{"id":358,"date":"2024-08-11T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2024-08-11T20:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T00:36:38","slug":"explorer-final-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"explorer final update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_0958-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_0958-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_0958-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_0958-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_0958.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>i think i kind of hate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>oh well, live and learn i suppose.  it doesn&#8217;t sound awful at least.  definitely needs some more setup, but since moving it in from the hot and humid garage back into my cool, air conditioned office, the neck is going all wonky.  so before i crank on that truss rod any further, i&#8217;m gonna let it chill for a couple days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i guess on the plus side, the tuners i got are fucking great.  and the pickups this thing came with, although not spectacular or anything, are perfectly serviceable.  pots and switch are kinda junk, but whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>here&#8217;s what it sounds like out the spark in my office into the blue snowball.  the last time i played this song is when i had my first explorer i think, so please, forgive the shoddy playing, i&#8217;m surprised i actually remembered the chords \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Recording-36.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>edit: so after playing around on this guitar all afternoon, making little adjustments here and there, it actually plays pretty good.  gave me an idea for a song too, so maybe i don&#8217;t hate it THAT much.  i&#8217;m not sure if i am accidentally copying something though, and of course this is not finished at all, just a rough idea at this point<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/dickitysix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Recording-41.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i think i kind of hate it. oh well, live and learn i suppose. it doesn&#8217;t sound awful at least. definitely needs some more setup, but since moving it in from the hot and humid garage back into my cool, air conditioned office, the neck is going all wonky. so before i crank on that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/?p=358\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">explorer final update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}