Ordinarily I'm all for doing your own work on your own guitar, but unless you've done major work to a guitar before, I'd take it to a good luthier. Even a minor alignment error and you've got holes in your guitar that will ruin any resale value it has. That being said, if you're willing to take the risk, a bigsby shouldn't be too hard to install if you've replaced a bridge, shimmed a neck or slotted your own nut before. It's all about getting it located and mounted correctly the first time.
Reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4mvK2FW78
Plugging the cord in the same outlet isn't dangerous itself, but the prongs will be live on the end that's not plugged in, I'd suggest not touching them. Where it IS dangerous is when people try to use them with a generator to back feed their panel. Don't do that.
Gotcha. Semantics lol. My understanding is if two pieces of wood used to be the same piece of wood (crack or break repair) use hide glue. If they've always been different pieces of wood to use titebond/pva wood glue.
I also should have noted I fixed this exact same issue with hide glue, hence why I recommended it. It's not hard to find and will do the job correctly, like @foggy said
This. But I'd use hide glue and then after filling the crack with the glue, use a suction cup to pull it through both sides
That's awesome. It's great to hear that a piece of equipment didn't make it's way to a landfill and is back in use!
My former employer, for... reasons... had a bunch of old guitars, mostly acoustic, in various states of disrepair that they were literally about to throw in a dumpster. Some were actually quite nice, a Breedlove and two Alvarez's, but there were cracked headstocks, chips, body cracks and other issues. I was able to convince them to give them to me and so far I've rehabilitated the Breedlove, and I'm still testing one of the Alvarez's (headstock was cracked between two of the tuning peg holes) with a little glue and some love. I plan on donating them all once I get through them, as I'm an electric player and really have no room for 8 more guitars, but I couldn't stand the thought of them just being tossed in the trash
I'd just search YT or the regular interwebs for tutorials on designing compliant mechanisms in CAD (pick upur favorite software). I know Teaching Tech has done a couple videos on this
I usually click the icon on my phone and it opens, but ymmv...
Just kidding. Click search, find a topic that interests you and hit subscribe. Then you should be able to go to your settings and make only your subscriptions show up on your landing/home page
Yeah Bambu Studio is available and works fine on Manjaro (I'm too lazy to build arch from scratch nowadays), obviously ymmv on another distro.
Bambu firmware is closed source. I'm 100% happy with my Bambu, but that being said, Prusa makes amazing printers. However, like everything else, it comes with a price. Buying used is an option, just note you'll ideally want to see it in person and printing before plunking down cash. As good as their printers are, you could still be buying someone else's problem.
I can't belive he's gone