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Not working for me at this time, but I think there is some work being done on the software and we might see a few glitches until it's all complete.
Either way it is good to have it mentioned, so it can be checked.

Thanks for Posting.

Well Jerome, you called that one for sure..... but with the "Peoples'" record not much of a surprise.  But if the Hawks had lost..... Honor would have dictated that we all fall on our own pizza-cutters out of shame.

Well there ya go Dino..... Chalk another one up for the Niners!!

Kind of depends to your answers to the previous post of mine.  It's not widespread to my knowledge.

You can physically measure the strings using a vernier caliper of the digital kind.  Just remember to choose inches for the purpose, although they will also read out in mm.   If you can actually "see" the difference between .009 and .010 .... your eyes are much better calibrated than mine, it's only a thousandth  of an inch.

Both would be considered Light or Extra Light strings.... and "bend" really easily.  You can get too thin as well as too thick.  For example the "nut" is cut to a given width for the string "guage" (with a little room of +/- a couple thousandths) and if you go too small, the string can actually "rattle" in the gap sounding very much like fret buzz.  Particularly noticeable on necks without a "zero fret".   Could be a bit of that "metallic" sound you describe.

Yeah Curt, sounds like your Luthier did not finish the job.  That fret still needs to be crowned.

As for your Mexican Strat...... they have a reputation of being fine instruments.  Usually of better sound & quality than some of the USA models in the same price range.  I'd consider keeping it until you are able to be sure that the one you have to replace it is worth keeping.

Well then we are practically neighbors!!   For you folks in the East or perhaps on the other side of the pond...... I used to think nothing of driving down to Alturas on Friday after work to have a sip of Brandy with my Mom & Dad before bedtime.  Yeah I'd stay for most of the weekend, but it's only 307 miles (c, 600Km) to Mom's front porch.

It's a pretty drive over to McCloud from there but rough under a foot of snow!  Ricky, you dodged the Weed inferno in good shape I expect.

We West side Chordians are a wee bit apart it seems.

Thanks;
Doug

There ya go Rickyjack..... you got your first imaginary dill pickle from "The Pickle Mistress" herself !!  Like the pickle, the Title is imaginary too.

I just got this awesome visual of Amy in a Tutu running around a meadow whacking Spam TROLLS with a polo mallet that has a giant Gerkin for the head...... Gotta quit playin' those video games. They'll warp your mind.... Really !!

What part of the Planet you habitate Ricky??

OK Nela......  Here's my thinking, after checking out the covers and the videos of his live performances etc.  Don't see Vince using a capo, so I started considering the chord shapes he uses in those performances, and listened to the recording over and over.....

He's playing backup to his guitarist who is carrying the tune, and it looks like he's playing F# to G# in the chorus (open F shape), so I suspect an altered tuning, which may explain why the covers don't sound exactly right either.  My guess is that he's strung and tuned Nashville +/-1 semitone.

So to get around this the easy way would be to dust off the old 12 string..... invest an hour or so tuning the darn thing standard, and give that a try with or without the capo with the chords you found.  If it's any help I think Buck Owens wrote that one and you might be able to find another version out there to assist.

Yeah we have knocked around the "temporary password e-mail to verify" idea as well.  Now we are getting bogus e-mail addresses from services that redirect mail from phony drop-boxes to edge around that as well.  Seems like every time you come up with something, they've got some way around it.

Makes it really hard to have a "open for everybody" policy, and be forced to have to put up barriers and restrictions that impede it.

Sometimes you just have to weed the garden to let the flowers bloom.

Got my Hoe, and I'm a diggin' Boss.......