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Frank Cousins
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Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:
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Nick Royle
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you try to persuade a vicar that he doesn't need so many oak pews in the church, they'd be much better as guitars. wow7-eyes



LOL My friend John Cronin has been making a series of Oak Pew Guitars


I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was starting to feel guilty for staring at the pews in my church...
NOT.


Haha!

Those guitars are lovely, I may just have to accidentally email them to him! :P
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Nick Royle
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Frank Cousins wrote:
klooker wrote:
Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:


Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".
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Nick Royle wrote:
Frank Cousins wrote:
klooker wrote:
Periodically you will go through your wood stash just for the sake of admiring the different pieces - tapping, caressing, flexing, smelling...

Kevin Looker


[:Y:] This - Glad I am not the one :lol:


Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".

Me too... :(

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Frank Cousins
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Posts like that make me want to sing the "I don't have a wood stash blues".




It's been a tricky few years of collecting the odd sets and sneaking the expenditure past Mrs C.... Although about to get found out as need to add it to the insurance inventory! May have to use the old trick ' well it's worth that now, but it was soooo much cheaper when I bought it... Great investment really, honestly honey!' :D


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you actually prefer BRW to BMW...




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...when a girl asks you what you think of monogamy, you tell her it's your first choice for guitar necks but you love the look of curly maple also.

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...when a girl asks you what you think of monogamy, you tell her it's your first choice for guitar necks but you love the look of curly maple also.


That's genius, right there.

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Your kids know how to play Smoke on the Water and not much else. But they can play it on Mandolin and Ukelele as well as guitar...
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You have told at least two of your friends that their guitars aren't really worth fixing.

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You have told at least two of your friends that their guitars aren't really worth fixing.


...but then you fix them anyway.

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You have told at least two of your friends that their guitars aren't really worth fixing.


...but then you fix them anyway.[/quot]

Glad I'm not the only one

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You see really beautiful twins out walking on the beach and all you can think is .... Nice Bookmatch ! :D

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You see really beautiful twins out walking on the beach and all you can think is .... Nice Bookmatch ! :D


laughing6-hehe [:Y:] laughing6-hehe

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.................. you have more LMI glue in the fridge than beer.

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.................. you have more LMI glue in the fridge than beer.



Is that even Possible ??? idunno laughing6-hehe

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You see really beautiful twins out walking on the beach and all you can think is .... Nice Bookmatch ! :D


laughing6-hehe that made my day... thanks wud!

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