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Sean Tierney
Actor
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, Musician
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The 1960s were a time of experimentation and advancement. We went to the moon.
And some people just got high.
This spirit of trying new things was obviously a big part of the music of the 1960s. People like Jimi Hendrix redefined what guitars were capable of and what they sounded like.
But guitar builders were experimenting too.
A man named Dan Armstrong had a theory about electric guitars. He thought that i...Read more
This movie gave me a case.
I know what you’re thinking: “He said he wasn’t gonna review bad movies any more.”
True enough.
But I never said I was going to stop seeing them.
I was just going to see a lot
fewer of th...Read more
I watched this in April at the Dynasty. It was the other main instigator in my decision to scale back my viewing of movies I knew were going to suck.
I just recently noticed that this was released to DVD.
So here’s my PSA.
Lives in Flames/起勢搖滾, starring Mr., is as good as Mr.’s music.
How good is their music? They sound just as goo...Read more
I’ll tell you a fairy tale.
Once upon a time, the Pang Brothers made Bangkok Dangerous, a really great film.
That was a long time ago.
Danny Pang should be locked in a tower until his hair is long enough that some China investor can climb up to rescue him.
His
underarm hai...Read more
We’re into the home stretch.
I drilled for the bridge posts and drilled a small hole from the lower post hole into the control cavity for the ground wire.
I routed for the pickup, making the cavity deeper than normal. That’s because I used a ‘dummy coil’ under the pickup (a regular P-90 pickup with the magnets and polepieces removed) to reduce noise that single coil pickups (like p90s) have. I used a ‘push-pull’ pot as a way to switch the du...Read more
We’re working on the neck.
Down at the heel end, I needed to figure out how thick the neck needed to be. On a Les Paul, where the neck joins the body, the fretboard should be right at the top. Like this:
Since the mortise was already cut, I jus...Read more
90 minutes of my life I’ll never have back.
I watch every Wong Jing film, and sometimes my penance for that dedication is the watching itself.
I even went to the Grand at Elements to watch this turd. Because it was barely playi...Read more
It’s time to make a neck for this guitar. But there are a few things to take into consideration.
Les Paul necks were notorious for being weak at the point where the headstock meets the neck, because there isn’t much wood (thanks to the truss rod adjustment cavity) and because often the grain is horizontal instead of vertical.
We’re cutting out the body, right?
I used a jigsaw to cut the excess wood away, and then attached a template to the body.
I screwed it down in a place where I would be routing the pickup cavity anyway.
I made the template from a full-size drawing of a Les Paul. It’s slightly different than a Les Paul Junior; the Les Paul has a smooth transition from the cutaway to the neck, but the Junior doesn’t. You can see it here:Read more
So now the body blank was ready to be routed.
I made a template for the neck pocket, or, if we want to use the correct woodworking term, mortise. I used 1/2″ plywood that I found next to the dumpster.
I needed it to be 2 1/4″ wide with a square end. I didn’t need the corners to be sharp because the router bit is round.
Once...Read more
If we don't support the movies that deserve it, we get the movies that we deserve.
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