My bad. I added an "S" -- Side effect of going to Johns Hopkins

Look at www.tooneguitars.com Some beautiful work. I'm very likely to borrow his aluminum tube neck design. Watch the video at: http://toone.typepad.com/tooneguitar...?cid=120444260 Simply beautiful, brilliant work.

Re: Facial hair: Lord knows I don't want to be called a Communist ... Heheh

I found out there's a Western Afghnaistan version of the Persian Dutar that has 14 strings. I'm trying to find some video.

I'll let you know about CAD. I was planning on starting with FretFind2D and Google Sketch-Up too. Regarding body shape, after looking at Rick Toones designs (especially his Orchid bass and the new one with the "hip hole", I can mess-around, but I may have to wait until I get back and start with a huge block of flower foam and care away until I get a shape I like that provides the support I want.

Hehehehe. Maybe I have a new minion on the way. I did some hard thinking and decided not to drop cash on a travel guitar that I would likely never touch on my return. Errored on the side of leaving the wife and kids a bigger "just in case" cushion.

So, it will be as much ear training, theoretical exploration as I can fit-in, which doesn't look like it will be a huge amount. I will also try some free CAD programs. Maybe I'll be able to get a bit of my guitar design down, but free+laptop+CAD doesn't set my expectation bar very high.

Also, we'll be allowed to go fairly "native" while embedded. I'll try to get some pictures up, when I get some. It was actually suggested that we grow at least a moustache, because "only Communists and Homosexuals have no facial hair" in Afghanistan

Hey, got some time on the internet (we wrapped-up a 48-hour block of instruction 4 hours early There's a new-ish Ergo Guitar thread in the ERG forum.

I was going to, but then I found out DT was coming here so I blew all my money on that. I really wanted to see Chris Broderick, but my wallet does not approve of that right now

Oh shit wait, I think I am talking about a completely different person. I feel stupid, haha. Disregard that last post.

I think I saw you at the concert last night dude! I think it was you, haha..were you wearing a Megadeth shirt and a brown(ish) hat?

Don't know if you already knew this, but if you click on "View Conversation", it collects all the parts. So Visitor messages are Post-It notes on two different bulletin boards and there's an electronic minion that collects them all for you.

No worries about the eRep. As long as you don't neg-Rep me for bad puns.

Hey, dropped you a reply over on my side, made more sense to keep it there.