Pre-emptive "swish" thread

[rcemech]

Ahem...

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>

[unclrob]

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

[rcemech]

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

[unclrob]

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

[rcemech]

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>

[scottallyn]

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:

[ronmac]

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>

[drathbun]

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

[knoxpossum]

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

[unclrob]

Ron   :GRN>,somebody has too.

[dberch]

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

[rcemech]

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

[whiskeyjack]

I'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.

[Sordello]

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??

[whiskeyjack]

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

[ronmac]

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......

[Randy_R]

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

[unclrob]

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

[Peter Cree]

Does Vaseline void the warranty?

[Daysailer]

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: