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Hello,

I'm worried. Have any of you ever experienced this. I'm tracking a UPS package from NY and yesterday morning (40 hours ago) it said the package had been scanned out of a town in Illinois. It hasn't updated since...and its "scheduled" to arrive tomorrow here in Colorado. Have any of you ever had a "tracking" that didn't seem to track? Or does this mean the truck got lost or the package is probably stolen.

Question 2 - What do you guys use to keep the dust off your fretboards. Got any ingenious ideas?

Thanks!

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Leila, I can't count the times UPS has been 48 hrs. behind on their, (my) tracking #'s.After a while you just get used to it.As long as it was headed to the correct address. You should be fine.

Now about those fretboards. I thought they were supposed to be dusty. Mine always are. Best of luck to you......bb<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Bobby Boggs on 31 January 2006 at 09:30 PM.]</p></FONT>

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Yes, on numerous occasions the package arrived before the tracking system ever showed it reaching any interim switching points. Go figure.

As for dust, I bought a nifty little stick with a flat piece of fuzzy cloth wrapped around it, for a few bucks at the Dallas show a few years ago. I think they were being sold by one of the players; I can't remember who right now but it'll come to me...

I use a small paint brush with soft bristles to wipe dust off of mine sometimes. Q-Tips seem to work real good around the pick up.

Just throw a bucket of soapy water on it and let it dry naturally, better tone that way,ha!

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If You Keep Pickin That Thing, It'll Never Heal!

2 (?) A piece of a t-shirt 5.25" by 17.5", it kind of rolls up and you poke one end under with your finger and swoosh it along. The brown ones work better.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by David Mason on 31 January 2006 at 11:38 PM.]</p></FONT>

A soft, brand new 3 inch paintbrush works well.
Also in the keyhead...and other places of the guitar.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Peter on 01 February 2006 at 12:58 AM.]</p></FONT>

Any piece cloth.

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Get the Steel Guitar Rag, Leila

from Fo'bro' Tommy Minniear
he's got'em <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by CrowBear Schmitt on 01 February 2006 at 06:29 AM.]</p></FONT>

Usually, when my steel would be set up at a club for an 'extended' tour of duty, a fellow picker would somehow always happen to sneak by and leave a finger-width trail through the accumulated dust on the fretboard, causing me to have to clean the whole damn top of the steel .... It became a trick we used play on each other back in the 80's when we all had steady gigs.

A Holiday Inn towel laid over the top of your steel helps keep it clean . . . oops!

Boy, you guys make me feel so much better! Misery loves company you know. I'm glad you've had the same miserable experience and things turned out okay.

When I checked UPS tracking early this morning it actually had NEW information...it showed that it ARRIVED and was 'Out for Delivery". Whew! It should be here in a couple of hours.

As for the dust, I enjoyed reading your suggestions. You sort of think like I do. Now what one of you said is what I do to mine and other people's guitars, I swipe my finger across as much of the fretboard as it will reach, leaving it half clean. Then I sit there trying to figure out how I can clean the rest w/o moving. Its just not gonna happen. Okay, I'm going to cut up one of my husbands T-shirts. That ought to work great!

Crowbear...is that Steel Guitar Rag a rag or a song?

Thanks! I'll report back if the package really does get here.

I have a clean 3 inch paint brush dedicated to dusting my fretboards.


I trimed the bristles to about half the length shown here. <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 01 February 2006 at 12:20 PM.]</p></FONT>

Reece told me once that the reason that the keyheads on the SS model MSA guitars were open on the end was so you could get in there with a brush and get the dust out.
JE:-)>

Hi Leila
Great thing for getting under your strings is one of those long fuzzy things that music shops carry for cleaning out (drying, actually)spit from a horn...yes, sounds gross, but people that play horns have to do that. Anyway, this thing is about a foot long, and fuzzy, made out of soft cotton fibers and it's got something running thru the center of it to stiffen it . I use it to clean under autoharp strings, and they are much closer to the "board" than steel strings are. It works great.

I have a cute, petite little Oriental gal come in each Wednesday and dust mine off. It works great for me. She only has one leg and her name is "IRENE".

This could get costly. I think I'll just take one of those foot long fuzzy things that cleans spit off horns. Or a red paint brush. Yea.

Oh I forgot to tell you. The package got here late today just fine. Thanks for all the good consolation! It eased my mind.

My wife bought me this little thing for dusting made by the "Swiffer" people.
Its a hand duster with a little plastic handle and about an 8" dusting surface.Has
these little throw away dusting cloths. Works great! I believe its called the "Swiffer Duster"

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"What a long, strange trip it's been"

I get remnants of nice nagahyde and hand stitch covers.... but there are some awesome offer for covers on this forum.

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Dave Wren
'95Carter S12-E9/B6,7X7; Twin Session 500s; Hilton Pedal; Black Box
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Leila, it's a tune & a rag as well
Fo'bro' Tommy Minniaer sells them Steel Guitar Rags
his email ; picksnadbar@hotmail.com

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Ask IRENE what happened to her other leg some day, Ray. Hoo-boy, those were the days....

I have a cover that I keep on my steel that I made from a large Turkish~Towel and you know, that don't keep the dust from transferring to the top of my steel when it's just sitting around! Most discouraging for me! However, I've been carrying a long, soft~bristle paint~brush in my Pac-a-seaT for years. And occasionally I actually use it to remove the dust from the entire top of the guitar. Whenever I change strings I also give the entire top of the steel a good cleaning and polishing where needed.

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“Big John”
a.k.a. {Keoni Nui}
’05 D–10 Derby
’65 Re-Issue Fender Twin–Reverb Custom™ 15”
Current Equipment

A piece of flannel wrapped around a wooden paint stick/stirrer is what I use, gonna try the paintbrush on the keyhead trick.

Bill