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skoora said:
You may already have figured what I meant but on my rehearsal space comment I meant south of Seattle, not Oly. Don’t worry the sun will be back at the end of April.
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I did figure you were talking about Seattle and know what you're speaking of.
I was referring to Oly in my comment, though.
Probably more end of May, though :ROFLMAO: :cautious:
 
JohnnyGtar said:
I've been there. It's spectacular. I remember visiting a big waterfall there and iirc, outside of Seattle there are mini mountains popping up. And in Seattle, people were driving the speed limit or close to it. That surprised me. All in all, I really liked it up there.
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Possibly Snoqualmie Falls? Pretty popular. The whole Cascade mountain range is beautiful. Especially when the sun rises/sets and you get those fogs moving in to compliment the mountains. Around Steven's Pass you can get above the fog and it's like you're above the clouds and is an otherworldly experience.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Possibly Snoqualmie Falls? Pretty popular. The whole Cascade mountain range is beautiful. Especially when the sun rises/sets and you get those fogs moving in to compliment the mountains. Around Steven's Pass you can get above the fog and it's like you're above the clouds and is an otherworldly experience.
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Used to go night snowboarding at Stevens Pass. Me and a buddy would just walk on from the side as they never checked for lift tickets. If housing was affordable and the sun came out more I might have stayed. It definitely is beautiful up there.
 
skoora said:
Used to go night snowboarding at Stevens Pass. Me and a buddy would just walk on from the side as they never checked for lift tickets. If housing was affordable and the sun came out more I might have stayed. It definitely is beautiful up there.
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Totally can imagine you all dressed up in your finest 90s pastel/neon skisuit shredding the gnar. :ROFLMAO:

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Was window shopping and noticed this. This is some serious TGP bullshit from Sweetwater. Apparently you can select the weight of the guitar now...

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MadAsAHatter said:
Was window shopping and noticed this. This is some serious TGP bullshit from Sweetwater. Apparently you can select the weight of the guitar now...

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Thought it's been that way for a long time?
Tbh, I'd rather not know the weight as somewhere in my subconscious I've been led to believe that weight = tone and makes it difficult to decide.
So, usually just go off of whichever has the prettiest fingerboard.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Thought it's been that way for a long time?
Tbh, I'd rather not know the weight as somewhere in my subconscious I've been led to believe that weight = tone and makes it difficult to decide.
So, usually just go off of whichever has the prettiest fingerboard.
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I haven't looked at production guitars in a while. It may have been that way for a bit, but I just noticed it.

I have no scientifically measured proof, but from what I've noticed weight appears to affect sustain more than tone; at least with electric guitars.

My theory is it has more to do with the density of the wood than the actual weight. I think the density will either contributes to or hinder the strings' ability to resonate.

A couple of ounces here and there likely aren't going to make a significant difference if you're looking at 2 guitars both made exactly the same.

Now if you're comparing 2 guitars; one basswood and one purpleheart, I've noticed a bit of a difference. The softer/less dense basswood seems to absorb some of the string vibration. Or at best doesn't let the string resonate as much compared to denser woods. With a heavy/dense wood like purpleheart, the guitar can sustain for days.

I'd love to figure out a good way to actually measure this, but there's so many other factors that can contribute to sustain it'd be hard to isolate just the body wood. That's my theory anyway. Until someone can measure definitively measure this I'm just talking out my ass.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Possibly Snoqualmie Falls? Pretty popular. The whole Cascade mountain range is beautiful. Especially when the sun rises/sets and you get those fogs moving in to compliment the mountains. Around Steven's Pass you can get above the fog and it's like you're above the clouds and is an otherworldly experience.
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Shiiiit Oly is beautiful but honestly everywhere in the cascades is the business. Can confirm. Wenatchee is like the most centrally located place to live, obviously, so everything is within driving distance.
 
DanTravis62 said:
Shiiiit Oly is beautiful but honestly everywhere in the cascades is the business. Can confirm. Wenatchee is like the most centrally located place to live, obviously, so everything is within driving distance.
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We were looking at buying a house in West Wenatchee once that was nestled between two rivers on the property, but the foundation was cracked in half and they wanted almost as much as the home to fix it. Guessing it had something to do with being nestled between two rivers :unsure::ROFLMAO: Really love that whole stretch and riding blewett pass.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
We were looking at buying a house in West Wenatchee once that was nestled between two rivers on the property, but the foundation was cracked in half and they wanted almost as much as the home to fix it. Guessing it had something to do with being nestled between two rivers :unsure::ROFLMAO: Really love that whole stretch and riding blewett pass.
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Shiiit we would have been neighbors kinda!

Housing costs here have been absolute insanity for a while, but the last couple years of "building back better" has turned insanity into "parody"

A couple of months ago, the only house under 400k didn't have indoor plumbing and no i'm not joking. No indoor plumbing, 385k.

Almost anything below 4 nowadays is in senior living communities or buying a trailer where you don't own the land.
 
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