MOTM

Larry wrote:

"I am trying to decide if:
a. I can possibly break in another cabinet maker. Sigh...."

Stooge Larry
Bummin'


Larry, 

Hey man - my suggestion is that you just 'break' the previous wanker 
cabinet makers!  We'll all support you!

Geez, is there something in the wood that causes this lethargy?

Sorry to hear however - although I confess that my cabinet travails 
have not been as "A" to "B" as I would like.  Is there some support 
group for this afflection?

decided to 'yap-in' as the list appears to have gotten over 
it 'encore episode'...

On a lighter note - I'm sure many of you have probably come across 
this, but to those who may have not - its funny:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/silly/sillymols.htm

This link pops up in my google when i put in MOTM.  It from 
a "Molecule Of The Month" science site which I'm sure Paul will agree 
and be glad that his MOTMs are slightly larger.  Can you imagine 
kitting up a molecule?
Even a big one...man-o-man 

Cheers everyone

Rog

Some of you may get this twice as I am sending to the list and BCC:ing guys
who ordered cabinets.

OK, first the good news.  I picked up 2 slant cabinets from the cabinet
maker tonight.  I have 6 cabinets here at the house.  I have two more than
will be done in the next few days.  So, I will have 4 slants and 4
straights.

I have already contacted the first 4 people to place cabinet orders.  The 4
slants and 3 of the straights are now spoken for and will ship soon (right
after Thanksgiving I suspect).  I have one straight 2 row cabinet which is
not spoken for.  I will go back to the list of those who ordered one, start
at the top and offer this one to those ordering next, no matter what size
they said they wanted.  However, I will not have a slant cabinet to go with
it for a while.

How long you ask?  OK, now to the bad news.

Cabinet maker #3 informed me today that he is going on vacation, and will
not be doing any wood working for a while after I take delivery of these
last 2 slant cabinets.  Next he told me that he would be wintering in
Florida since he is now retired.  So, he will not even start on any
additional cabinets until he returns from Florida in March.

CRAP, CRAP, CRAP.  This is the third cabinet guy I have broken in.

So, what I am telling those of you waiting patiently on slant cabinets from
me, they are not "in process."  I cannot even promise you any particular
delivery date.  Obviously, I am holding no one to their orders since I have
been unable to deliver in any reasonable time.

So, send me a note and let me know.  Something like:

1. I'm pissed and I am adding you to my block senders list.
2. Dammit! I'm shopping elsewhere for a cabinet.  Take me off the list.
3. Crap! Well, keep me on the list and let me know when something becomes
available.  However, I am making no promise I will still be interested.
4. Keep me on the list.  I can wait.  I'll probably still buy a cabinet or
two.

As you can imagine, I am really disappointed.  I am trying to decide if:
a.  I can possibly break in another cabinet maker.  Sigh....
b.  I will be staying in the cabinet business after I make those of you that
want to hang in there for now happy.

Stooge Larry
Bummin'

In a message dated 11/14/2003 8:04:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jlarryh@... writes:
As you can imagine, I am really disappointed.  I am trying to decide if:
a.  I can possibly break in another cabinet maker.  Sigh....
b.  I will be staying in the cabinet business after I make those of you that
want to hang in there for now happy.
What I find surprising about this is that all the hard work (the mental work 
-- getting the measurements and design down) is now done, and now all the work 
for the cabinet maker is cutting, fitting and assembling. Seems like rote 
wood working to me and it would be easy to get someone to cut fifty boards of 
size X and twenty boards of size Y. I can't understand why none of these guys 
want to do it -- maybe there's not enough art/craft to that kind of work.

JB

----- Original Message -----

From: jwbarlow@...
What I find surprising about this is that all the hard work (the mental
work -- getting the measurements and design down) is now done, and now all
the work for the cabinet maker is cutting, fitting and assembling. Seems
like rote wood working to me and it would be easy to get someone to cut
fifty boards of size X and twenty boards of size Y. I can't understand why
none of these guys want to do it -- maybe there's not enough art/craft to
that kind of work.

--LH--
Well, it is more complicated than that.  Let's review:

Cabinet maker # 1 is still with me.  After well almost two years, I finally
have three cabinets from him that my synth lives in.  I gave up on him for
production a long time ago.  I am hoping he will have all my personal
cabinets delivered to me by next summer.  Why.  1. He does it enjoyment, not
the money.  He has two pre-teen daughters involved in everything and he
wants to be there.  The list goes on.

Cabinet maker # 2:  The best yet.  The guy that built the NAMM cabinets.
Those were the nicest I have even seen.  Your reason below is his gig.  He
makes only one of something and then he has to make something different.

Cabinet maker # 3:  This guy will make cabinets as long as I ask him to.  He
has made jigs to so he can be consistent with all the cuts.  He has worked
and revised the plan over and over until everything fits like a glove.
However, he is retired.  He has one pace: SLOW.  It would take him 10
minutes to get out of his house if it were on fire. He has decided to take a
3 month break from wood working.  He really likes to play golf.  No doubt,
he will pick it back up in March.  But, I believ I can count on this guy for
only 8 to 10 cabinets a year max.  That may eventually be enough.  But, the
pent up demand from so many since no cabinets have been available for so
long is considerable.

So, 4 of you are happy campers right now.  The other 20 plus are cursing the
Stooge.

Larry (whose personal cabinets are complete full and still waiting on his
own cabinets too).

A little help through your precious opinions:
In the manuals of all MF models it is indicated that the units can be 
powered up to 15V so I often use 12V instead of 9V i.e. well the only 
problem is with the MF104, at 9V it works fine, if I select 12V the 
dry signal is still fine but the wet is distorted and a consistent 
hum (rather loud) is added to the sound. When it first happened I 
wrote to moogmusic, I was using only one type of wallwort at that 
time with voltage selectable and 1A of current, they said it is 
strange, it seems that F104 doesn't like 1A and 12V, now I tried with 
all kinds of power supplies and I can say that the problem is still 
there at 12V, yet I can say that at 9V there's no problem but I can 
not say that the sound of the unit is so fantastic so maybe there's 
something wrong and defects are justs enhanced at 12V? Any thoughts?
Many thanks
Enrico (Italy)

Make DARN sure that the polarity on the 12V wall wart you are using 
is not reversed if it outputs a DC voltage, or that you are not using 
a wart that provides ACV instead of DCV. 

Moe

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "edibennardo" <endiendi@t...> wrote:
> A little help through your precious opinions:
> In the manuals of all MF models it is indicated that the units can 
be 
> powered up to 15V so I often use 12V instead of 9V i.e. well the 
only 
> problem is with the MF104, at 9V it works fine, if I select 12V the 
> dry signal is still fine but the wet is distorted and a consistent 
> hum (rather loud) is added to the sound. When it first happened I 
> wrote to moogmusic, I was using only one type of wallwort at that 
> time with voltage selectable and 1A of current, they said it is 
> strange, it seems that F104 doesn't like 1A and 12V, now I tried 
with 

> all kinds of power supplies and I can say that the problem is still 
> there at 12V, yet I can say that at 9V there's no problem but I can 
> not say that the sound of the unit is so fantastic so maybe there's 
> something wrong and defects are justs enhanced at 12V? Any thoughts?
> Many thanks
> Enrico (Italy)