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  • Kristy
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 16338

    Music Go-Round

    Anybody ever shop/sell there? I applied for a job there as a joke for weekend help during the holiday season and they hired me. Just a hair - been a long time since I worked in a musical instrument store. Their prices seem a wee bit high for used but I like their business model in that they don't cater to a certain brand (i.e., Fender, Dan Electro, whatever) and that you don't have to push a certain brand over another. We'll see how this plays out. We'll see.
  • jhale667
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 20929

    #2
    Don't believe the chain is in Cali - what department are you going to be working in?
    Originally posted by conmee
    If anyone even thinks about deleting the Muff Thread they are banned.... no questions asked.

    That is all.

    Icon.
    Originally posted by GO-SPURS-GO
    I've seen prominent hypocrite liberal on this site Jhale667


    Originally posted by Isaac R.
    Then it's really true??:eek:

    The Muff Thread is really just GONE ???

    OMFG...who in their right mind...???
    Originally posted by eddie78
    I was wrong about you, brother. You're good.

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    • Kristy
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • Aug 2004
      • 16338

      #3
      Instrument repair/set up.

      I took a course offered by Fender years ago and have the silver certificate to prove it.

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      • Nitro Express
        DIAMOND STATUS
        • Aug 2004
        • 32797

        #4
        Originally posted by Kristy
        Instrument repair/set up.

        I took a course offered by Fender years ago and have the silver certificate to prove it.
        So you can set up all those saddles on a Strat and get the radius curve on the money while getting the action the way the customer likes it and get the action and truss rod tweaked just right? All while getting the tremelo springs set right so the thing stays reasonably in tune?
        Last edited by Nitro Express; 12-03-2012, 01:38 PM.
        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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        • Kristy
          DIAMOND STATUS
          • Aug 2004
          • 16338

          #5
          Yes. Although I haven't been near a guitar since what, 2006? The guy who does the instrument set up for sale told me "it'll comeback to ya" Really, I was driving by walked in and applied as a joke.

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          • Nitro Express
            DIAMOND STATUS
            • Aug 2004
            • 32797

            #6
            So are you going to do it? It's hard to find anyone that can set up a guitar decent anymore and I'm sure the guy is having a hard time finding anyone who gives a damn.

            About the only way you really can fuck up a guitar is to turn the truss rod nut too much. Cutting nuts can be a bit tricky. Sometimes that neck won't settle in until a few days go by and so you really never know where you are there and also humidity affects it as well. Some of the new guitars have graphite bars in the necks that stabilize the necks.

            For me the standard Fender Strat setup was always fine for me. The only guitar I ever bought that was perfect out of the box was a Strat. I've had it for years and have never adjusted a thing on it.
            Last edited by Nitro Express; 12-03-2012, 01:53 PM.
            No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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            • Matt White
              • Jun 2004
              • 20565

              #7
              Been to the Music Go-Round in both Ann Arbor & South Milwaukee..............

              always found cool stuff there for decent prices...........

              The guy at the A2 store helped me put the Bumblestein back together......................

              Last edited by Matt White; 12-03-2012, 11:28 PM.

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              • Nitro Express
                DIAMOND STATUS
                • Aug 2004
                • 32797

                #8
                Well if Kristy takes the job she can stretch out G strings and work on some nuts.
                No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                • Matt White
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 20565

                  #9
                  I'm always on the lookout for the old ZOOM 9000

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                  • Kristy
                    DIAMOND STATUS
                    • Aug 2004
                    • 16338

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Nitro Express

                    About the only way you really can fuck up a guitar is to turn the truss rod nut too much. Cutting nuts can be a bit tricky. Sometimes that neck won't settle in until a few days go by and so you really never know where you are there and also humidity affects it as well. Some of the new guitars have graphite bars in the necks that stabilize the necks.
                    Basically a lot of restringing, neck/bridge/saddle adjust, tuning, cleaning - tedious crap. It's not that difficult to grasp. Nothing in terms of electronic work, the guy who does that major surgery is quite impressive.

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                    • Nitro Express
                      DIAMOND STATUS
                      • Aug 2004
                      • 32797

                      #11
                      It is tedious. Rick Nelson of Cheap Trick said his guitar tech hates that five neck guitar he has.
                      No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                      • Kristy
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 16338

                        #12
                        what a co-winkie dink. I hate Cheap Trick

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                        • Nitro Express
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 32797

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Kristy
                          what a co-winkie dink. I hate Cheap Trick
                          You would hate him even more if you had to maintain all his guitars. What. You don't like bands who had a chain smoking drummer and a nerd guitar player?
                          No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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