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It finally happened.
After an awful amount of time wondering, I finally managed to temporarily steal a precision weighing scale from my girlfriend’s kitchen, and finally find out how much my guitars weigh. Here are the results of my current guitars, updated:
| Year | Model | Weight (kg) | Weight (lbs oz) | Weight (lbs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | ESP Eclipse II silver sparkle | 3.75 kg | 8 lbs 4 oz | 8.25 lbs |
| 1992 | Ibanez UV7BK | 3.63 kg | 8 lbs | 8 lbs |
| 1997 | Ibanez JPM P2 | 3.52 kg | 7 lbs 12 oz | 7.75 lbs |
| 2014 | Music Man JP6 silver sparkle | 3.45 kg | 7 lbs 10 oz | 7.6 lbs |
| 2007 | Ibanez JEM 77VBK | 3.35 kg | 7 lbs 6 oz | 7.39 lbs |
| 2016 | Music Man Majesty arctic dream | 2.95 kg | 6 lbs 8 oz | 6.5 lbs |
| 2013 | Suhr Modern Satin natural | 2.77 kg | 6 lbs 2 oz | 6.11 lbs |
| 2023 | Ibanez Q52PB | 2.17 kg | 4 lbs 13 oz | 4.78 lbs |
I actually tought the JPM was lighter, and the Eclipse was heavier. The Modern Satin is, indeed, a very lightweight guitar.
The JP6 silver sparkle was said on Reverb to weigh 7 lbs 14 oz, or 3.57 kg, which was actually wrong.
In another chapter of my Les Paul craze, hoping for something more comfortable than my previous Gibson Les Paul Studio, which I had back in 2014, I bought an amazing-looking ESP Eclipse II, in silver sparkle finish. Realy eye-catching. A Japanese one, not the LTD crap.
I’m very pleased with the EMG pickups. Originally this guitar probably had a Seymour Duncan JB/59 set, and they were replaced by EMG 81 (bridge) and 85 (neck). However, I noticed the 85 is higher output and also it has a lot more bass, so I swapped both pickups. This EMG system is great: once you have the circuit installed, the pickups can be changed quickly by detaching the cables. Now, with the 85 at the bridge and the 81 at the neck, the guitar sounds very balanced.
As for the comfort, it’s not bad as my old Gibson, but definitely it’s not a comfortable guitar. The neck made me realize how much I like finished necks, and the ebony fretboard is sweet. Other than that, I played only one gig with it, and it felt very awkward on my shoulder. I guess I’m a superstrat player, definitely.
About one year ago I recorded the solo from “Tornado of Souls”, by Marty Friedman, from the classic Megadeth album “Rust in Peace”, from 1990. I’ve seen many people saying that it’s the hardest Megadeth solo, so I decided to incorporate it into my band’s set list, by replacing the “Hotel California” solo, after noticing some theming similarities. The result is pretty great. Unfortunately, in my band gigs, I hardly find someone who can appreciate the effort I put in learning it.
Anyway, this is the take I recorded about one year ago, using my Suhr Modern Satin, which I’m rather disliking the thin tone these days.
On all browsers, since immemorial times, I’ve been using the F6 key to go to the URL bar and select the whole URL. My current browser is Google Chrome, which in its version 72 changed the behavior of this F6 key, which now puts the focus on the tabs or somewhere else. You have to hit the F6 key twice in order to focus the URL bar.
And I’m not the only one who noticed this:
Fortunately, there’s a bug to the issue:
I wonder who in the hell decides changes like this. I’m seriously pissed about this change, and already considering go to Firefox, which I already use at work. I really hope they revert this stupid nonsensical change. Stop fixing what isn’t broken.
Follow up: I just installed Chrome 74.0.3729.108, and the F6 key is working properly again. Such a relief.
Months ago I noticed that WinLamb was missing a simple, introductory example. I never really had time to write and publish one. Until today.
Click lines is a very simple program, inspired by Charles Petzold, which draws lines upon mouse clicks. Just this. It’s intended to be a very simple showcase of WinLamb, showing how to create raw windows, raw custom controls, and handling messages. I usually use dialog boxes on my real-world programs, but for this one I really kept it bare-bones, with no dialogs.
I hope it can be useful to anyone interested in WinLamb.
Very interesting Git option I just found: --date. When making a commit, you can specify the date manually. However, if you make a new commit with a past date, it will still be shown as the last commit, even with a date prior to the previous commit.
A new commit at January 1, 2019, 12:00, specifying timezone UTC-2:
git commit -m "Comment" --date="2019-01-01T12:00:00-02:00"
Changing the date of the last commit, using UTC+0 as timezone. Will be prompted to write the comment:
git commit --amend --date="2019-01-01T12:00:00Z"
This goes hand-in-hand with this current date trick.