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Title: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 02:43:41 PM: Hey urrrybody, I'll be in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months starting at the end of August (19th) through the end of January (28th). I'm going to this guitar/amp building school http://www.roberto-venn.com/ (http://www.roberto-venn.com/) and will be building at least one electric guitar, one acoustic, a combo tube amp and an effects pedal. :hyper :rock

Really looking forward to what I'm going to learn there and where this will possibly take me in life. I'm hoping to have a blog to keep friends and family updated to what's happening. We'll see if this happens as I can be lazy with that kind of thing. :teehee

So this brings me to this point, where my west coast nukkas at? Who can I ~~dumpster rape~~ visit while I'm in AZ? :hump I'm hoping to visit LA once or twice so a meet up would be cool. :)
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Brehvolution on July 27, 2010, 02:45:24 PM: Your wife agreed to this? :lol
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 02:46:58 PM: Awww yeah son! :drake Actually she'll be staying at her dad's while I'm out there. :( So it'll be kinda ronrey, yeah a rittle ronrey.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: demi on July 27, 2010, 02:49:10 PM: Nobody lives in AZ, enjoy your horrible weather conditions and mexicans wanting to hide in your closet before they get deported.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 02:52:57 PM: Quote from: demi on July 27, 2010, 02:49:10 PM
Nobody lives in AZ, enjoy your horrible weather conditions and mexicans wanting to hide in your closet before they get deported.

That's part of my plan to not have to cook/clean since my wife won't be there. Huahuahua. :smug
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 27, 2010, 02:58:11 PM: I've watched some show on PBS that showcased the building of Violins. The creating an instrument from a block of wood thing seems like something amazing to do. Have fun, mang!
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 27, 2010, 03:06:41 PM: Cool stuff. I watched a few people build guitars in IA in highschool. Looked like it was fun.

:bow Wood working :bow2
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on July 27, 2010, 03:13:39 PM: :drool Wood working :drool
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 03:25:07 PM: Wrath/Blue/FM - :-*

Quote from: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on July 27, 2010, 03:13:39 PM
:drool Wood working :drool

I don't know what you mean.

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Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Mupepe on July 27, 2010, 03:53:46 PM: soooo, your wife will be without a man? :ninja
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 03:56:58 PM: Quote from: Rob Thomas on July 27, 2010, 03:53:46 PM
soooo, your wife will be without a man? :ninja

I experimented on my body so my wang is now detachable and I feel the effects of it wherever it is via satellite. :-*

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Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Beezy on July 27, 2010, 04:12:03 PM: Quote from: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 02:52:57 PM
Quote from: demi on July 27, 2010, 02:49:10 PM
Nobody lives in AZ, enjoy your horrible weather conditions and mexicans wanting to hide in your closet before they get deported.

That's part of my plan to not have to cook/clean since my wife won't be there. Huahuahua. :smug
:lol
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 04:16:16 PM: Quote from: The Business on July 27, 2010, 04:11:41 PM
So your marriage is over?

No we're just going to be apart for 5 months (except for 2 weeks when I visit for Christmas) and then back to normal. She's applying for JET this September too so we might be moving to Japan next fall, we'll see. Lot's of stuff going on. :)
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:18:52 PM: Excellent. I shall begin drafting my custom order.

Good luck!
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Mupepe on July 27, 2010, 04:21:45 PM: well my wife and i will take care of your wife. I think I still have your number. I'll give you a ring tonight to set everything up.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 04:24:37 PM: Quote from: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:18:52 PM
Excellent. I shall begin drafting my custom order.

Good luck!

I hope you like penis inlays. :D

Quote from: Rob Thomas on July 27, 2010, 04:21:45 PM
well my wife and i will take care of your wife. I think I still have your number. I'll give you a ring tonight to set everything up.

:-*
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:32:52 PM: Quote from: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:18:52 PM
Excellent. I shall begin drafting my custom order.

Good luck!

I hope you like penis inlays. :D

Just make sure the input jack is in between 2 buttcheek-shaped humps and we'll be good.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 04:34:25 PM: Quote from: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:32:52 PM
Quote from: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 04:24:37 PM
Quote from: muckhole on July 27, 2010, 04:18:52 PM
Excellent. I shall begin drafting my custom order.

Good luck!

I hope you like penis inlays. :D

Just make sure the input jack is in between 2 buttcheek-shaped humps and we'll be good.

:lol Will do.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Diunx on July 27, 2010, 07:28:58 PM: Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 27, 2010, 02:58:11 PM
I've watched some show on PBS that showcased the building of Violins. The creating an instrument from a block of wood thing seems like something amazing to do. Have fun, mang!

Sounds like something I would pay someone else to do for me. :tophat
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: drew on July 27, 2010, 07:34:53 PM: Quote from: Zero Hero on July 27, 2010, 02:45:24 PM
Your wife agreed to this? :lol

ill be taking care of her while hes gone ;)

and by taking care of her i mean banging her
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: BlueTsunami on July 27, 2010, 07:55:46 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on July 27, 2010, 07:35:47 PM
I want one of those guitars that's like a normal guitar, but double.

Have Tauntaun make you a Picasso

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Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Brehvolution on July 27, 2010, 08:02:51 PM: Quote from: Genghis Cohen on July 27, 2010, 07:35:47 PM
I want one of those guitars that's like a normal guitar, but double.
(http://i25.tinypic.com/4lqcfa.jpg)

Why stop at just double? ;)
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: drew on July 27, 2010, 08:04:37 PM: what do they call these people again...luthiers?

damn my memory is awesome
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: max_cool on July 27, 2010, 10:01:59 PM: PHX here. Gonna be hottt the extra t's are for extra tauntaun
:tauntaun :tauntaun
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Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Ichirou on July 27, 2010, 10:03:21 PM: You should be boycotting Arizona, not moving down there for five months. smh
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: brawndolicious on July 28, 2010, 12:06:19 AM: So are you doing this to train for a job or just for a hobby?
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Cormacaroni on July 28, 2010, 12:15:02 AM: ooh, a luthier! Very cool, best of luck with it! :rock
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Dickie Dee on July 28, 2010, 12:49:30 AM: i was thinking about doing this (more for acoustic than electric), found a couple good schools. i've kinda fallen off the wagon as far as my guitar pickin' goes now though - i've even lost my callouses :fbm
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Bildi on July 28, 2010, 03:52:19 AM: KICK ASS. Soon you'll be taking some other company's amps, removing some knobs to make the sound more "pure", and charging triple the price for it.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 28, 2010, 08:10:23 AM: Quote from: am nintenho on July 28, 2010, 12:06:19 AM
So are you doing this to train for a job or just for a hobby?

For a job, not sure whether it's to work for a company or start one of my own.

Quote from: Bildi on July 28, 2010, 03:52:19 AM
KICK ASS. Soon you'll be taking some other company's amps, removing some knobs to make the sound more "pure", and charging triple the price for it.
:D
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on July 28, 2010, 08:54:47 AM: Quote from: Tauntaun on July 27, 2010, 02:43:41 PM
Hey urrrybody, I'll be in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months starting at the end of August (19th) through the end of January (28th). I'm going to this guitar/amp building school http://www.roberto-venn.com/ (http://www.roberto-venn.com/) and will be building at least one electric guitar, one acoustic, a combo tube amp and an effects pedal. :hyper :rock

Really looking forward to what I'm going to learn there and where this will possibly take me in life. I'm hoping to have a blog to keep friends and family updated to what's happening. We'll see if this happens as I can be lazy with that kind of thing. :teehee

So this brings me to this point, where my west coast nukkas at? Who can I ~~dumpster rape~~ visit while I'm in AZ? :hump I'm hoping to visit LA once or twice so a meet up would be cool. :)
Hey, that's kind of cool. What kind of electric guitar are you thinking of building?
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 28, 2010, 09:40:05 AM: My first electric (I'm hoping to build two) will be a PRS rip off I think because I don't have a guitar like that right now, I just have some shred guitars. Mahogany body, quilted maple top, ebony fretboard, maple or mahogany neck (unfinished/bolt on), fixed bridge, string through body and locking tuners. I want a nice warm fat sound. My biggest dilemma will be what pickups to use, have to do some research/experimentation there.

For my second electric, if I get to build one (decided by the instructors), I want to make a 'X' body shape like a Jackson Warrior or Ibanez Xiphos. This will have a super slim maple neck (unfinished/maybe neck through), ebony fretboard, floyd rose original trem, cream binding, emg 81/85 and mahogany body.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on July 28, 2010, 10:20:17 AM: I've got one emoticon to say to that: 8)
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: CajoleJuice on July 28, 2010, 10:42:25 AM: Awesome shit, mang.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 28, 2010, 07:35:03 PM: Quote from: ferrarimanf355 on July 28, 2010, 10:20:17 AM
I've got one emoticon to say to that: 8)
:-*
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Bildi on July 29, 2010, 01:26:25 AM: Great idea building a PRS-type thing, no point building what you already have. I've been dreaming about something fixed bridge/mahogony/maybe even single coils, just to go totally different to what I always play. Like an Ibanez Paul Gilbert Fireman or something.

I played a Suhr Pro-series S5 a few months ago and was frankly blown away by the pickups - fantastic definition and tons of response in all frequencies. They might be worth adding to your experiments. Never really been blown away by pickups before, I just work with whatever is in there. I think they were Suhr SSH+ and SSV humbuckers. A friend put a pair of Suhr Doug Aldrich humbuckers in his brand new Warrior guitar (which is mahogany) because he was blown away as well. They sound fantastic also, just higher output pretty much.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Bildi on July 29, 2010, 01:27:44 AM: Fixed bridge would also mean easy detuning for some Hevy Devy riffing or the like. :rock
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 29, 2010, 11:47:23 AM: Quote from: Bildi on July 29, 2010, 01:27:44 AM
Fixed bridge would also mean easy detuning for some Hevy Devy riffing or the like. :rock

Yeah fixed bridges are just soooooooooooo much less complicated than Floyds. I mostly use Floyds because other fixed bridge guitars that I've had will go out of tune because I pick hard and not so much because I want the whammy. Oh man, changing strings/tunings on a floyd, woof. :yuck

I've never heard of Suhr pickups (or guitars) before but I'm interested. I'll check out some youtube and see if they have any sound clips. :D
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Bildi on July 30, 2010, 02:08:07 AM: While I'd heard of Suhr guitars, I didn't know they make pickups either, so I thought I'd mention it. Not exactly the first company you think of when you think pickups...

I played my friend's fixed bridge guitar just last weekend and stuffed about with all sorts of tunings. Great fun compared to my norm.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: tiesto on July 30, 2010, 09:17:17 AM: Sounds pretty awesome... best of luck with it!
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 30, 2010, 09:35:01 AM: Quote from: tiesto on July 30, 2010, 09:17:17 AM
Sounds pretty awesome... best of luck with it!

Ty boo. :heart Gonna miss that NY pizza. :(
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: BlackMage on July 30, 2010, 10:03:57 AM: I'll hang out with ya when you come to LA :-*
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Post by: Brehvolution on July 30, 2010, 10:32:21 AM: Having you and Mupepe that close to each other is going to mess with the space/time continuum.
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: tiesto on July 30, 2010, 11:07:44 AM: Quote from: Tauntaun on July 30, 2010, 09:35:01 AM
Quote from: tiesto on July 30, 2010, 09:17:17 AM
Sounds pretty awesome... best of luck with it!

Ty boo. :heart Gonna miss that NY pizza. :(

Gotta look to the bright side: At least you can replace it with some awesome Mexican food!
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Tauntaun on July 30, 2010, 01:14:02 PM: Quote from: Zero Hero on July 30, 2010, 10:32:21 AM
Having you and Mupepe that close to each other is going to mess with the space/time continuum.

People will randomly jizz their pants. :tauntaun

Quote from: tiesto on July 30, 2010, 11:07:44 AM
Gotta look to the bright side: At least you can replace it with some awesome Mexican food!

Yeah that and there's supposed to be this awesome BBQ place in Phoenix I gotta check out. :drool
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Bloodwake on August 02, 2010, 03:59:32 PM: I want to learn how to play guitar.

Of course, that requires purchasing one with money I don't have.

BUILDING guitars sounds awesome, especially if you can build it with your dick

:tauntaun
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: lennedsay on August 02, 2010, 04:03:12 PM: Quote from: Tauntaun on July 30, 2010, 01:14:02 PM
Quote from: Zero Hero on July 30, 2010, 10:32:21 AM
Having you and Mupepe that close to each other is going to mess with the space/time continuum.

People will randomly jizz their pants. :tauntaun

A whole new meaning to spontaneous combustion. :teehee
Title: Re: Guitar building school in Phoenix, AZ for 5 months.
Post by: Cormacaroni on August 02, 2010, 09:30:07 PM: Quote from: lennedsay on August 02, 2010, 04:03:12 PM
Quote from: Tauntaun on July 30, 2010, 01:14:02 PM
Quote from: Zero Hero on July 30, 2010, 10:32:21 AM
Having you and Mupepe that close to each other is going to mess with the space/time continuum.

People will randomly jizz their pants. :tauntaun

A whole new meaning to spontaneous combustion. :teehee

This could be the best episode of Fringe ever!