Cheers Monte! Those two are both 23 in scale 13 3/8 in lower bout. They can also/have been strung as tenor guitars (tuned in 5ths as violas or mandolas with two strings double course.

I still have a 25 in scale, 15 in lower bout archie and a Mary Kay, whiteguard, macassar ebony fingerboard tele left on the list.

My major windfall has been plugging my soundhole acoustic into the valve amp! Finally, after 8 mos. of wondering. I have been using a solid state 'acoustic' amp with a mic channel.

But the valve sound ticks all my boxes!

Did I mention I have a Champ clone to use for 3 weeks? Someone has to do it!

This was taken from a professional photographer's blog called The Most Beautiful World. He is based out of Australia. Texcaster enjoys our upheavals right now in America. However, look what's going on right now in Australia. Funny that Tex never mentions that. If you want to see the videos, go to themostbeautifulworld.com.


UPDATE: They just went for 12 more months on emergency health measure! Unbelievable.

Ah! The free world will be missed! The time we could just jump on a plane without providing a tracking number are over, sadly!

Victoria in Australia went full r****d: Drones are used to identify those who do not comply with a mask or go further than 5 kilometers than their home. The police is requested military drone to spy on their citizen! Of course the military turned their request down, but the fact that the police went there is madness.

The prime minister of Australia just said a few days ago that he plans to make the v*****e compulsory. That is, no jab, no job. Someone wake me up from this dystopia nightmare!

Here’s a story from a local (source):

“My state is in absolute disarray. I don’t even know where to begin but I think by now if you are reading this you know about the draconian measures currently enforced in Victoria, Australia, particularly Melbourne. If you don’t know the specifics of what’s happening here I’d recommend searching Victoria or Melbourne in r/conspiracy to read stories of human rights violations and severe police enforcement. What’s worse is that the tone around here is generally apathetic or support for these measures. Particularly on the hard left, who were protesting to dismantle cops mere months ago as part of B*M. It’s pure cognitive dissonance.

Thankfully I don’t live in Melbourne, I moved away to regional Victoria just in time in 2018. But many of my friends are still there. Here are some of the measures enforced and stories I’ve gathered, for Melbourne and Victoria: 1. Strict curfew 8pm-5am. (76 people were fined for breaching curfew within the first 24 hours, including a man fined $1652 for getting a burger on the way home from work) 2. Mandatory masks in all of Victoria (even where I live, 90 minutes from Melbourne in a town where the nearest C***D case was 40 minutes away. No reported c***d death within a 150km radius of where I live but I still am made to feel like I need to wear a mask and avoid all human contact.) 3. No travel except for “essential activities”. 4. Army deployed at stops outside of Melbourne to prevent anyone getting out or in. Heavy police and army presence on foot in the streets and on the roads and in the skies. 5. Police can enter your home without a warrant and there are reports of police breaking car windows to force people to hand over details. 6. The media and government have started talking about forced v******tions this week. 7. Warnings on YouTube and Google regarding new censorship legislations

All of this and much more with 458 deaths. Our annual influenza death rate sits at about 500-800, and they’re saying influenza has completely disappeared in Australia this year. Nearly all deaths are in nursing homes. For perspective, our annual suicide rate is about 3000 annually, but I’ve read reports that we’ve already far surpassed that number in 2020. The majority of suicides occur in people under 44. This boggles my mind the most, especially since I was hospitalised for an attempt in November and have been treated like absolute crap by the mental health system since. C***d concerns or symptoms are treated with the utmost importance and there are specialist testing tents set up in nearly every large regional town near where I live and everywhere in the city and they’re often empty.

There is a great Facebook group called Millions Rise for Australia which is absolutely flooded with real-world stories of Australians like me enduring absolute hell at the moment. I’d recommend everyone who cares jump in and join the group for support and to witness the insanity we are living via personal accounts. I’ve read lots of conspiratorial reports in that group of people in Melbourne hearing helicopters and planes flying overhead during the curfew spraying, odd sulphur smells during the curfew, waking up with yellow powder over the streets, birds waking and chirping hours early at 11pm-2am, explosions (I’ve experienced this where I live too), rumours of child trafficking rescue missions.

Something is definitely going on here and my mind is absolutely spinning with the myriad conspiracies on my own fucking doorstep. I’ve never posted in this group (I’ve been a lurker for years), but I check daily for Melbourne updates and felt I’d share my brain dump. I may share more stories as I see them arise but all of this just makes me feel so sick mentally. They’re making anyone who questions the narrative feel psychotic and for me, that’s what’s destroying me the most, emotions exasperated by my pre-existing mental illness (BPD with delusional episodes).

I don’t know what this post is besides a rant and awareness raising for my fellow empathetic humans overseas. Please just spare a thought for us here, join the FB group to help show our government the world won’t stand for this, and if your time comes, just don’t buckle under government pressure like we have. I do believe we are a testing ground for either a new world order or some kind of c*******t/China takeover (the later is especially interesting given Victoria’s relationship to China.) As a society, Victorians are notoriously apathetic, easy-going, and progressively people-centric.

To me, it feels like Victoria and NZ could be a testing ground for forced vax and/or majorly increased censorship and/or new world order/China dictatorship.”

And many more boots-on-the-ground report like that.

People organizing protests are getting arrested!


The police is arresting anyone not wearing a mask. Horrific video here if you happen to like freedom.

The gestapo is in full force in the state of Victoria, Australia.

I will remind the reader those stats from the CDC:

0.011% of the US population under 65 have died of C***D

0.005% of the US population under 55 have died of C***D

0.0009% of the US population under 35 have died of C***D

0.0002% of the US population under 25 have died of C***D

0.00008% of the US population under 15 have died of C***D

And those “at risk”:

0.23% of the US population over 65 have died of C***D

Locking down the whole world is beyond absurd: it’s a crime against humanity going on.

lol

There's been a lot of c***d under the bridge since you posted this hysterical dog's breakfast Oather. Can you back it up now?

Just so you know how it worked out Birther.

Australian C***d statistics in total. Population 25.69 million 2020 (read Florida)

cases 201K deaths 1,968

Australian Capital Territory
2,088 - 14

New South Wales
80,408 - 625

Northern Territory
280 - 0

Queensland
2,115 - 7

Victoria
115K - 1,301

South Australia
922 - 4

Western Australia
1,121 - 9

Tasmania
239 - 13 ... jussayin'.

Would you like the school shooting figures? Vigilante shooting figures? Gun crime figures in general since, you know ... we are armed ... contrary to self-serving NRA gun sale propaganda?

Awesome semi-auto firepower is a big deal in Aussie but doable. Personally, I keep my awesome semi-auto firepower in MAGAstan where I need it because of the vigilante camo patriot infestation.

"I have a MAGAstan passport but between the US c***d epicentre and the vigilante patriot infestation I'd be mad to use it." Tex