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Cleaning And Sticker Bombing A Used Bass Guitar

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 A friend that I had met at a band jam asked if I wanted to buy a used bass from him. He sold it to me for a great price. He said he didn't want / need it and had originally bought it for his son right before he joined the military. It's been sitting around the house. He included a nice small practice amp as well.  The bass was in great shape and didn't seem to have been played much. There were still LOTS of protective plastic "stickers" all over. Things you only typically get to peel off on a brand new instrument. Check out those tuners with protective coverings! I later found that the little round string retainer was actually broken. More on that later.  This is a shot before I started working on it. I pulled out a folding table and slowly got to work. One thing at a time. As I started examining the bass more closely I could tell that it had hardly been used but it had been sitting around for quite some time. My estimate from the serial number is that it was mad...
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Going Caching 2024 - Geocaching Event

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  Going Caching XIV 2024 - A Geocaching Event: Each year, for the last 14 years, there was a Mega-GeoCaching event that happened in Rome, Georgia. The event is called “Going Caching” and this year was the final year. From its humble beginning it has grown to be a world-class, globally-known event drawing thousands of geocachers from numerous countries and all walks of life.  We first heard of Going Caching in 2014 when Jim and Andi, the founders, approached us at another geocaching event and invited us to come out to experience what they have created. They wanted us to experience and promote the event on our podcast (https://www.podcacher.com/) After also hearing about Going Caching from other geocachers who raved about what they had seen and done, we had to go. Our first time out to Rome, Georgia was 2015 and what an experience it was! The theme that year (every year the theme changes) was a Renaissance faire style “kingdoms”. There were 5 kingdoms that both competed and coop...
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