Hold On your daughter eats while sitting on the toilet!!
and speaking of Loo one of my favourite expressions are: To The Loo i use it both to say good bye and to notify people where I'm going!

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It's a mix between Jazz and Funk, it's called "Junk"

Skeduwel. not shedyua.

O.O your lucky that rugby football isnt thrown into the mix too.

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Oh dear oh dear!

The "proper" British pronunciation of schedule is "shedule", as distinct from the American "skedule". Humorous American writer Bill Bryson is hugely liked in Britain and has written more than one book on this very kind of subject. He points out on this one that neither nation has history on their side: Elizabethan English pronounced the word "sedule".

On the other hand, to this day we (Britons) talk about "skool", not "shool". Not a hint of consistency: we only do this stuff to confuse visitors.

Another very odd one: we pronounce the word lieutentant "leff-tenant". Obviously a French word in origin, there's simply no accounting for our weird usage on that one. I've an idea it comes from a mispronunciation by 18th century sailors - which is certainly how we all come to talk about sherry, rather than "herreth", from the Spanish Jerez...

Just call me Doctor Johnson. What was this thread about...?

Cheers - C

This thread, like all others, I hope, is about great fun.

You'll like this. I was listening to my girl read. She was running her sentences together, not really pausing, even the slightest, at the end of her sentences. I stopped her, asked her what that "dot" was called. She said "a period." I then told her that in England they called it a "full stop" because you had to stop reading that sentence. .... I'm still fighting with her to give a slight pause before commencing the next sentence. ... Then I asked her to go get me a spanner out of the boot of the car so I could ...

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Orville, your language skills are remarkable. C'mon over: you're gonna fit right in!

One last test to pass. Have you seen the film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? There is a section in the middle where a character speaks with subtitles beneath because his London slang is so impenetrable. Once you've mastered the dialogue in that scene you are ready to take on the post of Oxford Professor of Modern English. A very poorly paid position, no doubt...

Cheers - C

Seriously Niki, I use a heat gun:


and a putty knife/scraper:



I use those to remove any Poly (ester or urethane,) finishes. You have to really be careful, some people aren't and scorch the bollocks off their bodies.

I also run the corners of the putty knife against a some steel or cement , to round em off so I don't gouge the wood. I keep the knife between i/2 a foot, to 3/4 ft from the surface, constantly moving. Whenever I even sense or fear the body is getting too hot, i go to the lower heat setting, or remove heat from the body completely. The Ibanez from the other thread only took about an hour or so.(I took breaks, I had friends drop by.)

I am reluctant to use such heavy-duty solvents as the aircraft stripper in a non-industrial environment.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

All my putty/drywall knives (scrapers in the uk) have well rounded corners, they've seen a lot of use .
Unhappy with the standard of my work on that strat body i just chemical stripped it.
This is all a lesson in patience if nothing else.

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Oh yeah , you're a plasterer. You should have "THE TOUCH" if you gouge a guitar with your putty knife, I would think they'd need to drag the Thames!!

Yeah, finishing guitars,(or anything for that matter,) is all about patience/tedium. But the extra attention to detail, and prep work is a big payoff. Ceri is a prime example, i am so impressed with his salvage job. And it really can only be called that, a salvage job. That body was a basket case, and he actually made a guitar out of it. Well maybe there is another word, miracle.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

Wait a couple of days and i'll have a picture of the stripped and filled body. The extent of the damage i caused way back in october when i lost my temper with it is astounding. Unless you really look the faults dont show up until your near finished.

Like steve austin, we can rebuild him.

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Hold On your daughter eats while sitting on the toilet!!


Rather poetic I think....beginning and ending in the same place

Doc

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Such a way with words mate.



Truth be told it was always at the back of my mind to sort that body out. When i lost my temper with it i acted like a hormonal 15 year old. After seeing Ceri's work sorting his problem body i was inspired to repair this one. Hopefully i'll acheive a tenth of his standard.

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This is the same body as in the "refinish chronicles" thread, isn't it? Good grief, the history this body has notched up! I think ultimately you've got to simply clearcoat it, so's it's story can be viewed in every dent and scrape.

Remember that gentleman with the '60s body and neck that had been water damaged in a fire, repainted, stripped, etc etc? Very beautiful - and this one will easily match it.

By the way, I just can't wait for Twelvebar's finishing thread. I think that's going to be a steep learning curve for most of us, judging by all the snippets of knowledge he tosses out!

What fun! - C

theres no beauty to it. The ammount of filler thats on it now has seen to that. I'll post a picture but its a horror story. Ceri your example of a finished neck pocket has also given me the idea to alter the poor fitting neck pocket on the body too.

On the plus side weve just got a new kitchen table. I may be following zachary guitars example and sawing the ikea junk up for a mosrite johnny ramone.
http://www.zacharyguitars.com/
A very outspoken fellow. He's got my interest though.

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