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2024 – Blog Post per “official”

Posted on February 11, 2024 9:01 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Ok, so I have neglected this blog long enough. I’m lazy. And the social media algorithms don’t lend themselves to blogs anymore. Or forums. Am I showing my age? My blog inspirations have also given up on any regular posting, so I don’t feel bad.

I’ve been considering a partial rewrite/opinion/comment piece to J Yuenger’s “So You Want to Be in A Band” – because I’m somewhat involved in a fairly popular/well considered local band in my local area now. SURPRISE! I wouldn’t have even considered it, except that I have absolutely absorbed J’s pieces and the entire band espouses it.

We’ll see. I get a bunch of traffic from guitar boards for the Robin stuff, and the Ibanez stuff. And pedal stuff, and guitar stuff and…..band stuff.

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1991 Robin Machete

Posted on July 2, 2022 2:31 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Dave Wintz of @robinguitars recently passed. I pulled out this “case queen” for a dust off and a small tribute to the wizardry of Dave’s creation. For such a weird body style, it plays like a dream and sounds absolutely magnificent. Even with the stress fracture (pre-me, that wasn’t my fault) it’s a solid, solid guitar. If I had to compare the sound to anything, it’s plucky and twangy like a telecaster. I’d love to try some of the other models, but they indeed are hard to come by. This one needs a refinish…… RIP Dave.

#RobinGuitars #DaveWintz #RobinMachete #HoustonTexas #MadeInTheUSA

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Deluxe Reverb Reissue – Surfypan Upgrade

Posted on June 26, 2022 10:44 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

First part of the clip is the onboard reverb tank at 5, second part of the clip is the reverb at 10.

A few caveats here – I’m not a professional. My original Accutronics pan was bad – like “broken” bad, not just “I don’t like it” bad. It was super shrill, I couldn’t get it past 3 and a half or 4. I used my Princeton Reverb reveb pan to troubleshoot it and figured out it was the pan. So I popped for a Surfybear Surfy Pan and it’s pretty killer.

My DRRI is a modded beast, gotten off ebay years ago – it’s got what I think is essentially a Deluxe Fromel mod kit on it (upgraded power output section, etc) and I upgraded the speaker to a Jupiter.

The MIC is a Sterling Audio condenser mic that I accidentally dropped about a month ago (oops) and this seemed to be a good reason to make sure it still worked.

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That guitar paint thing…

Posted on June 24, 2022 10:00 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

All issues with Sims Custom Paint Shop have been equitably resolved.

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Teisco Reissue – 1999

Posted on September 8, 2021 7:07 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Pic from Reverb

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J Mascis Jazzmaster (unknown year)

Posted on September 3, 2021 9:53 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Picture by Sweetwater

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Ya feel lucky, punk? Well, Do Ya?

Posted on March 17, 2021 12:26 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Out of curiosity I pulled my @ehx Big Muff out and checked out the circuit board – I somehow lucked out and have an EC3003-A! Stands to reason I guess, love @franofrantone (who designed it) . I actually had two Big Muffs and gave one to a friend. I picked this one because the knobs were kind of cool (the other had hockey puck, which could also be an EC3003 version). I found the e-mail from ebay when I bought it (November of 2009) – $50! The one I gave away I paid $35 for.

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Hallmark Swept Wing – Year Unknown

Posted on February 13, 2021 10:07 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

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The Cereal Killers

Posted on February 4, 2021 7:59 am by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

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Poison Ivy (The Cramps)

Posted on December 27, 2020 4:56 pm by The Thousand Yard Stare Comment

Guitar Player 2003 – Pic from Pinterest

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