Hi all, haven't posted in a long time--- because i've been doing some actual playing instead of my usual noodling around on the internet.
anyway, I have a few observations i like to make regarding how the guitar is placed, rather, where the guitar is relative to your body.
coming from classical guitar background, i usually rest the guitar on my left leg while my left foot is on a foot stool. it looks really odd, but i play the electric guitar this way as well. to make matters worse, my previous electric guitar was a V shaped guitar. since it doesn't have upper horn (or lower horn for that matter), the strap bolt is actually on the back of the guitar as in the pic below
as if that wasn't bad enough, i am one of those geeks that play the guitar with a very short strap... which cause the guitar to sit really high. I know its not cool, but for some reason, my wrist is more flat. If i play with the guitar in the "low slung" position, i really have to bend my wrist. i just dont see how some of you guys do it, albeit it looks really cool compared to my Urkle style.
however strange the location of the strap bolt is, the main advantages, to me, is that it shifts the entire guitar to the left, which means the upper register to the player's left. since the bolt is to the right (compared to the bolt being on the tip of the upper horn). this makes accessing the upper register really easy.
i'm getting to the EBMM jp-6 part of this dilemma ....
since i've been playing in this unusual position, it has been pretty much impossible for me to play any strat-shaped electric guitars. i know the strat shape is essentially the same as the classical guitar except it has the upper and lower cut aways... but with classical guitar, 15th fret and above is hardly accessed, so where the upper register is located is hardly an issue.
during the last few months, while trying to adjust to the jp6, i've had to make some pretty strange (to me) wrist positions in order to reach the top register. to my body, it seems the entire guitar is not too far to my right. I've been trying to adjust to it, but i am having a very difficult time (can't teach old dogs new tricks).
so i've come up with a "brilliant" idea (brilliant as in Tim the Toolman Taylor) of installing the strap bolt in pretty much the same place as my V. I haven't drilled yet the strap bolt is simply placed where i want to put it.
is it safe to drill here? how long/short of a screw should i use? can i just use the same size thats on the upper horn? i have the NON-PIEZO version of the jp6, so there's no piezo pup switch or piezo routing on my guitar.
ps i just like to say that the jp6 is a great instrument. its obviously well built. all the discomfort i'm experiencing are all due to my personal history with odd shaped guitars and weird playing position... there's nothing wrong with the jp6.
anyway, I have a few observations i like to make regarding how the guitar is placed, rather, where the guitar is relative to your body.
coming from classical guitar background, i usually rest the guitar on my left leg while my left foot is on a foot stool. it looks really odd, but i play the electric guitar this way as well. to make matters worse, my previous electric guitar was a V shaped guitar. since it doesn't have upper horn (or lower horn for that matter), the strap bolt is actually on the back of the guitar as in the pic below
as if that wasn't bad enough, i am one of those geeks that play the guitar with a very short strap... which cause the guitar to sit really high. I know its not cool, but for some reason, my wrist is more flat. If i play with the guitar in the "low slung" position, i really have to bend my wrist. i just dont see how some of you guys do it, albeit it looks really cool compared to my Urkle style.
however strange the location of the strap bolt is, the main advantages, to me, is that it shifts the entire guitar to the left, which means the upper register to the player's left. since the bolt is to the right (compared to the bolt being on the tip of the upper horn). this makes accessing the upper register really easy.
i'm getting to the EBMM jp-6 part of this dilemma ....
since i've been playing in this unusual position, it has been pretty much impossible for me to play any strat-shaped electric guitars. i know the strat shape is essentially the same as the classical guitar except it has the upper and lower cut aways... but with classical guitar, 15th fret and above is hardly accessed, so where the upper register is located is hardly an issue.
during the last few months, while trying to adjust to the jp6, i've had to make some pretty strange (to me) wrist positions in order to reach the top register. to my body, it seems the entire guitar is not too far to my right. I've been trying to adjust to it, but i am having a very difficult time (can't teach old dogs new tricks).
so i've come up with a "brilliant" idea (brilliant as in Tim the Toolman Taylor) of installing the strap bolt in pretty much the same place as my V. I haven't drilled yet
the strap bolt is simply placed where i want to put it.
is it safe to drill here? how long/short of a screw should i use? can i just use the same size thats on the upper horn? i have the NON-PIEZO version of the jp6, so there's no piezo pup switch or piezo routing on my guitar.
ps i just like to say that the jp6 is a great instrument. its obviously well built. all the discomfort i'm experiencing are all due to my personal history with odd shaped guitars and weird playing position... there's nothing wrong with the jp6.
