i still hate how that explorer came out, but i don’t hate what i learned in the process. so it’s time to try again, and this time make something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
after consulting someone who i suspect may have a slightly better eye for design than i do, the plan has been decided. SG style, cherry red stain, silver hardware… today i sourced and placed the first bits of part orders, so it’s happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i’m going to use the same locking tuners i put on the explorer, they were cheap AF and work amazing so far, so that’s a done deal. pickups… i would really like to go with P90s, but like the look of humbuckers better. so i gotta do some research on P90 style pickups in a humbucker format. i got time to get that sorted out though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i have an idea for a design element as well that i want to copy from Jacob Fink. the bass guitar he uses in the foster the people tiny desk has a quote from plato written on it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n i really like that quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n perhaps i know someone who has a knack for fancy hand writing or calligraphy and i could have them write it for me and then i could transpose that onto a decal or vinyl sticker or something. (hi a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i still hate how that explorer came out, but i don’t hate what i learned in the process. so it’s time to try again, and this time make something better. after consulting someone who i suspect may have a slightly better eye for design than i do, the plan has been decided. SG style, cherry … Continue reading if at first you don’t succeed<\/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-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocarrier.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}