grouping of makers & doers into categories (bodywork/finishers/pickups/effects) for quick reference?

TTony · August 2018

@vale ;

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/137630/the-directory/p1

GoldenEraGuitars · August 2018

@customkits for builders
@gavin_axecaster for parts

GoldenEraGuitars · August 2018

@sixstringsupplies for prewired electrics
@streethawk for parts

Funkfingers · August 2018

Funkfingers said:

TheGuitarWeasel said:

An issue I have here is regarding classic pickup restorations and rewinds. I've posted lots over the years, but less of late. They take a lot of work to photograph and write 'copy' for, but if few people will see them I'm somewhat demotivated. I see them as general interest ... seeing inside classic bits of kit that other folks seldom get a chance to.

That degree of scrutiny is deeper than most people wish to go. You have a professional interest. A small number of geeky enthusiasts seek that level of detail. Most punters just want their instruments to work for them rather than against.

Even those who think that they understand the significance of the innards of old pickups have no immediate need for information beyond satisfying their curiosity. Few will go to the trouble of attempting to build pickups themselves.

The curse of any specialist interest is that few others care enough to wish to share in it.

Oops. On the version of this thread displayed on my computer screen, I appear to have succeeded in quoting something that was supposedly posted AFTER my comment. (There ought to be a log of the posting times somewhere. This will confirm my version of events, should any interested parties care to check.)

This cannot possibly be an error by a member of long standing. It must be the relative newcomer.

TTony · August 2018

Funkfingers said:

(There ought to be a log of the posting times somewhere. This will confirm my version of events, should any interested parties care to check.)

At the risk of dragging this discussion further away from the original topic, there is a log of the posting times @funkfingers - it's shown on every post that's ever posted, along with a separate timestamp if a post is edited after the initial post.

For example. your post above was posted at 6.43pm, that's shown on the post title bar directly under your userID. Hover over that time and a little pop-up shows August 12, 2018 6.43pm. If you look back at a post in previous days, the displayed timestamp just shows the date. But, hover over it and you get the full date/time stamp displayed again.

Bridgehouse · August 2018

TTony said:

Funkfingers said:

(There ought to be a log of the posting times somewhere. This will confirm my version of events, should any interested parties care to check.)

At the risk of dragging this discussion further away from the original topic, there is a log of the posting times @funkfingers - it's shown on every post that's ever posted, along with a separate timestamp if a post is edited after the initial post.

For example. your post above was posted at 6.43pm, that's shown on the post title bar directly under your userID. Hover over that time and a little pop-up shows August 12, 2018 6.43pm. If you look back at a post in previous days, the displayed timestamp just shows the date. But, hover over it and you get the full date/time stamp displayed again.

I didn’t know that!

Funkfingers · August 2018

TTony said:
At the risk of dragging this discussion further away from the original topic ...

I have said my piece. I shall leave other people to believe what they prefer to believe.

vale · August 2018

TTony said:

@vale ;;

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/137630/the-directory/p1

stellar work @TTony ;; and much appreciated by me and hopefully many others to come.

just on first sight if that initial list i've immediately doubled the number of builders i was aware of, and been able to quicklink to their work threads. so it works perfectly in a simple list format.

hopefully it will get spread around the threads quickly from now on, and makers-doers and forum will become all the more the busier and more inter-connected for it. totally wired!

rexter · August 2018

Thanks Tony for setting up the Directory and including me!

Obviously because I have a business interest, I spend a lot of time in the Made in the UK thread and find it amazing seeing the work of the talented members who post there.

My previous experience with other forums has normally had the rule of 'no selling/promoting in discussion pages' and business members who do that often tend to get shot down, so I've always been a bit bashful of posting things work related in Making and Modding etc - so as not to be seen as hawking for trade - but it's good to know that when I have something interesting to show I can do that there too. Cheers.

OilCityPickups · August 2018

rexter said:

Thanks Tony for setting up the Directory and including me!

Obviously because I have a business interest, I spend a lot of time in the Made in the UK thread and find it amazing seeing the work of the talented members who post there.

My previous experience with other forums has normally had the rule of 'no selling/promoting in discussion pages' and business members who do that often tend to get shot down, so I've always been a bit bashful of posting things work related in Making and Modding etc - so as not to be seen as hawking for trade - but it's good to know that when I have something interesting to show I can do that there too. Cheers.

As trade members we all walk a bit of a fine line: my own policy is that I will provide technical assistance in other sections of the Forum, comment on the general science of pickup making, and contribute to discussions as an ordinary member, but I won't post links to my products or specifically mention them anywhere but 'Made in the UK'. (unless someone asks me a direct question about them).
To me this is a safeguard not necessarily against moderator action, but against any 'hawking for trade' issues the general membership might have.

Funkfingers · August 2018

TheGuitarWeasel said:
a safeguard not necessarily against moderator action, but against any 'hawking for trade' issues the general membership might have.

It is a pity that similar rules do not apply to the general membership.

All too often, somebody opens a new thread, inviting suggestions for pickups to suit one of his or her instruments. This will receive a number of sincere replies from members with experience of the relevant instrument and no other agenda. Eventually, somebody will barge in and post something along the lines of, "ignore all of the suggestions so far. What you want is my reject stuff that I need to flog so I can afford the next thing I want." This, regardless of whether that reject stuff answers the OP's brief or not.

It is difficult to know exactly where a line should be drawn.

For instance, I convinced tachycardia to buy my old Gibson Iommi humbucker to go in his Epiphone G400 Custom. He requested gold plating and high output for down-tuned, overdriven filth. The TI humbucker does exactly that ... and how!

The only downside to me talking tachycardia around to my way of thinking is that it restricts his options for the other two pickup positions on his SG. If such a thing existed, I would have suggested an underwound Iommi-alike humbucker under a closed metal cover. Gibson does not make one.

Thus, I sold tachycardia what he said he wanted but it is difficult to know whether I have done him a disservice in the longer term.

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