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Good grief - look where this thread went now! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Anyway. I'm expecting you all for a drink! You'll be perfectly safe - The Wire it is not, round here. :D
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I leave Monday for the South Pacific, so when I get back we need to get a group together to fly into Heathrow and cash in! 8) Looking forward to you buffing out the body and putting neck on this gem. Yes, even last night in bed, I was talking to my wife about C....now that is.....ummmmm.....

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I was talking to my wife about C....now that is.....ummmmm.....


Er; I; umm... That's gotta be wrong, whichever way you mean it...!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

South Pacific? I'm looking out the window at a cold grey winter sky raining stair-rods. I think you got the better end of the deal... Have a good trip!

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I was talking to my wife about C....now that is.....ummmmm.....

Er; I; umm... That's gotta be wrong, whichever way you mean it...!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
South Pacific? I'm looking out the window at a cold grey winter sky raining stair-rods. I think you got the better end of the deal... Have a good trip!
Cheers - C


My wife and I were discussing the cyber-relationships people build these days, and the aura that can surround people you really do not know... I told her, speaking softly into her ear, detail after detail of how you re-built this burnocaster to a custom shop body!

Well right now out my window it is gray, rainy and cold, like Holland in April! Kind of like taking the yearly trip to get away from the drab of the NW this time of the year....

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I told her, speaking softly into her ear, detail after detail of how you re-built this burnocaster to a custom shop body!


Hey, whatever works for her.

...Strange lady. I like her!

[Calling] G'day, Mrs Xhefri, ma'am! You just got a whole lot of new admirers round here! :D

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I told her, speaking softly into her ear, detail after detail of how you re-built this burnocaster to a custom shop body!


Hey, whatever works for her.

...Strange lady. I like her!

[Calling] G'day, Mrs Xhefri, ma'am! You just got a whole lot of new admirers round here! :D

Cheers - C


She is my kind of guitar....ahhhh, I mean gal........

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This is my War and Peace and I love it. My favorite thing about tall of this besides the actual amazing work itself is Ceri's awesome attitude and humor. I love the modesty that you have shown when we all know just how amazing your work has been. I still laugh when I think back to about a week before I found this thread. I was tinkering with my Epi LP for about a week getting it perfectly set up for myself. That involved some bridge adjustments and some truss rod adjustments and I thought I was the man and then I opened this thread,lol. I can't wait to see the finished product. Congrats and good luck with the rest.


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The fact that you'd attempt to set your own guitar up, let alone be happy with the results. Is a thing you need to congratulate yoursef about. Every builder/tech/luthier started somewhere and its usually there. Most people wont even try.


Well that is very cool of you to say. In a forum full of great people you stand out as one of the best Nikininja. You are always helpful and very encouraging. Thank you. :D


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Ceri what should I use to fill this...http://bowenpaint.com/images/gibson_sg2.jpg

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That's it...I'm convinced...Ceri is really MacGyver!....for the uninformed (An American action adventure television series which follows an intelligent, optimistic, laid-back, resourceful secret agent that is non-violent, uses conflict resolution where possible, and refuses to use a gun, educated as a scientist with a background as a Bomb Disposal Technician/EOD in Vietnam, he is used as a resourceful agent able to solve a range of problems along with his ever-present Swiss army knife).....yup that's our mate Ceri....Three Cheers for Ceri...... 8)

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Peckham is an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, located 3.5 miles south-east of Charing Cross, about one mile (1.6 km) east of Camberwell and one mile west of New Cross.

Peckham has never been an administrative district, or a single ecclesiastical parish in its own right, but it developed a strong sense of identity in the 19th century when Rye Lane was one of the most important shopping streets in South London. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.

The area known as Peckham covers a large area of South London and takes in many diverse communities. There has been a steady gentrification of some of the areas to the south of Peckham and this has meant an influx of cafés, wine bars, niche shops and artists' studios.

A few highly publicised crimes have tarnished the area's reputation. Cases such as the murder of Damilola Taylor in November 2000, the shooting of eight or nine (contemporary reports vary) people queuing outside Chicago's nightclub in the summer of 2000 and three murders in February 2007 (one of 15 year old Michael Dosunmu in his bedroom) have given the impression that Peckham is dangerous and lawless. However, incidents like this do not reflect the lives of a large majority of the people living in the area!!!


Hey, we know what Peckam is! Del Boy lives there! Just kidding!
"Only fools and horses", what a TV series! We love it here in Serbia.

I love England! Lot of great music came from there!
Pink Floyd, Clapton, Joe Cocker, even Hendrix got to be famous in Egland first! The UK is a fascinating grounds for music in my opinion.

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[quote="Trauma"]That's it...I'm convinced...Ceri is really MacGyver!....for the uninformed (An American action adventure television series which follows an intelligent, optimistic, laid-back, resourceful secret agent that is non-violent, uses conflict resolution where possible, and refuses to use a gun, educated as a scientist with a background as a Bomb Disposal Technician/EOD in Vietnam, he is used as a resourceful agent able to solve a range of problems along with his ever-present Swiss army knife.....yup that's our mate Ceri....Three Cheers for Ceri...... 8)

There have been other posts where references have been made about the possibility of Ceri being a 007 type secret agent. Hmmm, do some of us know too much???

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I retract my last post. I know nothing about 007....I mean Ceri :shock:

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Hey, we know what Peckam is! Del Boy lives there! Just kidding!
"Only fools and horses", what a TV series! We love it here in Serbia.


HA! Hi Goran: do you get it in Serbian or English with subtitles?

Odd thing: I was in Istanbul last year and was amazed to have taxi drivers break into a big smile and exclaim; "lovely-jubbly!" to me. I was astonished to think that they were getting Only Fools And Horses in Turkey - but it turned out they'd never heard of the series. They'd just heard British visitors use that phrase so many times they thought it was the obvious thing to say when they met another one... :lol:

Though sadly Only Fools And Horses was never actually filmed in Peckham. So I finally discovered after searching in vain for the locations... :roll:

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Ceri what should I use to fill this...http://bowenpaint.com/images/gibson_sg2.jpg

Hi Bruce: that is a very nasty one. Obviously a whole lump of lacquer has fallen off, and it will be very hard to match that solid cherry color exactly. However, here's a couple of pages that might help you. This one shows how to mix tint with lacquer to approximate a color:

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0 ... ign=ts0011

Though unfortunately it is easier there with a semi-transparent finish than on your solid one.

This page is good for the razorblade scraping technique and also a nifty little strip sanding method which I can tesify works very well:

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0 ... ign=ts0040

And here is an interesting alternative method - but be very clear; I have never done this one so can't recommend this from personal experience:

http://www.stewmac.com/tradesecrets/ts0 ... ign=ts0082

Obviously, those pages are put out as advertisements for Stew-Mac's products. But we can read 'em without buying the gear...

Good luck - C

PS: I will do my best to find time to finish that neckplate tomorrow and show the results...


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Hey, we know what Peckam is! Del Boy lives there! Just kidding!
"Only fools and horses", what a TV series! We love it here in Serbia.


HA! Hi Goran: do you get it in Serbian or English with subtitles?

Odd thing: I was in Istanbul last year and was amazed to have taxi drivers break into a big smile and exclaim; "lovely-jubbly!" to me. I was astonished to think that they were getting Only Fools And Horses in Turkey - but it turned out they'd never heard of the series. They'd just heard British visitors use that phrase so many times they thought it was the obvious thing to say when they met another one... :lol:

Though sadly Only Fools And Horses was never actually filmed in Peckham. So I finally discovered after searching in vain for the locations... :roll:


Hi Ceri! We get it in English, translated to Serbian with subtitles. We here get everything original, whatever the language it is, and translated that way. We don't synchronize voices here. It's a bit silly that way, isn't it? You watch John Rambo talking with a funny voice or something like that. I saw it on Hungarian TV once (I don't speak Hungarian by the way), Rambo kicking a door down (I guess it's one of the last scenes from Rambo: First Blood when he gets to the sheriff's office), and saying something stupid in Hungarian! What a stupid voice it was! I have nothing against Hungarians (there are a lot of Hungarians in this part of Serbia where I live, Vojvodina, Zrenjanin), but come on! It's Rambo! He is a Vietnam veteran! An American, man! He speaks Ameri...pardon me, English! Just kidding! But, it is stupid to synchronize movies, isn't it? I heard an interesting explanation recently why they synchronize movies in Germany. Apparently it's because there are a lot of foreigners (mostly Turks; what a coincidence) who speak but do not write or read German. It's logical, so it might be true.
"Only fools and horses" is translated to Serbian as "Mućke" (roughly pronounced Mutchke), meaning something like "those who do semi-legal/illegal or suspicious things".

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Hi Ceri! We get it in English, translated to Serbian with subtitles. We here get everything original, whatever the language it is, and translated that way. We don't synchronize voices here. It's a bit silly that way, isn't it? You watch John Rambo talking with a funny voice or something like that. I saw it on Hungarian TV once (I don't speak Hungarian by the way), Rambo kicking a door down (I guess it's one of the last scenes from Rambo: First Blood when he gets to the sheriff's office), and saying something stupid in Hungarian! What a stupid voice it was!


Ha - I heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to dub his own parts into German but was not allowed to, even though he is Austrian. His voice sounds very tough in English - but apparently in German he sounds like a joke farmer...

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Hi Ceri! We get it in English, translated to Serbian with subtitles. We here get everything original, whatever the language it is, and translated that way. We don't synchronize voices here. It's a bit silly that way, isn't it? You watch John Rambo talking with a funny voice or something like that. I saw it on Hungarian TV once (I don't speak Hungarian by the way), Rambo kicking a door down (I guess it's one of the last scenes from Rambo: First Blood when he gets to the sheriff's office), and saying something stupid in Hungarian! What a stupid voice it was!


Ha - I heard that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to dub his own parts into German but was not allowed to, even though he is Austrian. His voice sounds very tough in English - but apparently in German he sounds like a joke farmer...

Cheers - C


Well, I guess Arny/Arnie (don't know how it's spelled) must find a language that suits him best! Or make one up!

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