BeestonMick

That would depend on what you want. I tend to buy mine via the t'interweb from trusted dealers of new and second hand guitars and equipment. Anything specific?

Guaranteed it's something someone asked for as an extension at IPB and they've kept it. I don't see the point of it personally and it has to be a useless piece code and DB usage.

Thanks Chulla and TBI - I appreciate your help. I see the guitar in the first link only went for $500.00, I would have expected at least $3000.00 and would have hoped for $10 or $12.000. I love my Marshall 8080 valve amp, I set the gain on channel 1 to about 6 and get a beautiful clean singy sound. Channel 2 is set to maximum smoke and I control the 'sound' with the volume control on the guitar. Volume has a lot to do with it as well, some places I play it feels like the roof is coming off others I feel I could do with another couple of KW. I just got rid of an Orange stack to a neighbour

Thank you, you're a gent. Is this the same folks you were talking about Chulla?

I've asked the question on Twitter about Richards/Ricardo lutier of this parish.

I'd be very interested as I do quite a lot of buying and selling of guitars and have come across a few rarities. One I paid £80 for and sold almost immediately to a chap in the US (where the guitar came from in the first place) for twenty times that. Obviously, you have to know what you're looking for. Never having seen a Ricardo I could probably pass it off as a piece of tat.

Why, oh why, oh why?

If you have a signature you have a cross, you don't 'cos you haven't got a signature. Click one and see what happens, you won't kill anything. Por exemplo:

Having to wait another ten months to retire annoys the bejeezus out of me

Yep, I knew him, not personally mind you. When I started at the ROF some of the more street wise kids explained he was best avoided and definitely shouldn't be touched. There was another one used to make a nuisance of himself around town called John the w****r but that's another story.

They're bringing in a by-law in Cardiff very soon banning people from feeding the birds especially the flying rats. There will also be a campaign to make sure folks wrap unused food properly so that birds can't get at it when you throw it out.

I used to travel a lot and visit as many different Yate's around the country. Out of all of them Nottinghams' was the best with Leeds a close second. They did rotate the musicians occasionally and an old music teacher of mine (a blind guy with a dog) played the piano there, he knew I was there as well!!

This PRS SC245 will be my next and last purchase (if you can believe that) I have a couple to sell first though.

I've had some good and bad fortune in my life but one huge piece of fortune was that I was out of the UK from 1972 to 1980 so missed most of it. As a mod I came back to the UK and couldn't believe what I was seeing, I still reckon had the mod thing still been going we would have run 'em out of town!

I've tried Ancestry a few times both subscribed and free trial and it never got any further than the information I put in myself. I think the whole shemozzle is too expensive and doesn't work for everyone. [Tad off topic] The '%' signs in the URL are added by your web browser in the place of a space because whoever or whatever created the link has put spaces in the link name, the internet/web servers can't handle spaces. A simple rule is "no spaces in URL names".

I'd be up for that, I hate my car and driving - if I didn't have to go to work I would definitely be car less.

I have a Marshall 8080 and a Line6 modelling amp. For my personal practice I use an Orange Micro Terror, the best £150 I ever spent using speaker or headphones.

I believe the Black Hand Gang started with The Clitheroe Kid back in the 50's? Obviously not La Mano Nera

I guess this isn't the same band then? And a page on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJuncoPartners/

Presumably that's Seasick Steve?

I'd be interested in any more information on this. I don't recall Ricardo guitars and I've been all over Google.

I've been told that the fall in small bird numbers is down to the increase in jackdaw and magpie populations, they tend to chase the smaller birds away. This may well be true, as a kid growing up in the country I can't recall ever seeing a magpie, maybe an odd one, as they were vermin and treated as such. There were always tons of sparrows/martins/swallows/robins/wrens etc. Now magpies are protected they're taking over. I have them scrapping with sea gulls on my roof in the early hours, you wouldn't believe the racket they make.

As a country boy at heart I'm against bonfires these days. November the 5th is one of the biggest killers of hedgehogs so be vigilant in your hedge bottoms and bonfires. There's only a million of the poor little buggers left. Please support: http://www.willowshedgehogrescue.co.uk/ Twitter @WillowsHedgehog I've enquired about local hedgehog rescue at home (Cardiff) but they don't have one yet, dunno about Nottingham.

That's true, they're a quid n'all