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I think I"ll show him your posting and see if that spurs him into action - I'd LOVE to do a guitar buildalong with him.

Cheers,
Dave F.

Well Hank, first off I figured the parlors would warm the cockles of your heart


Well of course they do...nothing better that an 0-16NY!

Now as to the rest ... well ... from way back I'm a programmer by vocational roots. Good programmers are lazy. The floor is engineered bamboo. It was the cheapest covering I could find. With underlayment the floor came to $2 sq ft. Hard as nails, too. As for the crown molding - I painted the ceiling white ... too lazy to get the edges to the walls painted crisply. It's much easier to blow some white paint on some crown, couple slices with the 12" DeWalt mitre saw and fire up the Paslode finish nailer. Then you can paint to the edges and miss by a couple inches, no problem

Well it looks like a ballroom that just happened to have a bunch of guitar building equipment moved in!

I have a background in road racing. Subsequently I also have a business in road racing specific to BMW these days. I've owned and been involved with a number of Fords, which was my focus area before I ended up dealing with BMW. Grew up riding around in dad's 64 1/2 Mustang 289/4V convertible. The car in the photo is a first day production '69 Boss 302; one of the first fifteen made. In '69 the color was called Calypso Coral, in '70 the more well known Grabber Orange name. '69 cars were special, including things very specific to high revving motors, such as the crank being cross drilled (which is esoteric for muscle cars coming out of the USA but common place to the Datsun 510!). Ironically I sold the Boss 302 to put a 20% downpayment on my first house. What's the saying, "You can sleep in your car but you can't drive your house." I also built a few Fords for racing, including a later model 5.0 liter Mustang for American Sedan class in the SCCA (but now I'm dating myself a bit).

I've toyed with the idea of building a Cobra with the boys when they get a bit older. Right now we're working on instruments!

Filippo

This afternoon I've been alternating between checking OLF on my PC in the bedroom and watching episodes of Top Gear on the TV in the living room, so I thought my mind was playing tricks when I sat down at the PC to look at OLF and saw cars on a track.