wow Rogierā¦that is really beautiful! I love both the colour and the shape! Iām very happy to read you had a blast at the shop! Now I canāt wait for your next video playing it!
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Just a quick question, does that guitar have a tremolo? I have a Floyd Rose that has a tremolo. Either way, that is a really nice guitar! I do like the color! You should post a video of you playing with it!
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Good morning on this side of the earth 
ā¦good evening if you are hanging upside down 
Hi Ian @Prof_Thunder
Thank you and that is nice to read 
Hi Jason @Ontime
Thank you
me too 
,Unfortunately I will have to order new strings ā¦ yesterday I tried to tune them again at the end of the day, but I canāt tighten them any further because the guitar sales man put the strings on incorrectly 
and this weekend I put on my last set of strings on an old guitar that I never actually play, but just in case someone comes by and spontaneously wanted to play on it, which has never happened with that one 
ā¦ so I opened an empty big box yesterday ā¦ that is sometimes a disadvantage if you have a lot of stock sometimes ā¦
and uses a messy drawer next to you 
Tod @CATMAN62 ā¦ 
and James @Socio
I get a dejavu with that black one where Gordon @sairfingers said something like "nice guitar, wonder what this will look like when they send the rest of the parts ā¦
Thanks you guys
Hi Toby @TheMadman_tobyjenner
Thank you very much
Hi Silvia @Silvia80
Thank you
And I must say that I really like the fact that with every change of daylight the color changesā¦ in the evening artificial light it becomes super darkā¦ and more and more dark purple becomes a little clearer when daylight comes and the max when the sun shines on itā¦ but more beautiful without direct sunlightā¦
Hi Hans @Justh33
Thank you ( and also for all that reading you did earlierā¦ you deserve a star for thatā¦ of course you could have learned 20 songs in that time )
no, luckily not, well at least, that gets in my way and I havenāt learned to deal with it (yet), my fender player has oneā¦someday a project for later, but I still have to practice a lot with my regular blues bends 
I feel so sorry for you, if you want to talk about it further, we are here for you ā¦ 
I remember that in the first year here I heard Justin say "I donāt do a tutorial with the Floyd Rose because that is āa pain in the buttā "
Since then I have clicked every guitar with such a system ā¦ I find it all difficult ā¦ I am trying to elevate the KISS to an artā¦
Iām just not very good at bridging heights ,but I learning this slowly ā¦very slow 
EDIT:
A senior moment ( can of course also be a beginners momentā¦you can be the judgeof that ā¦ 
) luckily it occurred to meā¦
for now I just tuned the strings down 1 toneā¦duh ā¦ now I have room to tighten the new strings when they go flat again
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Congratulations Rogier!! 
Happy NGD! 
Sheās beautiful! I love the colour, the pattern and also the shape too!
Though I did actually laugh out loud at these 
Thank you for the pictures and I enjoyed reading your post too
Look forward to a video 
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Hi Jasmine ,
Thank you
and that is nice to see that this weirdos make you laugh so hardā¦ okay me too
Thank you for your comment and continued encouragements
Greetings 
Just while playing I felt some very sharp metal things when I put my hand on the bridge adjustment screws (high, low) so Iām going to buy a good, very small fileā¦
Just while playing I felt some very sharp metal things when I put my hand on the bridge adjustment screws (high, low) so Iām going to buy a good, very small fileā¦
Funny, I buy 4 guitars onlineā¦all perfectā¦ finally I go to the store to buy one , there are several things that need to be adjusted because they are not made properlyā¦
Still very happy
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Now I spent quite some time reading in your bloig and also hereā¦ 
I am so happy to see you happy Rogier!
I hope the new guitar is comfortable and nice to play!
Haha, I dream of one day visiting Thomann.
Now I think youāll be good for some time to come, but as the car driving gets easier, we can meet there one day?
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First
Me do not understand what you sayā¦
What the heck do you mean???
Hi Dominique ,
Thank you ,and that all is very nice to see and to read
And while I make plans driving to Thomann we also call Franz @franzek and I think some more peeps will say hey. then ā¦ 
ā¦ well I keep the dream alive too
Although parts of Berlin also seem incredibly beautiful to me
Greetings
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And thereās our dear @Helen0609 not so far away
no big guitar stores unfortunately, but lots of historic stuff and parks and lakesā¦ make sure to alarm me when you plan to come, please! 
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Of course not forgetting her
and yes in terms of nature ,culture and history, Berlin is a gold mine ā¦
I think if I announce it here there will be plenty of people warning youā¦BEWARE
I have to go nowā¦thanks for daydreaming
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Beautiful guitar . Wish you hours and hours of playing.
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Hi Nadim,
Thank you very much for you comment ā¦
and I will follow it dutifully
Greetings
Visiting Thomannās together with some JG buddies would be so nice! Great idea !
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Very disappointing Rogier. If physical stores want to compete against the online competition they really need to up their game and try harder. You also mentioned that your store was holding less stock than in the past. Another sign of a downward spiral.
Weāre told to āsupport your local storeā and āuse it or lose itā. Of course a store has all sorts expenses in terms of staff wages, the cost of a physical building, gas, electricity etc.
The one area they can/should excel at is offering an exemplary service to customers. In your case I think youāve been let down.
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Yes Gordon Itās a bit of a pity ā¦but Iām glad it happened to meā¦
I still have a good guitar and am currently in the fortunate position that I can say that I have saved a few K on a guitar that I was actually looking for
Next time I will look at an expensive car ā¦ then decide not to buy it and take home 2 top class guitars from a large store with the money saved of not buy that car
I also see it as a good experience and now I really know what to pay attention toā¦uh, sitting behind the computer and not with all the hustle and bustle in a store and all thatā¦Next time bring a note because of course things always turn out completely differently than I can plan
That is the understatement of the year 
100 % ā¦ and to be honest, my first experience 35 years ago was much worse ā¦ currently there is an amplifier 2.5 meters behind me that a boss sold me at the time ā¦ I had never tuned a guitar in my life ā¦ it is a Fender M-80 300w ā¦ Oh oh my poor parents ā¦ and the neighbors and the neighbors next door and the neighbors across the street and ā¦ okay, you get the idea ā¦ and even more stuff was sold to me unnecessarilyā¦
In the store on Saturday more was sold to young people and I heard all the information from one of them from arrival to departureā¦ I think that poor girl has almost no fair chanceā¦ hopefully the Google beast will do its job and she will get out of hereā¦ and that was not the only thing, but I donāt want to complain any furtherā¦I am a happy person and with some minor adjustments I will soon be able to play it againā¦
I also had a bad experience with Bax-shop (they had physical stores but went bankrupt, but a restart so online and I donāt know the rest) ā¦ I called another store more than a year ago to ask if they wanted to weigh 3 or 4 guitars, then the employee said that I should come by ā¦ (1 hourās drive) even when the situation was explained ā¦ but he really couldnāt coop with that ā¦ same story with āde Gooise guitarsā in Hilversum ā¦
So I donāt really believe ā¦for me inā¦ the 'support the lokal 'guitar store is beter ā¦ otherwiseā¦and a store where you can try a lot is of course a completely different story and and and
And yet I will definitely go to a few more
nowadays with that great Thomannā¦dijkmans music and ??? another one ā¦so it will be fine
I see you pushed a buttonā¦ Once again, Iām very happy
Greetings and I hope you had a nice had a birth memory day
Ps : maybe those Dutch shopkeepers are just BEEEp ā¦no ā¦not all
Pps: Just for the sake of completenessā¦the 2 people in the store were super nice and very helpful to all my questions and took whatever I pointed out from the racks and quickly went to the scales or walked down to the safeā¦
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Tonight Iāll be dreaming of having coffee and cake with you all at my home, which is not too far from the store 
Congratulations on your latest addition, Rogier. Iām very happy for you!
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Hi Franz, @franzek
How nice to see you hereā¦ yes yes I did the ātaggā thingy but still and really not just only to have a tea/coffee and food address on the way to paradiseā¦
Thank you and I still think about you quite often you sweet manā¦ I hope that life smiles at you again every now and thenā¦ 
Warm greetings from a snowy (again 
) Holland
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Sorry for the disappointment of all you pressuring/pushing people who want sred videos of myā¦just a little patienceā¦
probably that will happen in about eight to ten years
When I say āharderā at the endā¦I mean louderā¦
No problems with sharp screws on the bridge with this music ā¦ palm muting / blues is possible again from the weekend with this guitar ā¦
Itās striking how much brighter these pickups are compared to the Ibanezā¦
I will soon record a riff with distortion ā¦ but as often mentioned on the forum ā¦ the sound differs between guitars recorded in this way will not really differ or give a clear picture ā¦ amps and pedals or certainly everyone who does it via the computer makes the biggest beautiful sound differenceā¦Thatās another beast Iāll have to tame someday
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That āthere is no sunshineā is one that I am slowlyā¦ very slowly, going to mineā¦ inspired by John Mayerā¦ someday
Greetings
or @DavidP ( thanks David ) Can one of you add āwith videoā in the title please? thank you ifā¦ !!
Just one more, now itās done
lesson is from Carl of 365 songs
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Itās so nice to see and hear you! The last one had really fast notes, I couldnāt do that!
Yes, listening to you and seeing the humbuckers, I thought they maybe have a coil split that was switched on, but from the description it doesnāt seem so.
Pretty bright. Did you try the neck pickup too?
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Done Rogier (and will add a link in the first post)
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Dominique @domi7 , 
what do I say now
Well Thank you very much ā¦but Now you force me to confessā¦I only looked at a few things in the specifications once after purchasingā¦
I really have no idea where what isā¦although the slider towards my stomach/slantingly upwards is probably the neck pick-up alone and downwards the bridgeā¦there is also a āpull offā pull-out tone button on itā¦I donāt really care about it that much mostly , usually only 2 positions ā¦ more destortion in ā¦less destortion in with that black ibanez ā¦and then just play with the volume regularlyā¦max almost max or a little further lessā¦
I find the tone knobs on all my guitars to be strange thingsā¦ I stay away from them and they are always fully open or the sound is very dull (if I describe it that well)
Feeling a bit stupid now or actually more lazyā¦ ā¦
Thank you David @DavidP good solution
Greetings and have a peaceful evening guys ā¦
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