One of my favourite in-house projects has been the ageing of Fender Telecaster bridge plates. I found a method that gave repeatable results that (imo) looked like natural wear. However in 2019 Fender changed the plating process used on the Pat Pend bridge plates. Instead of the grey matte surface below the pickup hole, it […]
Category: General musings
From the Royal Mail website “Planned strike action in parts of Royal Mail The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has notified us they plan to call on their members who collect, sort, distribute and deliver parcels and letters to take strike action over the following six dates in November: Wednesday 2 November, Thursday 3 November and […]
You may or may not be aware that from October 14th Visa and Mastercard will require 3DS v2 security protocols for payment verification in the UK and EU. My current payment services provider will not be upgrading to 3DS v2 so I am in the process of signing up to a new provider. It looks […]
I will be closed Monday September 19th due to the announced Bank Holiday for The Queen’s funeral. Normal business will resume on Tuesday 20th.
I have just found out that the proposed strike for tomorrow, Friday 9th September has been “postponed”. To that end tomorrow will be business as usual and I will be dispatching orders received up until 2pm.
It is that time of year again and it’s a long weekend next week. As usual I will not be dispatching orders Friday or Monday and things will be back to normal Tuesday. If you want your order to arrive in time for the long weekend select Special Delivery for next day service (for orders […]
Finally the website has been upgraded. It has been needed for a long time – it was running on an outdated version of the cart software for much too long. Rather than just upgrade the back-end and keep the look the same I’ve also updated the appearance for a more modern look. It is less […]
EDIT>>The site is back online. I’ll make a new post about the change in the morning. The website will be in maintenance mode for a few hours this evening while some housekeeping is undertaken. It shouldn’t be off for too long so please don’t fret!
Due to family commitments for the next few days/week I may not be able to answer calls as I will be in and out of the office during the day. I will have my tablet with me so will still be able to answer emails as normal. Unfortunately I had to be out of the […]
You may have noticed a difference to the blog today – it is finally responsive! After far too long I finally upgraded to the current version of WordPress. It looks like everything is working as it should and I’m pretty happy with the current theme. I need to look into adding my logo in place […]
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