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cmdrpiffle
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 02/01/2006 : 11:37:51 AM
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Originally posted by Karl Monetti
Say, Andy, I guess i don;t know how to use those emoticons yet....came thru with parenthesese and other wierd stuf...where did i go wrong?
I'm not sure how that happened. I fixed it though. You do not need the 'insertjavascript' - just [ :) ] without the spaces will result in 
Andy's trying to rig it to automatically and unknowingly use emoticons, all part of his master plan to rule the world.
Cmdr 'don't think I didn't notice' Piffle |
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cmdrpiffle
`Olu`olu
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 11:39:57 AM
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Oh, and Karl, sweet looking lap guitar. But....I did notice those snow covered Sitkas in the pictures. You realize of course you'll have to take one 'out' for your next top.
Cheers,
Cmdr 'damn, it's gonna get down to 59 tonight' Piffle |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 9:08:52 PM
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Piff,
We got up to negative 18 today!!!
Our local spruce are whites, not sitkas, unfortunately. Those big honkers grow down along the coast in southeast, about as gazillion miles away. One local wood tha has been made use of in guitars is the white birch. Hard to find a good clear chunk with straight grain and little run-out, but i learned how to pick the straight trees when i was building dog sleds of birch. It is light strong, not much figure, if any, and this local fellow has mede some really good sounding guitars, using it for sides, tops, backs.
I actually have another whole board of koa, plus enough left from teh first for the back and sides of another guitar. Just don;t know if i will ever wish to builkd another. Maybe subliminally i do, as i inlaid a #1 at the 17th fret of this one |
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Mika ele
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 02/02/2006 : 08:15:19 AM
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| Looks like the Masters of Slack Key are coming to Anchorage. Time for a ROAD TRIP? |
E nana, e ho'olohe. E pa'a ka waha, e hana ka lima. |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/03/2006 : 09:22:45 AM
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| Just found out about Masters in Anchorage, but i think i may go to the Seattle venue instead and take in the workshops being offered on saturday and sunday April 1,2 ANybody else going to that or have any feedback on previous workshops there? |
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neeej
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 02/03/2006 : 6:07:56 PM
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Originally posted by Karl Monetti
Just found out about Masters in Anchorage, but i think i may go to the Seattle venue instead and take in the workshops being offered on saturday and sunday April 1,2 ANybody else going to that or have any feedback on previous workshops there?
I did it last year & plan to this time round too (assuming I ever get da registration info---hint hint, O Great & Glorious Patrick, Sir! 'Course, I'll be on Moloka'i da next 12 days, so not DAT much of a hurry <G>). I was low man on da totempole in my classes, but enjoyed them very much & got a lot out of them. |
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slkho
`Olu`olu
740 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2006 : 09:06:08 AM
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Gramps if you can make to Don's LV ( that's las vegas for you AK types) that would be awesome!! Hopefully your schedule will allow for that.
I didn't know you also can fly a plane??? Way cool! Brudda Ken can too, or at least did at one time.
Actually the air is still quite comfortable, (albeit thinner) at 14,000. After 17,000 is when the fun really begins. Yikes!!
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Ianui
Lokahi
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 02/04/2006 : 2:44:18 PM
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I didn't know Ken was a pilot. I used to fly in Marine Corp and had a Cessna 172N for years.
Wonder how many other Slack Key guys are pilots. We could have "The Slack Key Bomber's" group. Of course nothing personal intended.
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thumbstruck
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 02/05/2006 : 06:16:42 AM
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| I'm a "slack key bomber", no plane, but I went to a party and played some slack key and "bombed". Uninformed, iggorant audience, only like top 40 and stuff of that ilk. I changed venues. |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2006 : 10:05:24 AM
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Way to go Thumbs! YOu played the right stuff to the wrong crowd! Fire them and go somewhere with gbetter taste:)
Yup, had a Super Cub, then a PA-12 for sabout 3000 hours over10-12 years. Sold it while ging thru a divorce after i almost killed myself....lack of attention to detail with too much on my mind. Sice then, i cannot help looking up any time one flies over. There's a longing in my heart.
When i first got the cub and was in flight trainging classes, the instructor said if you flew closer to the flight ceiling (i think that is the term...max allaowale altitude for the plane to opperate in) you would get better fuel economy. So, on my second solo i just aimed her up and watched the altimeter go 'round and 'round. Along about 15,00 feet i noticed i was not able to view parts of the scenery...i realized at once i wsa O2 deprived and put us in a steep descent. Got my breath and vision back at around 12,500, and have tried to stay below that ever since. I don't think i would be writing this today had i made it to 17,000 that day
So, following the words of the gurus must be taken incontext. Fly high fo rfuel economy, but you might want to take some spare oxygen with you!
The mostimportant advice were these gems;
Three things pilots have no use for;
runway behind you
altitude above you
gas in the ground
And, keep the dirty side down
And, there are a lot fo old pilots and a lot of bold pilots, but very few old bold pilots
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Pua Kai
Ha`aha`a
USA
1007 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2006 : 10:44:48 AM
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HIGH there,
Well, there's Nick the Pilot, and cmdr Piff, and, oh shoot, forgot his name, newer guy out in Palm Desert to name a few.
Take a few days down here "gramps" or Uncle Karl, and we'll give you an air tour in the 5th to the last Super Cub to come off the line in 1976, or a Cessna 180 with an old pilot, who's patched up the planes of many of the bold.
aloha!
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Ianui
Lokahi
USA
298 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2006 : 7:59:58 PM
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| ...and there I was at 10,000 ft over the ocean with no parachute when the engine quit, and a fire broke out filling the cockpit with chokeing smoke. Unable to see, and with fire beginning to lick at my feet the plane turned upside down and began a flat inverted death spiral to the ocean below ...... |
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cmdrpiffle
`Olu`olu
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2006 : 10:06:48 AM
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| ...There I was...flat on my back, 40,000 feet, hanging by my throatmike... |
my Poodle is smarter than your honor student |
Edited by - cmdrpiffle on 02/06/2006 11:13:56 AM |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
756 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2006 : 11:56:28 AM
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Aw, come on you guys, my description wasn't that histrionic...was it???
Don, did you die in that crash? |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2006 : 2:03:04 PM
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I got my private ticket, flew until I had about 75 hours and figured the skies were safer without me flying. Also, my wife said "no more" after our kids were born. After transferring my hobby to musical instruments, she still complains.
Jesse Tinsley
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