Recent content by saskia strange

Thanks for the link! This might be an awfully stupid question, but - if you get it in a quart, can you just apply it with a paintbrush? I'd really love to avoid spraying as much as possible; I've done quite a lot of with-a-brush painting and can get a really smooth, drip-free surface that...

I'll list the first few songs I learned - none of them are tricky beyond what a good teacher can get a beginning student playing fairly soon, and I think they're all fun: Andy Metcalfe's really lovely line from the Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians song Airscape. It's a nice one for students...

Good to know. There's definitely a lot more variety in colours of auto paint... Perhaps I can coerce one of the friendly neighbourhood auto body chaps to help me out with a spray gun. Is there a particular sort of 'the right primer' you'd recommend?

I've got an old Foundation in dire need of some colour (a previous owner covered the original lovely metallic red with a horrible dingy whitish slop, which is now also quite dented and chipped). Never done a refinish before, so I could use a bit of advice re: what to use. I'd really like to...

Beautifully done! Nice to see all the step-by-step photos of the restoration - I've got my own Axstar, with that same dingy, cracked, dented black finish, and now I've seen how nice it could look I really want some shiny new paint. And I really want to restring with Neons... :D

Thank you all for the welcome! @VerryBerry~ I've played for a couple of years. Not long enough to be very good, but definitely long enough to really miss it when it's gone. And yeah, the physiotherapist told me that playing would really help regain strength and mobility :) @ CDRhom~...

...and I am celebrating! I didn't even realise quite how much I'd missed it until those first wonderful low notes came singing out of my amp, making the windows rattle and my family shout. I definitely have a better understanding now of where the gospel crowd gets their 'Hallelujah!' from...