Actually that's kind of cool.

My pickguard plastic didn't even come home with me. I pulled it off right as i accepted my guitar.

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I did the same thing. Not entirely sure why but the stickers are still on...

The first Fender I got had the plastic taken off as soon as it got home. I know it's wimpy, but it was such a pain, I haven't bothered to take the pickguard plastic off any guitar since.

Amp tags get in the way of turning the knobs, so they got removed, other wise, they'd probably still be on too.

I guess it's my version of not cutting the excess string off when restringing a guiatr.

Once the protective plastic sheets get to looking bad, then I'll remove them.

My 72 Strat came without stickers, but then again all Fender guitars were made in the US then, and the dealers would check them out before they went on the walls, and nobody played them without a sales guy with you. No Wankers scratching them all up. You also got a cord, a polishing cloth and a handful of picks for free. Those were the days.

How about whether rosewood or ebony or maple neck boards make for better smoked brisket?

Haha - well, you have a point...

Mind you, important related matters. I always leave the tags on my underwear in case I need to take it back several years later. Maybe there'll be a warranty issue with the elastic or something.

Ew...

Now: gardening. Anyone got a problem with Japanese knotweed?

Cheers - C

Ceri

I have found that Glyphosate is the best active ingredient in herbicide for use on Japanese knotweed as it is ’systemic’. It penetrates through the whole plant and travels to the roots. Glyphosate is available under several trade names - all label the product as a "weed and grass killer". Commercial Glyphosate concentrates contain approximately 20%-40% Glyphosate; the balance is mostly water. Such concentrates need to be diluted in water.

Hi Flashback. Gosh, we really are discussing gardening!

Luckily, I don't really have knotweed in the garden (it was just the most pernicious thing I could think of on the spur of the moment) - but I did have ground elder in my asparagus patch. Didn't use glyphosate on it though: I just weeded it by hand for months on end. It was very stubborn but I was more stubborn and I eventually beat it. Somehow didn't want to use poison near stuff we were going to eat, though that might have been just superstition...

Now. Want to see a photo of honey fungus in one of my ash trees?

Cheers - C

Hehe - did you have those tapes with your name embroidered into them that your mum would sew into your clothing as a kid - or is that just an English thing? I inherited my mum's sewing basket and found yards of that tape with my name on it still waiting. Can't quite bring myself to use it... which seems a shame.

BTW: mum? I thought it was mom where you are? Or are you showing off your language skills?

Cheers - C

Ah, I've got no problems with invading Texans or anyone else. Several years ago we officially passed the point where more than half of the population of London was from somewhere else in the world, and it continues. I like it.

Apparently there's 50,000 Japanese living in (as opposed to visiting) London. And amazingly 200,000 Norwegians - there's only four million Norwegians in the whole world!

The supermarkets try to cater to all these different folks - which makes it a richer experience for the rest of us. That's how I look at it, anyhow...

Welcome, all! - C