| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L]to magnetize chicks or to not magnetize chicks....that is the question? | | Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2007 19:00:13 (+0100) | | From: | lh <lh @............com>
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| In reply to: | Message 6502 (written by don.hergert) |
I think they just installed a new 10 mile long particle accelerator at the
CERN laboratory in Switzerland, this apparently uses a magnet so powerful
that once they have finished working out how all the fundamental particles
that make up the universe hang together, they are going to attach a banjo
player to one end and see if they can attract a chick.
I'm going to start a petition against this experiment, figuring that if
banjo players ever manage to breed it could spell the end of civilisation
as we know it. The planet can cope with a small percentage of genetic
throwbacks as longer as they are rendered neutered by their noxious
noises....
:-)
Sorry I couldn't resist
> As a long time banjo player, I also am very familiar with the chick-magnet
> issue...
>
> I have spent a lot of time and effort trying to magnetize my banjo parts
> for
> this purpose. However, the metal parts on my old banjo are primarily
> brass,
> making magnetizing this instrument very difficult if not impossible.
> Luckily
> this banjo does have a fair amount of iron in the springs, washers and
> ballbearings, and the few nuts and bolts, that hold the thing together.
>
> So, as many of you have seen from previous discussions with me here, it
> was not
> surprising that when I got my first real Dobro, it would be an old metal
> body
> Dobro. Unfortunately, like my banjo, it also has turned out to be
> magnetically
> dissapointing, the body aluminum, the coverplate brass, the cone aluminum,
> the
> spyder and even the bridge on this old custom Rudy-workshop model,
> aluminum.
> As Don Young said when identifying this Dobro, "What was Rudy thinking?"
> The
> only iron content of this fretless instrument, perhaps with the exception
> of
> the tailpiece and the tuners, is once again in the few nuts, bolts, pins
> and
> assorted hardware that hold it together.
>
> Both my old banjo and my old Dobro do have one major source of magnetism,
> that
> being the steel strings. I do spend a significant amount of time
> magnetizing
> them. For my Dobro I've even gone the extra step of magnetizing my steel
> slide, which in effect replenishes the magnetism on the strings.
>
> Alas, I fear my efforts have been futile though... Despite repeatedly
> magnetically charging the few parts on these instruments that I can, I see
> no
> evidence of them enhancing my image as a chick-magnet.
>
> So, while mis-guided, I continue to try. Ironically (pun intended), the
> chick-magnet concept has not been lost on my wife; however, when I've
> tried to
> explain my chick-magnet efforts to her, she in the most deeply sincere
> voice
> wishes me "Good luck!"
>
> Best,
>
> -- Don
>
>
>
> reso-man@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> Being a reso-player alone, is chick magnet enough! Add purfling, and
> things is gonna get outa control for sure. Of course if you already are
> a chick, then your mileage will certainly var........oh forget it.
>>
>> signed,
>>
>> "Geeky"
>>
>
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