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Would anyone like a tidy BN0118-04E, box etc, unused original strap, £200

Also a Seiko SNK809, needs regulating/degaussing or something... £60 ono

The London Bicycle Repair Shop on Hatfields just off The Cut did me a solid by interrupting a job to fix my disintegrating chain the other morning while I waited, and just for a couple of quid. Seem like good guys, would go back.

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Great podcast! Still such a great LP! Ta for the link Dooks.

Chandlers in Kew closed in, blimey, 2016 or so. That was Doug, now retired, who went off to be Collings distributor Guitar XS; after him the shop was run by his ex-wife. Brother Charlie, ex-Kew, still has his own Guitar Experience place in Hampton, and he took over the Plek machine. Nice shop, very small, bit expensive but everything is around there.

I've always been a bit dunno about Plekking... maybe it's more angled towards being part of a production process than being best suited for one-off jobs. That was Brinsley Schwarz's feeling and he used to work there...

I would newly recommend Feline in Croydon for fret work, it's obviously a very busy and experienced workshop and they use the StewMac/Erlewine neck jig which is hot shit when it comes to levelling and stuff. They did a very nice subtle fret dress and saddle lower on my acoustic for £90.

I don't think Bill P is currently available, he's had some health issues. Wish him well, lovely man, he refretted my 330 and it's been fab ever since...

Chef's kiss dooks.

Amazing pic!! Is he playing thumb over the top, like Richie Havens?

I've had mine for 10 years I think - you're right, it replaced a Collings OM which I always sort of admired rather than really loved. The Epiphone came from a good mate who loves old Gibsons but is doomed never to hang on to them. Before then it belonged to the guy who now owns No Tom in Denmark St. He accidentally sold it in a fit of divorce. I told him I had it and he found a photo on his phone of him with it on stage and declared it "the best Texan of all time" which was extremely #csb.

It's got some stories... at one point someone tried to add more tuners, banjo-style ones by the look of it, plus a tailpiece. It's got some patches on the top - maybe from the nail holes left by a DeArmond volume control unit. It's a weird one because the body is a regular 1958 J-50 but the neck is a V-profile one made earlier in NY or Philly by Epiphone before Gibson bought them out, with a wide headstock and the old logo. You remember, they used up all kinds of leftover bodies, necks and hardware, like putting those New York pickups in Coronets and so forth. It's long scale, 25.5" like a D18 not the usual Gibson 24.75", with an extra fret. They ended up keeping the longer scale when they ran out of old necks. It's probably only a gnat's more tension but it does seem to add a bit more spank.

The action had been getting a bit sad and baggy so last month I took it in (Feline in Croydon, good job) and they gave it a super light fret dress and lowered the saddle a bit and it's totally sprung back into life. I've got it on 11's and it's sounding amazing. I've been playing it for hours every day trying to get my thumbpick chops back.

Yep Beato's git is a Country Western from the mid to late 50s. (Same thing as a Southern Jumbo/SJN iirc - the name moved around quite a lot.)

Love the way the spruce darkens but the mahogany almost lightens on those natural top Gibsons, they sometimes end up pretty much the same shade. Lovely colour!

Here's my 58 Texan for comparison

Alivio HG400 still easily available in 11-32, 34 & 36.

@thegreatbelow Spa have them

Just dashed to Condor and panic-bought some cordura jeans.

They say the main problem is that the manufacturer's minimum run has increased five-fold and Swrve just aren't in a position to order 30,000 items at a time.

I'm sad because I've spent much of the last 10 years looking shabby as fuck in nice comfy Swrve clobber that refuses to die.

I never knew this thread existed! Vintage!

I'm an old mate with the boys on The Guitar magazine, they'll sort you out... They owe me...

O rly?

Dunno really, the pro tour just stresses me the hell out even though it's only a replay of someone else's round. Maybe I'll have another stab...

Anyway

Coffee Golf - Feb 7
5 Strokes - Top 1% 🏆

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Loads of routes today but I think this is the easiest, yellow drops in quite nicely with the wedge and purple is hoppable

Bit embarrassed really, the built-in variance makes this such a silly game. But hey ho

Always loved those late 60s MMs that were Burgundy Mist faded to gold! There was a one on Denmark St in the early 90s that was heart-stopping. Like this, but better...

I really don't. But EB, you might wanna sound out Yuuki McLure aka @playergradevintage, cautiously.

Holy shit that's a guitar.

Ples ring if an rnser is reqird

Penge.

Wild looking course today, a real retina burner. Took me aaaages to suss the best and most fun way around, but I reckon this is it... could even be done in 5...

Coffee Golf - Jan 3
7 Strokes - Top 1% 🏆

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Ding!

Coffee Golf - Dec 11
6 Strokes - Top 1% 🏆

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Lots of different ways round today, woo

Coffee Golf - Dec 4
8 Strokes - Top 1% 🏆

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Unlikely 2nd on track pump pls

Woe is me, for my lonely campaign to prove that an iPhone 5S is still viable today is being crushed, slowly and inexorably, by reality.

If anyone has a decent replacement available soon, please do hit me up. I guess I'm in the SE2020 to 11, possibly 12 range.

Really? Can't see changes! Do I have to Do Something?

Still chipping away generally. It's fun when you suss a new order that pays off... my least favourite courses are the ones with a stupid huge bunker in the middle. I've taken to using the driver over the wedge as often as possible...

Coffee Golf - Nov 19
8 Strokes - Top 1% 🏆

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