Gearhead wrote
Okay, talked things through with Andy McGibbon today.
We can have the whole event in his shop (saves hiring a venue and there's plenty of guitars around to be worked on) but there's no way we can have a hands-on course on more than 3-4 workstations at the same time. Plus, Andy would then also not have the time to sort all the workers out. I also see that having more than 10 people in Andy's workshop will be a challenge, so we are going to come up with an alternate programme.
The other thing is that we have too many topics to cover in one night. Rather than going over the simple theory that everyone can look up on the net anyway and leaving it at that, I would prefer to extend to two evenings. This to me takes up so much of our hosts time that I would prefer to pay him for his time, as well.
A sensible split to me would be to leave out electric bridges, pickups and other electrickery to the second night and on the first night focus on necks (frets, trussrods, neck angle etc.).
Andy prefers to have the event(s) on Thursdays.
So my proposal would be:
Thursday 15 October @ Andy McGibbon's Guitar World, entry R40 pp
(electric and) acoustic guitar setup, doors open before seven, talk starts at 19h00.
Thursday 29 October @ Andy McGibbon's Guitar World, entry R40 pp
electric setup cont'd (no intended repeat of 1st night topics), same time
Please comment (well, if you have something sensible to say ? )
The main thing I want to say is "well done" for putting this together. It seems that you and Andy have been quite thorough in all of this, and so these sessions will be focused instead of just being busked on a wing on the night.
So thank you, Andy and Gearhead.
