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This may break a rule or two here. If so, moderators, I apologise. However, I thought it would be worth sharing here because, in the first place, Chiffers are nice people. Second, because my wife asked me. That's her in the video. So if you feel like sharing it, please do so. She went to Greece a ye...

Our problem is that we have limited choice of the wire diameter. For that reason, the calculation I have seems the most useful one.

Thank you all for your replies. The "Can't be bothered" comment from me arises from me having spoken to a supplier in Johannesburg who didn't afterwards reply to my emails. I'm not under any illusions about the transport to Rwanda. Rwanda is landlocked, and as someone pointed out, has had ...

My friend Marion Woolley is helping with a business startup in Kigali in Rwanda. They're trying to build the first pianos built in Africa, for thirty years. That's how long it is since the last African piano manufacturer ceased to trade. They are having trouble sourcing piano wire. Believe me - I've...

If I get a bald spot at the back I will reconsider. The family tradition, or physiology, or what-have-you, is to recede at the front but retain the crown. I have a widow's peak.

That's comprehensive. It reinforces with examples my own emotional reaction. I know Berti doesn't want to sell the guitar, but I don't understand why. Still it's down to her and not to me, so I'll wait to see what happens. :thumbsup: Baxendale, eh? I'm more familiar with Leo Baxendale, who used to d...

How long ago did I watch Jules et Jim!? And more than once...

Can't even see the clip without wanting the lyrics.

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/le-tourbi ... -life.html

So we had a house-guest from the Netherlands - Berti Peeters! Anyone remember her? One of the things we discussed was she had a guitar - a good one, and quite expensive - that she found difficult to play because the neck was too wide. She had found a luthier who might be able to do something about i...

It would be a sad world if we were all mad the one way, as Brendan Behan used to say. I go braided when I have the time (that's mostly) and pony-tailed when I'm in a rush (very seldom). My beloved braids my hair when I ask her. That's about once a fortnight. I do it myself the rest of the time. My h...

Well done, that woman!

"They clubbed together for it, apparently."

Shall I take a coat? Overheat? Cloudy, but hot... Dogs get wet. No sweat! Explanation: It's often overcast in Oldham on the wet side of the Pennines. It might rain, it might not. It can be hot, too. I walk the dogs twice a day. They often end up wet even when it doesn't rain. Rivers, ditches, you na...

Not a big fan of melon, although watermelon isn't too bad. Sugar on strawberries - fine, if you like that sort of thing. The late Clement Freud MP and self-publicist (not to mention dog-food publiciser) had a thing about ground black pepper on strawberries. I saw this a few times and thought - that'...

Steel strung. You may want to use a pick.

Kkrell's diagram is spot on.

Caution - if you wash the dishes by hand, wait until your hands are thoroughly dry before trying to play guitar - or you will shred your fingertips or at very least find it uncomfortable. Fingertips do get harder with use.

I think Id-10-t is speaking of the Microdot - famous in 1950s spy movies and probably nowhere else.