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[PoppedCorn]

I have been to the USA numerous times for work, and whilst I love the history of some locations like Boston and Washington etc, their relationship with guns is something beyond my comprehension. In Houston I encountered the mindset of people carrying handguns as a normal part of life and having a rifle rack in the back of the cab of their "truck"!! WTF - are you expecting to encounter a nice, juicy deer in peak hour Houston traffic?!!

As I work for a multi-national corporation with some staff like me who travel a lot, we use a service provider for travel insurance and assistance service provision for travelers (if you get sick overseas, get kidnapped, caught up in a natural disaster etc). Like most these days they have an app on your mobile to access info or contact them etc, and I noticed on a recent trip to the east coast of the USA how often that app pinged me, issuing warnings of shootings in my vicinity! It was a daily occurrence. And when I say my vicinity, I mean within a couple of km's.......

Mind-blowing to have that as a normal part of daily life.

****
that

they need to ban automatics at least
how the hell did he get an ar15 or whatever the hell it was into school ffs

 

[gringo2011]

****
that

they need to ban automatics at least
how the hell did he get an ar15 or whatever the hell it was into school ffs

Exactly, when I was a kid farmers had single shot .22s or double barrel shotguns and between them they did absolutely everything you needed them for. If anyone claims they need anything that rapid repeats they are probably not someone who should own a firearm.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

 

[CursingFijian]

‘I threw one! It hit Gary Sidebottom. ‘

 

[Sully111]

Guitar peeps... here's a bit of a weird one.

1960s German made Framus Studio 5/108

 

[True Believer]

Guitar peeps... here's a bit of a weird one.

1960s German made Framus Studio 5/108

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That bridge design doesn't look appealing!!

 

[Saintos The ITK]

So yeah just out of interest sake I googled Tom Curren Wikipedia.
Which one of you wrote this or is it an autobiography??


Curren won the St Kilda Football Club Victorian Football League affiliate Sandringham Football Club best & fairest award in 2012.[2]

Curren was delisted at the end of the 2016 season.[3] Tom has now gone on to play for the Nepean Football League and has had some incredible games with 67 disposals being produced some rounds. He has not let himself go in the gym, and is still keeping his rig tidy. Often asked how he kept such a strong bench when being so light on the footy field. Bench pressing nearly 25kg in both arms.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Exactly, when I was a kid farmers had single shot .22s or double barrel shotguns and between them they did absolutely everything you needed them for. If anyone claims they need anything that rapid repeats they are probably not someone who should own a firearm.

I had a crappy semi auto 22 I bought at Kmart. Use to shoot cans and road signs with it.
Want all that easy to hit a sign when you’re flying past at 140kph.
Would shoot as quick as you could pull the trigger but if you went too fast the bullets would jam and sometimes even break the projectile off.

 

[PoppedCorn]

is that a violin with a whammy?

 

[Sully111]

That bridge design doesn't look appealing!!

Haha

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That's some fine 60s German engineering right there. Mojo for days.

 

[True Believer]

Haha

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That's some fine 60s German engineering right there. Mojo for days.

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Really? Looks like something adapted off an old piece of farm machinery at the turn of the 19th century!!

Having said that, the bridge on my new toy is a fine German component !! (a Schaller Hannes).....

 

[Sully111]

Really? Looks like something adapted off an old piece of farm machinery at the turn of the 19th century!!

Having said that, the bridge on my new toy is a fine German component !! (a Schaller Hannes).....

That's a pretty good description... and kinda why I like it

 

[Mat Mann]

They really need to get gun control measures put in but can't see it ever happening unfortunately.

spent some time over there in Ohio. the family I was with, he was ex-military (Vietnam). It's hard for us to comprehend how ingrained the military is in US life. Guns are like air, and if you want to talk about corporations buying votes, no bigger corporation than the NRA and its influence on the U.S. Congress

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Haha

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That's some fine 60s German engineering right there. Mojo for days.

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Waycool! I'm guessing it's hollow and the bridge is floating? How's it play/sound? Vibrato work ok?

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Used to have an old Framus myself, a Strat-O-Deluxe from the sixties. Wish I still had it. Good chance it has the same pickup!

 

[Sully111]

Waycool! I'm guessing it's hollow and the bridge is floating? How's it play/sound? Vibrato work ok?

Yep, hollow

Plays well. Action is a touch high but fine. I wouldn't change it. I like the pickup, but I love quirky old pickups. eg Vintage dearmond gold foils are my favourite pickups ever made. Trem works great for that bigsby style shimmer.

 

[Sully111]

Used to have an old Framus myself, a Strat-O-Deluxe from the sixties. Wish I still had it. Good chance it has the same pickup!

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This is dope. Love it.

 

[True Believer]

Used to have an old Framus myself, a Strat-O-Deluxe from the sixties. Wish I still had it. Good chance it has the same pickup!

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Jeebus, that's got more controls than aircraft of the same era!!

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Jeebus, that's got more controls than aircraft of the same era!!

Tone and gain for each pickup?

 

[Jesuswasacarpenter]

spent some time over there in Ohio. the family I was with, he was ex-military (Vietnam). It's hard for us to comprehend how ingrained the military is in US life. Guns are like air, and if you want to talk about corporations buying votes, no bigger corporation than the NRA and its influence on the U.S. Congress

I have an ex who is from over there, her dad was in the Air Force so the nationalism is ingrained in her as well.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Tone and gain for each pickup?

Yep volume and tone knobs for each pickup and each with an on/off switch. I think some later ones incorporated some active circuitry.

 

[Remboy]

I have been to the USA numerous times for work, and whilst I love the history of some locations like Boston and Washington etc, their relationship with guns is something beyond my comprehension. In Houston I encountered the mindset of people carrying handguns as a normal part of life and having a rifle rack in the back of the cab of their "truck"!! WTF - are you expecting to encounter a nice, juicy deer in peak hour Houston traffic?!!

As I work for a multi-national corporation with some staff like me who travel a lot, we use a service provider for travel insurance and assistance service provision for travelers (if you get sick overseas, get kidnapped, caught up in a natural disaster etc). Like most these days they have an app on your mobile to access info or contact them etc, and I noticed on a recent trip to the east coast of the USA how often that app pinged me, issuing warnings of shootings in my vicinity! It was a daily occurrence. And when I say my vicinity, I mean within a couple of km's.......

Mind-blowing to have that as a normal part of daily life.

I remember hearing a couple of years ago someone saying their friend, who lived in an ordinary average suburb in the US, heard gunshots at least every couple of days. Makes me glad I live in Australia.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Yep volume and tone knobs for each pickup and each with an on/off switch. I think some later ones incorporated some active circuitry.

I like that .

I modded my strat derivative ,so that when it was in single coil mode, in the position where it was in-between the front two pickups , it was also connected to the back one. ie using all 3.

You could do some fun stuff adjusting the independent tone controls.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

The DeShawn Watson trade is the worst trade done my any sporting organisation in any sport.

 

[StFly]

The DeShawn Watson trade is the worst trade done my any sporting organisation in any sport.

Do you mean Deshaun?

Cause his parents had a lisp and an argument?