The Bluebird Project

What do you need anti-collision lights for?

The last few days, I have been avidly watching this guy’s tracking app as he smashed the record for a complete round of all 214 Lake District “Wainwright” fells. 318 miles and the equivalent of four Everests in 6 days 6 hours. A fantastic achievement. My own personal best for all the Wainwrights is ...

Yup. It’s a heavily modified 1969 Anniversary. Wow, envy! I bet it would sound great played through my 1964 AC30 (by a better guitarist than me, I might add). It probably would! What do you usually plug into your AC30? Fender Tele, various Gordon Smiths and, when I want to pretend to be Nigel Tufne...

Filtertron wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 6:32 pm

mtskull wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:19 pm

Filtertron wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:33 pm Servicing and restringing this old girl.

Nice. Gretsch, I presume?

Yup. It’s a heavily modified 1969 Anniversary.

Wow, envy!
I bet it would sound great played through my 1964 AC30 (by a better guitarist than me, I might add).

Filtertron wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 5:33 pm Servicing and restringing this old girl.

Nice. Gretsch, I presume?

Bill, I understand your plan is to start the engine and run it - I asume in idle or a little above. How do you consider the overall condition of the engine? Would it be possible to run it full throttle? Joerg Just my humble opinion that, whatever the condition of the engine, it would take a very br...

Renegadenemo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:54 pm Ooh, good. I can waffle on endlessly in here about the finer points of o-rings and D-size piston pumps, how the rapid start uses a combustor and which spool drives which quill shaft.

Get waffling then; I'm sure I am not the only one who eagerly awaits......

Thank you!

I'd be very interested to see updates as to how you are getting along with XL319, posted here.....

I have remained silent on this until now but here goes.... I too have my opinion on this matter but I'm not going to share it here because a) I wasn't party to any discussions between the Ruskin and the BBP so my opinion isn't fully informed and b) Airing such opinions as I hold won't make a jot of ...