Can I wear jeans when going to a lounge that has a dress code of upscale casual?
I am going to a birthday party with my new coworkers and the dress code for the lounge is upscale casual. It used to be a wine and cigar lounge in dc, but its I guess its not anymore. Anyway I don’t feel like wearing a polo shirt with khakis, sweater or something along those lines. Which is what I was told to wear by someone who also has no clue.
I usually wear a dress shirt with jeans and dress shoes, a sports coat if I feel like it. I was told that it was a bad idea to wear any kind of jeans at places like this since the doormen tend to be D!cks. Any advice would be great.
Thanks
Oh and if you have pics of what I should be wearing that would help.
this for a male not female
i’ve worked at some upscale lounges in toronto, and here everyone wears jeans. make sure the jeans u choose are nice, dark washes look dressier. wear a shirt (either graphic t-shirt/ polo/ dress shirt) with a blazer over and nice shoes.
if you are really unsure if jeans are okay, just call the club ahead of time and ask!!
Without sending it away, (it costs a fortune) the wheel that adjusts the flame is at its lowest and can go no further, but the flame still shoots out about 3 to 4 inches high. Any home remedy to rectify the problem?
take the cap of of the lighter and remove the wheel that adjust the flame, you can keep putting it back on and adjusting the flame down then remove and keep on doing it until it reaches the desired level
Do you pay Australian customs duty when buying cigars online?
I have been looking at some of the online cigar sites (mainly US based) and noticed that they are much cheaper than can be bought locally. In my case Melbourne Australia. However I am concerned that if I order them I will incur duties that will make them more expensive. If sent in the post or UPS etc. does this incur a duty?
Most U.S. e-tailers do not ship overseas for that specific reason……
The cigar box guitar is an instrument that has fascinated many guitar players, mainly in relation to whether they are real musical instruments. Many people who have learnt how to make a cigar box guitar have done so simply to give their children something to amuse themselves with but the truth is they can make serious music. The origin of the cigar box guitar is in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when there were many people seeking to express themselves through music but could not afford to but real musical instruments. The use of homemade musical instruments like the cigar box guitar had a resurgence in the years of The Great Depression.
The need for improvised musical instruments led to the proliferation of jug bands which gave people the opportunity to play melodies and generate rhythm for dancing using homemade instruments. So musical gatherings featuring washtubs, spoons and kazoos became commonplace in communities all over America. Gourds with guitar necks attached originally provided the basis of homemade guitars but as cigars began to be shipped in small boxes and the boxes were left lying around the house, sooner or later somebody had to try them out as resonators for guitars. The neck for your average cigar box guitar was often a broom handle with one or two strings attached.
If you want to make your own cigar box guitar you will need some basic tools: a box cutter or pocket knife, a hacksaw, a drill, some fine and coarse grade sandpaper. The raw materials for making your guitar are: a cigar box, a one inch by two inch piece of lightweight soft wood (poplar is a good choice), a dozen one inch nails, wood glue, some wood stain and an applicator. To tune your cigar box guitar just buy three tuning pegs from your local musical instruments store. Their are plans available from expert cigar box guitar makers, in fact there is even a Yahoo Group you can join.
Once you have made your three string cigar box guitar you have several options for tuning. These tunings are from bass to treble: A E A, G D G, A E G.
Many guitar legends are supposed to have played cigar box guitars but not many are talking openly about it. Here is an unverified list of reputed cigar box guitar players who have made names for themselves using conventional instruments: Rockabilly legend Carl Perkins, jazz guitarist George Benson, epitome of refinement Ted Nugent plus other noted musicians like BB King and Jimi Hendrix.
There are also guitarists who make and play their cigar box guitars as their sole musical outlet. One cigar box guitar mover and shaker is Shane Speal, the curator of the National Cigar Box Guitar Museum in York, PA. Shane is archiving cigar box guitar history. He has found the earliest known plans for a cigar box banjo (circa 1870), unearthed etchings of Civil War Soldiers playing cigar the box fiddle and owns a genuine dated and signed cigar box violin from 1899.
John Lowe, a musician and bookstore owner from Memphis who makes electric cigar box guitars called Lowebows. They are made from two oak dowel rods, a wooden cigar box, three guitar strings and a bass string. You play Lowebow with a slide. Lowe’s repertoire has everything from Johnny Cash to Iggy Pop. You can find him busking on Beale Street.
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i decided to make a cigar box guitar. I need something i can use for tuners (besides real guitar tuners). I have heard of possibly using
i-bolts or screws, and if so could you tell me how this works? thanks to any useful answers
If you haven’t already seen this site:
http://www.cigarboxguitars.com/
there is a bunch of info there. The guy did use some cheap “real” tuners to make his Guitar.
I can’t think of anything really useful that would substitute, really. I’d go to Goodwill or something and find a crappy old guitar and just cannibalize it for the tuners. Or go to Toys R Us or something and get a little kiddie guitar and steal the tuners of of that.
I don’t think Screws would work all that great. You would have to use Machine screws if you did. And would have to be able to drill a hole through it. (kinda hard to do.) You could use two lock nuts, one on each side of the “headstock”, I suppose.
If you can find eye bolts with machine bolt threading you could do use them too. you’d have to tune it and then lock the two nuts down so the bolt doesn’t rotate out with the string tension.
That’s the only way I see that working.
Real tuners would be much easier. there is also a Yahoo group dedicated to Cigar box guitars. you might check that out to get advice from there.
Good Luck
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