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Some relatively gentle play and the moments before an adult female brings in an Impala for the hungry cubs to feed on. Chiefs Island, Moremi National Park, Botswana.
Fool's Gold au Festival d'été de Québec
Scène Molson Dry du parc de la Francophonie
14 juillet 2010
(crédit: Renaud Philippe)
So...I've been trying to get the second prototype happening enough to send out to one of our fine Fools here who plays in an AC/DC cover band. He's got a casino gig later this month and has graciously offered to let me use some footage in the Kickstarter demo.
So I was originally just planning to use epoxy to hold the old bushings in place. Not a good fix, but workable in the short term. Then I saw these bridges, which aren't as tall as the Badass knockoff that came on the prototype.
You want the pull as straight as possible, which is why it's important for the top height to work with the neck angle. It's also problematic with the Badass design that the saddles ride so high over the tension line of the bridge. I call it the, "Mauser Effect," because I'm a nerd.
Heh...the "Broomhandle" Mauser that was used for Han Solo's blaster (you knew this was a sci-fi analogy before I even started, right?) is kind of famous for the grip being so low (Solo?) that, when fired, the recoil attempts to spin the firearm out of your hand. I mean, Winston Churchill carried one and they were apparently reliable German-engineered hardware, but the idea is for the force ("Use the Force!") to be transferred to the anchor point (meaty grip) in as straight a line as possible, so's it don't turn into a pinwheel and fly out of your hand.
Same thing with guitar bridges. You want all the loading to be as linear as possible for a whole variety of reasons and the Badass wraparound is like the Mauser of the guitar world in that respect.
So I got this flatter, better designed bridge...and it's a couple of millimeters too wide to ride the existing span of the anchor studs.
HOWEVER...the new studs and bushings are fatter than the ones that came with the prototypes. I could pull those out and push them in by hand. This pair of bushings required me to get out my Tiny Whacker...which sounds like a terrible thing to have...at least if you want to get dates. Heh...anyway, these may do the trick. They seem to be in there really tight now. Even tighter than with the shims.
This had a set of 9-46 strings on it. I think I'm going to go out tomorrow and get some 9-42s. Maybe a little less tension and the new hardware will make this work well enough for the demo.
BTW, I am super-psyched to get footage of the Malcontent being played by an AC/DC cover band. I mean, that's perfect, right? Thanks go out to our intrepid Fooligan!
Manor House and Stone Temple by Grey Kurka from The Curious Prim ... both textures are awesome !
First seen this place in makitune's Wassr stream.
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I was an absolute fanatic of geology when I was in High School. Took it at "O" level (in England), though I was really at an "A" level. Collected various rocks and minerals for years, and I think my favourite is Iron Pyrites in its various forms - cubic, etc.. Unfortunately, I think my skin colour reflected in the many "faces" of this specimen when I took the photo. Love the way the tiny Quartz crystals have formed in little nooks and crannies, just like wildflowers will do.
"She livin' in this lie with him
No more coffee in the morning
I'm wide awake while he sleeping in
Know that's why your calling
You woke up chasing feelings, healing, trouble dealing
Coping with the fact that your alone
It makes you miss my body
Touchin', kissin', squeezin'
He don't know you're worth your weight in gold
Look at you fallin'
Do you even know what your fallin' for?
I see you fallin'
You traded my heart for some fool's gold."
Having seen Eagle142's recent image of this spot, I thought it would be fun to post this postcard view from just over 100 years ago. The card was posted in 1906 and it is interesting to see that it is captioned "Fool's Nook" even at that time when the pub was the Royal Oak.
Any #intelligent #fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of #genius - and a lot of #courage to move in the opposite direction -Albert #Einstein
Fool's Gold au Festival d'été de Québec
Scène Molson Dry du parc de la Francophonie
14 juillet 2010
(crédit: Renaud Philippe)
We planted some Narcissus bulbs a few weeks ago. It's been unusually mild since we planted. They've been fooled into sprouting.
hi beauti-fool
on my last day in israel i decided to take a long walk along dizengoff and south tel aviv, jaffa and the old city. i only had my 5d with lensbaby f8.0 attached and besides portraits of strangers and things of special interest graffitis on my list of main subjects to find. i learnt before that graffiti art is popular in tel aviv and i knew one of the famous street artist of tel aviv is dede (imdede.com/). in order to find his work and others i strolled through the streets and found a good amount of very creative colorful art with subtile humour, which in a special way appear to be more or less part of the building and its context. and i found this which i already photographed last year.
You can break my heart and I will want you just the same...
I can see it through your eyes.
♪ Katie Herzig - Fool's gold.
I'm back! :?)
Haven't participated in MM for a while, but I just felt I needed a new "MM hit"...
For Macro Mondays March 30th - Fools Gold
I just went around the house to see what gold i could find... it wasn't much, so I had to use the little I had...
A detail from a embelished picture frame...
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Fool's Gold au Festival d'été de Québec
Scène Molson Dry du parc de la Francophonie
14 juillet 2010
(crédit: Renaud Philippe)
3/52 for the group 2015 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: C is for Crystal
As I'm married to a geologist, we do have some interesting crystals around but due to lack of time I had to grab the handiest specimen which is a lump of slate with one surface covered in iron pyrites (fool's gold).
For some reason this shot didn't come out very golden looking, but it does show the cubic shape of the crystals quite nicely.