Anything to be concerned with on taking off a neck?

Xhefri · **Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:37 pm

LOL! Actually I have eaten rabbit a few times. When I was dating my wife (umm, she was 14 when we started dating) she had pet rabbits up at her grandparents. We would go up there to visit (about 50 miles away out in the country up in Montana) and some of her pet rabbits would be gone. "Oh, they got out and got away," grandma would say with a wry smile on her face. All this, while she was cook'in up a batch of "fried chicken." Oh, grandma made the best fried chicken!........ But a taste that is about the same but more tender is rattle snake (I did mention Montana, right?)....or more often a greasy bear ham.....

JasonSD · **Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:50 pm

Quote:

Last time it was pigeon kebabs.

My mom used to tell us kids a story about when she was a kid in the 40's she had pigeons and one day her mom sent her to the store to buy something, and while she was gone her mom killed her pigeons and was cooking them in a pressure cooker and it blew up. So she came back to the store to find her pigeons in pieces all over the kitchen.

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

Martian wrote:

See what happens to my mind when I have nothing to do? :roll:

Oh dear.

My fellow forumites, this is indeed worrying news. I've watched/read enough sci-fi to know what happens when the inhabitants of the red planet get bored.

That's right, one too many Intergalactic Gargle Blasters followed by several Marmite chasers and before you know it a fleet of Martian Flying Saucers will leave their Cydonian Fortress and invade Earth.

Well its been a pleasure knowing you....

Andy [shuts the door on his subterranean vault and braces for the first impact]

Ceri · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:10 am

nikininja wrote:

Eat rabbit.

[In the voice of Elmer Fudd] Mama's little baby loves wabbit, wabbit; mama's little baby loves wabbit pie!

Yum yum.

And to Tyronne: we're all very, very sorry. Really.

Cheers - C

nikininja · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:10 am

JasonSD wrote:

Quote:

Last time it was pigeon kebabs.

My mom used to tell us kids a story about when she was a kid in the 40's she had pigeons and one day her mom sent her to the store to buy something, and while she was gone her mom killed her pigeons and was cooking them in a pressure cooker and it blew up. So she came back to the store to find her pigeons in pieces all over the kitchen.

Jason, that has got to be the funniest tale I've heard in a long time.

I wonder if it would work with emulsion?
Lob a couple of litres of magnolia into the pressure cooker.
Apply heat.
Find shelter.
Wait for the boom.
Touch up the shrapnel scars in the walls.

Effortless decorating.

On a similar note. When I was a kid, my family and I went of to see my grandparents. With my basset in tow, I couldn't go anywhere without her.
We get to grandpa's, basset goes trotting off up the garden, we go in the house. About 3 minutes later said basset comes wandering into the house with grandads prize racing pigeon inbetween her chops. Put's the pigeon down. This pigeon is looking around in utter shock, then trots back to it's pen. Off trots said basset, brings the pigeon back to the house. It happened again then the pigeon gave up and just sat ontop the fireplace.

Ceri · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:55 am

Twelvebar wrote:

on a serious note -

On a serious note? Wasn't the rest serious?

Twelvebar wrote:

- the only 'food-stuff' I have used for grain filling has been egg whites. long ago I was helping one of my Dad's uncles when he was restoring some old furniture, he said it was how you did it in the old days.

Hey, what about painting an egg tempera finish, presumably over a white gesso ground (primer)? The Stratocaster meets the Italian Renaissance?

Now that would be raising the bar - ALL the way!

Over to you, Twelvebar...

Cheers - C

(PS: actually, as any furniture restorer or artist knows, gesso is not at all hard to do. It is rather beautiful - and could make a very nice finish for a guitar. Hmmm...)

Twelvebar · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:28 pm

Ceri wrote:

Twelvebar wrote:

on a serious note -

On a serious note? Wasn't the rest serious?

Twelvebar wrote:

- the only 'food-stuff' I have used for grain filling has been egg whites. long ago I was helping one of my Dad's uncles when he was restoring some old furniture, he said it was how you did it in the old days.

Hey, what about painting an egg tempera finish, presumably over a white gesso ground (primer)? The Stratocaster meets the Italian Renaissance?

Now that would be raising the bar - ALL the way!

Over to you, Twelvebar...

Cheers - C

(PS: actually, as any furniture restorer or artist knows, gesso is not at all hard to do. It is rather beautiful - and could make a very nice finish for a guitar. Hmmm...)

Actually ceri, what you refer to is apparently fairly common among traditional classical guitar builders:

lifted from elsewhere on the interwebs wrote:

The following is taken directly from American Lutherie #10 in 1987 when interviewing Jack Batts. It is also in The Big Red Book vol 1 from Guild of American Luthiers.

Vernice Bianca

25g of gum arabic,
1/2 teaspoon of honey,
1/4 teaspoon of rock candy,
about 100cc of water,
albumen from one egg white.

"Crush the rock candy. Warm the water but do not boil. Slowly add the gum arabic, stirring constantly until dissolved. Add honey and rock candy. Strain the mixture through a fine cloth (handkerchief or sheeting) and let cool. While the mixture is cooling, whip an egg white into a meringue and turn the bowl on edge. Allow the mixture to settle out and remove the liquid that separates. This is the albumin. Add the albumin to the cooled mixture and stir well. Use this Vernice Bianca immediately and discard the rest. Sacconi advocated that after potassium silicate had been put on very sparingly, you should cover it completely with the vernice bianca before varnishing."

Ceri · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:53 pm

Twelvebar wrote:

25g of gum arabic,
1/2 teaspoon of honey,
1/4 teaspoon of rock candy,
about 100cc of water,
albumen from one egg white.

...that after potassium silicate had been put on very sparingly...

Hmmm. Well I have all of that in my attic workroom except the potassium silicate - and I believe my dad has some of that left over after he used it on his violin.

So happens I had been thinking of a violin type varnish for one of my next projects (having done the more conventional guitar finishes already), so... you're on!

Whenever that comes along, remember: we discussed it here first.

Cheers - C

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