions to my madness.
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Hey,we all support our mates in their endeavors or problems,I’m sure its the same for many of us
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Sounds like a keeper!
Congrats on 43 years.
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My wife willingly went to my LHS with me once.
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just remember when the wife goes to the model shop/show with you, she’s watching to see how much you’re spending and will be expecting something for herself at an equal or greater value lol
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and she knows we will not be spending that cash on beer/wine/booze getting a hangover
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Honestly she doesn’t say much to what I buy, I keep costs reasonable.
She once asked me “how come you don’t have one of those pretty round red guitars that have cutout thingies and I should get one (She was referring to a Gibson ES-335 @ $3,500 USD). I mentioned the price and she said, “but you don’t have one”!
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My wife has walked into my stash room, looked around and said, “Wow, you have so many models” and went back in the garage to get her gardening stuff.
Little does she know that if I don’t get on the stick some of those will become her models eventually.
Assuming she outlasts me.
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I did not buy one. I do have my eye on a 120th anniversary SG (Pelham Blue) which I would drop in some John Birch P90’s. I’ve been eyeballing this guitar for a few years (my guitar tech guy owns it).
I really like your Country Gentleman, my brother in law has a 1971. I would seriously consider a Falcon over a 335, love that Gretsch sound. Now that is Rock n Roll.
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Guitar pix 
I spend a lot of time in the tuning of this Epiphone Wildkat.
Converted the housing of the dogear into a goldfoil Pickup and make the bigsby working …
It was presented to me by Mrs.killnoizer , guitar No. 12 or so . Mrs.K. is also a member of the model club and always with me at the military car meetings ( and normaly the only women there at the steering wheel ) . I hate al those events where are only men doing men things and talk mens stuff .
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Very nice guitar! I’ve always liked the looks of those pickups. Are they Lollars?
Bigsby’s can be quite temperamental coming back into tune after a dive bomb, but I love Bigsby’s
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I think the Pickup is a Roswell aftermarket thing , as far as i remember, works very good 
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You would not believe how much unneeded cable i took out of the body, i make a complete new simple electric like a telecaster, works much better for me and sounds much better too.
Bigsby’s have the same problem like 1990’s bicycle tuning parts… you have to work on every little detail to get it in properly working condition. Also the original moving bridge concept is a bad joke to me 
. You need a good working roller bridge.
I would use a Duesenberg/Rockinger tremola instead, but there look is lightyears away from a cool and classic Bigsby.
Here is another sweet piece, a Aria from 1973 , that needed also some work…
I removed the bad original trem and mounted a hardtail instead .
We are out of topic i think .
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