Myself and a few mates like to talk crap via email. The subjects include list making, music, cycling, gadgetry, buildings, cars, man maths and other things. Occasionally the subject ends up making sense in an interesting way that’s worth circulating. All entries from The Guild can be found at that link. Introducing Turbin. —— I’m a big railway fan from […]
Imagine it’s 11:58 on your personal doomsday clock. You’ve got a heart condition and you’re due for surgery. Tomorrow. Being a strong spirited type and knowing that your time might be limited, you decide to dress up and head out for a night at your favourite jazz club. Jazz is what you love most in all the world and if
During September and October 2014 I attended a three-week intensive course to build my own acoustic guitar. As people will quite possibly be directed to this website to gain an understanding of the process, I thought I’d cap the experience off with this overview. Click here to go to the Guitar section of this website, which starts with this overview
This is the final entry about a three week intensive guitar building course I did through the Australian Guitar Making School. Click here to read all entries in this series. —— At the end of the previous entry, I’d just started shaping the neck of the guitar using a tool called a spoke shave. The final days were all about
Yesterday we had a very exciting moment at our guitar building class. One of our fellow students, Christiane, had finished her guitar and it was strung and played for the first time. Christiane doesn’t play guitar. She built the guitar for her son. I hope he realises the beauty of the instrument he’ll soon have in his hands. The guitar
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This is the entry for Day 15 of a three week intensive guitar building course I’m doing through the Australian Guitar Making School. Click here to read all entries in this series. —— Trimming The Neck Today was (almost) all about the neck of the guitar. When we first started building the guitar – and right up until today, actually
This is the entry for Day 14 of a three week intensive guitar building course I’m doing through the Australian Guitar Making School. There’s a new button for this series on the menu at the top of this (or any) page. Simply click on the “Guitar” button. Or for now, click here. —— We got SO much done today. It
This is the entry for Day 13 of a 3-week intensive guitar building course I’m taking through the Australian Guitar Making School. Click to view the entry for days 10, 11 and 12. Click to view Day 9’s entry. Click here to view Day 8’s entry. Click here to view Day 7’s entry. Click here to view all of Week
With the whole guitar thing going on, there hasn’t been much time to play with the Lancia Fulvia but we got a little time today. It was Classics By The Beach in the morning, followed by a little Fiat X19 time with Geoff and a friend who came over to give us the benefit of his experience with the car
This is the entry for Day 12 of a 3-week intensive guitar building course I’m taking through the Australian Guitar Making School. Click to view Day 9’s entry. Click here to view Day 8’s entry. Click here to view Day 7’s entry. Click here to view all of Week #1. —— It’s been busy around here! I had a late
Regular visitors to this website (and Saabs United in the old days) will probably know the name of Jim Coggeshall. Jim is a big Saab fan and a multiple Saab owner. Jim is also a cancer survivor (several times over) and for the last few years I’ve been asking you to support Jim as he rides his bike in the
