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Post The Chronicles of a Stickist
I hope 'Inspirations' is the appropriate place for this, we shall see. I want to chronicle my journey with the Stick starting at the very beginning. This is a preface to a series of journal entries as I walk the path of discovery. I hope it brings a bit of nostalgia (or at least a good chuckle or two) for the old timers and a roadmap (or possibly a series of roadside signs that warn 'caution, construction ahead') for the noobs. My intro 'Never Too Late' over in Introductions gets us started, and I shall continue from here.

On Wednesday Fedex will deliver Railboard #6522 that I purchased from metalken through eBay. It is setup in Baritone Melody which I will keep as I have just ordered a Grand Stick with Classic tuning so the transition should be a no brainer. I bought the Railboard because I simply can't wait 6 months to start playing. I will run it through a new Korg CA-1 I just bought to get it tuned as my Carvin AG100D Amp will not arrive until a few hours later by UPS.

My next entry will describe (as best I can) my experience when I open the case for the first time and hold the Stick. I have never seen or held one in person. Stay tuned...(pun intended)

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Sat Sep 20, 2014 4:39 pm
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I believe I know that Stick. I think that's MetalKen from Florida? If so he bought it from Steve Osburn in Ann Arbor. It was passed around at Interlochen, first Railboard I've played. There's an entire thread about it here:

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I think Ken wanted a red one, did he get it?

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Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:01 pm
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Yes that's the stick from Ken and no, he doesn't have a red one, says he's concentrating on Bass right now and is 'stickless'.

MichNS wrote:
I believe I know that Stick. I think that's MetalKen from Florida? If so he bought it from Steve Osburn in Ann Arbor. It was passed around at Interlochen, first Railboard I've played. There's an entire thread about it here:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6582

I think Ken wanted a red one, did he get it?

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Happy Birthday! Railboard 6255 hatched out of it's hard black shell today at 2:30pm after the Fedex stork dropped it off. I spent a good hour going over everything and had to use my tube of Flitz and a few Q-Tips to remove a bit of rust on some of the screws. Ken lives in Flaw-duh and gave me a heads up that the humidity had messed with some of the metal parts.

Some rubbing alcohol and old cotton sock on the fingerboard/fretboard/railboard (whatchyacallit) and it looks like new. Amp arrived about 5pm so got it tuned up and spent an hour in total discovery mode as well as just admiring it's awesomeness. Stick and Carvin amp are a terriffic match. Some of the low side chords I got absolutely gave me chills. This is sooooooo cool!

I already have a tune that's itching to get out of my head and onto the strings, so will be working on that as my first project. I have Audacity installed on my laptop and will use that to record line output from the amp. Tomorrow is the first day of countless days of practice and exploration and invention. LapDawg arrives Friday so I can switch between standing and sitting. Set of Medium gauge coming next week from Cambria but Ken recommends I give the light gauge a chance to grow on me. He thinks the lights sound better than the mediums. We'll see.

Over and out.

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Wed Sep 24, 2014 4:28 pm
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What a kick ass post and update. Took me back to my discovery day. Oh joyful discovery Stick day. Great to hear all the component pieces coming together. Pictures and video ease (check Andy's video). Alzo, Marty has a fantastic video on changing strings.

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MichNS wrote:
I believe I know that Stick. I think that's MetalKen from Florida? If so he bought it from Steve Osburn in Ann Arbor. It was passed around at Interlochen, first Railboard I've played. There's an entire thread about it here:

http://www.stickist.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6582

I think Ken wanted a red one, did he get it?


As stated, I'm stickless. All fretless all the time for me, for now. I'll get another stick later on. I might go with bamboo + EMGs next time, for some spice. For now, I came to check in on 6255 here, and it looks like it found a good home.

I wanted to say, as well, that i have the action super razorblade low compared to the factory setup. As a result, if you want to change back to the medium strings, you may have to tweak the truss rod and/or raise a few saddles. you'll definitely have to adjust the Low C string saddle, because the medium gauge string has a different taper at the bridge than the light gauge bass string.

And, yes, i'll stand behind my endorsement of light gauge -- its where it's at, both tonewise and playability (Just my opinion of course) .

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Also, I'd suggest trying the XLR cable and using some phantom power to get active mode on those pickups, it brightens and tightens it up a bit, and gives you a nice clean gain boost, as well.

Edit: I think I included that dowel with the black tape around it -- I used that in place of a lapdog, and you can use it as such until yours arrives.

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Got in a good practice session last Thursday and a half hour here and there since. Working on two pieces, not ready for prime time yet as I work through the two hand coordination thing. Quick pic of the new music studio corner in my office.

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skyking wrote:
Got in a good practice session last Thursday and a half hour here and there since. Working on two pieces, not ready for prime time yet as I work through the two hand coordination thing. Quick pic of the new music studio corner in my office.

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Very original...love that color...congrats.

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The stand and the LapDawg are the cherry on top. Bravo.

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