Is a Stereo Guitar Worthwhile?

For the next week or so, @TSGAxe will have a poll going, asking if a stereo guitar is worthwhile:

Yes, I would buy one

No, mono is best for me

Anyone who wishes to sign in and reply here is welcome.  I asked Jim Z. about it.  He said no, that his band always puts everything to all the speakers, so that everyone on both sides can hear.  But the other possibility is different guitar effects on high and low strings, even you if go mono, like low buzz and high chorus. To be fair, he was too busy managing the store and dealing with customers to get into that, and I didn’t think to ask him.

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HAWALUYA – all the patent claims are ALLOWED!

In a NOTICE OF ALLOWANCE AND FEE(S) DUE, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office notified me that claims 21-42 of the Non-Provisional Patent Application (utility) 14/338,373, filed 07/23/2014, are allowed.  See also application US 2016/0027422 A1.  The check for the issue fee went out via Certified Mail today.

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First Images of Patent Pending 5th Prototype

P3241707b-600

Get the full description here

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Press Release – Publication of First Guitar Patent Application

Press Release -March 1, 2016 from

TulsaSoundGuitars.com    @TSGAxe

Art You Can Play:

Guitars for the Next Generation™

 http://tulsasoundguitars.com/news/prototype-patent-news/first-patent-application-published/

http://tulsasoundguitars.com/2015/10/01/guitar-artwork-soundboard-gallery-of-20-images/

Artwork at android-originals.com, simulated on guitars at:

theandroidsaxe.com

Click here for application on Patent Office web site

Print version:  Art You Can Play Guitar PR 2016-03-01

  • Removable, carvable, tunable, acoustic artwork top, w/ enough output for quiet practicing
  • Pickups that can be placed by the musician anywhere between the neck and bridge in five degrees of freedom – up and down and toward and away from the neck at the ends, and across the strings
  • M*K*(K-1) possible humbucking outputs for M switched tone capacitors and K matched single-coil magnetic string pickups (typically 3 to 12 capacitors, 2 to 4 pickups for 6 to 144 possible timbre settings)
  • Onboard switchable distortion with second and third harmonic control
  • With a commercial neck and hardware, the body, bridge and top can be made in any garage woodworking shop with ordinary tools and materials
  • Compare to a standard Fender Stratocaster ®™, with a fixed body, three fixed-position single-coil pickups, and a five-way timbre switch with only 2 humbucking outputs

If you can’t find your own sound, you aren’t trying hard enough™

 Contact: Don Baker

1423 Terrace Drive #4572

Tulsa  OK  74159-0572

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Blacklisted Domains

It takes time to check out new user registrations with such services as cleantalk.org.  When a particular mailserver domain produces user registrations that have to be deleted time after time because the users have spammed other sites, that domain has to go.  Here is a current list of banned domains and e-mails.  My apologies if yours has been included and you are not a spammer.  Getting your own domain name for just e-mail can be as cheap as $10/year.  Please try that.

Banned Domains & E-Mail Addresses

@yahoo.com
@spamavert.com
@price.zonerig.com
@what.harboxed.com
@rng.emific.com
@posh.hammerwin.com
@buy.hammerwin.com
@singonline.net
@freecontests.xyz
thomasnthompson@outlook.com
@mail.ru

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First Patent Application Published

The patent application for the new electric/acoustic guitar has been published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  It can be found at:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20160027422.PGNR.&OS=DN/20160027422&RS=DN/20160027422

See News page here

Here is a PDF of the first page:  patent appl page 1

patent appl page 1

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Hope to have new work in next month or two

My tools and supplies have been trapped in storage while I looked for a new apartment.  So I’ve had nothing to add here for some time (at least two months).  I start moving into a very tiny new apartment tomorrow.  Not sure how many tools I can put in there; it’s smaller than the last one.  It will take a while to get the new place organized.  Hopefully, I can add more in the next two months.

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#TSGuitArtTops @TSGAxe

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Do You Have a Favorite Artwork Soundboard?

Please feel free to leave your comments about the artwork soundboard galleries.  Art is subjective.  Pick one or more that you like and one or two that you don’t.  Registration on this site will not get you spammed, unless you specifically request updates.

Even then, I don’t yet have a plug-in that does a good job of sending them out.  So I’ve started a Twitter account, @TSGAxe, to do that.  Please follow.  If you want to leave comments on any particular soundboard, either way, please use at least part of the filename from the left frame of thumbnails in a gallery.

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Guitar Artwork Soundboard Gallery of 20 Images

This Gallery a1  has 20 images (© 2009-2015).  One uses some Celtic design drawings from © 2010 to construct a mirror-surface “Elven War Shield” (© 2015), with carved ruby, emerald and sapphire set in copper, gold and silver.  The rest use color variations on an airbrush splatter painting from © 2009, set on an axe-head  soundboard (© 2015), with a stub at the bottom representing the head of an axe handle, as an extension of the guitar neck.  Here are some samples:

gallery a1 samples

The rectangle lines show what parts of the artwork the tailpiece and bridge would cover.  The “Elven shield” was constructed to let them work with the art.

As before, the gallery has an index on the left, and if you don’t like what you see, scroll down and click on something else.  The images change every 10 seconds.

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