semi-solid-body

John Watt

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This video was first manufactured by a master photographer I hired over four years ago.
He obviously didn't like John Watt, protest mayoral candidate,
because he used a cassette format only his computer expert son could work with.
I paid to have him upload it to YouTube, and a non-stop wave of attention followed.
Criminal, public and personal events prevented me from refinishing this guitar to play it.
I recently paid Jtec Central (new supporters) to recode it so I could use it.

Magle.dk represents the best of online music and forum participation, for me,
and is my international debut for all of my musical output.
I hope to post pictures of the semi-solid-body as I work on it,
to document my final progress and create an interesting thread.
Could I be building johnwatt.ca this way? Sure! But that's promotional.
Typing here gets emotional, and feels symphonic, not waving the baton,
but waving the mouse around.
The first video was deleted offline over three years ago,
and what happened then was international excitement and very inviting for me.
And if I can redefine rock and play, May All Music Again Flow Through Me.

http://youtu.be/qP551D9DdA0

This is a few seconds over nine minutes.
Getting the video recoded did affect the horizontal.
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John Watt

Member
teddy! That was fast! I just left to upload photos for my next new thread.
The guitar was finished enough to look good in videos, and as a patentable model,
but in real life it was sloppy.
I'm painting the edges, not wanting to spend a couple of years getting into purfling.
A purfling edge would also be too sharp and linear, taking away from arm rests and movements.
Thank you for your very considerate interest.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Have you been able to string it yet John so you can test the sounds?

teddy
 
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John Watt

Member
teddy! I jammed with my best bassist and drummer on Sundays in my sign shop for two months,
in Port Colborne, working out the guitar as I was building it, and it kept getting better.
We also drew a crowd of people in cars and on bikes, sometimes over twenty, sitting outside the truck door, listening,
and asking me to plug their guitar in to see how it worked through my amp system, something else I was putting together.
Too much criminal activity against me has prevented me from getting back into it, until now.
The neck rod was cranked over until it was so tight it squeaked, bending the neck, making it unplayable.
It's a good thing I didn't have a Fender truss rod, adjustable one way, but a Martin, a double action rod system,
so I could gradually loosen it and use weights and humidity to bend the neck back.
I paid $80 for the ebony, picking it out myself,
and $240 to have a two octave, 24 fret short scale, slanted lefty, built over my long scale, 21 fret neck.
I don't want to lose that.

And, EddieRUKiddingVare, if you can type "very interesting", considering your creativity and Aussieness,
that's saying it all.
It is strange being able to play the second octave above the 12th fret more easily than the first.
If there's one thing I'd like to you experience about this guitar, that's it.
 

John Watt

Member
Yeah! Thanks for the enthusiasm, but,
just as I was going to take new photos and continue building,
I got far away from online, gone for over twelve days.
Not even one note was played, yes, it was that sad and forlorn.
Dramatic? Probably not for anyone else.
Don't worry. I worried enough for all of us.
 

John Watt

Member
Thank you musicchambernet!
This thread hasn't built as much as I wanted to, getting away from my guitar,
but everything is slowly working out.
I want to redefine rock and become a symphonic-electric musician.
If, after putting up videos of me playing it,
I get called an electric guitar virtuoso, my life will be complete. Almost.
 

John Watt

Member
Yeah, I began this in June, 2013, and now I'm back, beginning again, in May, 2014.
I'm excited to be back and continue with everything new I am since then,
as I explained in the new member section.
I bought a lot of batteries for my little camera, so be forewarned, I'm singing again,
and it's not in the choir.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
John. Good to see you back, we were worried that you had been eaten by a bear on one of your cycle forays

teddy
 
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John Watt

Member
teddy! I was attacked by a big, male Canada goose on my last bike-hike.
I startled a female on a nest and backtracked on a long concrete canal barrier,
and when I got going back up on the path this bird came after me for about a hundred feet.
I went off the path, my back wheel got stuck, and I went flying. I do live for wildlife like that.
The last bear in Ontario was shot over 150 years ago.
 
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John Watt

Member
I accidentally cut one of a pair of 1972 DiMarzio Fat Strats, my pickups since then,
getting back to my semi-solid-body after almost five years, refinishing it.
That still hurts.

When I use Kijiji, pretending to be looking or selling with my semi-solid-body,
it's more about being a Facebook substitute.
I can get over 300 views with no replies, and friends will phone to see Watt's happening.

http://www.kijiji.ca/v-guitar/st-ca...ingle-coil-pickups/1164617184?src=topAdSearch
 
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