Cite please. Bush is president. The repubs are in charge of congress. How the soldiers are equipped is up to them.
I do not understand how anyone can support Bush.
Oh - and that abortion thing - You're so worried about babies, but you don't give a fig about the young men and women they grow up into - young men and women sent to die for the Bush Family Ego and the Cheney Family fortune.
It's amazing how things get twisted - lack of soldiers' body armor is now Kerry's fault!!!!!
Iris
You guys gonna let someone get you all stirred up again. Register to vote and then do it your way. Don't all get in a twit here again. There are a lot of ways to get involved if you have an interest. Call your party and volunteer to help. Anything but let's sew here.
What are you sewing this week? Taria
I AM IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH TARIA! I'm making amplifier covers for DS's several amps, one of them I recently bought for his birthday which is this weekend. I found some black 100% cotton with a design of neon-colored guitars. If i have enough fabric left, and I think I will, I'm going to make covers for the DGS, who also plays guitar. Emily
"Karen Maslowski" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com wrote in message news:Jw_5d.5828$ snipped-for-privacy@fe37.usenetserver.com... > Okay, I've stayed out of this long enough. >
Thank you Karen, that was excellent! We here in Europe are terrified that Bush will get another 4 years, thus making the damage he has done irreperable. I know this is a sewing newsgroup but feel it is important not to let falsehoods go unopposed.
Kirsten Sollie Heimdal, Norway (and Florida voter, Leon County)
Hmmm...what gun rights were taken away in England? I do remember a toughening up on the rules so all guns had to be locked away etc, but lets face it, even the police here dont carry guns, hardly comparable! And hardly relevant to a conversation on US politics. But anyway, seeing as I havent voted for the last 20 years (I cling to my right to vote or NOT to vote as I see fit).....Im making a pretty red velvet dress today! Im also working hard on convincing other half I need...thats NEED....a new sewing machine. Amanda
I'm so sorry! I *have* to reply!
Emily, why did you want to cover up your DGS??? ;->
Speaking of guitars and funky fabrics: has anyone ever made a guitar case? My hard cases are really, *really* old and sort of falling apart. I keep rehabilitating them with glue, but can't seem to find one (glue) that will last and hold the covering papers down. Anyway, I've often thought of making my own case. Once, when I was younger, more patient and a lot better-off, I dreamed of making a tooled leather case. Since the cost of a hide is now sky-high, I've shelved that idea.
I reckon I could easily cut a pattern from either the old cases or even the guitars themselves. The thing is, though, whatever I make needs to protect the instruments adequately. One of them is a beautiful Italian
12-string, very heavy and with great, walloping reinforcement block in its neck. I can imagine bashing it against something in a soft case and gouging a great hunk out of it!!! =:-0If anyone has any ideas, I'd *love* to hear them!
For example: what fabric would be most suitable? Is there anything a bit 'gutsier' I could use to increase the protection? Could I use batting, for instance? Would a few layers of interfacing help? Any point in using buckram? Is there anything (some kind of stiff plastic?) I could sandwich between layers to add strength?
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Thanks, Claire! That's one glue I haven't tried, but it makes sense after reading your post! I'm still interested to hear from anyone who might have made a guitar case, though. One of these days, I'm gonna take the plunge! ;-D
Don't have one, do you? <G>
If the guitar cases are physically sound (or can be made so), how about covering them with something elegant? Beats reinventing the infrastructure. Yes, I'd sure want good armor around that 12-string!
Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA
The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.
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LOL! No, I don't! I have a great-niece, though, and she's recently learned how to say 'Shut up!' Why is it that it takes ages to teach a two-year-old to use her potty but only an instant for her to hear and indelibly remember 'Shut up!'???
Now *there's* a great idea! Yes, I could very easily cover the cases with fabric and probably some kind of batting. That would work really well! Thanks so much for that!
Can you think of a way I can cover the things *and* keep the case closures intact? Sorry to be so worrisome, but I'm almost there and this has annoyed me for twenty years or more (yeah, they're that old - what does that tell ya about me!?)
Claire, have you seen the 'Reader's Digest Repair Manual'? I have a very old volume, but in it, there's a whole chapter on repairing and
*re-binding* books! I keep *meaning* to do a proper book-binding course, but have never gotten around to it. This book, though, has enabled me to rescue quite a few precious books and, as you say, moribund school texts. One of the great things I've been able to keep in my stash is loosely-woven, gauze-like interfacing. This makes a wonderful spine repair for hardback books! The whole process of repairing a broken spine requires nothing more exotic than white craft glue!
Another great idea, Poohma, but owing to the weight of my largest guitar, I really want not to have to insert the instrument through a zippered opening: I'm after a way of preserving the opening lid of the existing case.
I've made gig bags for low brass horns. Ripstop outer, soft flannel inside, sandwich with "egg crate" foam padding. One twin-size mattress pad would make several bags. Nylon strapping, velcro or buckles. And a critical design element is reflective tape sewn on in an early stage of construction. A guitar would need a lot more padding, or a stiffer liner. Could you just "upholster" your existing case with nylon pack cloth? That eould stabilize it and remove a lot of the construction challenges. HTH
--Karen M. not the sewing book author
Now if you could just come up with a simple fast way to tune it......
I have! I have! I bought one of those *dear* little electronic tuners (cost about $15AUS ten years ago). Easy peasy!
BUT THEN...
...found out my son has perfect pitch (he has autism and when he was 18, he just sat down and began singing, playing the piano and generally exhibiting a rather amazing musical talent). These days, I just hand the Old Gitar to DS and say 'Please would you tune that for me?' Easier peasier! LOL!
Mind you, the *down* side of all this is the quiet and ever-so-polite advice from the young whipper-snapper that one was singing off pitch at choir practice!
(His actual words were: 'I know you were doing your best, Mum, but you really should try to sing A at the end of the measure instead of Ab!' Hnnnh!)
Yes, I could do that. I can't picture it without covering up all the closures, though. They're clasp type ones that are fixed on with flimsy-looking but still-working rivets. Any ideas?
YES! I can picture that! Thank you *ever* so much! This is what I think I might just do! I could even velcro the new padded cover to the surface of the old hard case so that they were sort of a unit and sort of not... I hope you know what I mean! LOL! I do!
Thanks to everyone for their clever ideas! I don't know why I didn't ask this question a long time ago! :-D
You can also get hardware from Brettun's village. I've only bought leather from them, but I do know they're very nice people to deal with.
On 2004-09-30 cjeh45$5g7$ snipped-for-privacy@reader2.nmix.net said: >Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.sewing,alt.sewing Trish in Newcastle, NSW, Australia spake thus:
Geez, that doesn't sound very sewey, does it?
Was that any help? Hope so.
Tom Willmon Mountainair, (mid) New Mexico, USA
Haphephobia is better than none at all.
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