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A co-worker of mine that visits this forum often...*cough* *couch* *scottallyn* *cough* *cough*...was complaining about a "swish" on his Larrivee satin parlor.  He failed to mention what the swish was.  After hearing about the "swish" several more times I figured I better check my D3 for any "swishes".  So, being the concerned D3 owner that I am I inspected my guitar for about 20 mins satisfied that my guitar contained no "swishes".  Today I came into work and happily reported that I had found zero swishes on my guitar, the finish is perfect!  The response was a little embarrassing, "Dude the swish isn't in the finsih.  It's the noise the guitar makes on your clothes that annoying when you play."   :UND>  We had a good laugh though, and I am still relieved that my guitar doesn't have any "swishes" on it. :GRN>

Just thought I would post this before he did :WNK>

OK I BITE.What does a swish look like? :GRN>

I dunno I couldn't find any. :GRN>

So how did you know you didn't have any :huh: :GRN>

After reading about orsinoizing my guitar I now know what the problem was, I was looking for a swish when it shoulda been a swoosh! :rolleyes:  I'll have to check it out when I get home and let ya'll know what I find. :GRN>

Hah. You're just too paranoid! I wasn't even going to post anything. Tho it is pretty funny that you spent half an hour visually inspecting your guitar for... a sound.  :rolleyes:

Quote from: unclrob on January 20, 2006, 04:24:11 PM
So how did you know you didn't have any :huh: :GRN>

Rob, that's just cruel. It's questions like that that drive people to sleeping with the lights on.  :WNK>

I got rid of my swish when I upgraded to 05! :)

Let me know when you get tired of looking for swishes and I'll take you snipe hunting  :wacko:.

Ron :wacko:  :GRN>,somebody has too.

I thought every new Larrivee came with three free swishes.   :UND>  I wasted mine on swishing for talent  :rolleyes:

I've been snipe hunting and those little guys are hard to shoot :SHK>  If you dont believe me google "snipes florida bird" they actually exist, and so do swishes apparently.  Now that I know what to Listen for I can hear them.  Kinda wish I never knew about it, tho I'm sure I would have noticed when I get my recording equipment set up.

QuoteI've been snipe hunting and those little guys are hard to shoot

You don't shoot them, you club them.  The conventional hunting form is a flashlight, club and a gunny sack at night.  Guns and snipe just don't mix well for obvious reasons.  Some dork could get shot in the dark.

But back to the swishes.  I'm up late with the light on. . . .    Swishes are not cheap.  This may come as a surprise to some of you but every guitar has swishes.  It's just that some are smaller than others and may go un-noticed while the larger ones are very obvious.  If you didn't find any, all of yours are small, insignificant swishes which are not worth pursuing as a warranty item.  The larger swishes?  Well, sometimes they're factory-installed just to add character to the guitar.  So they're not a warranty issue either unless, of course, you attempt to remove them yourself.  That procedure is best left to an authorized Larrivee repair center.

Well after this thread, I am definitely NOT selling my LS10 (Larrivee Swish) guitar with the lovely snipeclaw modelling on the spruce soundboard.
But..... for a huge vat of untraceabale large $bills$, I will consider offers!?

Did I mention the lovely hippocampus inlay??

You have snipeclaw motteling and hippocampus inlay?   :SHK>  Wow.  I can honestly say I've never seen those features.

This just in from NAMM:

"Larrivee Guitars is currently negotiating with Elixir to help produce a Swish Free finish. Initial efforts are being directed towards development of the new finish for Sitka/Rosewood models but should be available for Sitka/Mahogany(Sapelle) by Q3 of 2006. Cleartone have apparently expressed interest in developing a similar, and supposedly much less visible, product for the Sitka Bearclaw models."

Pictures at 11......

I spray some PAM on my right elbow. no swish after that....

And if your a hot player you can fry and egg and it won't stick.

Does Vaseline void the warranty?

Quote from: whiskeyjack on January 21, 2006, 02:11:04 AM
You don't shoot them, you club them. The conventional hunting form is a flashlight, club and a gunny sack at night. Guns and snipe just don't mix well for obvious reasons. Some dork could get shot in the dark.

WJ...  Nice know that the 'approved' Snipe hunting method is the same in your neighborhood as it is here in Oregon.  Do ya'll use beer or whiskey for snipe lures?      (maybe a dump question for you, WhiskeyJack)    :TON>

phill    :mellow:

If you have a flair for creativeness the "swish" can be used as a percussion tool.  \

It helps if you already have a natural nervous twitch. 

You have to train your twitch to use your swish.   (I thought I would never think of such a sentence!)

It does sound a little dirty.

Elixers use Gore-tex or PTFE, PolyTetra-Flouro-Ethalene.............the swoosh is caused by too much particulate in the UV Polyester.  If they want to devolop a particulate from PTFE........bloody good luck.  There goes the cost effectiveness of the no-touch poly.  i'd think they'd go straight to Gore instead of a middleman....................

Nothing makes any sense.  Bullsh*t beats brains.

Quote from: Peter Cree on January 21, 2006, 04:42:21 PM
Elixers use Gore-tex or PTFE, PolyTetra-Flouro-Ethalene.............the swoosh is caused by too much particulate in the UV Polyester.  If they want to devolop a particulate from PTFE........bloody good luck.  There goes the cost effectiveness of the no-touch poly.  i'd think they'd go straight to Gore instead of a middleman....................

Nothing makes any sense.  Bullsh*t beats brains.

Ah, Peter. It was a joke, eh.  :WNK>

Ok so I admit I've done both types of snipe hunting, but the second type was with the boy scouts...we took new scouts out on a camping trip and walked them in circles in the woods just far enough so you could dimly see the camp fire.  We gave them all bags and sticks and told them to beat the brush and walk in a line so they wouldnt get thru.  Then we told them that we would run around and cut them off and push the snipes to the young scouts so they could catch them.  Well instead we ran back to camp and got some chicken wings covered it with some catsup and waited....and waited....next thing you know you hear heeeellllppppp, heeeelllllppp off in the distance.  Eventually  they came back and we acted like we caught some snipes and had already eaten them, sometimes we took chicken feathers out of a pillow and spread them in a pile with the wings for effect.

Well so far as swishes are concerned so far they don't bother me, and I think I learned my lesson, what it was I don't know. 


-Wheel of morality turn, turn, turn.  Tell us the lesson that we shall learn.  Todays lesson is....cheese makes a lowsy skirt, and don't admit to foolishness.

QuoteDo ya'll use beer or whiskey for snipe lures?

Well. . . .they don't generally respond well to lures in these parts.  And a body really shouldn't hunt them under the influence.  .  .  But I have heard that their curiosity is arroused by 'swishing' sounds.  That's only hearsay but might be worth a try out by you.

QuoteWell so far as swishes are concerned so far they don't bother me, and I think I learned my lesson, what it was I don't know

Actually, the question was a bit deep; prone to many opinions and assorted definitions.  Some of us knew what you meant and responded conscientiously.  Others simply told what they thought they knew.  If you learned ANYTHING at all. . . .you are blessed in ways that none of us can understand!! ^_^ ^_^

You're a patient man, RC.   ^_^

I knew that......... :UND>

Quoteyou are blessed in ways that none of us can understand!!

Thanks wiskeyjack!  I pride myself on not being normal *twitch* And yes I did wear that cheese skirt, so don't do it, take some good learned advice! :TON> :WNK>

Rock ... I mean swish on brother! :ph34r:

Yo!

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