Back To the Grind Stone

Today was my first day of classes, and boy do I have things to do!
In total I have five classes. I really have to admit I'm not excited about this semester.
It looks alot harder than my prevois semester, and I don't feel that prepared.
My homesickness feels compounded over 9000X by having that one month break.

All of your prayers are appreciated. I very greatful for the three day break coming up.
Not that I need a break, because not many assignments have been given out.
Love you family!!!

Nathan Hanson

FinalE /* STAll iN tHe skY */

Hi Everyone!!

Only one more day of class, before the finals.
I only have three finals: C programming, Chemistry 111, and Calculus 191.

I found out that most English 111 course have a final, but my section doesn't!
That was a nice relief, seeing I'm not too keen on writing an essay in one hour. I like spreading it over a few days and organizing my ideas over over time.

Ohh- hows my new title. Its closed off in /* Comment syntax */. Neat huh.
I'll be back home on Dec. 12 2010, Sunday, 5:38 PM, 17:38.

!BE PREPARED!

for Christmas, I can't wait to get home.
.... how'd I pass that ENGL class....
As you can see I've become a master of talking to myself. Though I have great roommate, we don't /* edit */ talk too much.
Time to study a bit more, FINALS!

/* 1/8 : .125 : 12.5% : PART 1 of 8 : Chapter 1 Finished */

See Ya SoOn,
Nathan C.H.

Thankgiving Away

Hi All,

Thanksgiving break is only four days away! But before I can take it easy, I have one CHEM exam and my final ENGL paper to finish.
I hope you all have a super Thanksgiving. This will be the first time that I'm not with my family for Thanksgiving.. very sad. Instead I'll be with my roommate's family, they are very nice so I'm not worried about being with them for one whole week. Though that is a long time to impose.

O.K. Glad I could blog, this was just a distraction so I wouldn't have to edit my ENGL paper, so I guess you caught me... -back to work now

take care and see you all in December!!
Nathan Hanson

Orange Micro Crush 3W

First Post in a Year

This is my college project. You may be saying, "Hey,Nathan, you need to be in college to have a
'college project'." Well you're right, and yes I'm in college, NMSU(New Mexico State University)
College of Electrical Engineering.

I hope to write more in the future, but now i have to go to bed. My blog is on Pacific Time, just so you know. Comment as much as you like on the new look. Amp update this weekend.
With Love to my family,
Nathan

Hay!

I've been rewiring the electric guitar! Now I'm just waiting for a four wire pickup to be shipped.
Unfortunately I don't think I will finish before school starts, because of the pickup being delayed.

I'm posting a video on the guitar a Kimberly's youtube. It has been done for a month, but I didn't post it.

One last thing we're starting school on the 17th! This is the last week of vacation.

Still here-- read on

Hi All

You guessed it this post is mostly about guitar.

To the left you can see how I'm recording the electric with a headset mic. I will have that soon, but I'm not the sure what to play. All I know are power chords and a few licks. But it's coming soon

along with a docu on the guitar.

Here you can see a removed the pickup cover from the neck pickup.

I read the cover the reduces output so I decided on removing it. Now it sounds ten times

better, especially distorted. i left the bridge pickup with the cover for now.

Today I received a letter from my sponsered child Cristoper! i love writting to him, before i had no clue and it usually toke two days. Today I have an immediate reply. Amazingly we met at chuch a woman who was sponsered as a child. She could hardly express how grateful she was to her sponsers. I realized more how amazing sponsership is, not just as a responsibility but as a blessing to both sides.

Also check out Kim's post on evolution. It is very well written, great job Kimberly!

Check the post below its new too!

Hi Everyone..one

My next post will be on my completed guitar, but for now i have a request to write on my feelings. Yes I have requests- but not from here.

Let's see.. hummmmm, Well today at church Kimberly and I went early to practice with the worship team.
it went really well. We both are learning tons. It's pretty challenging keeping up with all the great musicains there. I feel excited everytime we go. The sermon this Sunday was also great. But great is not really the word- filled with the Spirit. I felt really blessed by the message. It was focused on choosing Christ and surrendering youtself to Christ, and how obedience is pleasing to God and disobediece cuts us away from God. Thanks Reading.
Nathan out!

Hi everyone.

The guitar is finished. I'm now working on a docu for youtube. I will also include some sound bits of the guitar on the docu too so please hang on! The guitar has some problems in the action, and for sound I can't be sure- I haven't played many Les Pauls. My favorite part about the whole experience was carving the headstock and soldering in the new capacitors for the tone knobs.

Kimberly was mentioning to me how interesting it is reading her old diary. She told me a few thoughts and experiences she had written and I think it is so cool especially because she has grown so much. I wish I hadn't thrown away my old notebook, but I have one going right now. oh... he reason I threw out the old on was because I thought it was to silly.

Well hold on sound bits soon. And maybe a podcast- even if it's just me

Till Tomorrow

Hi everyone

Out of clear lacquer so tomorrow I'll see if I can find some in Kona. If I can't I'll plan to assemble the guitar to do some sound tests and see how all the black parts fit the natural and white. I might just buy some white parts if the black doesn't look right.

Musically Kimberly and I are planning to record a song, but thats still a week away.
Kimberly and Michael's recording was great.

This Saturday we'll be going to watch and help the church worship team set up for Sunday. Then we'll go early Sunday when they practice.

i'm distracted right now. Can't think of much to post. I just like reporting not talking. oh well
next time.

Above is the replacement nut, below is the original nut still waiting to be taken out.

The new nut and abalone inlays arrived two days ago. Just yesterday Kimberly and I put all

eight new abalone inlays in for the acoustic. Today I changed the strings on the electric. Wow- it sounds so much improved compared to before. The strings were for acoustic or electric guitar. I play acoustic more than electric so the strings felt more comfortable, better tension, and thicker sound.

This is the acoustic guitar. I have not replaced any inlays on the electric, yet.

As you can see we made a few nicks and dents, but overall I think the guitar looks great. Also Kimberly and I learned how to better replace inlays next time. I love custom.

This post was all guitar wasn't it? Well on the flip side, I just finish the book This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti. Not only did I thoughly enjoy it, but the spiritual message is inspiring and awakening. I was so engrossed in this book that today I almost didn't notice we had an accident while driving to Waimea- and no I wasn't driving. And also I wasn't reading the time I could of had an accident when driving home from Puako- We are all safe so please don't worry. I am still driving though ( I'm not worrying abou that but you can).Joking, joking. This book rocks. Nuff said. (try that on a book report)

Well as you can see I have painted the headstock white.

Traditionally the headstock is painted black, but it didn't seem to match.
I bought abalone dot inlays to replace the white ones and a nut to replace the plastic one.

My dad and I have been talking about buying a mic so Kim can record properly. Even though I have found one I don't want be to fast to buy. First it takes a good deal of dedication of time and energy to record music and second Kim doesn't want to record with a mic.

She likes recording with the camcorder which for our level the perfect. Now I'd like to mention that if you saw Kim's latest production: yes I was in it; no I'm not doing it again.

I fully believe and know I can't sing. Amen.

Last thing I toke a PSAT at home today from a booklet. Score: 173 that's average I think. Top scores are 200 to 220

As you have noticed my mind has been thinking about the guitar constantly. There's actually not much to do, but I've been preoccupied with how to upgrade it.

In truth I've let the guitar take over my mind. I'm putting it back in the correct perspective.
To glorify God and learn a few things. I should also be focusing on learning about God and heavenly things.

Hi everyone this is an update on the guitar I'm making

Today I did three cleat coats on the neck and body!!

This is the decal I hoped to use, but the lacquer dissolved the gold so I will most likely use a sticker after the finishing process.

For hardware I plan the upgrade the pickups and pickguard which is black.

Augghhh!! Blogger has an internal error and I can upload any pictures for the moment!Well I'll try tomorrow. bye

What's been up

Hi everyone
For everyone who doesn't know, I've been working on a Saga guitar kit I received from my parents. Because today I just laid on the first coats of paint I decided it was time to write something and post some pictures.
This is the plain headstock. I found a design I liked from a yamaha sg electric.

I cut the design with a coping saw and rasp (curved file)

Now the paint. As I said before natural with a stripe design
I cut out the design with a razor blade.

I did three coats. Now to take off the tape.. tomorrow

! 1 Day to wait!

It's May 14th!!

Hi all

Tomorrow is my birthday, tomorrow is my birthday, tomorrow is my birthday....

That was alittle immature, but I'm very excited. Also today I finished all my Abeka exams!!!!!!!!
(that's exclamation fasination [ what ever that means?])... thats just me acting - different ( I think? )

Well.... glad it's my birthday's once a year, and here is a guitar design idea!!!!!!!
natural with white strips

A Poem

Hi everyone. This is a poem I wrote for school, but I thought it would be fun to post it here.

"The Race"

I'm in a race that's set by God

and at the start He gave a nod

"I will be there at every leap

"My faithfullness is what will keep

"you sure and safe from all the fears

"that try to haunt you far and near"

The race seems long the heat to hard

But I must always keep my guard

and flower fragrance call out to me

to take a rest beneath a tree

my step will quicken with His strength

To fight the good fight till the end

Thanks for reading it!

MAY time

Hi everyone!

May is my favorite month. Not only am I finishing school in a week, but my birthday's in May!On Friday i completed lesson 163. Only seven lessons to go!! I'm really excited to be out. I'm not done with my recording yet, but I have laid down a noisey tamborine. Last will be my voice> <

Kimberly has been sick for the past week, but she almost fully recovered. I'm really glad she's better. It's so hard seeing her so tired, always half asleep, coughing, and weak:(
But she better now so we're all thankful to God.

Mike and I will be practicing Christmas song together over the summer- if Michael cooperates.
-I mean wants to-

Did I mention only one week of school left?

Because of the great cost of making a guitar I want to wait longer(not too long). There are few other projects that might need more attention.
Signing out, Nathan

Hi everyone

Dad's birthday is tomorrow!! yaaae! But for tonight were going out to YWAM.

This is only the second time. YWAM( Youth With A Mission) is a discipleship training center and they have a university there too. I'm interested in maybe going for DTS ( Discipleship Training School? - not completely sure about the "S"). Not sure if I will, if you can tell indecision is one of my enemies.

I've been trying to get creative. Writing a song, drawing guitar designs, writing a poem(schoolwork). I will post the poem, but the song might take longer. I hope to have some finished products.

Only two weeks of school!

Ultimate Update

Hi all!
This is the first of hopefully more Ultimate Updates

First, today was lesson 153 in abeka. Only 17 more lessons to go, which means i will be done with school before my birthday- yaaaaaa! Also I should be preparing for the SAT and GED, but I don't how ready i really am? i guess the best would be to just take it.

Lately I've been looking up some great guitar lessons online. The most helpful and advanced are at gibson.com. As a summer project i've been looking up guitar kits, just the ones that require some assembley, not any wood working. I've really got into it, especially all the upgrades and customizations I could do. that for now. Nathan