I tend to do most of my small jobs off an ironing board and for the bigger stuff I have something fashioned that attached to a Workmate.
The only downside to the latter is that it's a little too low.
Can you imagine the egos at work here? Gouldman with his pre-10cc writing credits and Stewart with Strawberry Studios, The Mindbenders and his session work. Godley and Creme both seemed quite obstinate and difficult.
I remember seeing Lol Creme on Blue Peter demonstrating the Gizmo thing; it seemed (to me) at the time that the reason behind the breakup was solely to benefit this unit/thing.
My early teen mind couldn't grasp why they would walk away from 10cc for that.
There's a very good documentary on You Tube:
If you want to dig deeper, 'Worst Band in the World' biography is great, too.
We have friends that are huge fans; monied, they'll happily trawl around Europe following them when they're touring.
I bought a Roadster as a project about five years ago. It all works.
It's been up for sale here for a while. Might be easier to part it out. Hit me up.
They're doing the Last Flight with an orchestra.
Interestingly, I had a brief exchange with Willgoose a few months back. I was gigging with Eddie Roxy (Department S) at the time. We were doing a show in London and I had PSB on in the car; Eddie asked who we were listening to and he casually said he'd been involved with Willgoose 'when he first started out'.
I popped a message over to Willgoose and got a lengthy reply, debt of gratitude etc. It transpired that Eddie knows Willgoose's father (he played Sunday League football with him!) and offered a lot of sage advice when he started gigging and recording.
There used to be a website called 'phat fingers' (or something) where you could punch in (for instance) 'Squier' and it would search eBay for near misses, like Squire, Squeer etc.
Right, I'm off to search for a Febner Jizz Base.
Reckon it's more a case that all the elder statesmen on this site have probably reached a point where they've amassed what they really like and feel there's simply nothing of any merit for sale through Gumtree/Marketplace etc.
Personally I've little interest in Sire/Squire/Ibanez/G4M kit, which seems to be the mainstay of these sites; this isn't to say I got lucky a few years back with my Aria Primary bass. I did see a gorgeous Mike Lull T4 on Marketplace one time, but couldn't scrape together the £££ at such short notice.