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Saw Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour at Milton Keynes Bowl, with The Beat and Icehouse. That was some gig. Check Bowie at the BBC theater 2000 on YT. Great gig - the sound is awesome under headphones. Highlight was Mark Plati's bass on Ashes to Ashes

Funny you mention getting mashed. The night i went to the Dolly, i'd been in the Swan in Marston Street off the Cowley Rd, sank 2 pints of Guinness, then did 10-ish Barley Wines down at the Dolly and ended bumping into a haemophiliac and we had to take him to hospital there and then. I knocked him over in my drunken mash up and he had to have immediate medical attention. Apparently i fell out of the car when they opened the car doors at the hospital. I had it all relayed to me in fine detail the next day. They guy was alright, by the way

Yeah i did catch them, but just the once at the Dolly. They were awesome and very unique, as you say. Think they came from Wales originally ? Never heard the album , stangely

And me - i hate this time of year. I'm a sunhine child

Thanks people. I'm getting worried about the weight now - maybe i'll go for black/american walnut. To be fair, i;m struggling to find a nice planed top and bottom blank in the right size anyway. The wenge was available from the seller, but not walnut, which is why i thought i'd go for the wenge. I asked my local firendly luthier and he's worked with wenge , but now that weight that Mick and Manton has mentioned, i might give it a miss

I'm tough - i can take it

It is Andy, thanks

I never personally use mine for self weighing . Mostly because it only goes upto 150kg

Ah the Corn Dolly. Been there umpteen times, love the place. I saw Jakko Jakszyk there before he was famous with level 42 and King Crimson, in the band 64 Spoons. This was somewhere between '76 and '80 when i was living in Oxford. Hope they make it. Be a shame to see it go

Got a pic of some Australian lacewood. It's my vintage Overwater Deluxe ll. It's the outside wings

I'm pondering buying a wenge body blank and giving it to a guy who who does this sort of work, but reading up about wenge is almost putting me off. Sounds like it's a right bar steward to rout / shape / work. I dont yet know if the guy i'm using has worked with wenge before, so at this point, not sure whether to buy the blank. I've read tales of tear outs and splinters - whats the trick with wenge ? It would be expensive ( £96 and then the cost of routing and what not ) so a bit worried about it. Anyone of the brilliant builders here ever made a body from a wenge blank ?

They are indeed Jim

That reminds of a Tom Clement Joan bass. Was that any inspiration ? PS if it is, good choice. I love the Joan series

Dont think there's gonna be too much warmth this weekend Christine. You may have to get a heater in there. Or maybe get your local politician into the workshop. They seem to blow a lot of hot air on occasions.

James Taylor live at the BBC '70/'71

Good grief. If the original SRV No.1 came up for sale, it'd be worth that and then some, but that price is sheer ballocks

Oh man, that is awesome and somewhat unique. What a beauty, mr Gillett ! ( mr scrumpy )

Indeed. Looks like i did it, but not guilty.

55 notes, Marc. Pricey but very accurate and useful if you sell a fair bit.

I went for this bad boy, because i'm worth it. It can weigh a Great Dane without breaking a sweat. 150kg at the top end

Even better if it was a gay cake.

If only i'd known ! As it happens, i'm going back to wound strings, and those Chromes and my Roto 77 flats will be getting sold on, when i can get round to it

Dammit - have you got binoculars or something ??

I know someone who's Phrygid