apartmentluthier Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 common warning signs that you frequent the PegBox too much * you currently have a container of hide glue in your fridge. * you have super glue in your fridge, next to the hide glue. * you have more than one photo of your workbench layout. * you "flinch" when someone mentions titebond. * you hide your titebond when you take photos of your workbench. * you look for ways to "re-purpose" kitchen tools for luthiere. * you know what a "VSO" is. * you have categorized most of your violin collection as "VSO's". * coffee . . it's not just a beverage. * you have seen "guffaw" at least 10 times in various postings. * you know that "Vernice Bianca" is not the name of an exotic dancer. * you have seriously considered making a light box. * you spend so much time reading threads that your spouse has coined the term "Mae-stro-b***ing" ( true story! ) - - Someone should have ripped me about the "VSA" thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicfingers Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I resemble all those remarks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regis Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Guilty.....and you never see more that 3 unread messages when you check! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I plead insanity! Cabin fever has officially set in!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Holmes Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Quote: Guilty.....and you never see more that 3 unread messages when you check! You've seen as many as three unread posts? I don't think you've been checking often enough! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violinmark Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 *you host maestronet dinner parties *you have a hotkey on your keyboard preset to the pegbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougP Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Unfortunately, I have all the symptoms. I also require my grandchildren to glue up their school projects with hide glue, painted my house with mastic varnish over a Vernice Bianca ground, and sneak into violin stores when the clerks are busy and reset the necks on the display models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Tucker Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 * you have seen "guffaw" at least 10 times in various postings. Guffaw! (make that "11".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japes Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 What about having the Pegbox set AS your homepage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim2 Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I'll have to admit that it cracks me up everytime I see that word. I was thinking it's a sign you're spending too much time here when you have your computer set up to page you whenever there is a new post in the pegbox. Speaking of which I think I've been spending more time than usual the past couple of days. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkHoffman Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 You know the name: Michael Darnton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth_Leigh Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I'll have to admit something that sounds really corny, but which is totally true. Various circumstances have conspired to make the Pegbox a substantial share of my social life. I quit playing Everquest right before Thanksgiving. I had a lot of friends in my Everquest guild online, some of whom I'd known for over five years. Secondly, I had my wife and daughter move out to Arizona right after Christmas, and I stayed back to finish fixing some things that came up on the inspection report, so I can sell the house (again) and then move out with them. So I'm here at home, alone, working on my house, and not in contact with my Everquest friends anymore. So other than colleagues at work, I've got more "contact" with you all on Maestronet than I have currently with anyone else in my life. Am I pathetic or what? ps: check the logs if you can find out how, you'll see I've posted an inordinate amount, and at all hours of the day or night, in the nearly three weeks since my family moved out to AZ ahead of me. I need some friends, and they must be interested in violin stuff. Oh wait, that's Maestronet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim2 Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I for one must admit that I certainly enjoy your presence here. I may have missed some of your posts when someone may have rubbed you the wrong way, but I don't recall you ever losing your cool. I think this place could use a few more "pegbox junkies" like yourself. I lived in Phoenix for quite a while when I was young, and lately Sandy and I have concidered a move to Flagstaff so we could be closer to the grandkids and my father who is growing old. We drove through there on driving tour of the west last year. It certainly is a beautiful place. Might be a nice place for you to set up a shop? Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Darnton Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Quote: You know the name: Michael Darnton! I've got a laptop on my bench--press F5 and I know what you said. But it doesn't detract from my work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth_Leigh Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 Quote: I for one must admit that I certainly enjoy your presence here. Thanks, and I'd say the same about you. Quote: I may have missed some of your posts when someone may have rubbed you the wrong way, but I don't recall you ever losing your cool. Well I once lost it at a guy who came on posting some real smack talk, and Jeffrey went in and edited out half my post. Other than that, I know my place in this online universe, which is the place of a guy who's only made 1.5 violins and some varnish and pigments, and read some books, but likes to talk, and has access to a computer for probably 12+ hours every day. Quote: I think this place could use a few more "pegbox junkies" like yourself. Well I've been feeling more and more pressure lately to "walk the talk" a little more. One of the great benefits of quitting Everquest, which I was playing almost every day for several hours, is that I'll have a lot more time to work on violin stuff. My violin projects were, along with my sleep patterns, some of the biggest losers to my Everquest playing. I'm hoping to get my house back on the market soon, because I have a unique opportunity here, once I've finished with the repairs and improvements I'm doing now and before I close on the house and move out to AZ, to just work on my second violin with literally nothing else to do but eat, sleep, and go to work. Quote: I lived in Phoenix for quite a while when I was young, and lately Sandy and I have concidered a move to Flagstaff so we could be closer to the grandkids and my father who is growing old. We drove through there on driving tour of the west last year. It certainly is a beautiful place. Might be a nice place for you to set up a shop? Well if you do go out there again and wish to drop by, do not hesitate to do so. I was actually born in Phoenix and moved to Massachusetts (about 20 minutes from where I live now) when I was 7. But going back there isn't a homecoming for me, as all of my family lives in Utah. All my wife's family is out in AZ though, so she's happy as a clam about all this. Plus imagine how fast Michael's varnish will cure in the Arizona sun! That is, if it doesn't actually ignite first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_Coggins Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 * You take a laptop on holidays with you. Here I am at the beach, just got the kids to sleep and had quite a few drinks and I am sitting here with sunburnt feet looking through the pegbox messages. OK ... I also had some important emails to keep up with as well, but I really just couldn't face trying to catch up on two weeks of unread pegbox messages when I got back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arte Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 When I actually "guffaw" out loud my spouse looks over and says: "What? Another trainwreck?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arte Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 I'd like to see a little "train wreck" icon on the Pegbox listings not just flames! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSENGLO Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 1.you are upset by so many of unread posts 2.You are daydreaming to be a next Strad while planning your first violin making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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