Headed to Hiltonhead...

Going to a conference in Hiltonhead...hope there is some nice music around to listen to. Have been thinking of getting a Travel Guitar..yes the ones that are branded "Travel Guitar". Something to take on the road. I really need to practice the solos out of "Wayward Son" by Kansas...got to get them learned.

new speaker to try with amps

I picked up a Judy Box amps "BadBetty" 30watt 8 ohm speaker to try. They were parted out of some amps that had problems, so it is New In Box. The BB is a 92.5db rated speaker, so it is quieter than the 100db Veteran 30 from Warehouse Guitar Speakers or the 95db Celestion G12L-40H that is in my little cab now. According the Judy Box and the frequecy graf they have on their site, it has better lows and highs than the Celestion, but at a lower volume. The Celestion sounds good, but the lows are lacking and the highs are brittle..so we will see how this one stacks up against it.
(Try the search bar below and go look at the Judy Box amps, nice amps for the money...I think it will find them...Google ususaly does).
Let you know how it sounds.
Kirk

18 watt post 17

Hope I got the number right. Went to Home Depot yesterday and got a 10 foot 10" white pine board. Very tight grain, so it should do nicely. Will work on cutting and joining it this weekend, if not before.
Keep you posted.
k

Caffine...my brain is just slow

I am still struggling with the caffine thing. Not that I want it, gotta have it, etc....my brain just seems to be running slower. I play music as you know, and on sundays fast decisions when playing often are a struggle...remembering lead lines, etc...
I sit and think..."what was his name?" and get no answer from the terrabyte of storage between my ears....feels like i have molasses in there. Frustraiting...anyhows...hope it improves. Need more fish oil and ginko i guess...
k

18 watter at church again..more on caffine

Played the 18 watter at church again...my playing was much better this week. I mounted the 18watt on a board to keep folks from gettins shocked until I get a cab built. Love the sound..big full, even through my cheap cab. Now through the Vet 30 in my other cab...big mojo going on. The Celestion g12L-40H is a cheap speaker...less lows, smaller magnet...less db. All that is well and good for the church gig. If I play live somewhere else...use other cab.

Am going to Home Depot today to get boards to start on the cab with. Hope to work on it one night this week. Would love to get it cut out, finger jointed and then drilled this week. Then I can at least mount it in the box to use will I can work on it again. I would then do the stays to hold the front and back, then cut the front and back out and start working on the inlay for the front. Have a place to get faceplate material...so I need to go by there and get it and drill and mount it. Plan to get it engraved too. We shall see. May just get wood and do face plate first...
This is going to take a few weeks.

Still holdin out on no or low caffine...energy levels are ok...still not up to par yet...
k

school is almost here

My son is not looking forward to school starting....my 4 yr old is. My wife is ready so she can have a routine. I am ready, so things will settle down...
fun I guess.
Hope to grill tonight....swim a little and relax. Has been a long week.
Did get to see RUSH tuesday night in Atlanta...was a great show as always.
Playing the 18 watt again Sunday. May build a scratch cab to put it in until I can build a proper one...just don't want to get shocked or break the amp in the mean time.
kirk

18 watter at church...caffine again...

Amp did well at church. Sound was nice, my playing was off....had a brain lapse in the middle of one song and had to rethink what I was doing completely= not fun.
My mind is not thinking as fast on it's feet right now. Wonder how long it will be before my brain gets back up to speed? I hope soon. I have to be able to think to play.
Will be working on the cab later in the week...need something to put it in. Don't really want some kid going over there and shocking himself on all the DC voltage running around in there.