Olympic white

I lost two platoons. They are men carrying champagne on a silver platter in a foot race around the Colosseum. Winner gets to hand over garden clippers to Richard Kruspe and he can get his civic laurel when he's done with the estate topiary. The coach, you, Jason, you get to keep the silver. Win or lose, I get the champagne. Ha chastised, No, we are not going to buy a French farm just so you can call it Vintage Snow White Olympic Champagne Jason's 2 A.M. teenager military athlete expenditure! But it's a French farm, Jason said. Are you going to give it to the French lizard band (Gojira)? You have to make my Phoenix guitar with me, he wanted, or Richard Kruspe eats Ha grapes and squeezes Ha's coconut fruit milk—
    Let us review. I have Till Lindemann, he gets Shure microphones with a piece of plastic in it. You wanted me to be responsible for the techtronics, so I get the Les Paul to support your Gibson art guitars so they are not some lame brand. You assigned to me what guitar to make for Paul Landers by putting sticker labels together. No, it is not Eet Fuk, it is Goth. No, it is not the limited Jason pleb brand from Japan, it is USA Gibson from a maestro named Paul. So you can keep the stickers if you want. I still have a piece of plastic that I don't want. Paul's guitar is not going to be shipped out to him with a souvenir toggle switch plastic ring. They do it, sheriff Jason will stop them. You were not there for Thomas's strategy to deliberately punish people who want plastic. He charges $12 for each disc, they pass zero dollars forward to the customer, who pays full price, for you to afford Gotoh from Asia. Less fire to destroy plastic on our end, and we take the expensive metals from Asia. It's still not balanced.
    What if I don't want to? I am not going to follow the navy to pull over merchant marines to inspect docks to... sh*t! Suck Asian balls, Ha, you're good at that. Eet, fuk, sleep, Ha said. You mix shite with fuk, that is disgusting. And not on food! I do not want to famine children, they have standards. So she said, Jason is fired from his sheriff job. See? Is that why I am kicked off the field? There is no lawn for me? You want me to snorkle with Europeans? Yes! I know, I know, she said. Jason was influencing the assignment. He gets to wish he were naked in front of 100 women waving hoops and clown circus juggling clubs, doing tai chi just so he can qualify for the Gee Aye (she spelled it out) uniform, the karate gi. Is that your plan? He clarified the assignment, The officer goes over there. You already have a real karate gi. Why didn't you stay with it? he said to her. Well, you know how to breathe, you know how to spar, but not under water. They will take your flame away, Jason prognosticated.
    Okay, Pleb, I go where you tell me to go, I do what you tell me to do. You fumble the LTD order, you rally with me on the lawn, I will run you around in circles in a country the size of a football field while in the middle of the field I recycle the metal and hand to you an aluminium 6 ounce can of Coca-Cola so ten years from now you can commandeer the ship I design, say good-bye to the engineers whom I train, take the worst case of ex-prisoners whom I free, you can accompany them back to Europe with all the Coca-Cola we do not care about, and try, just try to get an invite from the Greeks to push ex-prisoners into the Olympics. I have been to your country. The parole officers beg from the college dropouts on a letter patent from the slaves to have a chance to show, in front of master of ceremony Naked Jason Guyker, that they are the athletic equivalent of the French Republic coolies who only wanted a chance to drink their own sparkling wine. Better that than Vietnamese men pissing on them. But I forced them to share, coolies and plebs. Water, only water for ten years.
    Basically, you want to start LTD to pay for people who drink milk. In that scenario, doesn't matter if the home crowd French coolies whoop the American plebs and win the Olympics with home field and administration advantage. You challenge me to a guitar battle so I can lose and pay for your boat ride back to America, so you can hop off my ship and submit to your teacher Mr James Hetfield, who has stayed at home while you were away. He's not the one throwing money down the drain. He's invited to go off-tour to visit me on a small lawn whistling and humming. Okay, we'll pay for your boat ride back from France. NATO will not pay. Defense department will pay for Magister Hetfield, because he would be nice enough to visit me in a small country missing Jason Guyker the whole time. The country misses you, I don't. I have nobody but joggers and jazzercisers, lots of civilians. That is your only chance of winning a guitar battle while you are stranded in Europe dying to go back to America. You pick up the synth keys, which is a computer anyway, and you smash it into the secret police's radio station. No more dirty spy plans, no more secret sabotage. Jason asked, You want musicians to do that in Europe? Why don't we call CIA? Depends on your NATO general when you are in Europe. I shall have to duscuss music with Mr Hetfield, he seems smarter than CIA chatting at me about overthrowing slaves in athletics. If you're good with sabotage, get out of our revolution!
    Get a conch from Thomas, she said. Let ESP study natural pigments and minerals with colours that do not fade in sunlight. Olympic White should come from the beach, like the islands of Greece. He said, He could use one if he doesn't have one. I should get a conch for Thomas. It's about time he learns how to use his rank in the Marines. When he came back from his research, Jason declared that Olympic White is duller in colour than milk.


accessories

For decaling the guitar, honourary workers of artHausUSA did not have a good photograph of Richard Kruspe and requested that artHausDE forward one to them. When they received one, they had nothing to work with, humorously complaining that he was young and fresh and not angry enough, like he was still in 1981 and did not know President Ronald Reagan was going to use up the Defense budget into the debt category. Richard seemed as young as they were even though he is a decade older. On Jason's recommendation, they mirrored the middle finger hand to make fun of Ha, who wore her family ring on her right hand.
    Only about the 20th boys in the area who joked about Ha's future. They said they would wait five more years on Richard Kruspe. The joke was they would delay military service and avoid being gay before then. They had too much technology already to make him look older, which would not be fair. Somehow, a test t-shirt and a few stickers came out anyway in 1993, aging Richard into the Johnny Cash pose. Ha got to see the decal without ever touching an ESP guitar.
    They said there is a little amount of Ha's imagined face in the decal, less than 0.5 percent, even though they had never seen her. Jason refused to photograph her. Jason's reimagined face is also mixed in, approximately 0.6 percent. They were not surprised that a combination of about seven faces looked the same age. True enough, when they took Ha and Jason's faces out, the others were all boys who looked too alien, so they added a movie star celebrity's face to produce the perfect silly angry Johnny Cash face. Jason reported to Ha that Rammstein forgave the tired American teenagers, who could keep their Lincoln penny and pay the 1/10th penny on petrol with... face money. Ha absolved Jason: the decal was worth objecting to. Yeah, somebody kept it.
    And then the assy-symmtry, the asymmetry of the humbuckers set for Richard's guitar. Jason was going to give away the symmetric set to Paul Reed Smith, just so he could earn a handful of Metal flat toggle switches instead of the Rock rounded and tapered pulled tear-drop shape. He had one pull knob he had to use for his friend's really slow build of Lefty, a deserving Stratocaster more humble than Kurk Cobain's Jagstang. He needed another one from Gretsch. Ha had only the Penguin in her porfolio, he had to assign to her another one. Which meant her Abbey Road Studio studio guitar was going to be delayed but stay in Year1. Realistically that would only be one year across four or five factories. Why not five years? Deluvial (Fluence) at the bridge, Sustainiac at the neck, kill switch bauble up Richard's bum! Argh, it's a Gretsch inside a Gibson wobbly tilted and recessed to be an ESP that sounds almost like a Fender. Our worst Frankenstein guitar yet.














    Ha turned the magnetic plate 90 degrees wedged between poles rather than using a thinner magnet on one layer of the humbucker; one fourth of the design is an independent piezo pickup that had a slight quaver like tremelo on its own in addition to the strings being plucked; the tremelo could be turned off. The switching was more important to Jason than comparing it with Takamine. Like in a synthesizer, one magnet “hammered” the other like a chime, and those two had to be tuned during crafting. Ha chose G for government. They told Takamine to pick any note; Takamine was going to prototype the assembly process and pass select humbuckers to ESP. Takamine told Ha, but she forgot, that it would be E-flat or something for ESP.
    The second layer, unseen, is the modern rail using a “cured” chemically treated military weapons-grade Chinese magnet ontop even more proprietary Air Force G.E. (General Electric corporation) bobbin slugs using the most expensive copper wire in the USA, stabilized like a mute radio that could only carry morse code with little sustain. And made railroad era vintage with no plastic. Ha finally got the specs she wanted. The Chinese-made magnet is lethal: Ha's heart was instantly arhythmic from overheating the material, which fizzled with caustic fumes. The top and middle magnets were switched around to carry soundwaves without batteries. The bottom magnet is still classified by Jason Guyker. The coiling was dual condensed on a stacked and split bobbin commissioned by the Army that went beyond the Fender patent for artHaus's Cobain Lefty, with a lead wire, then tipped with iridium for wiring. The bridge humbucker on TellMeMore used a condensed rail design squeezed into a portuding bump to look like the steel shank inside men's Oxford shoes, for luthiers and Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic. (artHausDC inherited from Jason the use of a bass for the guitarist, while Jason used his TellMeMore for the bassist.) Jason was unsure without ever having seen a shoe shank but went with Ha's suggestion. A gunmetal steel dummy was bent by hand with pliers and hammered a few times, like folding metal in swordmaking, to be the undercarriage of an alnico magnet while they decided which kind. They did not have the capacity to replicate Takamine's piezo base plate, so the shank was a compromise. They decided to magnetize the shank for 48 hours. Ha simply guessed. No luck on guessing. Jason consulted security experts and decided to classify some more parts teenagers would not use and commercial kit vendors could not sell. So the military-grade bilateral stealth could not be used for Fnix Owwie; it was already set aside for Skeletor. Ha had to redo the acoustatic humbucker, which was juiced up with circuitry into techtronics as the final version of the Sustainiac driver. Ha assumes the Sustainiac only has the two thinner plates (the upper ones are split) rather than three and rather than a perpendicular one.
    For Year2, precision modeling could eat up another $200,000. If one laid out all of Rgo's humbuckers and pickups and packed them into a protective circulator cone inside Thomas's Dean-Ha guitar, a second cone would generate a sound skirt like Ha's attachment on Mapex snare drums. They had already penciled in Celtic and Mongolian cones and inner body struts. Thomas had an idea to double the sound guard bar ontop the resonator cone but decided against it, to wait on Ha's engineering. Each step of modding their humbucker designs would have to be run through a computer for the perfect histogram, for those who cannot grasp acoustic instruments. Or Rgo will eliminate robot guitars. The neck and bridge combo made TellMeMore a little louder without electricity, hence its name, but it was unfinished for civilian use. They did three out of five position switches to fit the Telecaster, and it sounded like a Fender Gibson and not an ESP. Jason and Ha mailed off the bridge humbucker to Gibson in Tennessee when Rgo decided on artHaus. So Gibson could pass the product back to China for a much cheaper manufacturing process for humbuckers, which went back to the laboratory. China was amused. USA hit the wall on the imbalance of trade, but they agreed to 19th century technology and pushed Taiwan separately, enticing American corporations to consolidate microchips for Asian factories. Rgo had about five humbuckers packed into two, plus a chem grenade and started over with half the bridge humbucker, divided between bass and guitar or bass and treble EQ. For Jason's work in telecommunication industrial technology, Jack handed to him a budget for his own graphic designs to be made in China, such as his pirate captain's designer guitar knobs.
    While he waited on China to send him samples and blanks, he examined ESP knobs and PRS knobs. Ha was indifferent, preferring metal knobs. She spoke about plastics like Bakelite and Mylar Too much Dow and Dupont, she complained. No more G.E. for Ha. They took it off her budget because they believed she had enough acumen to be safe for civilians. Anything she needed for Jason was on his ledger for the Air Force, how to pay for those engineers. Easy for Jason, who had enough wisdom: he fired students who did not pass PT and gave them athletics scholarships. Ten or more years as engineering interns in the Air Force was wasting the government's money; civilians would not cost that much. All the grunts who were left who had to haul supplies did not complain about veterans peddling around on bicycles. That was the first time Jason gave an administrative order to the Pentagon. Ha decried, When do you get to command? When are you going to be military? Are they keeping you in the Peace Studies Institute?
    In one year, the only material loss from Rgo's prototyping humbuckers approximates to a handful of loose coins, exactly one pickup. They burnt all unusable plastic. Rgo spent about $200,000 (civilian and military) on four or five humbuckers that has captured nearly half the market in the past 30 years, more than they spent on their own vintage guitars. For those reasons, they never developed a proper fx stomp box, only specifying a simple one for Fender, the Hello Kitty Strat and pedal, paradigms for Paul Landers that all together was already costing $80,000 (civilian only) without making anything, only designing and specifying. Eventually, Richard's Phoenix cost the same as the 2009 Paul Landers Gibson Les Paul Standard, neither of which are their final versions.
    The option for linear (e-bow!) or step-wise tuning of that bridge humbucker, for fretted or unfretted basses, was delayed while Ha worked on Sabian, Sonor, and Remo with artHaus and Shoegazer. The joke was some drums would not be Chinese linear, they would be Ottoman atonal, about 22 tones, one for each guitar fret. Ha became livid when it came to the Indian sitar. No, we're not doing scallopped frets! Where do you think we are, in trouble on the Silk Road and lost half an army because the chem bomb got stolen by assassins? In typical Rgo fashion, they accumulated exactly seven drum companies while Jack made one Rgo drum with natural skin by hand for Ha's Year2 opera. And bought up a city block in D.C. with Army-Navy work garages in Arlington. Military engineering had to be detached from cultural crafting, which was relegated to Jack and his crew, which Shoegazer joined for a security detail.
    7Drums was to stop Ha from harassing the government's laser team. They had to share the radar tech, where they disagreed the most. Jason had to give her the glad tidings: Stay on the audio team! She had joked that movement-activated sound could be “solved” by chopping off musicians' hands and putting lightbulbs under the strings so that radar could wink at the P.A. system and call it automomous programming. And you think LED and LCD are safe? All they do is add a numbers pad in rubber like it's a Casio and it has the look and feel of Cadillac alley “security” run by illiterate gangbangers. What a total disguise, it's the same as double-sided sticky tape for a nondummy, non-plugin surveillance camera that doesn't have to have a red light indicator.
    Jason wanted Ha to document the atonal idea of German expressionism in music with a “bookmarker” bauble, or he was going to forget his project organization. Post-it notes, Ha said, Why are your bookmarks so expensive? Just write it down. He refused, so she proposed the 22-step chime, which he wanted in a kill switch. What is that, three octaves, two and a half? I'll lecture you on history and literacy later. So make it go backwards in one direction only! “Solving” for Jason, Ha got serious. Pop quiz. Is it easier for a singer to take in air and descend or ascend? She demonstrated ascending, he tried to whistle. He limited the chime to descending only. Bot writing that down either meant Ha was going to do the exercises: Rammstein lettering. Oooh, he's so afraid of Ha's project management style — Naaah.
    They assigned the two differences, linear or step-wise, to Rickenbacker and Ibanez and quit developing humbuckers on TellMeMore, which had incurred a few extra holes that were begging for chambering into the body's wood Gretsch-style, which they would not do to the vintage instrument. But they did redo its neck and ushered in the lutherie era of dual truss rods. They held a seminar in Maryland on TellMeMore's neck and balance and handed the idea over to ESP, who modified by using graphite tension rods instead of round steel and square brass. Ha used the tip of the square brass truss rod balance weight to design Till's arrow for his flaming bow, which Rammy artHaus discovered on their own by working on different metals and blowtorching their way through stage antic props, the same process Team Rgo used. Jason could be glad the musicians' team were sweating for the money.
    skip the pickguard Jason pressured her to go with that. What about the chambers and lids? All she said was, No plastic, please. You know me, slotted screws not Phillips. Keep the wood, make the wood, use shoe shank and leather and stitch it or add Punk grommets to the lid, rub or no-rub onto his Plucked Swan long jacket, I'm giving up! I quit! People have weird ideas that electricians cannot find the ground from the sky, they encase everything electronic with plastic. Gosh, Fender is genius! If it costs $50 more to do the back covers without plastic — heck I'll even take a static charge from vinyl, it's worth it. Can't they recycle old vinyl records and use those? Gives it a vintage vibe, shows to people it's not a big deal. Nevermind, bad idea. Like I said, alunimium. But his jacket! How many buttons go on his jacket, and will they be metal? So he never uses the buttons, flashes it like a Guido trench coat. May I throw in a neck scarf?
    Jason finally allowed an aluminium component: the pickguard. What pickguard? she said, I do not know anything about any pickguard. All I have is accessories for the Rubber Fetish guitar. Paint the chambers red, black, Olympic white, clear coating, I do not know. Pute white, so they can see the difference. Not glossy, not chalky matte, maybe satin again? They can test a small amount of Pearlesque white in those slots, get in there with a sponge and whipe it off if it doesn't work. Grinding dry fish scales, anything that shimmers, and organic is nice, as long as the smell evaporated and they squeezed the salt out. Jason had some loose ends in a different folio. He said, Hmm, very mermaid. Which would be the Year2 Rammstein Aquasplash three guitars set. Oh gawd, not Rammstein again. Nope, nope, you're not helping on the “French lizard band”, he coveted. A-ha! So they are going to get Aquasplash, but not before somebody gets Vivant. Jason did not bite on the deal.
    Taking a look at the ESP catalogs, Ha had no interest in pickguards. Fine! he huffed. We can draw one you like, Ha offered. That was good for him. And then she proceeded to bite her tongue for two hours, not saying anything too negative about his designs. A Fender of course, but which one, Strat or Tele? A balanced guitar, please, Ha begged. It was their modus operandi by then. One for Gibson, one for Fender, around the world, backwards in time through the cosmos, then maybe Paul Reed Smith. It's always the same, more trees because it's Mr Smith. Why not Germany and trees? Ha put it on her To Do list.
    They developed Richard Kruspe's guitars lineage backwards, the hardest one first that he received last. Then they jumped to what would become the RZK-I Rammstein logo guitar in some form of titanium platinum, silvery colour, metallic shimmery, a little like remaking armor in the modern era with stainless steel, which they were designing with Shoegazer for the Germania video. Ha wanted a black-and-white contrast option for the LTD guitars if they're going to go all Death Metal or Goth. Or all Angel and Snow Bunnies. Less simple, more dressy. She asked Jason if he would like to have a dress tuxedo. He likes cummerbunds but said it was too premature. She told him Thomas was weirding out and had invited her to the Kennedy Center. Just to sit and relax and enjoy a concert, no pressure to be a musician.
    Ha felt lousy, That's not how it works, she said to Jason. She's been to the Kennedy Center. Her British Literature teacher took her there recently. After describing her sister's sleek, flowy black jumpsuit that she wore there, he said she knows Gibson, he was right. I could dress Thomas, he wants to run around Europe spending gajillion dollars like we're lame bums. Hey, do you want to hire Rammstein for five European countries? I need to make a tuxedo for Thomas. Not the cummerbund one, you'll like it. Truth is, she said, I want to cry. I wish I could, but I am not crying. It kinda hurts. Remember when he went out to California and had a detour from Takamine? When they're not military, they cost a lot of money. Your father knows what Gibson should be. All Thomas does is yo-yo, sine cosine, tan arctan-square.
   

`I have a sudden funny feeling`
  sung to the tune of rolly polly,
  Ha serenades absent Richard,
     reporting to Jason and
     intergrating the male rap choir

He got wobbly fat-bottom, he don't
   groove or chug so slowly
He's got a new toy, he's the same
   same posh kiss arse, he rush
Up to please the three, he says
   uno dos i dunno
Gotta get on tempo
   for the big Olli show

Rectifier!  Boogie woogie woogie
Funka-dealio!
   Loosey lefty boogie woogie
   Righty tighty flap and flighty
   Funka-dial-ee-o
Sustainiac!  
   From boogie to Bowie, Wowwie
[drumstix]
Tick-tick tick-tick,
Tick-tick tick-TOCK!

I have a sudden funny feeling
Nuthin's gonna interfere
Buzz me, love me, juice me, hit it!
(spoken) Are these batteries fresh?
Aaaargh!

[rap choir, boys in the 'hood]
Tick-tick tick-tock
Tick-tock sly and slick
Hangin' out with Mister Dick
The Dickmaester at the Olli Show
Flip Fuh-leep dupe Magnavox!

[headbanging]
Nuthin's gonna get in my way
Hit it!  I'm the new emigré
Dangit, Paul!

He's got a funnier funny feeling
Nothing's going to interfere
Playing for whiskey, dancing for beer
He got no more, no less, I guess
Gotta be back-stabbing 'cuz I'm a mess
Groove and chug a lot harder
Save me from these silly pants, partner

I've got beer belly down to there
Love it or leave it, I don't care
Come together, sillier Owwie
  Silly silly Owwie
  Silly Fnix Owwie

Nothing's gonna show
   Silly silly Owwie
Buzz me some more
This is the Dick ZK Show
Okay, okay, okay

[cross-fade to Till's microphone]
He's got a silly funny feeling
   All a sudden
Chat gabbing not thrashing
   Come together!

[rap choir]
Oh mighty mighty Mister Till
We'll sing nice if you will
We'll lift up our voice
Us disco party PAR-TEE boys
You know suddenly we're not joking
She's gotta quit all that smoking
Zip the fly, spill your beer
Techno murders interfere
Achtung, achtung, Dick ZK
It's not okay, it's not okay
   Not okay!
They give us tech jobs, not cool
All we do is play at school
Pentaflex, Univax, IBM, AT&T
Tick-tock, one two, one two three
We're so bored, they drive us crazy
It's not true that black kids are lazy
Nobody loves the Germans in town
They lock us up with Big Boobs Clown
Sig hail, higher and higher
Catch this, map that, they don't retire
The war is over, your wall's gone down
We get the same, same wall in town
Now they want us boys to love E-U
Lady friend, we contend, still
   Off-limits to you!
You know where to find us, if you need
Anything you need for the old country
Would be nice to go home this century
Hanging out in the hood in D.C.
Great, now we've reinvented a supermic
Listen, we don't know what you like
She's got a new fingerpickin', all right
Prepping mañana's Olli Show tonight

The 2009 redux that was never submitted to rammArt

But somehow reached ESP. Ha finished clarifying the dual-sized Sustainiac to Maniac Music via email and was sure it could be reverse-engineered by hand into a pickup pair together (split inside) or paired bridge and neck (split by distance) with $5 additional material. One dual Sustainiac was 2 of the options of the EinRouge Lead II, which was barely enough, 2 of the MeinTeal Stratocaster, and only 1 of the TellMeMore Telecaster. A real timbre change was needed, which the two teenagers clobbered together for Fnix Owwie's bridge. Only the bottom neck pickup was made to complement Till's voice, without shouting. Then again, that depended on wiring and circuitry, which made it customizable.
    Richard's RZK-III guitar has the capability of sounding similar to all three Rgo Fender rig guitars about a third of the time. All the other capabilities are part Gretsch (Studiomatic) and Gibson (Les Paul), excluding PRS and ESP. If the guitar were resized as Richard in 2025 would like, and a few different Rgo textures swapped in, it could be better. Ha reserved Thomas's guitars' capabilities for acoustatic pickups best done by Takamine, for a guitarist like Richard who is getting more comfortable singing whole songs and guitaring meanwhile. Jason told Ha to quit her checksum, whether anybody would hear Olli or the energy gain destabilization would make Paul sensitive and frenetic when Richard wants to perform big guitar leads and solos in concert. RZK-III was made to chicken out of attacking Paul. It does not need fancy amps. Ha compromised on allowing microchips to sag on resistance.
    She had a hard time and fumbled with the technical jargon, not yet taking apart a computer. She told Jason to tell the tech plebs, citing what they had to double on the circuitboard, blabbering, Ohms there, Herz there, Newton-pound foot-joules is you doing pushups. You'll find out what “sustainiac” is. He came back, saying, You lied to me! One is English, the other is metric. I had to order them to do pushups with me, twice! The neatest current is the shortest distance, we did pushups again for fun. He liked his Marine Instructor job, Voilà!
    Like a general-issue item, the “troops” get the exact same accoutrement as their generals. To Ha, not in Richard's case, since it was the first guitar Rgo wanted to make for him only. By “first”, they meant the impatient Richard would be contented to try many guitars before being outfitted with “his” guitar. He is sure to pass the lie detector test — all the way out to robotic servos for left and right studio microphones, one of Ha's jokes. She wailed, I do not posses him! It's easier for men to possess robots than women can dispossess demons talking backwards, referring to the film The Exorcist. She joked about CIA's knife, which she knew about without having seen it, that Richard would test Paul's sensitivity with several jabs into his arm. If Richard survived, Paul was ready for Fnix Owwie.

Richard could blame his studio pile-up, but does he get to complain to Rgo about the Phoenix guitar made by ESP? Yes, he does, Jason agreed. Ha guessed that Jason was right in many ways anyway, that the Phoenix had to have the illusion of being sized for her, which meant skipping the illusion and making it a tad shorter. Ha had to explain neck radius, even though she did not have lutherie books. Jason and Ha agreed to fix the underthumb problem of lousy wood too light for serious work on the fingerboard. They decided to go with a shorter radius than the Telecaster. She wanted a short trapezoidal ledge if they were going to flatten the curvature. He did not oppose, but he did not approve. Flattening and rounding is a different circle? he asked. Yes, she said, like the beltway, inner loop and outer loop. The top of the fingerboard is slightly curved, for quick motion, less resistance tactiley. People who have speed around the whole neck, there is a magic combination of the top and underside curves. Goth Chick Ha put on a lace choker for the rest of the session, to explain outer decoration and what is vocal melody pushing through other instruments in the same music.
  &nbap; A few features she knew of matches with “defendent” Richard's testimony. ESP drives a hard bargain. He does not get his guitar 100 percent commissioned by him without conceding to Rgo's grab bag list of Year2 “signature” features. In Year2, Rgo wanted to sign their custom commission artist guitars in several ways, not just buy factories and shuffle patents and invent niche expertise. Or that paint job job. They wanted to quit on the factories, escort a musician in, and make one guitar at a time. There will be no production models of a custom Rgo guitar. Ha penciled in the Vivant for Richard. Yet another silly wannabe acoustic-electric non-Fender guitar, probably a Takamine to be made by Martin, with jokes that will inevitably spawn a dozen companies studying crystal rock for anti-quantum minimum state dynamic computer hard drives tuned to the waves between Okinawa and Japan. Because he understood, Jason worked on Children of Bodom by himself, to develop a guitar for melody. He borrowed Ha's acoustic Yamaha.
    Unfortunately, an Rgo guitar is a government guitar. Not sure if they (OEMs and customers) would have anything to brag about afterwards. Hey, there's an NRA [National Rifle Association] in Germany. Where did Paul get that rifle? Ha would still have to go on-post and get patted down by MPs to sign out a rifle from the armoury. She will never make an instrument, an implement, an appliance, nothing for the hands for millionaires that did not come from the treasure trove of the Vietnamese national guard. Doesn't the government get a better deal if she stays in the U.S. federal section? Like the real U.S. national guard wearing one of those short-short swamp camos designed by Ha — for NATO. They throw out the short shorts and keep the camo American so NATO never receives her designs. That's it, you should skip the tank and start making Jeeps, Jason said back then.
    As a stand-in for the patent examiner, Jason's comprehension was high enough to guide commissioned engineers who would run a subsidized company with the patent under their own name. Rgo buys civilian patents in bulk with one of their own, such as a dozen locking tuners for $1 each in exchange for an Rgo factory workflow for the best-price tuners. In the case of machine tuners, Rgo also bought all those companies and discontinued their retailing for five years for their industrial engineers to focus on one tuner only while they learned about trees, recycling metal, and ergonomic design.
    When Jason was done specifying the LTD Fnix Owwie, he moved on to his personal version of the Phoenix, codename Fnix Wowzers, or Wowzer singular if it had all his refinements and did not collide with Ha's. He guessed Richard Kruspe might not like an acoustic-electric guitar, the Phoenix was not a slouch sit-down guitar. So he had two folios already, an acoustic one and a radical electric one. Ha said it would be the other way around, that the acoustic one was more important and should be done for Thomas. He disagreed. If Ha was going to make a guitar, Jason was her personal luthier to do most of the making, and he wanted her to make it with him for him. If she wanted to make a guitar herself for Thomas, he would buy out Gibson for $1, and she could move to Nashville and stay out of the republic for a few years. She has a luthier on her rolodex, it's her orchestra teacher Mr Brobst. Yes, he is German, she said, her violin bows are German. She does not know what is wrong with horses in Germany, why they would need Mongolian horse hair.

length and scale compared to his other guitars Gretsch shorter than Fender AW-800

	ESP RZK-III 2025 production guitar	Ha's unused rectification 1993-2026 4rzk
overall length	37.75” /	-1.5”, 36.25”
scale length	25.5” / 64.7cm (Fender)	shorter than Gretsch Falcon, 24.25” / __mm
solidbody	alder	German spruce, w/ brass weights (MeinTeal)
neck		(Fender __)
neck wood	maple, neck-thru	rolled steel thin skunking, triple-ply dense rosewood flanks, maple core
nut width	molded, 1.653”	Rgo angled turquois shim under curved top (TellMeMore, Lefty) rolled steel moulded (for bigger strings), __
fingerboard	rosewood	vintage ebony
fingerboard radius	13.77” / 350 mm	8.8” / 225 mm (J+Q axe4Fender Milspec)
frets	22 XJ Stainless	21 Rgo medium Stainless, minus top fret scootch down frets, not fingerboard width
hardware	OK; LTD locking tuners	recessed TonePros stoptail, TOM locking bridge, OK
strings	too skinny 9-50 or 10-46 SIT 3+3PW ➚	Rgo custom, eg, high E is equiv to 2 loose lace wound 0.012 (DasPunk)
made in	no, Korea	Germany
price	LTD $1,999 production	Rgo $25,000

Rgo strings are milspec

But Richard did not get any. Ha lost track of Thomas's purchases and Jason's plan to implement her factory strings by using organic sources and offsets during manufacturing and recycling. Gut string was not possible. Rgo no longer had the Fender acoustic lab in DC. So she restrung EinRouge for sustain, taught Jason some more on tremelo and Shoegazers blurring beyond Rock bending and whammy bar, he used his MeinTeal Strat to fill the soundscape on the Pignose 5-watt amp, and they discussed the parameters for the sustainer they independently reinvented and later expanded for Sustainiac, including the exact strings they would need. A second round for Jason's acoustatic (bottom pickup of neck Sustainiac driver) was with Ha's EinRouge on the Pignose. She had down-tuned all her strings several steps and treated it as a bass guitar for slapping. He still had the fill-in job of sustaining at close to 64th snare rolls acoustically, which was lousy with the piezopuck for him but just enough reverb from Ha with their cables snaked anywhere and moving around one another. Ha discussed classified acoustic properties and principles. They agreed to fix the magnet design without even bothering to hand-wind yet another set of humbuckers, which would be flipped: piezobar would be ontop of topmost pickup to assist the guitarist in keeping the kinetic input for the driver going. Ha opposed infinite sustain. Jason was experienced enough to finish mockup wiring with the EinRouge there with him before taking it to the Air Force lab for microchip and circuitboard testing, then sending it out to OEMs.
    The chunky-bright, Gong-like strings for Richard's guitar, the upper strings, are loose hand-wound, looser than Rammstein's used guitar string bracelets. The high E on Ha's 3/4 scale Fender Squier mini Stratocaster (DasPunk) is made of two steel strings with 2 1/2 twists, an E and a B together. But it plays like one's finger is using a slide, glass or metal, on a lap steel guitar, smooth like fretless. The twists are at frets 6 and 14. The gauge of the smaller steel string is 0.012 inches (__ mm), because the nickel-wound 0.013 by itself was still not thick enough. The steel is inadequate, very galvanized feeling for the G.I. series, but the combined gauge is basically correct. That feel is what should go on some other guitar as fret bars. It is not a confused tactile sensation.

I'm aliiive, hey hey I'm alive

. J     Gretsch Falcon hollowbody
. Q     Gretsch Penguin solidbody 
. R+J4Q Gretsch Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird,
        chambered solidbody, Firebird Red
. R     Gibson Hummingbird acoustic
. Rgo   Gibson Firebird
. J     ESP/LTD Vulture James Hetfield signature
. J+Q   ESP/LTD RZK-III Fnix Owwie Phoenix
-       ESP Horizon Birds
* Non-Rgo Gibson Firebird X batch 2009-2011
        destroyed, one of the addendums in Ha's
        2009 orders
- Rgo   PRS Birds of a Feather hollowbody

Writer Neil Gaiman surprises Ha in his comic book Sandman

A back-beat is not Psalms and David and Solomon. The Bible was still popular with Ha, but she preferred comic books and collected every DC Vertigo title. When the Sandman comicbook author Neil Gaiman met her at the Crystal City Underground in Arlington, Virginia, she spoke in a Cockney accent with him.

    He signed her Sandman #1 and the glow-in-the-dark front cover of the Sandman Special #1: Orpheus. He confirmed with her he would stop the series at #75 (Ha's in-century birth year) after five years. Seventy-five does not go into twelve evenly, she said to him. So she asked him, Are there going to be other special issues that are going to be part of the numbering? That comes out to be three extra issues every year. She told him the month and day of her birth. He said he would make issue #69 extra special because she had told him, he wanted to honor her time speaking with him. I want to keep it a surprise from everybody else, Gaiman said. But for you, I'll tell you, Morpheus the father passes from the Dreaming and gets a new face and new name. Dream of the Endless is not going to be a Greek? Ha wanted to know. No, he said. His name is going to be Daniel. Look for the issue. I will remember and bookmark it and pace my way back to you, Ha. She told him, You are an English writer, you have a friend in Arlington, Virginia. We want you to know, we from Alexandria next door to Arlington, home of our military, our army and navy, and Washington, DC, across the Potomac River, the English folks of the British Isles are always welcomed to visit our nation's capital. She cherished her short time with the author.