When It's Not Bikes...

Making soups and recepies from scratch..

learning about and appreciating rare single malts..

book cafes and right now reading about sustainable building..

= pretty borring me..

Are you calling me boring?

na...he tastes fine.

I was getting worried for a minute...thanks for clearing that one up for me :)

Me? I make guitars....A couple of my creations...

Me? I make guitars....A couple of my creations...

They're beautiful man, lovely grain on the first one!! Do you sell or just for yourself?? I'm actually working on a one piece neck through 7-string electric singlecut with spalted maple front and back at the moment!! Slow going though as I won't buy cheap parts so it's taking forever!!

I'm looking to sell 'em. Currently get by repairing and such...

www.darkmatterguitars.com [/shameless plug]

you are a luthier of distinction,sir.

a Martin Luthier King…

No Luthier van dross there

bling version - Luthier in the sky with diamonds

I'm looking to sell 'em. Currently get by repairing and such...

www.darkmatterguitars.com [/shameless plug]

just had a look at your site sir, very fine.

I think we need to negotiate some kind of..sponsorship deal

Cheers for the kind words chaps!

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If I had the cash I would be building one of these.

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any of you watch fanciers know how to remove links out of this, (poor pic I know).. no screw heads on pins?

you need one of these

from here http://www.chronomaster.co.uk/budget_tools.htm

or any decent jeweller can do it.
it's not that hard smithchild

Making soups and recepies from scratch..

learning about and appreciating rare single malts..

book cafes and right now reading about sustainable building..

= pretty borring me..

Jac's - you have to come over and see our new house soon. I have a 12 year bottle of Glenlivet that none of my heathen housemates will drink with me.

Bring Haggis again.

ABSOLUTELY.
Just tell me when and where... I would love to. And yes, I shall try and bring you a haggis ;)

jacqui, i thought you liked your men like your scotch, aged 18 years?!?

ABSOLUTELY.
Just tell me when and where... I would love to. And yes, I shall try and bring you a haggis ;)

The veggie kind for me!

Cool - I'll speak to the laydee and we'll do summit.

beautiful guitars jammy. i used to "make" telecasters (basically bolting two bits of wood together and doing a bit of soldering). even sold a few. always wanted to try my hand at some real luthier-ing tho. lovely stuff.

to be brutally honest i'm not really all that into bikes per se. i really like riding, but once i've got my bike modded and set up just how i like it then i'll probably switch off paying any attention to bikes and bits until such time as i feel the need for a new bike which may be years. we'll see.

my main thing is music. writing, recording and playing guitar and bass in a couple of bands. i used to be a total gear nerd and get hard over old fender amps and '52 telecasters. but since i've stopped playing live in both bands this year (one broke up and the other is taking forever to make our second album) i've stopped caring so much about muso gear too. I've recently sold a load of amps and guitars leaving a skeleton crew of essentials. when i start playing live again i'll go and get another pro reverb or vibrolux or something but for now i'm happy tinkering with the bike and picking the acoustic on the sofa.

other than the above i'm into swimming (i do 5 and 10k swims whenever i can find them), cooking, drinking, smoking, weatherwatching and the cloud appreciation society, london history, birds, bees, fish and all that, new music, old music, drinking more, smoking more, the philosophy of science, atheism and frisbee and drinking and smoking too much.

I'm spending much of my time in the gym so that I can start training for this:

daytime


nightime, besides of drawing and painting i do that

Marc, what it is in the last picture?

i build my tattoo machines from scratch, thats one frame after braze and oil finish.

Currently I'm doing lots of this:

and lots of this..

Got a couple fights in the new year and also Running the winter Tough Guy for Help for Heroes; should be fun!

jacqui, i thought you liked your men like your scotch, aged 18 years?!?

you got the joke wrong, Dale.

it's :

i like my women/men like i like my whisky - 15 years old and full of coke.