I would agree on Yamaha, just make sure you play it 1st and get a good setup or learn to do it on your own. I don’t own one but have handled a couple, I’d say they come in a bit nicer than the Ibanez Gio stuff and just under their lower main line of instruments. Depending on what price point the Epiphones are you can also get a great guitar cheap - their set neck models, pound for pound, are better built than their Gibson counterparts, mainly because Gibson still cuts the headstock along with the neck, creating a weak spot. Epiphones are done with a scarf joint which is much stronger if it happens to take a spill.

Replace Joe with the evil orange man and watch the like/dislike flip instantly!!!

I’ve heard nothing but good things about these, if I didn’t have a Bambu I’d definitely look into getting one

How about the censored ones?

Indeed!

While I mostly agree, I never said constant war, but where I will disagree in a sense is, the prospect of total annihilation would have been a factor millennia ago had the technology been there. Pick your era, the Romans, the various Chinese dynasties, the English, etc… if they had the means, they would have likely used it, having zero regard for the impact it would have later, mostly due to a poor understanding of the technology. I do believe, at least between “the big three”, meaning the US, Russia and China, nuclear war is an extremely potent deterrent to all out war. It’s the “kids who want to be in the club” that worry me, everyone from NK to Israel. It sucks, but the atomic cat is out of the bag in a world we’re all forced to live in, and the polarization of politics and other bullshit only work to drive that wedge deeper and push us closer to… bad shit.

For fucks sake… 1st off, whether or not this qualifies as a “meme”, it doesn’t fit the accepted norm of what most people expect to see when they click on “memes”

Secondly, and this may sting a little, but peace as we know it is a relatively new thing in world history. I’ve seen a multitude of other comments here proclaiming all those other genocides were okay because they were thousands of years ago. It’s that “in my lifetime” mentality that just fucking grinds my gears. Through thousands of years of history, one genocide is cherry picked and held up as the worst ever, and the citizens who"benefitted" from it are supposed to pick up the tab? My ancestors weren’t Spanish or English, and my family has been here for about 130 years having come from Germany in 1890. How much of the tab am I supposed to pick up?

Fact of the matter is, the only constant in human history is war. We’re in a (relatively) peaceful era now, and that’s taking into account Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine, and probably another 20 or 30 wars I’m not up to speed on because I’m American and our media doesn’t seem to actually inform us on world events from countries we don’t buy shit from.

Remote start? After buying gas I don’t have enough money for beer!

Why does this remind me of that old “you wouldn’t download a car” commercial???

Nice job though

Edit: had to re-upload pic as it had vanished

I love practical prints, so much better than “check out this character bust!”, especially when you designed it yourself. Currently making soundhole covers for cigar box guitars and trying to figure out a good way to spray DIY conductive paint on them to nickel plate. Whenever I get it figured out I’ll post but so far nothing to write home about.

Don’t use actual lemon oil, it’ll dry the fretboard out. Use linseed oil or something that’s commercially produced for guitar fretboards. Although if you have something labeled “lemon oil”, there’s a good chance it’s just linseed oil with a lemon scent

That’s just a alarm clock

I used to work retail loss prevention and had several of the exact opposite- we’d get contract security to supplement our staff as a visual deterrent and they would then think they were given carte blanche to hassle whoever the fuck they wanted. It really didn’t take long to realize that as long as I treated shoplifters with respect, more often than not they would come with, take care of the paperwork, get their ticket from the real cops and then be on their way unless the jurisdiction required they get booked. But there would always be that one fuckhead trying to steal thousands of dollars worth of shit and then act like we had no right to stop or detain them . I know it varies by where you live, but we were fully allowed to make citizens arrests and would do so daily. In 21 years I got subpoenaed four times and testified once. Never lost one case.

A agree with what was said above, but I have to add that if you decide to go with direct drive you’ll also need to take the time to dial in your retraction distance and speed in your slicer. When my E3V2 stock extruder teeth wore out, I went all in and got a Microswiss NG direct drive extruder/hotend. If you don’t dial in your retraction distance and speed you will likely get tons of ooze. You’ll also need to recalibrate pretty much everything from your z offset, e-steps, input shaping if you use kilpper, belt tension… the works. Is it worth it? That depends. In my case, yes it was, buy ymmv

Why first fdm, then resin? If you want resin printer just go that path. Resin is good for miniatures while filaments are better for mechanical properties and bigger size. Fdm is faster, but still extremely slow. For 20x20x20 cm model you need like 1 day or more to complete. Get something that supports klipper firmware, like ender (probably most cheap printers) and expect extra cost on upgrades.

^this, verbatim. My advice is, think about what it is you want to print and go from there. If you’re going to try to make functional parts with the occasional “cute” gift for someone, chances are you’d want to go with FDM and Fusion 360, then it’s dealers choice on which slicer you prefer. Then think about what you’re using those parts for, and figure out what filament will be best for that part, whether it needs to sit in a hot car, for example, you’ll be looking at ABS / ASA versus something that sits inside on a desk and doesn’t need to support weight, where PLA is your cheap and generally easiest filament to use. Then, research what printers are capable of printing said filament, as not all 3d printers can handle higher temps, need enclosures, etc.

On the other hand, if you’re going to make tabletop miniatures or need the properties of resin for whatever reason, you’ll want to go with resin, and modeling software such as Blender as others have suggested

Honestly the cheap kits on “A” are good enough, stewmac makes / sells great tools, but unless you’re going to make a living with them or truly go professional, I’d say save the money. I got quite a few of my tools from cbgitty and mgbguitars, once I got bitten by the cigar box guitar bug. Building one, especially if you go through building the neck, fretting it and doing the electronics really gives you a lot of respect for what actually goes into a guitar. I highly recommend it if you have the means, and you get another guitar out of it to boot!

If you’re willing to learn how to do a good chunk of that work yourself you can dramatically cut costs. I’d just be wary of leveling and crowning frets, took me a while to learn that and it does require specialized tools and practice. Truss rod adjustments, sharp fret ends, string height (at the bridge, not at the nut) and intonation are well within the realm of reasonable for someone willing to learn a bit and take a few precautions and they take minimal tools - you can sand or file the edge of a cheap mini file to make a safe edge, I did mine on a belt sander. A cheap set of harbor freight feeler gages works perfectly fine for truss rod adjustments. You can get a pretty reasonable string action ruler off the big “A”, but I went with the planet waves one, the dark background with light increments is easier on my eyes. A basic multimeter is really all you need to track down most electrical issues, and the ones you need a better multimeter for are either because you have active electronics or the pickups are bad. Investing around 30 bucks in tools that should last you a lifetime (unless you’re me and misplace them constantly) and some time and research on the YT is well worth it IMHO

I disagree. Looks like a happy pup!

What absolute monster would downvote this?