Has anyone read this book?

JPD · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:19 am

Its not the end, its a new beginning....This is like everyone worrying about the computer failures at the turn of the year 2000. What happened ?...nothing. Enjoy your life each day and play that Fender till you drop. If the end is near theres not a darn thing you can do about it anyway.

Andybighair · **Joined:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:22 am **Posts:** 2175

Ceri wrote:

way cool jr wrote:

that has got to be thee ugliest tele i think ive ever seen.

Uh-hu? Well each to his own (which is an idea someone needs to tell strat789 about. Oh wait, they already did...). WCjr, I believe there was an ancient Mayan prophesy that you wouldn't be purchasing an inlayed Telecaster. Sounds like it's going to come true!

I think that's a cool piece of inlay - the work of Larry Robinson if I'm not very much mistaken. I've never seen that Mayan guitar before, but I know his Celtic Tele, which I guess is a sister piece:

If I remember right that's real granite on the top. Good grief, imagine having to accurately carve into that for all those hundreds of inlay segments! Streuth; some of us will do anything to avoid actually sitting down and practicing the damned instrument... :lol:

Cheers - C

Ah ha!

Thanks for that Mr C. I've not managed to find anything about the Mayan Tele. In fact the pic I posted is the only pic out I can find!

Certainly looks like Larry's work...

Cheers!

Andy

Edit: BTW: GS,

Well worth checking out Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods I reckon you'll like it!

Andy

53magnatone · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:41 am

Ceri wrote:

I don't believe a word of it. Not one word.

However, I'm always ready to admit when I'm wrong, so if the world actually does end on 21 December next year, why then I'll happily hold my hands up and say I was mistaken.

Strangely, you never get the same thing from the millennialist doom-sayers, do you? You never hear from them the day after the world didn't end.

For example, a few years ago there was a bunch of cultist lulus who'd gathered somewhere in Russia for the end of the world. They were interviewed plenty before the predicted date, scoffing at the rest of us for not preparing properly for armaggedon. And then whadayaknow, the world didn't end. That was the point at which I wanted to see them interviewed, with sheepish, disappointed looks on their faces having to admit that they'd been a bunch of gullible oafs ready to swallow any old guff in order to invent some sort of meaning to their lives.

But they'd vanished into the woodwork. They always do...

Cheers - C

I actually think they are all camping out in Tunguska awaiting the next fallout :wink:

53magnatone · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:48 am

Ceri wrote:

way cool jr wrote:

that has got to be thee ugliest tele i think ive ever seen.

Uh-hu? Well each to his own (which is an idea someone needs to tell strat789 about. Oh wait, they already did...). WCjr, I believe there was an ancient Mayan prophesy that you wouldn't be purchasing an inlayed Telecaster. Sounds like it's going to come true!

I think that's a cool piece of inlay - the work of Larry Robinson if I'm not very much mistaken. I've never seen that Mayan guitar before, but I know his Celtic Tele, which I guess is a sister piece:

If I remember right that's real granite on the top. Good grief, imagine having to accurately carve into that for all those hundreds of inlay segments! Streuth; some of us will do anything to avoid actually sitting down and practicing the damned instrument... :lol:

Cheers - C

Shouldn't this "Teletombcaster" be in a crystal case at the entrance to Stonehenge :shock:

I really like celtic runes and all but for some reason, this rendition gives me a very unsettled eerie feeling, odd but I would not want to handle it and I am not superstitious.

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:12 am

53magnatone wrote:

Shouldn't this "Teletombcaster" be in a crystal case at the entrance to Stonehenge :shock:

I really like celtic runes and all but for some reason, this rendition gives me a very unsettled eerie feeling, odd but I would not want to handle it and I am not superstitious.

I'm guessing what Mr WayCool objects to is the bridge cover. I remember that he feels that prevents him palm muting comfortably.

That and the fact there's no strings - an obvious design flaw...

Anyway. Did someone mention Stonehenge? Here's a very "Spinal" moment I had at that place:

Nah, just kidding:

And I don't want to boast but...:

(Fender Forum T-shirt in all pictures. You spotted that?)

Cheers - C

Rebelsoul · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:32 am

cool pics Ceri,I would really like to go there.

Screamin' Armadillo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:04 pm

My theory is that the Mayan calendar only goes to 12-20-2012 because they ran out of rock to chisel the later dates into...

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:28 pm

Rebelsoul wrote:

cool pics Ceri,I would really like to go there.

It's OK - though on the one hand it is santised with little fences and paths and recorded tour handset thingies you're meant to take round with you. And on the other it is a shamefully badly presented site, sitting right between two busy roads and with poor facilities that have been waiting to be upgraded for decades. World Heritage Site indeed - sheesh!

In fact much nicer and more spooky/spiritual feeling is a nearby site called Avebury, another neolithic stone circle - with a medieval village on top!

No trilithons, but remains of much bigger stone circles with ancient ditches and ramparts round the outside in which 3000 year old sacrificial remains and the like are sometimes unearthed. And best of all, an old pub with good ale right in the middle!

And unlike Stonehenge there's no toll booth or fences or opening hours or anything. You just turn up and walk around amongst the stones, touch them if you want and get close to your bronze age ancestors. Or whatever floats your boat...

There's been some wear and tear over the millenia, naturally. Supposedly it might have looked like this, once upon a time:

Anyway. Kinda cool around sunset. The third picture with me in the previous post is actually at Avebury, not Stonehenge. Here's someone else's photo of the same scene:

Anyhow. That landscape is littered with this stuff. I believe it's considered a bit dull if you haven't got a standing stone or a barrow or some such in your garden round those parts... :lol:

Cheers - C

53magnatone · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:04 pm

Any Barrow-wights rustling about in the chill twilight... :shock:

Andybighair · **Joined:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:22 am **Posts:** 2175

53magnatone wrote:

Any Barrow-wights rustling about in the chill twilight... :shock:

I don't know but It looks like the perfect place for a Medieval Re-enactment....

Andy

(Seriously - cool pic's Mr C)

NonniG · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:36 pm

Vow now I want to visit Ol'Britannia, now where is my battle axe and my longboat... it's time for some pillaging.

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:56 pm

53magnatone wrote:

Any Barrow-wights rustling about in the chill twilight... :shock:

Full of 'em!

NonniG wrote:

Vow now I want to visit Ol'Britannia, now where is my battle axe and my longboat... it's time for some pillaging.

Longboat? This one do ya? (Me in the blue Fender polo shirt.):

I've really sailed them too! On the fjord at the Danish Ship Museum at Roskilde.

Let's pillage!

Cheers - C

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

ceri

is that a coonskin cap your wearing in those pics? :wink:

thats it, the dang bridge cover! i knew there was just something i didnt like about that tele. :lol:

Ceri · **Posted:** Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:54 pm

way cool jr wrote:

is that a coonskin cap your wearing in those pics? :wink:

No mate. Actually, it's a Russian army hat. Ebay this side of the Atlantic is smothered in ex-Red Army stuff going for a song. Like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SOVIET-RUSSIAN-RE ... 2a0e5ed02a

I think I took the Red Army badge off and replaced it with something else (let's be reasonable, after all). I just went and looked at the hat in the hall: right now it's sporting a Who target badge - but I think it was something different in the photos above.

I believe you can buy almost anything from the Red Army on Ebay these days. They're desperate for the cash. I remember they had to take down a sale for a MIG fighter (but then just a few days ago someone in my country was trying to sell a Harrier jump-jet on Ebay and they took that down too - it violated their code or something).

I have a "saved search" for a USSR nuclear submarine, but so far one hasn't come up. Mind you, there's a sunk one at the mouth of the River Thames here in London, so they're to be had if you really want them. (That bit is true, there really is a sunk Russian submarine on the edge of London. Damned if I can remember how it came to be sunk there, but it lies clear of the water at low tide for all to see.)

I love that Ebay sale I linked to. "USSR on line" - what a hoot! Still, I'd rather be taking delivery of the Red Army over the internet than through a land invasion... Hee-hee!

Cheers - C

way cool jr · **Joined:** Tue May 18, 2010 7:34 pm **Posts:** 6911

man you guys find cool stuff on ebay.
i should get that hat for my friend at work, hes from bosnia. man that would go over well wouldnt it?

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