So what was my rabbit hole? I figured I could do this too, and for more models of guitars...

So after many, many hours it occured to me, that unless I bought the components and PCBs in bulk (after designing them), there was no way I could do it and be price competiitive.

No soldering. Reduces time for swapping out pickups!

#cosoguitars

I went down a rabbit hole when I discovered Obsidian Wire mods.

They involve all the normal parts: capacitors, resistors, push-pull pots, 5 way switches, capacitors, but...

the ingenious thing they have done is create a PCB to mount these things (via ribbon for the 5-way) and put these spring clamps--like you use when breadboarding circuits,--on the PCB, so all you need to do to install new pickups is insert the wires in the spring clamp.

Moldova has voted yes to joining the EU by a tiny margin

50.38% YES
49.62% NO

The body of Russian war criminal Dmytro Golenkov was found yesterday in the village of Suponevo near Bryansk.

His body was found with multiple head injuries, probably caused by a hammer.

Russian oligarch Mikhail Rogachev, “mysteriously” died yesterday after developing a terminal velocity case of 11th-floor window cancer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13981611/Russian-businessman-close-Putin-mysteriously-dies-falling-window.html

#cosoguitars
Confession: I have been waiting all year for the release of Bluguitar's Amp X, so I have bought no new gear other than a few cables.

The result is my GearLust has been rising, and last night it raged out of control.

I began with the idea of getting a cheap Fender HSS player and modding the fuck out of it.

Then I came across this:
https://obsidianwire.com/collections/stratocaster-wiring

And before I knew it, I was pricing pickup winding equipment with the idea of making my own pickups, and ... nevermind.

The Day of Love

Here is Josh Hawley running away from all the love.

The Day of Love

The arrow is pointing to Elise Stefanik as she's feeing that love.

Trump kicks off a Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia'

https://apnews.com/article/trump-arnold-palmer-closing-arguments-latrobe-pennsylvania-2bea9620c523e531a55259200215284e

That doesn't sound weirdly, closeted-gay at all.

South Korea reports that North Korea releaesed balloons carying excrement and garbage into South Korea again.

No wonder Trump likes them so much.

Everytime I login to Shitter, err I mean Twitter, err I mean rated X or whatever...

I inadvertently am served a bunch of posts from folks critical of the Admin/DoD's efforts in Ukraine.

And not one of these Super-Geniuses can tell me how to get more funding out of this House of Representatives or get them to approve a new AUMF to deal with Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Democrats rig elections just enough to win about half the time which is what you might expect if they didn't rig elections" is one of the all time stupidest conspiracy theories.

The best thing about the 13th and 19th Amendments:

This US Supreme Court can't reverse an Amendment.

Jan 6 coup plot update:

USA Today reported an unnamed organization spent $3 million to bring guests and protesters to D.C., and on ad buys to encourage people to make the trip. The actual costs of the event itself were under $400,000.

The DOJ has announced charges against Cylester Maxwell of Georgia, alleging he was part of mob wielding huge metal Trump sign... "together with other members of the crowd holding the sign, shoved the sign into the line of police like a battering ram

OK, even Trump's apologists are ignorant.

Trump: "I was so amazed that Harvey Weinstein got schlongged, he got hit as hard as you can get hit. Because he was sort of king of the woke, right? And yet he got hit."

Only Trump would think a sexual predator was woke.

He probably thinks that because there was one non-white woman--Salma Hayek--that he tried to force himself on. Salma Hayek is from Mexico, so trying to force her into non-consensual sex is woke in Trump's world.

Me, Scott Walker, and anybody who thinks like Scott Walker have entirely different ideas of what core American values are, and I say they do not include unconstitutional, authoritarian criminal coup plots. That shit right there puts you firmly in the unamerican column.

So news from Detroit:

Trump was late (2 hrs).
They couldn't come close to filling the venue.
Trump's microphone cut out for about 20 minutes. Once that was fixed, he threatened the sound company and was visibly angry, unlike how he was happy on Jan 6 , 2021.