I've got the greatest guitar of them all!

[John Watt]

reitze! You must be getting into the whole rock thing. You're looking a little surly.
When playing acoustic I tend to beat away on the body.
I've got a couple of friends who only let me play guitars I've worn already.
But you commenting about my comments about you making a drum pushed my idea.
How about a membrane built into a guitar top, like a drumskin?
It wouldn't be letting air transfer, so it might be acoustically inert.
You could have a half and half membrane so you have two drum tones.
And you could use an Energizer Rabbit as a alternative striker.

It's getting to the point where I think of Mark Weins' forums and the greatest guitar first.
Somehow I'm still thinking my semi-solid-body.
It might take a biking-jamming showdown to show who is the most versatile.
We'll have to make a route like a band on the road, only parking lots of Oriental buffets.
I'll distract the seabirds with my tremolo arm sounds while you set up.
And when I type cutting session, I'm not talking guitars at the side of the stage.
I'm talking cutting like John Deere used to do, before they closed and moved away.
That's lots and lots of cutting. I'll be sharpening my new invention, the headstock sythe.
Swinging on guitar to "St. Louis Swing", with a solo, should do a half acre lawn, very short.

 

[reitze]

dude. you're going to kill your left hand if you keep putting your pinky behind the neck. and get a metronome.
lessons are starting to pay off though. good work.

Thanks - that was unexpected! I kill my hands all the time but not playing guitar so much. Swiped it on the angle grinder a few days ago . Bar-cords test my endurance the most it seams - and that's improved since last fall (I think).

I've enjoyed 2 lessons but only now starting to feel anything improved - just now...as these scale-modes are starting to come through my hand rather than some memorization thing. Still figuring/sounding it out as I go but at least I'm finding fast ways to put it together mode by mode. Its taking longer than Id like though.

BTW, The ML is irresistible - like can't put it down! It's only 7.3 lbs sits on lap comfortable, full bridge access, and the speaker in my face is like John's point about the monitor speaker pointing at your face. Well at 5W it doesn't have to point up. Its louder than I choose as it is on the 1.5W switch (once in a while, especially clean 5W!).

reitze! You must be getting into the whole rock thing. You're looking a little surly.
When playing acoustic I tend to beat away on the body.
I've got a couple of friends who only let me play guitars I've worn already.
But you commenting about my comments about you making a drum pushed my idea.
How about a membrane built into a guitar top, like a drumskin?
It wouldn't be letting air transfer, so it might be acoustically inert.
You could have a half and half membrane so you have two drum tones.
And you could use an Energizer Rabbit as a alternative striker.

It's getting to the point where I think of Mark Weins' forums and the greatest guitar first.
Somehow I'm still thinking my semi-solid-body.
It might take a biking-jamming showdown to show who is the most versatile.
We'll have to make a route like a band on the road, only parking lots of Oriental buffets.
I'll distract the seabirds with my tremolo arm sounds while you set up.
And when I type cutting session, I'm not talking guitars at the side of the stage.
I'm talking cutting like John Deere used to do, before they closed and moved away.
That's lots and lots of cutting. I'll be sharpening my new invention, the headstock sythe.
Swinging on guitar to "St. Louis Swing", with a solo, should do a half acre lawn, very short.

Hi John,
IMHO you had the greatest guitars ever yet buit before I did and I look forward to the day someone does better. Maybe it'l become a cottege industry. At least we get the guitars we want.

I could put a listing up on ebay for $1M or offers. The extreme BIN price would get blogged all over... and sound-biten, we' could sell some ... especially if your body-styles got pre-mfg'd for amp-inserts, and then you finished them? Might be fun to see what we got... I get an interesting mix of comments on youtube too....

Here's some guitar drumming you seem to like in concept. Its with my ol Carlos 24QK that I bought from a deaf guy in 1986:

most of the guitar-drumming is after 1:40. Holy cow I was a lot heavier in that video (eg compared to the more recent above).

reitze! For some reason I was worried about whether I'd hear from you again.
Some trucker could be distracted by the small-screen movie player he's got,
and it could actually be the scene where Peter Fonda gets run off the road,
and he'll plow into you, by accident or intent will never be determined.
Or would "The Zabrisky Point" have been a better reference?

Here's a new photo showing where my re-painting is.

My ebay'd guitar arrived:

I'm very happy with it as I played it into the ML's amp for most of the evening. Its rather awkward to hold onto it till you kearn to shove the rod up your a...

 

[John Watt]

Once again I'm thinking Mark Wein forums, wanting to look at the best guitar in the world,
and when I clicked "reitze" for last post I see a picture of my guitar.
This is very moving, moving my guitar into your thread is working out.
It wasn't working this afternoon.
I saw this woman smiling a lot like she was singing a happy song to herself,
so I asked her what's happening and she said I'm singing a reitze tune,
and when I go home I'll use the custom lawnmower as a mixer in the outdoor fish pool.
We're expecting a lot of guests.
I thought she was putting me on, but she drove away in a car with a clothesline on it.
She even had a few reitze t-shirts flapping away.
How come I never get invited to upscale bathtub parties?

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

i hope that makes sense to you, John. because i have no idea what you just said.

 

[John Watt]

Oh! I was thinking of looking at Mark Wein's forums to see the thread "I've Got the Best Guitar in the World" by reitze, and when I do I see the name reitze as just posting there so I click right away and see a photo of my semi-solid-body, an attachment I used before that reitze reposted big. So I thought that was a good sign, seeing a photo of my guitar first in a Best Guitar thread. Typing after that, reality so far, might reflect life when Reitze's Way occupies everyones' minds more than the said so far reality.

...but... but.. don't look at too many reitze anythings...
once you'll be living like it's life like it's your life,
and then reitze's secret Tesla online array, plus a follow-up encoder-decoder,
will coalesce around your brain, and your senses will expand into the atmosphere,
until you're in the same thread that started in Hollywood with the cast of Star Trek,
that thread that spun around the universes from the reaches of our imaginations,
the one that brought Captain Kirk together with Picard. reitze can do that for you.

I just came here to say I saw a name of a product in another thread, Subtle Butt.
If I had to name my sandwich seat, yeah... Subtle Butt.

 

[John Watt]

shh! Is reitze around? I'm trying to post twice in a row in reitze's best guitar in the world.
My guitar would rather be seen here than my own thread.
I just finished painting the band of tan around the sides. Lots of touchups.
But that's okay. Touchups are easy.

 

[John Watt]

reitze! I just wanted to let you know that your guitars have been featured three times so far,
in a "the lounge" thread called "post a picture of the most beautiful guitar in the world, for you".
Yes, I know the teasing and taunting, okay, outright ridicule too, but still, they are there.
You might want to present a better transposed picture.
I hope you're having a good ride somewhere.

 

[reitze]

shh! Is reitze around? I'm trying to post twice in a row in reitze's best guitar in the world.
My guitar would rather be seen here than my own thread.
I just finished painting the band of tan around the sides. Lots of touchups.
But that's okay. Touchups are easy.

All I do on your "attach" is convert them to {IMG} and {/IMG} from their links.

reitze! I just wanted to let you know that your guitars have been featured three times so far,
in a "the lounge" thread called "post a picture of the most beautiful guitar in the world, for you".
Yes, I know the teasing and taunting, okay, outright ridicule too, but still, they are there.
You might want to present a better transposed picture.
I hope you're having a good ride somewhere.

lol, hi John.

I had a nice ride yesterday but today was total downpour rain.

IMHO, even if my guitars were beauty-painted they'd still be teased as ugly by many who do not (in many cases yet) appreciate their benefits. Like your semi-solid body guitars have a unique sound capability that would only be appreciated by guitarists who enjoy that sound and feel (like we both do (electrified acoustic)).

So "The lounge" sounds like it a fun read. Obviously I'm not as concerned about the public specical any more... Now that I built them based on your semi-solids and achieved awsom sound-capabilities I'd never enjoyed before... The world will someday appreciate us John... Meanwhile I think we can simply appreciate that this world gave us basic guitar technology to start from. By the way, here's a pic of my travel buddies:

 

[John Watt]

reitze! I know what you mean by beauty painted. That's not where I'm at with my guitar.
It's funny what I think will look good with what I've got and can do.
I guess I'm more conservative than I thought with guitars, thinking purfling and stripes.
It's just a finish, the wood is the real showpiece. I still like looking at the grain.

yeah... I guess I'm looking at it as more of a graphic arts application, not artwork.
Looking at your last picture got me thinking that way,
seeing the sound-hole on your black, self-amplified-electrified-acoustic.
It's too much of a contrast with what you've built, all the electronics,
but you still see the acoustic sound-hole, now looking a little raggedy.
I'd paint around inside there to tone down the appearance, maybe a carbon gray.
If I picked a color I'd go darker blue, almost off-black.
Too bad sign vinyl won't stick to bare wood for long, if at all, unless you add a finish.
Then you could take $1 worth of holographic laser-cut vinyl and push it in like a damp rag,
smooth it out and have something that would startle the eyes.
Since you gave me some advice about {IMG} and {/IMG}, not that I'm sure,
here's a scan of an Avery Graphics sign vinyl color chart, the specialty page.
Look at the three different kinds of camouflage.
You might need that if you're riding and jamming when a Mark Wein tour bus goes by.

It's Friday night, a time of celebration for most, the end of a work week.
But I'm sitting here typing in between working on my guitar, and that's not being with friends.
So let me share a little inventive disappointment, show you I'm not as smart as I like to think.
You know how vinyl lettering caught on, computer-cut artwork.
You can imagine car salesmen, no more wiping on prices with shoe polish,
or getting a sign guy to paint them with stuff they can scrape off with razor blades,
or wash off with another chemical. Vinyl letters you can stick and pull off, maybe reuse?
That was early eighties for me, but just think, MacTac was out there already.
I could have been cutting it myself, what I do with computer vinyl, and been ahead of my time.
Just doing car lots would have took off like crazy. Of course everyone will think I can do that,
but they don't have years of hand lettering to guide them,
or all the alphabets and numbers of stencils that have built up over the years.
So I would have been cleaning up until some other brush pusher decided, okay,
paint isn't a religion and I'm going to start cutting and sticking and peeling.
That would have been real sign excitement, but did I think of it?
And how many times did I remove MacTac or help stick the stained glass on, all residential?
And I never thought commercial? Ow! That still hurts.
I should stick some vinyl on my chest hair and pull it off fast, just to suffer.
Sooner or later vinyl will engender the same fanatacism that paint did,
and I'll become a vinyl monk, living behind computer cutters and rolls of stock,
covering my face with a vinyl mask, sticking upon sticking to illuminate video covers,
my only earthly pleasure being going out to ride and jam on my reit-cycle.
Look Jimi! No hands! And that's handlebars too!

 

[reitze]

reitze! I know what you mean by beauty painted. That's not where I'm at with my guitar.
It's funny what I think will look good with what I've got and can do.
I guess I'm more conservative than I thought with guitars, thinking purfling and stripes.
It's just a finish, the wood is the real showpiece. I still like looking at the grain.

yeah... I guess I'm looking at it as more of a graphic arts application, not artwork.
Looking at your last picture got me thinking that way,
seeing the sound-hole on your black, self-amplified-electrified-acoustic.
It's too much of a contrast with what you've built, all the electronics,
but you still see the acoustic sound-hole, now looking a little raggedy.
I'd paint around inside there to tone down the appearance, maybe a carbon gray.
If I picked a color I'd go darker blue, almost off-black.
Too bad sign vinyl won't stick to bare wood for long, if at all, unless you add a finish.
Then you could take $1 worth of holographic laser-cut vinyl and push it in like a damp rag,
smooth it out and have something that would startle the eyes.
Since you gave me some advice about {IMG} and {/IMG}, not that I'm sure,
here's a scan of an Avery Graphics sign vinyl color chart, the specialty page.
Look at the three different kinds of camouflage.
You might need that if you're riding and jamming when a Mark Wein tour bus goes by.

It's Friday night, a time of celebration for most, the end of a work week.
But I'm sitting here typing in between working on my guitar, and that's not being with friends.
So let me share a little inventive disappointment, show you I'm not as smart as I like to think.
You know how vinyl lettering caught on, computer-cut artwork.
You can imagine car salesmen, no more wiping on prices with shoe polish,
or getting a sign guy to paint them with stuff they can scrape off with razor blades,
or wash off with another chemical. Vinyl letters you can stick and pull off, maybe reuse?
That was early eighties for me, but just think, MacTac was out there already.
I could have been cutting it myself, what I do with computer vinyl, and been ahead of my time.
Just doing car lots would have took off like crazy. Of course everyone will think I can do that,
but they don't have years of hand lettering to guide them,
or all the alphabets and numbers of stencils that have built up over the years.
So I would have been cleaning up until some other brush pusher decided, okay,
paint isn't a religion and I'm going to start cutting and sticking and peeling.
That would have been real sign excitement, but did I think of it?
And how many times did I remove MacTac or help stick the stained glass on, all residential?
And I never thought commercial? Ow! That still hurts.
I should stick some vinyl on my chest hair and pull it off fast, just to suffer.
Sooner or later vinyl will engender the same fanatacism that paint did,
and I'll become a vinyl monk, living behind computer cutters and rolls of stock,
covering my face with a vinyl mask, sticking upon sticking to illuminate video covers,
my only earthly pleasure being going out to ride and jam on my reit-cycle.
Look Jimi! No hands! And that's handlebars too!


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LOL. yea there's a lot of form over function these days. Even Steve Jobs got caught putting the pretty-factor over the necessary function. Anyway... the sound hole being wide-open is just because I've not yet closed it. I have the black-lucite covering that came off the refridgerator door (looks as shinny black as the original guitar). So I'm thinking I will cut a piece of that to fit front and back. Maybe even some light or something- then ya think it would be appreciated as pretty? nah. but it's the best playing guitar under 8lbs I've ever experienced. It even doubles for a boom box or an amp for that guitar-stick.

 

[John Watt]

You must be up late tonight, reitze.
I'm getting ready to sand my guitar and paint a little, something to dry overnight,
but what you typed about your black guitar being an amp for your non-Steinberger guitar,
got me going. If you got a wireless for the stick I could pedal along and jam with you.
And that's got to be the lead guitar.
I can see myself singing "Whole Lotta Love" and rubbing it across the ape-hangers.
We could aim some drive-by songs at Help!I'maRock! when he's outside mowing his lawn.
He won't have a mower-duck blind to hide behind.

I'm not into looking up or finding or researching or meeting or investigating online.
That might make me seem lazy or not caring. So I don't know where you're from.
But is there any chance you could attend Mark Wein's celebration party?
Just askin'. I don't know where he's from either.
Everyone should come to Niagara Falls and sample some local electricity.
The forty foot left-handed Les Paul sign the Hard Rock Cafe has would be a good photo backdrop.
You could bring in your own portable generators and turn the stage on in the gardens,
and start playing in front of The Falls, and get everyone throwing silver at you.
I know, I know, I'd be caught necking behind the Tesla statue.

I gotta go. Now I want to ride my bike through Niagara Falls. It's been over two weeks.

 

[John Watt]

reitze, and fellow self-amplified-electrified-acoustics and semi-solid-body converts,
I made a little video, 2 minutes and 20 seconds, to show off this MINWAX product.

I don't understand how to embed a video, if you have further advice,
so this is the link to "My Channel" at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnwattdotca

 

[reitze]

You must be up late tonight, reitze.
I'm getting ready to sand my guitar and paint a little, something to dry overnight,
but what you typed about your black guitar being an amp for your non-Steinberger guitar,
got me going. If you got a wireless for the stick I could pedal along and jam with you.
And that's got to be the lead guitar.
I can see myself singing "Whole Lotta Love" and rubbing it across the ape-hangers.
We could aim some drive-by songs at Help!I'maRock! when he's outside mowing his lawn.
He won't have a mower-duck blind to hide behind.

I'm not into looking up or finding or researching or meeting or investigating online.
That might make me seem lazy or not caring. So I don't know where you're from.
But is there any chance you could attend Mark Wein's celebration party?
Just askin'. I don't know where he's from either.
Everyone should come to Niagara Falls and sample some local electricity.
The forty foot left-handed Les Paul sign the Hard Rock Cafe has would be a good photo backdrop.
You could bring in your own portable generators and turn the stage on in the gardens,
and start playing in front of The Falls, and get everyone throwing silver at you.
I know, I know, I'd be caught necking behind the Tesla statue.

I gotta go. Now I want to ride my bike through Niagara Falls. It's been over two weeks.

Hi John, I'm in Syracuse NY, Mark appears to be in California, and everyone else seems spread all over. BTW, I'm also a fan of Tesla - sorry I missed that thread I would have enjoyed it.

reitze, and fellow self-amplified-electrified-acoustics and semi-solid-body converts,
I made a little video, 2 minutes and 20 seconds, to show off this MINWAX product.

I don't understand how to embed a video, if you have further advice,
so this is the link to "My Channel" at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/johnwattdotca

The film-strip icon inserts a video like an attachment but the old {YOUTUBE}{video#}{/YOUTUBE} tagging still works - and is the way to go. For example, the video with your recent finishing work adding the minxax _____:


I missed the name of the stuff and also don't know how it fits it the bigger picture of what total set of layers in finishing. And who knows I might actually try to do it with some future guitar project or even some other household item-finish. If I ever get to the point where it plays and was built without any major blems... would care more if I were perfecting a theme like you are with the semi-solids.

BTW what a laugh when I opened the video directly the side-bar was full of babies being fed "Semi Solid Food". At first I thought they were yours. LOL

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I'm also a fan of Tesla

you're an engineer. aren't you required to build an altar and pray to him twice daily?

 

[John Watt]

reitze! That thread about Tesla caught three of four weak replies and sank. I took some night-time photos and this one close-up, as if Tesla was aiming his cane at you, like he's trying to draw out your electricity and come back to life, is the only one that's worth looking at.

Thank you again for more online advice. I'll be trying that next.

Syracuse? My 1963 "Canadian Oxford School Atlas" is sitting right here, and despite the index barely covering countries and capitals, most of them changed, Syracuse is in there. Looking at the map, you live maybe five times the distance I've gone on my longest bike-hikes, looking at you past Buffalo.

I have to ask? Have you ever been to Palmira to see the Mormon pageant?
While I consider The Book of Mormon to be one of the books revealed in the latter days,
just like The Dead Sea Scrolls and other books, with Israel becoming a political state again,
I'm not trying to interest you in attendance.
But if you've never seen that show, your whole family will get into it.
First of all, you're sitting in the bottom of a valley, looking up at the side of a huge hill.
The sound system is all over with technicians at the back with mixers.
The wires up in the sky over the hill, that you can't after the sun sets,
are a total surprise, Jesus coming down from the skies.
And when the skies come down and the earth quakes, they must have deep sensurround.
At times, on a stage that goes up the hill, there are over 4,000 people there,
making it look like a city. Incredible! That goes on every day for a week. Free.
Free parking. Free tours. Lots of free people to talk to and lots of free literature.
Your soul can be saved, but just as an adjunct to the life of Jesus and The Holy Bible.
My view. Hey! It's Sunday. There were rumors Donny Osmond was onstage.
I was there over ten years ago, and it's such a beautiful night I'd go back any time.

I want to do something decorative with my guitar, carving the horn like an orca tooth scrimshaw,
painting it like a feather, or using a band of Haida graphics around the side.
I've got a book of their symbols and how to use them.

Let me thank you for your expansive presence here. It sets me free, enjoying myself.

Yawn! Oh my, I'm yawning. Time to go back to embedding.

as always, John Watt

 

[John Watt]

And just in case anyone thinks I'm out of this thread loop, when I was here first today, I am.
reitze and Help!I'maRock! both posted before I got back from reading page five.
So I don't need to try embedding that video here. At least I think that happened.

And I know I used the Tesla photo in this thread already.
Sooner or later, I'll have a pic of my guitar hanging around his neck.

 

[reitze]

reitze! That thread about Tesla caught three of four weak replies and sank. I took some night-time photos and this one close-up, as if Tesla was aiming his cane at you, like he's trying to draw out your electricity and come back to life, is the only one that's worth looking at.

Thank you again for more online advice. I'll be trying that next.

Syracuse? My 1963 "Canadian Oxford School Atlas" is sitting right here, and despite the index barely covering countries and capitals, most of them changed, Syracuse is in there. Looking at the map, you live maybe five times the distance I've gone on my longest bike-hikes, looking at you past Buffalo.

I have to ask? Have you ever been to Palmira to see the Mormon pageant?
While I consider The Book of Mormon to be one of the books revealed in the latter days,
just like The Dead Sea Scrolls and other books, with Israel becoming a political state again,
I'm not trying to interest you in attendance.
But if you've never seen that show, your whole family will get into it.
First of all, you're sitting in the bottom of a valley, looking up at the side of a huge hill.
The sound system is all over with technicians at the back with mixers.
The wires up in the sky over the hill, that you can't after the sun sets,
are a total surprise, Jesus coming down from the skies.
And when the skies come down and the earth quakes, they must have deep sensurround.
At times, on a stage that goes up the hill, there are over 4,000 people there,
making it look like a city. Incredible! That goes on every day for a week. Free.
Free parking. Free tours. Lots of free people to talk to and lots of free literature.
Your soul can be saved, but just as an adjunct to the life of Jesus and The Holy Bible.
My view. Hey! It's Sunday. There were rumors Donny Osmond was onstage.
I was there over ten years ago, and it's such a beautiful night I'd go back any time.

I want to do something decorative with my guitar, carving the horn like an orca tooth scrimshaw,
painting it like a feather, or using a band of Haida graphics around the side.
I've got a book of their symbols and how to use them.

Let me thank you for your expansive presence here. It sets me free, enjoying myself.

Yawn! Oh my, I'm yawning. Time to go back to embedding.

as always, John Watt

Hi John. Yea I've seen the Mormon pageant at Palmira and yes it was impressive. And I like that they support truth exploration outside their own immediate doctrine. That means they'd be open to technology improvements. Started reading an interesting book about paradigm shifting and how people only gage what the interpret according to what they already know. So something new (like Semi Solid or Powered up) is met with a "why bother" from most who don't realize what the benefits can be.

And just in case anyone thinks I'm out of this thread loop, when I was here first today, I am.
reitze and Help!I'maRock! both posted before I got back from reading page five.
So I don't need to try embedding that video here. At least I think that happened.

And I know I used the Tesla photo in this thread already.
Sooner or later, I'll have a pic of my guitar hanging around his neck.

If you ride your bike all they way here from Buffalo even as near as that... that's amazing. BTW, my 25 mile ride to the Nationals I had stated BS about the 72 mile Rule Of Thumb range for my 18AH 48V battery setup. Well here's another take on it.

Once someone starts riding a electric bike like mine and gets used to >20mph then even if you can go another 50 miles on electricity at slower speeds while peddling along - that's like rating peak power instead of rms power in that my interest is how far can I go on full power. IMHO for 48V 1000W 18AH is good for about 10 miles on full power or 20 miles on 1/2 power - with mild hill-ishness (not taking on the big ones of SYR - that's for sure). Not that it can't help me up a big hill either. It can - but as you can see unless all the parameters get specified these become relative assessments rather than specs. Specs are simply the 48V, 18AH, 1000W.

Specs for Ideal Guitar (The best yet performance achieved by the ML in it's ugly state)
- Acoustic-portability (1 object of equal or better portability to an "ordinary acoustic")
- Audio-Power To Weight Ratio - (ML is 7.3 lbs w/ VOX DA5 with 5W, the Semi-Solids are ~12 lbs and justified by the better sound options)
- Battery Life - >> 10 hrs (the ML achieves that with 6 AAs. Going to 6 Cs adds 1/2 lbs for ~ 3x life)
- Playable Guitar (24.75 or bigger (real guitar, not a toy-sized neck))
- Desired Sound Options (acoustic guitars represent a baseline in playable-portable. Top end is modeled or tube amp for top-end tone)
- Appearance (I'm still a little at odds including this concept but John's semi-solids offer the standard here IMHO)

 

[John Watt]

reitze! I might not have much to say, but that's a good decision.
The complexity and disparities of your array is a high-tech level I canna operate at.
So rather than let some fountain of font flow fearlessly forward, I cogitated. I rethought.
I kept thinking about it. All of your postings on this page, the videos and photos,
not a total or in-depth viewing, just enough to feel over-loaded.

The only solution for my empirical woes online, and what should be your actual presence,
is for you to change your user name. That's right! It can only be a good thing.
First of all, for me, I can stop thinking about reitze and living up to reitze's lifestyle.
We could finesse your new user name by condensing the best of reitze so far,
while conjoining on a new thought process between us for a new forums attitude.
Of course, I'll be catching free how-to's from you, probably for all the time.
And you'll be letting me ride your bike and play your guitars, and letting me eat from your garden.

The best advancement for you would be getting a more user-friendly name.
Look how many replies you got from me, and I've never come up with a good play on your name.
I typed "Reitze's Way" once, a play off the now unused American slogan "The Right Way".
But reet zee, that's like tse-tse flies more than anything else. That's a bad bad buzz.
And even using it for "Reitze's Way" didn't ring true, seeing the lower case R changed to upper.

I'm not going to begin thinking I could make up a user name for you.
You're handling 1000 Watts and I've never done that.
I got to stand in a generating room and hold my hand against a generator shaft in Niagara Falls,
while it was moving, but that's different, very different.

Some of your social precepts, no matter what an orderly and self-sustainable system you propose,
could be considered reactionary to your present government. That's not wise for me to comment on.
We are on different sides of the same border,
and that includes looking with "just use Canadian online" or "everywhere".

Mark Wein's forums just hit a new low. Canadian enthusiasm... once it starts...

Professor Marshall McCluhan's books are the source for The Global Village consciousness,
of the truth, of mankind and societies.
What he described is more than happening and what he said would happen looks like it will.
The Media is The Message outlined the instensification of electronics and electronic societies,
and what the effects would be, describing moving societies of poor workers and non-legal citizens.
The solutions are simple, but the global corporate elite knows no country loyalty.
Your new president seems to display an appropriate amount of deferral with foreign dignitaries.
The other big difference as a Canadian watching Canadian news coverage of The States,
is the fact I'm seeing more of him than just what others are presenting.
I feel like I know him. He's not just a distant figure waving at you, caught deplaning.

While I commented a little negatively about revealing your social precepts,
you might not appreciate political commentary from me. Politics is it's own bag.

I feel very good. I always do on Sundays.
They way I was brought up, and how I've always used Sunday being Sunday as an excuse,
it's nice to know that no matter what happens, if I can make it to Sunday I'll feel real good.
Someone once looked down and thought this world was good. Not any more.
But I don't want to give away my concept for using the new negativity of our global ionisphere,
for a looking to be eternal power source, even if it starts turning the sun into a black hole.

I hope you consider what I've typed as much as I considered before I typed it.
Too bad we're not friends in corporal reality. We could share a user name and passwords,
and double our semi-promotional efforts.

and please, reitze, you don't have to keep blue-batching my narratives and photos as for reference.
That's a lot of waste of field space,
and only duplicates the power cost and capacity for domain maintenance.
I like my link to "My Channel" at YouTube.
It stands out, turns blue, and the screen is bigger than embedded.
And it's always loaded in the mouse, ready to go.

 

[reitze]

you're an engineer. aren't you required to build an altar and pray to him twice daily?

I respect other engineers and scientists and especially appreciate the ones who share great advancements, most often that includes them taking political risks to share truthful observations that don't support main-stream views. Power Guitars are just an exercise in the world of engineering where the engineer (me) gets to experience the difficult domains of branding and public acceptance (remember beta lost to the inferior VHS - due to a lot of non-engineering domain factors)

reitze! I might not have much to say, but that's a good decision.
The complexity and disparities of your array is a high-tech level ...
...
The only solution for my empirical woes online, and what should be your actual presence, is for you to change your user name. That's right! It can only be a good thing...

Hi John,
You can call me Elliott or Elliott Dean if you like. And yea it's Reitz pronounced like the things we're entitled too rights. The last letter is just the first initial and occupies that name-space for me on the internet. I also occupy other name-spaces such as my name-space on Facebook and so-on. Easiest to reach me is via my private domain: www.edans.org.

By the way I don't think I "out-did" you as much as took what you had designed to a new level. That's like you did by taking hollow and solid bodies and putting them together. You have the engineering spirit John and that's good for enjoying new technical things. Further I would love to add an amp into one of your guitar-builds and that WOULD be the BEST YET. Dream on man!

 

[John Watt]

I'm glad you're not freaking on me saying change your name, and mispronouncing it,
but if you're willing to be Elliott and/or Elliott Dean, let's take it further.
I'm not trying to wrap you like a character actor changing personalities.
I want a whole new approach, from the heart of your inventive nature onward.
It's not going to be easy, a combination of build, pedal and play, with the cinematic.

Seeing your private domain reinforced my concept of recreating you.
What you've got online is already like two personalities.
The serious, suited professional, and the casual pedal player.
We need a persona where the engineering expertise is a given.
That's what got you there.
It's the music and bicycle traveling that will break you out.

Not necessarily a uniform, you need clothing that defines a new image.
This wouldn't be anything to wear riding the bicycle, where comfort is where it's at.
But the bicycle wear and the persona wear should be the same style and colors.
The persona wear would be your video image, what's comfortable playing guitar or welding.

I like your formal look, and that's why I'm thinking you'd get into semi-formal easily.
What about a hoodie, not loose? They'll always be in. Graphics are expected on those,
just not the kind of almost blueprint and drafting artwork that engineers like to work with.
That's impressive, the knowledge to be that, and the well-engineered layout of your graphics.
You could incorporate a welder's face shield into the front of the hoodie, always ready.
I'd sew layers of bunched up ShamWows up the arms like some Mad Max padding.
That would pump up the visuals while providing a sweat absorber, playing and pedaling,
and it could absorb other unexpected moisture, like rain, bird droppings or liquids tossed by passerby.

Not ShamWow, but the same look and color, you could add the padding to your legs.
This would continue the warrior look and provide protection from stones,
and if your battery runs out and you have to hike through fields to find a socket,
they'd be shin guards against deer ticks and brambles.
You'd also look ready for a game of cricket. I see that coming on strong.
Soccer might be a worldwide craze, but it's not huge in your America.
Cricket is more like baseball, and the action is still focussed on the ball, like football too.
So carrying a cricket bat like a strapped on shotgun would add an athletic prop,
and give you a weapon to use. But even more than that, it would at to your reputation.
You could be known as riding along and using your bat to swat road kill off to the side.
Everyone would love you for that, and after you develop your swatting technique,
you'll be ready to handle the first pitch at major league games.
The crowd might be set up to expect you to use a signature bat,
especially since you'll be approached by the Hall of Fame, offering you any bat you want.
But when you pull out the cricket bat, your swatter, and sending the ball sailing, the crowd roars.

It's not going to be easy coming up with a very original name.
Referencing computers by having an adapted user name sounds good.
But you're on the road riding, a big part of your personal.
So using license plate slang might be fitting, or make a hybrid of both.
"pickUupL8r" looks good, even if it's not a birth name.
Your music would pick people up, your bike could pick people up,
swatting off road kill is another version of picking up.
This must be an excellent template of persona to be so easily developed.

Nah, that could be seen as too suggestive, and isn't warm enough for your new persona.
This needs more input from you.
Elliot starts with Ell, which could be ell, a construction term. So there's ell
ell10... that's not bad, elton, it's a name with star association already,
even if I'm reminded of Eldon slot cars.
ell10gone.. I like that. Sooner or later you'll be riding away,
the sound of your self-amplified-electric-acoustic fading in the distance.
And being gone, while having "missing you" connotations, has hip-hop inferences,
even going back to Chet Baker and being really gone.
No, that still works online. Almost everyone isn't going to understand your profession,
so them being not all there makes you a partial attraction, almost gone.
ell10gone4U, nah, it takes away from being a name, unless you think it's going somewhere.
ell10gon, yeah, it's still a name but has more of a user name thing, losing the real word.
ell10gon. I've typed a lot, and this looks good, so I'll leave it here to see what you think.
Yeah, being a 10 is a good thing too, like Bo Derek, or 10 out of ten. This gets better.

I'm not sure if this is the drollest, most laconic stretch of semi-comedy I've ever typed,
or if I'm serious. Until I have my sidekick outfit I won't know for sure.
And this isn't even talking about a helmet. They're legal for bikes in Ontario now.

My bicycle. I've got to clean it up before I take some pictures.
ell10 4chun, Elton Fortune. It rhymes. That's it, at least in my eyes.
I'd have to take a break and get away from this if I want another option.
But I'll wait to see what you think. I feel pushy with it.

I'm retro-multi-tasking right now, typing on the computer between spoonfuls,
and taping songs off the radio with my vintage "Studio Standard by Fishman",
a portable stereo a friend just gave me. He lost the antenna.
It's got "sequential play" and "synchro dubbing" that work excellently.

My name should be L8D8 withF8, late date with fate.
stringUup L8r, that sounds sidekicky, stringing you up,
stringing everyone else along, strung up and strung out,
string theory, all with the you to make it personal,
and L8r just me being me, always late and later.
But you're ell10, I could use e and l to start and be E-L8ed D8ing. Oh yeah!
I could make the eights into female figures. I'd line up the groupies on the road.
You wouldn't have to bother yourself with that. I'd send the best ones over to you.

I hope this doesn't worm into your brain and interfere with your thought processes.

I'm editing to say I'm surprised this went through. I've exceeded character limits before, as always.