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New Guitar Day! (thelemmy.club)
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Finally managed to get my hands on my dream guitar. Upgrading from a 7 to an 8 string is a bit weird but easier than a 6 to a 7. Some specs for those interested:

  • Skeversen Shoggie 8
  • 26-28" 5-piece pau ferro & wenge neck, flame maple fretboard
  • European ash body, flame maple top wood
  • Bare Knuckle Juggernaut in the Bridge, BKP Cold Sweat in the Neck
  • Skervesen's "World Domination Mod" AKA coil split and "acoustic" switch

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[–] 9 points 5 months ago

This is the opposite side of the spectrum of what I like, but I still think it's cool AF.
Also Bare Knuckle is * chef's kiss*

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    [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I can barely deal with 6 man , that's crazy. Pretty though.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Bruv I've wanted headless 8 since I bought my 8-inline Agile 15 years ago. Jealous AF.

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's a lovely-looking instrument. How is it to play?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It plays great. One neat little thing it that the string spacing isn't fixed, it actually gets spread out more with the bass strings, to account for the string width

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I don't know anything about guitars, but that looks very cool!

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    [+] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I have a seven string, but I was sitting there chugging the other day and thinking "I could go lower...", and now I have a 5 string bass LMAO

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Beautiful. Congrats.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Wooo fancy shmanchy! Congrats, that looks nice.

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    1,2,3,4....wait a sec 5, 6 ,7? 8?! I've never played an 8 string. Whats the tuning?

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    i love the location of the tuning pegs. i'd look into something similar but i think i need the extra room for leverage with the bass.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    This is my first headless guitar and the more cramped tuners are definitely something I'll have to get used to

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    do you need a tuning key or do you cover your fingers with superglue first? that looks impossible

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Looks like there's this kind of thing for some guitars, but other ones don't have the grooves on the pegs for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    yeah, that's what i was thinking of. I can't think you could get the leverage to tune a bass without one of those keys. I've seen keyless pegs on headed basses, but i've never seen pegs on the other end like this so i just assumed they came with a key

    yeah, my bass was stolen that long ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, when I first got my bass, I took it to a repair shop and asked them to make the nut lower because the strings were way too high for my feeble forearm muscles. So I guess most bassists have good finger grip.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Apparently basses specifically benefit from the headless setup for better weight balance, and iirc got that treatment first.

    Edit: here it is:

    Furniture maker Ned Steinberger is often credited with pioneering headless designs in the early 1980s. Having already collaborated with Stuart Spector on the NS-2 bass guitar, Steinberger felt further improvements could be made. To address the common issue of "neck dive"—the tendency of bass guitars to tip forward due to their long, heavy necks—Steinberger decided on a novel solution: to move the tuners to the bridge and omit the headstock entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    dude. dude dude dude. my bass got stolen out of my storage locker years ago when i was only not homeless because of the couch surfing (they missed my saxophone somehow thank the gods the bass was a shitty 200 buck chinese johnson, they don't make saxes that cheap) i might go to the guitar store and check those out this weekend this is exciting

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    • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    That's awesome and a great looking guitar, congrats! I recently moved to a 26.5 7 strings three months ago and it's been great just exploring what's available, I did standard b for the first couple months but last restring I switched up to standard a and it's fun as hell.

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    [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I bet that thing could play the hell out of some Hector Villa Lobos songs.

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    • [–] -1 points 5 months ago

    that's not a knife

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    [+] -6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Dude, please don't use shortened links. Not cool

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    That's how I roll homie, I got terabytes of archives on the Internet Archive, many shortlinked like that.

    You don't trust it, that's understandable, but there's always the preview link to investigate first..

    https://preview.tinyurl.com/440cdtuner

    Which leads to this legit archived file I created long ago, full of 96 accurate WAV files to help tune musical instruments..

    http://web.archive.org/web/20220706014646if_/https://05.sendcdn.com/d/azyuob3o6gosj4l4pj3vzcv5y4pyqaipyz3gwy4uykaku2fgovypdqiipf3oywlrfrpkheik/440%20CD%20Tuner.zip

    Yeah it might look sketchy, but coming from me, I guarantee it isn't sketchy. It's just how I archived stuff when I didn't have enough hard drive space.

    Much more on the archive, but I ain't going there here. If you don't trust it, that's understandable, but I'd never put my username on the line like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    i get it, but like, usernames are disposable dude. if you decided to burn us with one link after building a reputation, this could be how you do it. shortened links are bad etiquette. especially when bookmarks exist.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Fair enough, I get you, but this username is older than GMail, it's been my username since like 2002 back in the Yahoo days, so I definitely ain't trying to burn anyone.

    Bookmarks? You mean like Internet Archive bookmarks? I don't have an Internet Archive account, I use their snapshot feature.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You press control d on the keyboard in Firefox

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's why I use tinyurl, easier to just remember stuff wherever I'm at rather than bust out my laptop, which honestly I haven't used bookmarks in many years since I started doing things this way now.

    I mostly use tinyurl for my own convenience, but it does make it easier to share links as well. I also don't have a tinyurl account, so once I've made a snapshot and a shortlink, it cannot be changed.

    Why do it that way with no account? To make sure there's no account for them to be able to ban if they ever find my games collection or anything else they wanna claim DMCA on.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    so, just so you know, it's very easy to highlight a link, copy it, paste it, and share it.

    it's why people despise tinyurl and other link shorteners. they are great ways to hide viruses. as it is your username is already burned just for using them.

    if you want to use them for your convenience, great, but for sharing, click through and give us the long link. and if you have a non-archived one that's better

    it's good etiquette. show's us you're not trying to hide things.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Its all good, I get it, you have no reason to trust hardly anyone online, and that's understandable. I picked the archive and tinyurl because they're amongst the oldest, longest standing sites on the internet, so while other sites come and go, the things I archive are about as close to permanent as can be these days.

    As easy as it is for me to copy/paste the whole link, it's actually even easier for others to just type in preview.tinyurl.com

    I figured people might actually know how to investigate shortlinks themselves, it's not difficult.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    no offense dude but maybe dial back on the unsolicited advice. I'm guessing the person who just bought a €3k 8-string guitar knows how to tune it.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I like tuning musical instruments though, is that inherently a bad thing? Kinda wish I had my hands on it myself, let OP tell me what notes to tune each string to for their playing pleasure, and I'd go at it and tune it up for them.

    Sorry but not sorry, I really appreciate musical instruments.

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