Mark-B
Experienced
Ok now you're exaggerating....
Nuh-uh! ...then ...it took me ten months to figure out that the pointy-bit of the string went through the little-hole in the windey-thing!!!
..Used nanowebs on my acoustics for about a year. Not used them on an solidbody as yet; been a Slinky fan since the 80’s but just moved to the D’Addario XL 10’s.. they seem to have a nicer, more woody tone to them, (by my less than perfect ears).
Repaired a break in a headstock a while back, glued the break, taped and clamped it, then stripped the headstock down to wood, sanded it nice flat and flush, sealed, primed/painted - reapplied decals, topcoated all 2k ..Beautiful! ...then it immediately broke again as I was reinstalling the tuners - all that work, all for naught! ...It didn’t break on the original fault but a hair’s breadth away from it. A stress fracture next to the original break did me in on that one.. ahhh..yer gonna run into that kinda thing on occasion!
Love rebuilding guitars. Maybe one day I’ll slide into knocking-out custom guitars for a living ..retirement maybe. It’s on my “to-do” list..
Yeah, I don’t know what Floyd was thinking with those Speedloader trems.. At the time I couldn’t imagine he would have had too much of a following just based on the lack of choice in strings - as fickle a bunch us guitar playing fruitcakes can be about such things.
Owned a bunch of Jacksons over the years, have four of’em right now, but never a Rhoads. Always wanted one though. Randy was always an inspiration for me. ..maybe one day I’ll pick one up. Without a single doubt, they are a sexy lookin’ machine.