Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Possibly impossible question.... DH wants to learn to play the guitar. He is left handed. Doesn't play. Has had one quick lesson, with a right-handed guitar playing left handed, picked it up quite well though a bit unweildy. What's the best way to go. Learn right handed? Buy left handed guitar? Play a right handed guitar left handed? I've never played a guitar so no clue here.

pick up a second hand left hand guitar you can't play a right hand guitar the wrong way (too difficult to tune)

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

pick up a second hand left hand guitar you can't play a right hand guitar the wrong way (too difficult to tune)

ATM that's the favoured option, but thought I should ask as lefties are a bit more expensive. Thanks missk!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

vivatifosi wrote: »

What's the best way to go. Learn right handed?

That.

Buy left handed guitar?

Or better yet that.

Play a right handed guitar left handed?

But not that.

michaels

I give up, I have uploaded a photo to flickr and snapfish but I don't seem to be able to make it post on here, just see a broken link when I am composing and nothing when I post

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

Waves from LA. :wave:

Survived the flights. About as hot here as it is in Hertfordshire.

True tourists: rodeo drive, Santa Monica beach, the "Hollywood" sign, Beverley hills.

On topic. Satnav hire from the car hire people was £6 a day. UK firms hire sat nav with USA maps for around £35. We got someone to buy us a satnav out here a few weeks ago and bring it back to the UK, cost £67. Then we can flog it on EBay or FB. It's a decent Garmin, cost about £100 in UK, so hopefully turn a profit.

Speaking of price differentials I recommend we get viva to use any secret bookbinding skills librarians know about to help us upgrade some second hand textbooks for the US market. Potential 3 000 000 % markup should pay for us all to go to the US!:beer:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mel Smith died. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371511/BREAKING-NEWS-Comedian-Mel-Smith-dies-aged-60-suffering-heart-attack-home.html

When I used to live near where Chewie lives now you'd see Mel Smith down the local (actually loads of actors live round there as the BBC studio as was was just the other side of the Thames).

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

Possibly impossible question.... DH wants to learn to play the guitar. He is left handed. Doesn't play. Has had one quick lesson, with a right-handed guitar playing left handed, picked it up quite well though a bit unweildy. What's the best way to go. Learn right handed? Buy left handed guitar? Play a right handed guitar left handed? I've never played a guitar so no clue here.

I'm left handed and played a right handed guitar. I went for lessons for 5 years. I'm a bit ambidextrous but after learning a bit with the right I couldn't manage very well with a left handed guitar.

Yamaha make good VFM guitars and there just happens to be one on hotukdeals that would be ideal for learning on... link<

Would be nice to get back into it but other things seem to take up all my time these days.

sss555s

michaels wrote: »

I give up, I have uploaded a photo to flickr and snapfish but I don't seem to be able to make it post on here, just see a broken link when I am composing and nothing when I post

I always use this http://tinypic.com/

:beer:

michaels

sss555s wrote: »

I always use this http://tinypic.com/

:beer:

Finally got somewhere by posting in an <img> tag rather than trying to do an image.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Didn't work either

Have you got another browser you can try?
I use Roccat, Webkit (kind of like Safari) and TenFourFox (like Firefox) and they all handle this site very differently.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Speaking of price differentials I recommend we get viva to use any secret bookbinding skills librarians know about to help us upgrade some second hand textbooks for the US market. Potential 3 000 000 % markup should pay for us all to go to the US!:beer:

Mmmmm... new price: £362.91 or second hand, 1p in good condition from Better World Books (plus postage). You'd be hard pressed to do up a second hand book to as new. I'd buy the good one myself and try and flog that to the Americans as is, for, say, a knock down price of $50.

Better World Books is a brilliant company, I've mentioned them on here before. They collect and resell library books as well as books sent to them by the public. It keeps books out of landfill, gets a bit of money to councils to buy more books and their funds go to several literacy projects worldwide. Win win win.

Anyone whose been round the block a bit (in library terms) looks back with fondness on the stuff we used to be able to use to fix books, pre the days of health and safety. When I was a prefect in the school library, we had a wonderful machine that melted the glue in a paperback and clamped it in place while the pages stuck back in. I was a glue-sniffer from an early age me.

Nowadays our toolkit is somewhat more modest. However sandpaper or for greater accuracy an emery board, are great for removing the yellowed edges from pages. Copydex will, at a push, glue a paperback cover that has come away from its pages; though our glue of choice appears to have disappeared too (possibily that also was noxious). Hardbacks last longer than paperbacks in library terms. Hardbacks are jacketed to keep their dust covers on, though the public still pulls this off. Mass market paperbacks in particular fall apart very quickly and are beyond redemption. Especially when borrowers don't follow the viva rule of never opening the pages wide enough to crack the spine (book nerd alert).

Oh and nothing, but nothing, in your toolkit helps when a member of the public uses a slice of processed cheese as a bookmark.