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I think that an older guitar (older wood) is less likely to move with changes in humidity – once the resins in the wood are fully cured, the cells are less able to transfer moisture. But its not that wood can’t deal with different levels of humidity – it just doesn’t like it to change too much too quickly. Most builders build at a pretty specific humidity level – an average of all the locations that the instrument may be shipped to. Many guitar shops do the same, knowing that they may have to ship the guitar to someone outside their immediate area. And some players, who are in areas where the humidity changes a great deal during the course of the year, or who travel extensively, will take steps to try and keep their guitars at about the same. But really, the goal is to minimize drastic swings in short periods of time.

If you keep a guitar at a relatively stable humidity level, it will adjust to that and not need a great deal of attention. You’d probably need to get it set-up for that level once its stabilized, but then it’ll probably be good – again, as long as it doesn’t change too much, too fast.  And generally, a drier guitar usually sounds better, more resonant. But you need to let it adjust to that level slowly, and even then, it may not be good if it is too extreme, since it was all glued together and finished at a moderate or median level.  A 90 year old Gibson is a great example of a very well stabilized set of woods!

But thats just my opinion – and am very happy to live in a place where I don’t have to worry about extremes!

And Welcome back to the forum!!

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We’ve been under self-quarantine rules for a couple weeks now – while I’ve enjoyed the time to spend with my guitars, I’d have to be isolated for a couple decades before I’d be able to play with eric – and I’m realizing I may not have enough new strings on hand to make it through this!

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Yes – I know what you mean –

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We’ve talked a bit about our need to change to a non face-to-face arrangement to do our podcasts.  It’s been resisted, because a great deal of personal pleasure is derived from sitting with Richard, and catching up for a while before over a coffee, and after with lunch. But its become  VERY clear that it’ll be a while before we get another chance to sit down together and share a mic  in the shop –

FBJ is in the business of doing this, so, they have a lot of experience – I mean, its their job, and its how they get payed. We have a few technical hurdles, and need to run a few tests, and we will, in time. We’ve all had to adjust to some new realities in every aspect of our lives, and we haven’t had the time to pick-up our series. The last time we had planned to get together and record the next one was the first shelter warning week we  had in the Bay Area, and this was the first event I had to cancel which made me realize how serious this all really was. Richard has had a lot of adjustments to supervise in the operation of SCGC, and I’m sure things changed there almost every day there, especially with a number of instruments in-process.

But I haven’t had a chance to speak with anyone in the shop since then, don’t really know, and can only wish them all the best, We want to get back on doing more podcasts, and getting our tech together and running a couple tests will happen soon – The challenge is in doing the first one –

I’ve heard Richard talk at a number of guitar shops and shows, and he always sounds great. Many, many thanks to FBJ for their help getting Richards message out there. As far as I’m concerned, every podcast that has anything at all to do with guitars should be beating down SCGCs doors to get Richard on their shows! And we have lots of time to listen!

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I had to go look at the just shipped section to check that out – gorgeous! Near perfect, except for the slotted headstock (but thats just me -)

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Actually, the Skye has a custom 24.9” scale, while most short scale SCs are 24.75” – it ain’t much, but its an important difference to Eric. You should be able to drop the tuning without any problem, but I’m sure Eric can offer his expertise on it all if we ask him –

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I hate to admit it, but this has been a time of far more drinking than I am normally used to –

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Thats an amazing story Matt – did you buy lottery tickets before you got home?

my wife has suggested playing my guitar on the front porch instead of in the living room, but I hadn’t taken her seriously – have to rethink that if the weather gets better –

meanwhile, I’ve taken the time to update the guitar inventory, and to start going through drawers and boxes of tools from flea markets and garage sales, and organizing books – anything to avoid the reality of whats going on out there –

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You mean Orange?  😉

I’m gonna let our fearless and highly knowledgable leader  offer his advice on this, but it seems that the easiest way to share audio is to upload it to another source, and share a link to the file here.  Just like the podcasts –

Try setting up something on Soundcloud and post what you can from there –

But as far as putting a mic on an Android phone – I would think that depends on the connector. Are they standard? Some flavor of USB? I can only suggest that Sweetwater, or even Guitar Center or Musicians Friend might have a variety of mics that’d work.  And as far as apps go, that might depend on the version of android, and the brand of phone. Hopefully others can offer some advice –

it might be easier to get a good USB mic, and do something on your computer – lots of good free or inexpensive recording apps for PCs –

I am currently playing with an Izotope Spire I borrowed, and it’s is a pretty cool little device, hut again, oriented to IOS –

 

 

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Yeah – if I could find one who’d build one for what this cost me, I’d probably go for it. And I will – someday – but right now, I’m just kinda having fun trying different things and seeing how they feel / sound / play –

I’m still intrigued with building my own  from some Warmoth parts – and alot of help from friends on this forum, and a few others. First, I really need to sell a couple of my first tries, including a really wonderful Strat that used to belong to our friend Magwa – my very first foray into the world of electrics.

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Note – the signature is hard to read, but I’m pretty sure this one was done by Bill Hardin –

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Thats nothing I can identify – we’ll confirm as our next podcast is on bracing, but usually the top isn’t signed until it is completed, so there’s no way the signature would be under a brace – heres a sample from one of mine –

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I’m loving that most recent replies are showing up as they are after scrolling down to the bottom of the main page – good work you guys!

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Binding? Or purfling?  It makes me think we should have one on guitar vocabulary!  But I know what your saying – and we’ll have to figure out what to fit that into –

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