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Jun 21, 2020 15:22:15 GMT
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Post by bonzo on Jun 21, 2020 15:22:15 GMT
We're going off piste, but as you say Davey it's something that can be applied to many situations, which is the point I was trying to make with my Tower of London story. I enjoy showing bricked up windows to visitors to London, they are usually fascinated and amazed at the story behind it. If there were no bricked up windows, no story! On the other hand people now want to live in houses with lots of light! Of course they do. We're a generation that's (I don't want to say dying out) but maybe the last that can relate to our immediate past in a meaningful way! When was the last time any of us saw a cinema organ pop up in the intermission?! What's a cinema? What's a cinema organ? What's an intermission? Don't get me started with a drink on a stick! Love life! Love our shared history! Accept change as necessary! (But NOT without questions)! Best wishes to you all, John
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 15:33:11 GMT
Since this thread is going all over the place...it is titled “decals”...so I will use it as a convenient place to boast that I am likely one of the first people to do a successful “decal transplant”. I acquired a horrible 60’s reso neck that had a desirable early-bogus green National shield decal. I wet it with a sponge (surgical quality) and floated onto a suitably bogus repro resonator neck. Just recently sold the bogus resonator for good $$ on ebay.
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Jun 21, 2020 15:52:05 GMT
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Post by bonzo on Jun 21, 2020 15:52:05 GMT
But Fred, you are American! Lol!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2020 16:11:27 GMT
Nothing to do with that...I am just dumb enough to try to fix anything...I even do my own brake jobs...
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Post by Mike lewis on Jun 23, 2020 11:10:15 GMT
Since this thread is going all over the place...it is titled “decals”...so I will use it as a convenient place to boast that I am likely one of the first people to do a successful “decal transplant”. I acquired a horrible 60’s reso neck that had a desirable early-bogus green National shield decal. I wet it with a sponge (surgical quality) and floated onto a suitably bogus repro resonator neck. Just recently sold the bogus resonator for good $$ on ebay. you can not do that with an original National Decal , it was most probably one that Dave Crocker of Fly by Night made in the late 70's .
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Jun 23, 2020 11:42:45 GMT
Post by Michael Messer on Jun 23, 2020 11:42:45 GMT
Since this thread is going all over the place...it is titled “decals”...so I will use it as a convenient place to boast that I am likely one of the first people to do a successful “decal transplant”. I acquired a horrible 60’s reso neck that had a desirable early-bogus green National shield decal. I wet it with a sponge (surgical quality) and floated onto a suitably bogus repro resonator neck. Just recently sold the bogus resonator for good $$ on ebay. you can not do that with an original National Decal , it was most probably one that Dave Crocker of Fly by Night made in the late 70's . I hadn't really thought that one through, but I think Mike is on to something there. It couldn't be done with an original. Shine On Michael
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 12:18:28 GMT
Yes, Mike Lewis is absolutley correct (i did call it a bogus decal). i myself was so suprised that it came off intact...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 16:06:06 GMT
I actually put it on an NRP neck that I purchased unfinished from them. Was not fair for me to call the neck bogus...but repro is fair. They do make very nice reso necks.
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