9/11, sewing, and off topic thoughts

wrote:

If the guitar cases are physically sound (or can be made so), how
about covering them with something elegant? Beats reinventing the
infrastructure. Yes, I'd sure want good armor around that 12-string!



Now if you could just come up with a simple fast way to
tune it......
--

Joanne @ stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us
http://bernardschopen.tripod.com/
Life is about the journey, not about the destination.

Pogonip wrote:

wrote:


If the guitar cases are physically sound (or can be made so), how
about covering them with something elegant? Beats reinventing the
infrastructure. Yes, I'd sure want good armor around that 12-string!



Now if you could just come up with a simple fast way to tune it......

I have! I have! I bought one of those *dear* little electronic tuners
(cost about $15AUS ten years ago). Easy peasy!

BUT THEN...

....found out my son has perfect pitch (he has autism and when he was 18,
he just sat down and began singing, playing the piano and generally
exhibiting a rather amazing musical talent). These days, I just hand the
Old Gitar to DS and say 'Please would you tune that for me?' Easier
peasier! LOL!

Mind you, the *down* side of all this is the quiet and ever-so-polite
advice from the young whipper-snapper that one was singing off pitch at
choir practice!

(His actual words we 'I know you were doing your best, Mum, but you
really should try to sing A at the end of the measure instead of Ab!'
Hnnnh!)

--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Karen M. wrote:

I've made gig bags for low brass horns. Ripstop outer, soft flannel
inside, sandwich with "egg crate" foam padding. One twin-size mattress
pad would make several bags. Nylon strapping, velcro or buckles. And a
critical design element is reflective tape sewn on in an early stage
of construction.
A guitar would need a lot more padding, or a stiffer liner.
Could you just "upholster" your existing case with nylon pack
cloth? That eould stabilize it and remove a lot of the construction
challenges.
HTH

--Karen M.
not the sewing book author

Yes, I could do that. I can't picture it without covering up all the
closures, though. They're clasp type ones that are fixed on with
flimsy-looking but still-working rivets. Any ideas?

--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Poohma wrote:


Actually, that is sort of what I meant: you only seam one side and then
zipper the rest so that when you unzip, the lid of the guitar case inside
will open regularly.

-----------------Sew this part
| | zippers on open edges ending at -
| |
------- -------Gap=opening for handle of old case

I know it's a rectangle, but does it make sense? If not, maybe it will work
for something else :-)

YES! I can picture that! Thank you *ever* so much! This is what I think
I might just do! I could even velcro the new padded cover to the surface
of the old hard case so that they were sort of a unit and sort of not...
I hope you know what I mean! LOL! I do!

Thanks to everyone for their clever ideas! I don't know why I didn't ask
this question a long time ago! :-D
--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Trish Brown wrote:
Poohma wrote:


Actually, that is sort of what I meant: you only seam one side and then
zipper the rest so that when you unzip, the lid of the guitar case inside
will open regularly.

-----------------Sew this part
| | zippers on open edges ending at -
| |
------- -------Gap=opening for handle of old case

I know it's a rectangle, but does it make sense? If not, maybe it will
work
for something else :-)


YES! I can picture that! Thank you *ever* so much! This is what I think
I might just do! I could even velcro the new padded cover to the surface
of the old hard case so that they were sort of a unit and sort of not...
I hope you know what I mean! LOL! I do!

Thanks to everyone for their clever ideas! I don't know why I didn't ask
this question a long time ago! :-D

You can also get hardware from Brettun's village. I've only bought
leather from them, but I do know they're very nice people to deal with.

http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/howto/parts/

Kathleen Hansen
Z-Control Skid Boots
Leg armor for gonzo dogs!
http://webpages.charter.net/dhfm/ZControl.html

On 2004-09-30 said:
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.sewing,alt.sewing
Trish in Newcastle, NSW, Australia spake thus:

wrote:
Emily, why did you want to cover up your DGS??? ;-
Don't have one, do you? G
LOL! No, I don't! I have a great-niece, though, and she's recently
learned how to say 'Shut up!' Why is it that it takes ages to teach
a two-year-old to use her potty but only an instant for her to hear
and indelibly remember 'Shut up!'???
I cannot think of a delicate way to tell you my similar stories! G

... Yes, I could very easily cover the cases
with fabric and probably some kind of batting...
Can you think of a way I can cover the things *and* keep the case
closures intact?
Just examined my (cheap) guitar case. The catches are held on with
prongs on one part, prong-rivets on the other. I'd remove the
catches by straightening the prongs, do my covering job, then drill
rivet holes in the pieces without them, and rivet or bolt them back
on. If bolting, use aircraft-type self-locking nuts, or glue the
nuts from backing off with Loctite, cover them with suitable
protection for the instrument. I recommend getting drilling help
from someone with a drill press, not doing it with hand tools.

Geez, that doesn't sound very sewey, does it?

Was that any help? Hope so.


Tom Willmon
Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

Haphephobia is better than none at all.

Net-Tamer V 1.12.0 - Registered

My recent note about covering the amps that belong to my DGS did sound a bit
strange, did it not? Anyway, I meant I would ask my DD if he might like
having the same type covers as his uncle. I know nothing about covering
guitar cases as most of the guitars DS have are Rics and they have shiny
metal-looking cases.
Emily
Emily

wrote:

Just examined my (cheap) guitar case. The catches are held on with
prongs on one part, prong-rivets on the other. I'd remove the
catches by straightening the prongs, do my covering job, then drill
rivet holes in the pieces without them, and rivet or bolt them back
on. If bolting, use aircraft-type self-locking nuts, or glue the
nuts from backing off with Loctite, cover them with suitable
protection for the instrument. I recommend getting drilling help
from someone with a drill press, not doing it with hand tools.

Geez, that doesn't sound very sewey, does it?

Was that any help? Hope so.


Tom Willmon
Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA

That sure was 'any help'. I happen to have a drill press and can imagine
what you mean! Thanks again, Tom! :-D

--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia

PS. Well, the application of snap fasteners isn't all that 'sewey'
either, but it's a necessary part of the process, right?

On 2004-10-01 said:
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.sewing,alt.sewing
wrote:
Just examined my (cheap) guitar case. The catches are held on
with prongs on one part, prong-rivets on the other. I'd remove
the catches by straightening the prongs, do my covering job, then
drill rivet holes in the pieces without them, and rivet or bolt
them back on. If bolting, use aircraft-type self-locking nuts,
or glue the nuts from backing off with Loctite, cover them with
suitable protection for the instrument. I recommend getting
drilling help from someone with a drill press, not doing it with
hand tools.
Geez, that doesn't sound very sewey, does it?
Was that any help? Hope so.
Tom Willmon
Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA
That sure was 'any help'. I happen to have a drill press and can
imagine what you mean! Thanks again, Tom! :-D
Any Lady who has her own drill press is all right with me!
--
Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia
PS. Well, the application of snap fasteners isn't all that 'sewey'
either, but it's a necessary part of the process, right?
And welding is the metal equivalent of sewing, right? None of us is
separate.

Tom

If you don't care where you are, then you can't get lost.

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"Pogonip" wrote in message
...
Karen Maslowski wrote:

If Kerry is so interested in helping

the poor and helpless? How can he be taking human life in the name of
abortion?


Has it ever occurred to you that MEN are the cause of unwanted pregnancy?
And that if MEN were taking responsibility, we wouldn't have so much
poverty, so many fatherless children, and so many women desparate enough
to want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Men can father a child and
walk away, never to look back; a woman has to then carry the child, raise
it, and support it for the next 18 years, at least. I'm not saying that
I'm "for" abortion (as John Kerry is not "for" abortion, but rather for a
woman's choice), but I'm totally for people--all people--taking
responsibility for their actions, and to have the right to choose which
course their life will take.

Stepping off my soapbox now,
Karen in Ohio


One of the more interesting facts about this issue is that no court in the
U.S. will order anyone, man or woman, to donate bone marrow (or a kidney)
to save the life of someone in need, even if they are family. If a person
cannot be forced against their will to endure a medical treatment of one
day, with recovery time of six weeks or less, why should a person be
forced to endure nine months?
--

Why is it people don't see the truth until it gets personal? If it is your
right to choose, than is it not my right to choose, also? Of course it is
my right to choose if you can choose- so what if I choose to abort the rest
of your life? When is legalized murder ever right?

It is absolutely the responsibility of both men and women not get women
pregnant- neither is exempt from blame. Some research about guys in High
School - they think of sex every 8 seconds. There is such a thing as
adoption and alot of guys do pay child support, even women pay child
support.

to keep gays from getting married (which I hadn't realized was such a
threat).

I'm not a gay hater or basher. Everybody makes wrong choices for whatever
reasons, generally there not simple choices, elsewise most wrong choices
would not be made. Instead of taking a word that is thousands of years old
that has a narrow meaning, as all words have to seperate this from that so
we understand each other when we speak. If the gays were smart they would
make up a new word and attach any meaning they want to it and say it is
equal to the word marriage. A recent research in the Netherlands came up
with a gay marriage lasting on average 1 1/2 years. The part that bothers
me about this research is 34% see nothing wrong with sex outside of
marriage. Gays socity is very powerful and persuaive- do you want sex out
of wedlock added to the definition of marriage as normal? It will be added
sooner than you think. What this means is your husband can say the
definition of marriage is I can have sex with you and thousands of other
women- that's quite a licsence. Your husband might not agree with that of
marriage, but your grandchildren will grow up with whatever new additions to
marriage that get put there. A small research in Seattle showed gays having
20 sex partners a night 7 days a week- how much sex do you have with your
husbands a night 7 days a week? Maybe same sex sex is not satisfying?
People from around the world from all cultures for thousands of years notice
there is a difference between married people and non married people that
only happens between a man and woman; if that difference has been named
marriage from all these cultures, even those that don't even know about
reading and writing, why don't you know? This incudes other cultures with
other religions. So, the Christian belief is not the only one that depicts
marriage between man and woman. Even people with no religious beliefs
notice a difference that never happens between a man and man or woman and
woman. Even the shrinks dictionary says there is a difference between
married and none married man and woman when haveing sex that can create a
baby- damage between the non married happens. Has the Western World become
Lost in a Sea of Knowlege?

In the meantime, our health insurance, which we buy as self-employed
people, has gone up 150%. We pay more in health insurance premiums per
month than we pay for our mortgage. And get less for it, every year.

So vote for Kerry and Edwards. A medical business here in town fired within
the last month or two 40 some doctors because of liability insurance got to
high (now there is one doctor with that business). Edwards made his
millions sueing doctors which buy liability insurance to pay the sue price.
So, now, why is health insurance premiums going up? Even though the
Republicans run both House's and the White House the Democrates have blocked
everything to put caps on how much Lawyers can sue. In Europe there are
stick laws about sueing and practicly none in the USA. Recent, one research
found that on average the client make off with 27% of the sue job; 40+% went
to the sue lawyer, and the rest went to fees. Some cases belong in crimial
court not sue court, at least it should go through crimal court first.

John