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I have a Yamaha acoustic that’s 35 years old and looks and plays like new. Nothing fancy, but I paid like $100 for it. Even back then, I thought that was a steal.

I got out the Guild and played a little today. It’s been too long and my fingers are killing me lol.
That was a steal. I don't know too much about acoustics, though. They're really a different instrument altogether from electrics.

What Guild do you have? Most of their guitars were exquisite.

Yes, your fingers will hurt. Muscles will hurt from the new activity. The strings might even feel like knives for a bit. I know, because I played on and off for a long time, and getting back in is never as easy as we'd like.
 

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vape mail brought an asMODus/HSV designed Rosefinch 24.5mm mech mod. I usually don't go for engraved stuff but when I saw this on clearance at sourcemore for $23.90 I couldn't pass it up. Before I bought it I had them verify it is an authentic (it is). It's built very very solidly. Above the HSV logo are engraved "Harmony Sunshine Virtue".

Vapor Range is currently selling them for $179.95 (a few other online stores are even higher). There is a self adjusting 510 pin and it has a magnetic firing switch. It's a copper body with silver plated contacts. It features an asMODus design called a Levitating Firing Button which automatically calibrates itself when a battery is inserted so that battery adjustments and atty adjustments are not required. The LFB floats on an insulator that prevents accidental firing when standing upright. Great vape too. ;)
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If anyone is interested here is the link:
asMODus Rose Finch Mechanical Mod single 18650
I am thinking of grabbing another one due to the quality and price. Way to go asMODus!!!

Edit to add a decent photo of the engraving:
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Funny how it is..I was a MTLr when I started. Didn't want anything to do with DL. When I stopped smoking, I decided i'm finished with tobacco to. Now two years later I mostly DL, and only tobacco.
Meanwhile, I've graduated (?) to barely inhaling. Not on purpose--it just happened.
 

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Vape mail brought an asMODus/HSV designed Rosefinch 24.5mm mech mod. I usually don't go for engraved stuff but when I saw this on clearance at sourcemore for $23.90 I couldn't pass it up. Before I bought it I had them verify it is an authentic (it is). It's built very very solidly. Above the HSV logo are engraved "Harmony Sunshine Virtue".

Vapor Range is currently selling them for $179.95 (a few other online stores are even higher). There is a self adjusting 510 pin and it has a magnetic firing switch. It's a copper body with silver plated contacts. It features an asMODus design called a Levitating Firing Button which automatically calibrates itself when a battery is inserted so that battery adjustments and atty adjustments are not required. The LFB floats on an insulator that prevents accidental firing when standing upright. Great vape too. ;)
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If anyone is interested here is the link:
asMODus Rose Finch Mechanical Mod single 18650
I am thinking of grabbing another one due to the quality and price. Way to go asMODus!!!

Edit to add a decent photo of the engraving:
View attachment 826737
That's a beauty. I'm going to get one of each.
 

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She is darling. I don't know the backstory so excuse me for asking why you can't keep her?
She was a foster. Part of a colony of semi ferals at a trailer park that I trapped. neutered returned at. She was very sick with dead babies inside and mastitis. Only a teen herself. I took her home and got her well. I foster a lot and make a pact with self not to keep any.
 

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Dropping out of vaping and then dropping back in 2 years later has been kind of weird. Seems like AsMODus has become the new Provari, and stabwood ("stabwood", really?) is the new titanium.

The term "stabwood" threw me for a loop at first, because as a luthier, "stabilized wood" is wood that has been heat treated ("roasted") and doesn't need finish. In fact, before I left the last time, one of the Tootle Puffers was making a roasted cherry mod, which he referred to as "stabilized wood". Which it is. Wood that doesn't need a finish.

Here's a cedar guitar body I did a couple of years ago ("Janine"). I coated the wood with a heavy layer of clear epoxy resin (thinned with acetone), and let it just disappear into the wood. A few days later, I repeated the process. Then I sanded and polished it smooth, and the color will probably never change much. It also added over 2 lbs to the weight of the body, so I won't be doing that one again. Or maybe I will. I wonder if people would pay more for a "stabwood" guitar?
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Cat pic (Shiloh left, Sasha right) inserted and crossposted shamelessly.
beauties and look so cuddly.
 

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That was a steal. I don't know too much about acoustics, though. They're really a different instrument altogether from electrics.

What Guild do you have? Most of their guitars were exquisite.

Yes, your fingers will hurt. Muscles will hurt from the new activity. The strings might even feel like knives for a bit. I know, because I played on and off for a long time, and getting back in is never as easy as we'd like.

It’s a D25 in Cherry. It’s funny that such a big fat body can have such a sweet, high voice.

I’ve probably told this story here before, but one Christmas when we were pretty broke, my husband and I were day dreaming about what Christmas would be like one day if we had money. And I asked him what he’d want for Christmas if money were no object. A Harley. I said I wanted a this Guild. I never bothered to tell him that, at the time, they were made to order. You’d have to order one 8-12 months in advance, and they were going $1200 and up back then, almost 30 years ago.

The poor guy went to every guitar shop in the truck-state area looking for one before someone finally told him why he wasn’t finding it. And then, he got lucky and found one that had been ordered and never claimed.

That was the most romantic thing ever.

Of course, I could not get him his motorcycle and that always bugged me. A few years ago, he started looking for one and found a good deal on a bike with like 5,000 miles in it.

He wanted it but felt really guilty about spending all that money. And I told him, either he was buying it, or I’d go buy it for him.


That thing scared me silly but I miss it anyway.

It was the first thing I had to get rid of when he died. My brother bought it, so I can see it when I want to. But at the time, I just couldn’t bear it.
 

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Funny how it is..I was a MTLr when I started. Didn't want anything to do with DL. When I stopped smoking, I decided i'm finished with tobacco to. Now two years later I mostly DL, and only tobacco.

Don't worry. A year from now you'll be back to a loose MTL with Circus Cotton Candy.;)

Vape mail brought an asMODus/HSV designed Rosefinch 24.5mm mech mod. I usually don't go for engraved stuff but when I saw this on clearance at sourcemore for $23.90 I couldn't pass it up. Before I bought it I had them verify it is an authentic (it is). It's built very very solidly. Above the HSV logo are engraved "Harmony Sunshine Virtue".

Vapor Range is currently selling them for $179.95 (a few other online stores are even higher). There is a self adjusting 510 pin and it has a magnetic firing switch. It's a copper body with silver plated contacts. It features an asMODus design called a Levitating Firing Button which automatically calibrates itself when a battery is inserted so that battery adjustments and atty adjustments are not required. The LFB floats on an insulator that prevents accidental firing when standing upright. Great vape too. ;)
View attachment 826739
If anyone is interested here is the link:
asMODus Rose Finch Mechanical Mod single 18650
I am thinking of grabbing another one due to the quality and price. Way to go asMODus!!!

Edit to add a decent photo of the engraving:
View attachment 826737

That's a beauty! And that's a helluva price. Especially both copper and brass.
 

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    Funny how it is..I was a MTLr when I started. Didn't want anything to do with DL. When I stopped smoking, I decided i'm finished with tobacco to. Now two years later I mostly DL, and only tobacco.

    I vividly remember posts made by you about a mtl tight as a gnats butthole RTA not being tight enough and I had the same problem with the nautilus x :lol:
    I love it how we evolve/change as vapers, it makes things much more interesting :thumb:
     

    stols001

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    Man I don't feel so hot. I was... Well by lunch I was having the kind of bathroom experiences you don't want to have in your OWN bathroom, let atone work's. It was horrible. Then I came home and did that for awhile. I KNOW I wasn't going to talk about it, but like, I did totally research corsets and NOPE they are no kind of solution to the dilemma I had in fact if anything they just shove your organs around and like do nasty stuff to your ribs, HONESTLY. So in between bathroom trips I like was reading and going "I hate myself, this is insane. But, I recognize it is insane unlike some of those women." So yeah, the deluded corset wearers (some of them wear them to BED OMG) I would probably die in my sleep they are all fervent about how thin they are and I am like "I can't hear you from way over on the internet because you can barely BREATHE. Also if anything they weaken all your muscle.

    Anything I wear that involves BONING, well I'd want it to be from like the dinosaur age and I had a bone button on one of my furs or something.

    My only solution is to go under the knife. In between bathroom trips, I looked into that some MORE. Holy F, like, I looked at before and after pics and I was like "So many of these are just so WAY not so much BETTER for THOUSANDS of dollars and TONS of money that is STILL horrendous.

    It made me grateful actually I must say a lot the AFTER pics looked WAY worse than my before pics. I have figured out why folks think I am pregnant. It is because my stomach has approximately 3% body fat there would be nothing to liposuction and like, my stomach is TAUT. It's just ROUND because the dumb ligaments are stretched. That is all the doc would ACTUALLY need to do, cut them (shudder) or whatever, and then, like, I would look completely normal. After oh six months. Before that I would have all these horrible scars.

    For a ton of money/trip to Mexico recovery is up to 8 weeks before you can exercise again SHUDDER, I'd probably look worse than I did now.

    So yeah, then I saned up and I was like "The next time someone asks when I am due, I am going to tell them SIX MONTHS, thank you for asking!" And then just move on.

    Grrr though, it's so unfortunate. l don't believe in plastic surgery and I have decided I will only allow myself to do it if I gradually coax homeless woman into some sort of sanity and get her into a shelter.

    So I better pack my hemorrhoids products and figure out where she hangs out. Clearly.

    My apologies for this post I think I'm dehydrated now, I did not check my stomach afterward to see if it was smaller. I'm gonna have to call my therapist AGAIN. Oy.

    Sigh shiny is in the mail. That's nice, I tortured myself with a doggy it has banana foster in it. It's fairly good.

    Me and my stomach can't face the dot mod yet. It's so NEEDLESSLY complicated, it makes me mad. Etc.

    Anna
     

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    She was a foster. Part of a colony of semi ferals at a trailer park that I trapped. neutered returned at. She was very sick with dead babies inside and mastitis. Only a teen herself. I took her home and got her well. I foster a lot and make a pact with self not to keep any.
    I think she's yours. You just don't realize it yet.
     

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    That's a beauty! And that's a helluva price. Especially both copper and brass.
    Thanks Eskie. I am constantly on the lookout for gear at decent prices. I hit the clearance isles all the time.

    You get Bonus enabler points today! One of each for me, too.

    Cool. As a collector of all things asMODus I knew you would want at least one.

    Irresistible.
    They truly are. I hope you and Delores like them.

    Shipping was quick too. Eight days from order to my mailbox. That is a record for shipping time from China to here.

    One more photo. I was sitting at the kitchen table and had just set the Rosefinch down when a Luna came sliding across a short distance to the Rosefinch. I picked up the Rosefinch and its magnet had the Luna firmly in tow. Talk about heavy duty.
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    I took my RDA off for the photo and had thick bubble wrap on the floor just in case. ;)
    There is a little less than a third of juice and an 18650 battery in the Luna. The Luna is not very heavy. I did the same with a Colossal with battery and an RTA with my hand there to be safe. No, I am not going to try for a photo of that haha. You'll see when you get yours.
     

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