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People have had some strange ideas on building in the past. Thank goodness for modern technology 

@boo Another thought. When I first started making in the 1980s I used to buy from a firm in Pennsylvania US who built a back bow in on purpose to counter string pressure. They had a jig for gluing up…   Read more»

@boo I had a good think about this and waited to see if there were any good ideas from others, so here’s my input. A guitar with back bow on the neck and no truss rod is likely to have been…   Read more»

@boo step one… find some tight pants/shorts to put on… step two…. muscles. 🙂

Posted by: @boo How would you go about doing the opposite thing, do you think? If the neck had a back bow? How about removing the frets and then stinging the guitar for a while, under high tension if necessary….   Read more»

@boo
You can try the back bow repair method first and let us all know how it goes.
ps have you got your spray painting demo ready for @tv101 when we do the video thing.

Posted by: @boo
How dare you. What are you insinuating

I had visions of you doing some live skin spray painting or something …
🤣 🤣 

Posted by: @boo I bet you are excited, I am. I am supressing my excitement until I played it 😜 ( but I could not prevent a bit of pride to escape 😉)

Posted by: @boo
 
We are having an interim move to another house before that happens though, probably in April.

Looks cosy ….
 

@boo  Roll on Burns night on Tuesday. The Burns Supper that I usually go to has been postponed until March this year. The last one I went to, I was stone cold sober, it was a whole new experience (not…   Read more»

Posted by: @russ Your Haggis, Neeps and Tatties look great @boo but you’re a couple of days early. 🤣  @russ Yeah I know but I thought I would have a trial run, I do it every year. 🤣👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Roll on…   Read more»

Posted by: @boo I stepped away from it and made Haggis, neeps and tattles for my tea, with a wee dram afterwards. 🥃  Your Haggis, Neeps and Tatties look great @boo but you’re a couple of days early. 🤣  I’m…   Read more»

@boo My daughter was sitting beside me while I was scrolling down looking at the paint job. She kept saying… ohhhh…. pretty. 🙂 Oh.. and she loves the purple. At the end she said… well… I really like the silver…   Read more»

@boo  I quite like the look of the dark red and gold, and honestly wouldn’t have known there is anything wrong with it. Not until I saw the photo where you wiped back down to purple, I can see now…   Read more»

Posted by: @boo Posted by: @rocknroller912 Veggie haggis is available @rocknroller912 Yes, I’ll have to get some for my wife. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 For years she’s had an excuse to avoid having to eat them.   Don’t spoil it now.

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Tesco

Posted by: @boo Ps. I’ve got my haggis and whisky ready for Burns night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃 (there is no haggis emoji)  Having prevented them from entering the virtual world, if only we could be so successful in the real world ……   Read more»

@boo
Veggie haggis is available

@boo Thanks man. 

@boo Ive read about this method in a book by Irving Sloane on guitar repair. He calls it over size fret wedging and describes how it was used in the Martin acoustic factory in the days before Martin used truss…   Read more»