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Sorry, dude, but I had a good laugh at first. "Hahaha, a blue LED where it can't be seen, just to light up the valve!" (Toobs are what you get inside bicycle tyres.)

Then I noticed the vent holes.

Bloody nice build.

I'm not much of a guitar player because i'm no good, but really love pedal making

(snipped a bit)

You and me, man, we just think alike I'm the same way! It's kinda got that proud-papa feeling, when someone with great chops is hugely impressed with one of YOUR creations and does beautiful, amazing music with it.

That looks really cute

It was a victim of it's own success as it started to appeal to more and more people and they weren't necessarily interested in cars. I stand by that they should have called it a day with the Aston Martin - death of the supercar article they did. They were at their peak and had just started to recycle. The signs were there enough for me to say, it'd done now, let's move on.

Hate to say it, but I'm finding myself increasingly skipping through the new episodes of Top Gear.

Yawn. Yet another Ferrari. Yet another Porsche. Yet another tiny three door big engine car. Yet another race. Never thought I'd be bored of seeing yet another road legal go-fast go-kart.

Not to mention that it's rare for them to bring in a guest that I recognise, these days. I only recognised Will Smith (who I don't care about) and Gillian Anderson (who was interesting -- Agent Scully).

The races... they're becoming increasingly formulaic.

They should have done what Monster Garage did, and go out while they were still great.

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=12945.0

Check the 2014 version.

You wouldn't fit in on my other guitar forum, Juan -- the formula there is sell ALL the old amps to fund the new one, and then moan once you have the new one (and the old one is long gone).

My other all time favourite author is now gone (McCaffrey was the other one.)

Spent many an afternoon quietly reading either one of their books. They introduced me to a world of the mind and imagination.

That swirl came out nicely, like the Red Spot on Jupiter meets Tim Burton.

Still have to build my US board from Rej, but I've done a ?Lady, and also a Ultrastoner in my multi build. No problems getting unity volume with my builds (if anything, they get too damn loud sometimes.)

The canonical place to put fuzz in the chain is at the start.

Or in your Meatball's FX Loop

The picture in the OP reminds me of those American "supermarket guitars" from medieval times.

Good stuff Can you patch the Phatty into the MS20 ?

Maybe I'm just a stingy bugger, but...

I've taken my brother into A&E two times.

First time, a side of beef landed square on him, and his back screamed fucking murder every time so much as the cat blinked at him. Took him in (the spine is nothing to fuck around with), took fucking four hours, turned out kinda okay. I didn't mind losing four hours playing driver. Firstly, my brother's health takes priority for me. Secondly, other people whose lives may be in danger take priority over a non-permanent pain, and I trust the professionals to be able to make the decision.

Second time, he fell in the bath and screamed fucking murder. My sister refused to go in (it was the bath), I took him in again.

Broken jaw. Wound up being a drive to another town (a mate did that part, I did the three hour total late night fucking drive into the hospital). Did I mind? Again, it's my brother. I didn't know if it was a skull fracture or if he bruised his tongue. Did I mind the three hour wait? It was bloody ten PM, doctors have lives too (they had to call the X-ray dude back in after hours), fair enough.

NZ is probably fairly close to Britain's NHS. (If you want it to happen fast and you're not going to die from it, go private.) It's not perfect, but it's better than other countries, where if you can't pay them then fuck off and die.

I should probably note I can't speak scandinavian and rely on translation websites

Korpiklaani (I'm told it translates to "Old Forest Clan", Vallhagen can chime in on this) are bloody amazing.

"Vesilahden veräjillä" is a really neat song about a Christian preacher who ran afoul of a local warlord who took umbrage to his message.

"Let's Drink" -- they seem to do a song about the joy of the bottle on every album except for Manala

"The Steel" -- a glorious appreciation of the blacksmith

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go look 'em up