Well… it is not actually that easy to build a guitar, well one that looks and sounds good. But if a few pictures helps to understand the process then here are some of the photos taken as I was making Sprout.
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Sprout, Sprout let her sing out!!
May 4, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Sprout, my newest guitar child had her ‘coming out’ on the weekend. I was a very proud parent. Sprout was lovingly caressed – both sweet and hard love – by a variety of friends…
Return to New York
May 10, 2005 – 8:21 pm
For those of you that don’t know, when I was a young 21 I lived in NYC in Chelsea on Manhattan for a short period. I enjoyed my time immensely but had to depart to London for Visa and young love reasons. This has been my first return to NYC since then.
Dom and lara will have my balls!
May 10, 2005 – 12:34 am
Why will Dom and Lara knacker me you might well ask? Well… there is a classic film studies movie with a character that was the lust equivalent for the 80’s teenage girl as to Molly Ringwold was to the 80’s teenage boy.
People of Plasticine and Wood!
May 10, 2005 – 12:21 am
Dom and I were lucky enough to have two friends that live in Bristol and one in Cardiff. Two of them are involved in animation and one of them is an exective at Aardman. Makers of the famous duo Wallace and Grommit, Chicken Run etc.
A Day in the Park
May 5, 2005 – 10:22 pm
I was going to take a group tour – but I don’t like people I don’t know. Then my amigo Phil said he wanted to go with me. My other Amigo Brian who lives in Jaco, knows a guy that keeps cars in his backyard and rents them to cost cutting gringos – that’s Phil [...]
The Unknown
April 12, 2005 – 12:12 am
I have seen pictures of the jungles, monkeys, surfers and macaws. But what do you really know until you go? Marketing tells us nothing except that someone wants your $$$.
Will I be sleeping in a jungle of pestilence and prostitution as some travellers would have you believe? Or will it be a shangri-la in a [...]
What’s this?
March 22, 2005 – 7:49 am
OK, yes, this is me (with my sister and her daughter) in 1987. The year when I last left Australia for a trip further abroad than Fiji or New Zealand.
It has been a long wait (so long the ‘babe in arms’ is minding my place), and I have worked very hard and finally, yes FINALLY [...]