In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Now it's really July 30th my beloved Mao Mao has gone to rainbow bridge for 3 years.. But I know she's in a better place so I'm happy.

Changed a new set of strings for the lao pok guitar. The guitar not exactly old, but it's quite lao pok already because I broke it's neck like 2 times. The headstock just fell off!

Let's review the traumatising past:

I was so gan chiong to snap a pic that I couldn't be bothered to just remove the strings...

The first time I don't know why it broke, just probably it fell without me seeing. So when I opened the case (which was just a gig bag with not much protection, I'm putting it at home! So I didn't supposed I need a hard case!) got a big fat shock of my life and nearly cried! =( haha, so dramatic.

Then I glued it back, in attempt to avoid finding a professional because the guitar is not expensive but getting it glued professionally is costly! And that was my first solid top, so obviously I couldn't bear to just see it lying around with a broken headstock.

Glued with polyurethane glue still not happy so I re-challenged it and put back medium gauge steel strings, and SNAP! It broke like after 3 days of strumming. =(

Sigh with the glue residues it's obviously 3x more difficult to re-glue but still did it anyway. Got a super solid capo to kiap it now. And become more and more act smart, go and put on heavy gauge nylon strings for it. (still less tension then steel strings) and it's working fine now leh!!!!! =D

And new strings always sounds so nice.. Though they take a while to stabilise the tuning but still it sounds really nice. Sweet!

How I wished my mood can be refreshed like how the sound of the guitar is refreshed by a change of strings... =)

- Psalms 37:4 -
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. # ;