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Indeed. SCGC meet-up EU should happen after all the renovations and Claudine and I sort out schedules. So in 2020.
April 1-4 is Musikmesse in Frankfurt, which is about 5 hours east by car. But a direct line from Paris by train, so about 6 and a half hours form Laon.
There are a couple SCGC dealers in Paris, the one in Orly looks promising as they are also an authorised repair place. Orly is the other side of Paris from us. It’s about 2.5hrs by car, depending on Paris traffic. Paris traffic doesn’t compare to Bay Area or LA traffic, but it almost never eases up.
Maybe we could get help from the mothership in developing their interest.
Our area is pretty amazing in terms of things to do and see. Lots happening in Laon depending on the time of year. The catherdral is magnificent. If you’re into WWI history you can walk trenches, view the former front on the Chemin des Dames from an observatory tower over the destroyed town of Craonne. (There are lots of ‘villages detruit’ in our area, I’ve seen most of them. Chamouille, where I live at the moment, was here before the Napoleonic Wars and was far enough into German occupied territory during WWI that it wasn’t destroyed by shelling in the Nivelle offensive.) There are pubs and clubs, etc.
So have a look online and bring your families.
Daniel
I’ve got a new house. Kitchen going in in September, bathroom in October, exterior wall insulation in October, new windows, electrical…
I don’t think I’ll make it this year.
But maybe we can host a SCGC EU gathering!
Daniel
I’d ask about the way the shop is organized in people and machinery. The plek machine will come into it, which is still slightly controversial isn’t it?
🙂
Daniel
Hi Zorro,
Presumably the instrument has been built to take larger strings. So bracing, action, and string gauge will still be the same if you capo up. Therefore the general tone of the instrument should still be more baritone than standard guitar.
The scale length of the bari at the 4th fret will probably be shorter than 25.5″ or even 24.9″. So there will be that difference too.
BTW, capo up to the 4th for E to E, capo up to the 5th for F to F.
I think about this stuff because I’m trying to find the perfect spot between mandolin and guitar. My 5 string emandos are 14.25″ and 15″ respectively. I’ve got a 17″ mandola and a 19″ octave mandolin.
When I capo the octave mando up to the 5th fret to catch the mandola tuning, I do mostly get the mandola tone. But this is probably because I use the same gauge strings for both instruments. The fretting is a bit tighter, but I’m comfortable with it.
In the end I’ll probably need to have someone build me a 5 string octave emando, GDAEB, at 19″.
Daniel
Wore it painting a few years ago. I know. Blasphemy!
The bill is sewn in at a strange little angle too. I kinda like it.
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Yep. To reverse the control plate you swap the volume & tone controls and then reverse the switch as well. You need to rout the bottom of the trench about 2mm as well it the switch will bottom out.
This guitar ain’t finished yet. So when it comes time to add a neck pickup or replace the pickguard, I’ll have a look into those caps.
Thanks for being on the lookout for that contact paper. I think I bought it at Target back in the mid 1990s.
I was thinking of taking a scan or a hi-res photo of a clean part of the pickguard and asking someone to print it on some type of film which could then be transfered to a pickguard or cut into the correct shape.
🙂
Daniel
Forgot to answer the pickguard question…
Yes, I love this pickguard. I’ll be sad to see it go. It’s the original single-ply white 5 hole guard onto which I have added denim patterned contact paper. I trimmed the edge to make it look like a 2 ply. Simple.
But I cannot find denim contact paper anywhere. So replacing it will probably be impossible.
Yes, Amazon has some but it’s not the right pattern and looks pretty lame.
Daniel
No worries Richard! I love the Strat. “Nicotine cream” is a good name for that color.
Yep I had the control plate reversed as well. I wanted the ability to use it a la Bill Kirchen, but I have yet to get comfortable with it. I have been bumping into the volume knob, but no biggie. I’ll get used to it.
Daniel
